Alley Oop: LYNX COACH CHERYL REEVE SUSPENDED, Minnesota Finals Hopes CRUSHED, Fever SHOCK the Aces

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are out of the playoffs. How we feeling, sis?

I mean, I'm just so disappointed in a team that I thought had all the makings of a championship caliber team. The way they went out was embarrassing.

You lose game two when you're up by 20 in the third quarter. That's just sick.

You have multiple 13, 16 point leads in game four in an elimination game, and you lose by five, which you do not cover the four and a half,

which is neither here nor there. I wasn't really worried about that, but I kind of was.
And Nafisa Collier injured, Cheryl Reeves not there because she got suspended. The whole thing was a nightmare.

Yeah,

I got a question about the suspension of Cheryl Reeves. Like, what are we doing suspending her? I thought we was going to see, like, what? $33 fine, $45 fine.

It's like, what happened to the spirit of the rule? Kaylin Clark got fined $200.

Cheryl got a sit out of a whole elimination game just because of what she did. Now, what she said after the game was pretty harsh, and you can't necessarily question the establishment in that order.

But I don't know, bro. What you think? A suspension? What's necessary?

A suspension during the the playoffs when you know they're about to be in an elimination game

has to be done only in the most severe circumstances.

Now,

I don't know. She threatened to put Mitts on the ref.
Oh, God.

Did she really threaten to put Mitts on the refuge? I mean, she had to be held back. She's cussing at the fans

as she's leaving. Show this.

She's She's having to be held back. Dijanae is holding a towel to be like, nothing to see here.
Do not show her. She says the F word more times.
That's the funniest one.

The towel? Yeah, that's the funniest shit in our weekend. Dijonae is trying to hold that towel.
Like, boy, if you don't put that towel down, whoops, my bad for cussing. But look,

remember Job Morant didn't want the camera on him. And then the camera was the other view.
I was like, bro, we see you. That was hilarious.
Crazy.

And then dropped so many F-bombs during the press conference, like she forgot she was going inside of the Lembattard stream. You know what I mean? She didn't know she was going to be on Peacock.

So she ends up dropping the F-bombs more than I did in last Friday's show.

And you're calling the establishment basically that they're having a conspiracy because they want the league to be more physical looking for ratings.

It's pretty severe. I don't think she should have been suspended, but I don't know what should get you suspended.

Right. I feel like anything short of putting the pause on somebody, you know what I mean? Let's see a final.
Let's see her suspended for the first five games next year.

But this was too important of a spot. Even though Fee was out, I think that Kayla McBride put forth such an effort, bro.
She went so crazy. Courtney, the team put up a great effort in defeat.

Salute to Mike. What's not Mike Tebow, the son, Tebow, Tebow's son.

Like, salute, man. They tried their best.
Letitia Heideman, salute to all the, this was just a great series overall, man.

From Khalia Copper versus Courtney, from AT versus Fi, to Satu versus The Bridge. The Bridge had spunk.
I didn't know The Bridge had that much spunk. She was like, Satu, come here.

Nah.

Great series overall.

Great series, very physical series. Nate Tibbets, I thought at the end of the game, what will not be discussed is how many dang timeouts he called in a row.
He was like, we're not dealing with this.

As soon as we get the ball, nope, nope, we're going to set it up again. We're going to get our offense going.
This is too important for y'all to just be freestyling out here.

Speaking of freestyling, the Indiana Fever right now, they are freestyling right now against the Aces and Surrey and Mams and Days.

It is working.

I would have never thought that they would have got two to two versus the aces,

putting them, what, now in a deciding game, what is this, five? Pivotal championship on the line, game five.

Are you impressed with what the Fever are doing, or are you let down with how the Aces are handling this pressure? I think I feel more impressed by the Fever, a team that has like pretty much nobody

there in terms of the starters that were there in the beginning of the season.

Dewana Bonner, she's now on the Mercury, Caitlin Clark's on the bench in street clothes, Sophie Cunningham on the bench in street clothes, multiple players that filled in in street clothes.

So the fact that they had the

ability to be resilient, and I tell you what, I said this to my friend when I was texting her. I said,

I think Aaliyah Boston, if she wanted to and they got her the ball like prime shack, she could go to the free throw line 20 times a game. Yeah, I mean, she could.

Asia did not like that, though.

Post-game Asia was like, Aaliyah said, I get a special whistle, but she got 13 free throws tonight. Good question.

I honestly, you just do your work. You got to do your work early

and make it different.

But Aaliyah did say I have a special whistle. And she shot 13 today.
She's in love to you.

Yeah. She said the last game I had a special whistle, whistle, which is cool.
Do you like that type of discourse after the game from the players? Did she go too far? Was she spot on?

Because after a defeat, it's always the most emotional moments. And she chose to speak out on that.
What you thought about that part?

And she spoke out that three Aces players had five fouls and said it was interesting. And then when Becky Hammond said, Do you mean?

She said, Yes, I do. So I just think the W's kind of messy in post-game pressers.
Are they not messy? Right.

Right. And I feel like they have the right to be.
Also, a little messy right now going around on the internet.

Chloe,

Sophie, Chloe Bibby, Sophie, and Caitlin. Now, maybe this is conspiracy.

And maybe we got to push a certain button when I go to this conspiracy land. But it's not the greatest of looks that Courtney, Chloe, and Sophie, they on the bench front and center.

See it,

Aerie,

Demaris, they gotta have some damn seats. They gotta buy their own tickets to the game, basically, damn near.
Oh, and don't get me started on this.

Chloe,

girl, look, she apologized for this.

And for the listening audience, Chloe posted a picture of a depiction of

her,

Sophie, and Caitlin at the Atlanta Dream Game getting confronted by the cop telling them to move away. But the way she posted this picture, like, it's a civil rights situation that happened.

Like, girl, take it down. Salute for you to taking it down and for apologizing for how that seemed.
But what you think about the seating arrangement situation?

Can we get Aerie in front and center on one of these games? Or she got to keep buying her tickets? Claude, Vivi is not a big enough player. to be there in street clothes on the bench.

Aerie McDonald was giving them buckets. I think we need to have some sort of production requirement in order to see if you can be a part of the bench mob.
Not, like, it kind of just feels like,

so all the white girls get to sit on the bench next to sisters. You know what I'm saying?

I'm glad you said it as a Caucasian person because I can't be making those accusations, but I'm just saying, it's not a great look. Indiana Fever, keep doing your thing.

Try to get these dogs, but let's get the looks of these situations a little better because it just don't feel feel right seeing the sisters on the second row. They're not helping themselves.

And Chloe,

what you think before we move on? Because it was a very resilient win. I thought Odyssey played really well.
I thought, obviously, Aaliyah played well, even though she's was throwing them bows still.

But if you post that and you say, I didn't know that there was any racial component to it,

do you just, when you hear that, do you just let that slide? Or do you think,

please

as someone who wants change in the world I feel like sometimes we got to lend out a couple of extra ounces of patience to folks we want like before this year like when folks used to talk about the WMEA and they wasn't really talking about it in a way that I would prefer I'm glad you were talking about it, but here let me bend your ear on how this would make more sense for you to talk about it in this way.

So I'm I'm gonna extend patience to her for not knowing. And so, I hope she gets it better.
But at the same time, we still got to point out the error and be like, Yo, sis, eggs on your face right now.

It ain't a good look. Take it down.
Let's go ahead and give our sister some patience. She apologized.
It better not happen again.

Happen again. We on your ass.
But right, like you say, before we move on before that, Sophie was very vocal about them getting wins against the Aces. They like, Aces ain't giving us no credit.

They say, What? Aaliyah was in your ass, or whatever she said, Alina was stopping you guarding you.

I'm like, Look, bro, I don't know how much credit you want from the other team in these scenarios, but I'm not used to the other team giving a damn about your credit during the playoff series.

Yeah, what?

You want the Aces to be like, you know, credit to the Fever. They've played awesome basketball.
Like, they've got multiple players in street clothes, and we didn't even think they would be here.

When they beat the Atlanta Dream, we were shocked. Honestly, we're shocked that we're going back to Vegas for a game five.
So, golf claps for the no, are you serious? Absolutely effing not.

No, I'm not giving you credit. And also, stop hugging me when you're posting me up.
Stop reverse hugging me when I get you off me. I get called for the foul.
And then you, oh, please, Ref, pick me up.

And I love Leah Boston. She's a dog.
She's too good and too skilled to be doing that.

Exactly. Like Joe L.
and B, bro. Get your ass up, man.
You're dominant. You're good enough to get up, bruh.
Stop falling. Now look at you.
Out for falling on your damn hip too long. Moving on.

What we got in the way of predictions? Because right now, the Phoenix Mercury have slain the dragon. They are waiting for an opponent in the finals.
Is it going to be the aces?

Is it going to be the fever? Do we know? Does it matter?

What you got? Juju, I don't, I don't, I don't know. I'm so scared.
I think it's got to be the Aces.

I think it's got to be the Aces just based on championship pedigree.

Asia's going to have a bajillion.

The crowd is going to be loud. It is.
And they want that home court. They want to go to the finals.
They don't want to do all this. They don't come this far just to come this far.

But,

man.

It feels like it's the Mercury's time. Feels like another chip is on the way.

It's so sad, too because the Atlanta Dream beat the Mercury. We beat that, like, we beat the dog

stuff out of these folks. Sorry, Dylan.
We beat the dog stuff out of these folks every time we played them this year, man. And to see them do this, you got to take your hat off to them.

I'm not going to reminisce.

It hurts a lot. Speaking of peak athletes, now is the part of the show where we go to our peakest of peak athletes, Miss Rebecca, in a segment we like to call, bro.

bruh, we didn't, bro, Miss Rebecca went D1. That's what people don't know.

Don't tell them about it, Miss Rebecca. Just tell them to Google you.
Look, Google myself. Miss Rebecca went D1 on what? D1.
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I don't know if you've been serious or not, but 10,000 years ago, I did play D1 sports at Rutgers.

I was, I was BSC, you see? She was one of them ones at Rutgers. I wanted to go to Rutgers when I was a little young one.
10,000 years ago. She was at Rutgers

exactly 10,000 years ago.

I played field hockey and lacrosse.

Yeah, she played. I played field hockey and I played lacrosse.
I also worked for the waste management. Yeah, she was so short.
We got rid of waste. Sopranos, you know what I mean? Back in the day,

mama's got it. And also, if you cross, Miss Rebecca, you sleep with the fishes.
Neither here nor there. Welcome, Miss Rebecca, to a segment we like to call Boy Stop.

Take it away, Miss Rebecca. All right, I got a video for you, which is very, uh, you know, let's call it

the Hunger Games has come to the WNBA, right? The Hunger Games, yes, and I do not volunteer as tribute,

the Mocking Jay, mocking J head-ass

because everybody's broken.

Oh, there we go, Scooter gang.

Scooter gang.

Right. That's sad as hell, man.

Ah, damn. DJ.

Damn, show that again. Show me that DJ clip again at her scooting by.

That's sad as hell. Let's show him.

Show that. No.

No,

she was coasting. You could tell that leg had just, you know, when you have a skateboard and you kick hard and just shoot you for it? That's what she's doing.
Safi was so...

I feel like Fi was really in good spirits for being on a scooter. I would be mad as hell missing the MVP.

I missed those last two games of the year because I wanted us to be ready for a championship run. Asia gets it over me and then now I'm on a scooter.

Can't even play in an elimination game after Alyssa Thomas took my knee out. That was a foul.

Exactly. It was a foul.
And like you say,

I would be so upset. I would be so mad that I probably would have skipped the game.

Salute to Fee for even coming to the game, being out there, man. I would have watched that thing from my hotel room.
But Dejae right behind us. She's riding by.
Like, what's the song?

All my friends are the damn scooter. With the beanie on low.

Salute to Fi and Dejae. But Fi already got her eyes on that damn unrivaled check that's coming in very swiftly.

She's getting ready to cheer on Melissa Smith in the finals. That's what she's getting ready to do.

Ms. Rebecca, what's next? All right, I got one more for you that I think we should talk about.
So I just, I really need your thoughts on Cheryl Reeve

literally yelling at the fan. I mean, she really looks like she's going to take her out right here.
Like, she really looks, she really goes after this fan.

Here, I'm going to play this for you right here. Hold on.
You know, it's hilarious, Miss Rebecca. When I was watching Miss Cheryl go crazy, I was like, who does she remind me of?

This sounds like losing her.

Becca would do.

Right. And I thought of Miss Rebecca.
I'm like, wait a second. Are you some can to Miss Cheryl?

Because I would be damned.

The resemblance.

How out of your mind do you have to be? I think the guy touched your shoulder. I think that's what happened is the fan touched your shoulder like, you're all right.
Look at him. Touched your shoulder.

Yeah, what are you doing touching my shoulder?

Touch your shoulder. Don't touch.
Yo, get off me.

You get off me, too. And I just, this is my favorite part right here.
Every women's sports team needs a good lesbian security guard right there. You're out.

You're out.

Oh, it.

You gotta go.

Right.

And now you're getting a butcher.

Yeah, get out of here. You go.

You go. Bruh.
Miss Cheryl was doing wheel pharaoh levels of frustration. You can't

watch. She's getting out.

She was like, I'm in a gost confusion. Don't look at me.
You look at me. Who do you think you are? I am.
She was mad as hell.

I ain't never seen somebody that mad on the court, bro.

Like I say, bro, DJNA, you are the star of the year for putting that damn towel up. So we couldn't see Ms.
Sheriff.

Them boy instantly switched to the next angle. Also, we got breaking news.
We never have breaking news on the show right now. We got breaking news.

Anthony Davis says that he must wear protective eyewear for the rest of his career following a mandate from his doctor.

Breaking news. Like, the brow is now

the goggles.

The unicogging feeling.

That effect coming out.

Will he put like one of those glasses? What's he gonna do? Because it needs to be goggles, right? That's the only thing he can do.

Right. Well, maybe he wears the Alicia Gray

goggles. You did? Like,

kind of slick, but kind of goofy.

It's going to change his entire career arc on Getty. Because you're going to see photos of Anthony Davis for the rest of his career with those Buck, what was it?

Kevin Duckworth goggles. Those Buck Williams goggles.
That's who it was. It was Buck Williams back in the day.
That's...

I didn't know that the skin of paper, bones of glass, translated to the cornea. You know what I mean? Like, I didn't know that every square inch of his body was fragile.
Okay.

Here we are. I always thought that Anthony Davis looked like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

This adds on to the legends, the legend, the legacy.

What am I saying? Moving on.

What a show. It's a Tuesday.
What a show. Right.

Exactly. What a show, man.

You never gave your prediction.

Oh, shh. My prediction is down at this point, I think the Mercury is going to handle business, man.
They done been through the fire. That first round, they had to go through New York.

I mean, excuse me, Stew York. And that's not an easy task, right? They went through the links, the number one team, the best team.
Even without feet, you see what Caleb McBride can do. They did that.

And now they're going to sit here and wait for the Lynx. I mean, not the Lynx, the Aces and the Fever.
I think it might be quick work. I have a question.

If the Mercury win the title, is it the most impressive

is it the most impressive title run in the last five years?

If they get the aces, yes. Yes.
If they have to get the fever.

You'll have the defending champ, the number one seed, and the player with four MVPs and multiple championships. And 17 straight wins.

And 17 straight wins. That's the hardest road that you could get to to win a championship.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
100%.

Besides, how the heart, the road that was for the Lynx last year, they had to beat the New York Liberty and the three referees on the court.

That was a hard path, but they didn't get it done.

Would you take Satu to win finals MVP at 14 to 1, yes or no?

Absolutely not.

I'm taking 18 no matter what.

Taking 18 no matter what. Yep.
Plus 140. The odds.
Plus 140. It's bad.

Right, because she's balling. She's balling.

She's doing a lot more than balling. She's getting very physical.
She's doing some other extracurriculars off the court. She's a very spicy player, Juju.

Yep. I don't give a damn.
Like, I don't know.

I wanted to get to one more video before we got out of here. I have never seen a field storm this damn fast.
I know we had the alley oop, but we got to talk about history, man.

The history books right now,

no one has ever stormed the field faster than the Virginia football situation. They got the win the other day over Florida State.
Look at this. Catch.

What if it was a flag? Come on.

What if it was holding?

I think they ran over the player. Look at that.

The player touches the ball right there. He's still on the field.
He just got smashed. Is he okay?

Bruh, I think my boy is still in the end zone.

Like one of them chalk outlines. Chalk outlines.
Oh, no, he's still on the ground. He's still up.

He just hasn't gotten up yet. Nope.

What do you think about this Fieldstormer? What's your opinion on Fieldstorming? Well, Juju, I feel like you're asking me this as a setup. I'm asking your opinion on Virginia's Field Storming.

I like Field Storming.

I think it was good. Why are you asking me? Of course you like Fieldstorming.
Miss Rebecca, let's see some more fans celebrating their team after their epic win this weekend. Oregon versus Penn State.

We had another Phil Storming that didn't go

too popular on Sports Center, but it was popular in my household. Roll the tape, Miss Rebecca, once you can get it.

Wait, it was. Look at this Joker.

Look at this Joker storming the field, running over football players. She don't give a damn.
Look at that look in her eyes. She is possessed.

Look at this Joker.

Did you see the Zach May?

How did the field storm the field and all white out and pierced the body?

No, listen, it was just me. It was literally just me and the rest of the team.
As you can see, I hugged the athletic director. Where is he? There he is.
The AD right there.

That's Matt Reuer, the AD for Oregon.

People said that I had a hard time going 15, 20 yards and my cardio needs to be up. But do you know how hard it is to scream full speed and sprint around?

It's not easy. It's also the opening to Blair Witch Project is what this looks like.

Look, they got that picture right there outside of the stadium. Have you seen this lady warrant out for her is $500?

Oh my god.

We even started a little Let's Go Ducks chant as well

on the end zone. All the fans that were there there by the by the gate, we got them to go, let's go, ducks! Let's go, ducks!

And then I dropped all my stuff out of my bag, my sunglasses, my wallet, my AirPods, the microphone, everything. But guess what? I did not care.

I would have given it all up for a duck win. Such a tremendous time.
That's why I'm in Pittsburgh right now. I drove from Pittsburgh to Happy Valley.
It's two and a half hours.

Stayed in Clearview another two and a half hours away from Happy Valley. I did the Lord's work for that storm field, field storm.
Nice. It always makes me happy.

That did not make it on Sports Center.

No, I said Sports Center ain't covering this field storm anyway. They're not covering another one.

And they should be covering this one because that's the most epic field storm versus a one person storming the field. Look at the contract.

But like I say, it always made me happy to see my sister happy and thriving, living life, man. Keep killing their ass.

And thank y'all for listening. We had some Alley Oop listeners in the chat, so shout out to y'all.
Yes, sir. Shout out to everybody, man.
Thank y'all for listening. Miss Rebecca, Mr.
Dylan, my boy.

Thank you for your service as well every week. Man, catch us next time.
This Thursday, this Friday. Lock in.

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