Valkyries-Mystics watch party for Warriors fans:Temi Fagabenle! Janelle Salaun! HIGH-VIBRATIONALS!

Valkyries-Mystics watch party for Warriors fans:Temi Fagabenle! Janelle Salaun! HIGH-VIBRATIONALS!

What’s up herdub nation? Rich here with Let’s Go Warriors and we’re going to do the playbyplay for Mystics Valkyries. They’re in Washington DC for this one. I tuned in just a little bit late. My apologies on that. Oops. Browser update. Forget it. Uh let’s go to the box score again. I’m late. It’s 4:4 already. Mo Billings is out. Chetchi Xanderini is out because she sprained her ankle if you recall the other night. Unfortunately, oh, here we go live. This one. A great inside pass from Tip to Tam. We’re up 64. And uh couple of all star on their team. Citroen in the corner gets fouled by Tip Hayes. A little over aggressive against the rookie Sonia. And then there’s Kiki Erin and Shakira Austin, Britney Sykes, Suge Sutton. Boy, I don’t recall a lot of these names from the game that we won eons ago at Chase Center. We’re now 1 and0 against Washington who’s right next to us in the standings. So, this one’s a big one in terms of tiebreaker head-to-head. Sykes up top doubled by V. And that is uh in and out for three. No good. Sykes and Shakira Austin brick rebound Tam as well as uh Ilana. V postnub Janelle Son scoop good against the smaller um Suge Sutton. Sutton had no chance up top. Austin finds Citroen drives left and I I call that’s a bucket good. I call her the poor man’s Paige Beckers. She’s the poor man’s Paige Beckers, which if you’re a poor man’s Paige Beckers, you’re pretty good. Tammy with a step through. What a catch. What a move. What a step. Reverse layup. Good. Not a lot of men know how to do those moves down low. Citroen corner. Kick it back up top. They’re going to work pick and roll. Pop a three over Veronica. Splash. Dang. V brings it up right side over to Tammy. Right elbow hand off. V’s on the right side. I kind of like this high angle of the TV. Kind of don’t but kind of do in terms of like being able to see the whole floor. V. Ah, great handoff kind of split action and she turned the corner so they couldn’t stay in front of that. I mean, pretty basic staple of Valkyries. Citroen pick and roll. kick it. Um, inside out a Citroen’s wide open short. Make or miss league on that one. V looking, finds Janelle. Janelle swings to the left, drives on Citroen. Kick it two times. Wide open for Rupair. Good job by Janelle to uh beat Citroen on the point of attack. Honestly, that’s how we got that bucket. Good execution, too. Tammy with a good post up defense. It’ll stay here. Went out of bounds. Carla Lea. I heard that that’s how you pronounce it if you’re French. You got to pronounce every syllable in French. Um, she’s going to check in. So, Rupair with the three. Um, good execution on the double swing. They’re going to inbound here to um Sutton. Carla gets picked. Sutton goes backwards a little bit to the elbow, then drives, uses her shoulder to create space. Bucket. Good push shot. We are down. No, we’re up. Hey, we’re up after all that. 1511 again. Kind of feels like we’re losing, but not by much. pretty stalemateish. Um, miss three by Ilana, but it goes right off of Citroen. Surprisingly, she’s wearing the silver Nikes. So, baseline inbound coming up for the Valkyries. Oh, and Veronica bounces it off their center, gets it back from uh Ami here and fires a three. Okay, we haven’t seen that in a long time. Way to go, guys. Um the center was what? Jade Melbourne maybe or Doulson? Doulson 65 area. That’s why she’s an all-star. Attacks left. Attacked Tammy of all people and banked it in. So, they’ve got uh Jade Melbourne in as well. Carla turns the corner. Layup no good. Nice try on the scoopage. They’ll go 94 feet. Threw it too far ahead. Citroen has to crash into the cameras and then we throw it right back out of bounds. That’s a horrendous pass. Time out. Despite it all, we’re still up 1813. Amazingly, Q1428 Amy. Oh, show comments on stage. My fault. Oops, forgot about that. Uh, let me see if I can widen the screen. No, that didn’t work. Okay, we’ll just keep it there. 1813. Good start. Good start. Let’s check standings. Standings. Mystic’s 13 and 13. Valkyrie is 12 and 13. So, we have a chance here to go one up on them or half a game up. And that would be very important. comes down to tiebreers later to get that eighth and final spot. The Sparks nipping at our heels and the Sparks have Cameron Brink back from ACL. Let’s take a quick look at um take a quick look at Discord and see if I missed any news from today. Last time we checked, we were here with JK. Um, he posted a story. I’ll bet on myself all day. You guys, I’m sure have heard about that already. But let’s go back up to the more reliable live feed, which is the Bay Area live feed. We got some Bay Area news, which is uh traded a whole bunch of guys. Uh we traded uh the Giants traded some guys, the A’s traded some guys, a lot of relievers, and yeah, Kevin Dana is on the call somewhere. Um but is out and that’s all we got through the live feed that affects the Bay Area. Of course, you could always check the entire NBA live feed. Let’s check that. Um, of course we’re going to duplicate K&BR in that, especially come NBA time. So, there’s a lot of football news nowadays from a lot of the NBA people and not a whole bunch of NBA news other than Shannon Sharp isn’t NBA at all. Um, we got a Tik Tok feed uh that happens to show Steph, but it’s from Bleacher Report cuz they tend to do good videos every now and then and you know, just keep a pulse on that. But I don’t even hit this feed that much because it’s so overwhelming. And uh, latest curated stuff from me. Uh, Gilbert Arenas leaving the jail. You better not can’t hold me, man. You can’t hold me. Hilarious. Uh, he claims innocence. So, that’s the latest and greatest on that guy. And a runner by Olsson. No good. We got the rebound. Amy, you are number one. Just kidding. Uh, VB and gets the pick from Janelle. Tammy looks at Janelle inside. Nothing there. Me here over to Tam at the nail. Attack kick. We’re running out of time. And it’s a holding 31. Number 31, which was Doulson held Tammy down low in the paint. So 14:00 VB against Olson drives. What a pick by Tammy, but couldn’t get anything out of it. Ami here throws it inside and she actually hits the rim on the lob pass. No, that’s another turnover. Sykes goes 94. Smokes a layup. We got lucky. Ami here the other way. Bringing it up. Janelle post up. Tripled. Janelle, you’re tripled. Get it out of there. She’s doubled. She gets it out. Opens Carla. takes too long to aim. Wow, it’s an airball. What the heck are you doing? That’s like a turnover. Sykes again. 94. This time does not miss. What are we doing again? I’m sitting here. We either throw the ball to the other team or we’re throwing up airballs. What’s going on? And that was open. You got to do the flyby, Carla. But h she’s played well and she’s my favorite player right now. So what are we going to do? So it is what probably 18:15. Oops, I lost my screen. So you see see me scrambling around. That’s why. Fix that one more time. At least the refs are taking a while to inbound per usual. Don’t know what they’re doing. Carla’s going to inbound. And she nearly throws it away, but Kate Martin saves it. What are we doing? Carla drives. Kick it. Three ball. Ami here. Not the shot you want. Bricks it, but I rebound. Wheel it around to Kate. Kate looking back to for three. Splash. Well, when you shoot threes like that, who cares how pretty it is? And it wasn’t that pretty. Austin in the lane. Oh man. Tramples Kate. The heck is that? On the on the foul after the foul. And boy, you got to really look out for your legs here. They’re going to just aimlessly fall down on the court. That’s wrong. But everybody comes out okay. I think I’m dealing with technical difficulties, but I’ve got it all figured out now. And a swish by Austin at the line. Oh man, anytime I bump my computer, the screen freezes. I love this. God, the sacks. Uh, they missed a free throw, but they get the rebound. Offensive rebound. Oh man. To the nail. Jumper. Good. We have gone cold. Olsen with the bucket spelled with an E. Carla up top. Iliana looking for the pin down for Kate. It’s a handoff after Emi here. picked back out to repair for three. Pick and pop. Why are they leaving her open? I don’t know. But we’re happy about that. And up top, Sykes finds. No. No. The TV angle fooled me there. A drive. Number 21. Missed. Rebound to me here. Who’s 21? Emily Yangster maybe. Yep. Kick it for three. Let me hear line drive three. She just shanked one from the corner, but she shook it off and made that one. Carla one-on-one uh defense there. Kick it. Three ball again by uh miss by Angler. And who else is out there? Olson, Jay, Melbourne, Carla over to Iliana. They respect the three this time. And Kate Martin gets fouled by Bren uh I mean Sykes. Brittany Sykes. I almost said Wanda Sykes. Brittany Sykes with the foul. Hope everybody’s well. Let’s do a poll. Man, there’s only three of us this time. Wow. How are we doing today? Excuse me. Excuse me. I repair fake dribble handoff. Nearly lost the ball. Nearly another unforced turnover. Although Iliana’s grabbing her arm now, so she’s not 100% for the time being. Kate Martin for three. Fouled. Fouled by Melbourne. Melbour helps her off the floor. Um I believe that should be a landing spot situation, but what do I know? We are not calling those anymore. That is a total landing spot. I guess it’s not a reckless close out. But I mean, reckless is reckless. I don’t get it. We never call those. Kate makes it. I guess I guess if you get injured, then call it. Maybe that’s what it is. Maybe they’ve decided not to go ballistic on those calls as we kind of saw the NBA kind of, you know, go um a little bit too far on some of that stuff. Suge Sutton back in the game. So, they’ve got their starting back court in there and Kate Martin hits all three and we are up 30-8. Whoa. Suddenly what? 90 run I think or something like that. Pick and roll. Suge Sutton up top lob and bodies fall. And it’s repair with the hold. But it’s repair slow getting up. She got clocked in the face. So we can’t have any more people go down. We already have Mo Billings is out. CeCe’s out. We can’t have repair go out. No way can we have afford that. Running out of front court players and we’re small as it is. Oh, there we go. Okay. Right side inbound up top. Olsen in the nice pink shoes. Looking good with the double knee braces. Three ball Sonia. No good. Rebound Carla. Long rebound and 24 seconds left. 17 shot clock. So that’s about five and a half differential. Carla and Sonia Citron. Hey, two of my favorite players guarding each other. Ami here. High pick. Carlo the hesitation dribble loses it and throws it away. H what are we doing? Carla, how many turnovers? Let’s see. One, two, three. Well, we’ve had worse. So, and Veronica’s only got one turnover. Remember last game she had like four or five shot at the buzzer baseline. We left her open. Wow. Iliana was in help mode and 0.1 left. No sense in doing wasting your energy trying to heave a fullcourt one there and but we’ll take a 3020 lead. End of Q1. There’s really only four of us enjoying the Valkyries throughout the entire world. Yeah. Let’s see. Can I uh get some things done here? Let’s see. Let’s try and open up um Discord again and stay on the live feed for the NBA because uh you know, it’s kind of fun. Bay Area has added one. Let’s check what it is. Oh, it’s baseball. Uh Yremsky. Okay, let’s look at the NBA live feed for anything new. It’s just the Bay Area people. So, oh, Joey Metta in Dallas. Fever wings. Okay. That’s it, folks. There’s not much to talk about, but we’ll leave it there and I’ll go do some other work. Let me see. I pull up some stuff. Um, do we even have any votes on how people are doing? Amy, need you to vote. Go, go and vote. Uh, let’s see. Uh, what am I looking for? Um, oh, there it is. Okay. I am done with that work. Um, so let’s just take a look at some things that I posted in every post. Actually, here’s a new something showed up in this feed. Oh, it’s the Valkyries LA and DCA here. every post below, which means all of these in one category. Obviously, I showed you the Gilbert Arenas funny stuff. Let’s show you the Nick Young funny stuff. Oh, what’s going on today? God damn. God damn, man. They got him. They got him. Oh man. Hey, it’s over, man. It’s over, man. We stupid [ __ ] gone, man. They got him. Oops. I shouldn’t have played that. Uh, we’re back to action. Rupair drives and gets fouled. Nick Young continues to be hilarious. And Carla turns the corner, drives, and she’s hurt. She’s fouled. Oh, she’s grabbing her. Oh, great. Let me replay this on the laptop as we’re going to shoot free throws anyways. Let’s see what happened. Drives. This is why. Oh, she got clocked. Oh, that’s like a That’s like a landing spot type foul on a layup. And she clanks a free throw. She’s one for her last three free throws. I only know this because it’s easy to keep track when you follow the team this closely. Okay. Melbourne and Carla. Carla looks fine though. Looks like she’s 100%. Hits the corner. Three ball brick. Rebound repair. That was a corner three by can I remember her name? I cannot remember her name. Uh left side Kate Martin pick and roll. Rupair. Nice entry pass. Rupair misses it. Tips it. Tip it. No, couldn’t come up with it. Emily Angster. So it’s Melbourne out to Austin. They’re big in this lineup. Olsen back to Austin. Fake it. Drive it. Kick it. Three ball. No good by Melbourne. Rebound repair. Yay. So I need to plug in this one. It’s uh Carla way up top. Finds repair open down low in a mismatch. Kick it back to Rupair. Sideestep three over the smaller defender Angler and missed it. Austin rebound outlet. Carla nearly stole the outlet. The next outlet, the swing pass, but it’s out on her. And Kate says, “Hurry up and give me a towel.” I think cuz Kaitlin Chan immediately grabbed a towel and Carla rammed into the courtside seats, but she’s okay. Uh, someone spelled something. I don’t know. uh announcers going, “Do people drink wine at games?” Absolutely. Have you not seen those people at Chase Center? They’re always drinking wine. That’s all they drink in the first row courtside. You like you have to. It’s pure pressure. If you don’t drink wine, then you don’t deserve the courtside seat. It’s kind of like social norm. Three ball air ball. Offensive rebound. An angler dribbles it. dribbles was off her own foot. Turnover. Although it was a good rebound. That’s an right. Couldn’t see her name. Yeah, it has to be because that one’s Olsson and that one’s Melbourne. And bringing it up is VB against Melbourne. Screen. Illiana roll. Illiana, you got the switch back to Janelle. Three ball open. Ah, clanked it. Line drive way to the right. Sykes brings it up. Entry pass. Oh, nice pass. Good catch, too. But nothing there. So, she dribbled back to the corner and finds Austin. Beautiful euro step, but she missed it. VB with the rebound. Here she comes. WNBA’s Josh Hart. And she plays the role perfectly. 94 feet. Josh Hart layup. I mean, it’s it’s to the point where Josh Hart is the Veronica Burton of the NBA, you know? Just kidding. I think there more people knew about Josh Hart than VB who gets a rebound after Melbourne missed a tough scoop. VB doubled for a moment. Out to Tip Hayes now reset Iliana. Pick and pop. Nothing there. Over to Kate. She’ll pop it. Ah, short. Tip Hayes. Offensive rebound. Kick it two times to Kate. Three ball. Good. We’re kicking butt. 3620. Time out Washington. This is a team we should be. They are not as good as us, but I feel like they’re missing somebody. Like maybe I um just I haven’t called her name like but one time tonight. What’s up Bruce and Melania? Hey, let’s take a screenshot. Go Valkyries. Plus, it’s purple. Cool. Or you’re purple. Wait a minute. They changed the uh Oh, here it is. Oh, man. We only got four people on right now. What happened to everybody? Oh well, we’re having fun though. Go Valks. Like this is a good game. Fun game to watch. Fun game to call. Um, did you guys watch uh Fantastic Four because I believe Bruce voted it as crap. I remember. What was your one to 10 rating on F4? It’s probably a four. Come to think of it. The rate we’re going here, I thought I thought it was equal to Superman. I thought it was equal. Actually, no. I thought it was a little bit better because that’s the first time they’ve actually done Fantastic 4 like correctly. So, I gave it I give it a I give it a 8.5 and Superman an eight. Oh, Bruce gave a seven. Wait, what was Superman then? Soups. What was Soups? I bet you you gave Soups a five. But dude, Mr. Terrific was awesome. Oh, Pedro. Huh? Since there’s nothing to talk about, I will be super engaged right now and active. Oh, should we end the uh poll right now? Ah, there’s only one vote. Amy’s a little too uh busy. Superman is a six. Wow. Tough critic. All right. Cisco, Bruce Cisll, and Eert. The uh Haitian Eert. Oh man, we got to get uh Dean back on one of these days. Christopher Ree. Yeah, I know. Oh, we’re back to action. I’ll comment later. Inside Doulson. Oh no, Citroen’s wide open. Bricked it. Rebound VB. Touchdown pass. Stolen right to Citroen. What an interception. Goes strong. What a move. Banker. No good. But Erie fends right there. Quick timeout by Natalie. Great timeout. GSV. Uh, well, I can just look at the previous score because that’s two straight buckets. Um, 3624, right? No, 3622. That can’t be right. Let’s take a look here. What did they Was it 3618? I thought they scored two in a row. No, I guess they only scored one in a row. Q2 626. Good timeout. Good quick timeout. Let’s put that in the notes because uh not doing much else. Quick timeout. Um 6 minutes 26 Q2 20 run to start Q2. Yay, Natalie. Okay, let me answer your thanks. Superman 2. Oh, yeah. So, I I saw a YouTube um screen crush. Yeah, screen crush. Uh, guest said first 40 minutes of 1978 Superman is um, makes that movie worse than 2025. Sure, you disagree with that. Wasn’t Mr. Terrific terrific though? He was terrific. I really liked him. He was good. I didn’t even know that superhero existed. Never heard of him prior to this. Um, but very happy that he was in it because very very uh inventive character. I really like that one. very uh iron mananish. Should we end the vote right now? We better end the vote real quick. I guess I can take a screenshot even without Yeah, let me take a screenshot even without ending the poll. Boom. I got it 100%. I completely forgot to tweet that we are live right now. Whoopsies. Ners are back soon. Not yet. I believe the first Oh, August 9th. Okay. Broncos. Oh, hey. Welcome back. Daniel Brusselovski works for the Broncos. Now Kate Martin gets it stolen from Citroen. And then it’s a take foul on Kate. What are you doing? Oh wow. Out of a timeout. Kate Martin who has been subpar for a week. Of course, she didn’t play at home and I think that messed her up and that’s probably Natalie’s fault, but gotta stay ready. I believe Citroen missed the free throw. She missed the free throw. Look, you you can’t do a middle school turnover like that where you catch the ball and then Citroen just steals it. Uh down the lane, Melbourne and one and we are just falling apart. Let me rewatch that and see who lost who on the point of attack. It’s unbelievable that Kate Martin would play this bad. Let me see. Oh wow. Melbourne just walts right by Kate Martin. I don’t get it. This is the worst I’ve ever seen Kate Martin play. And All right. And one’s good. And up top. It’s not Salon, bro. It’s Salon. Come on, bro. Veronica for three from the handoff. Three ball. Good Tammy another assist. Okay V the threes help make up for some of this. Can Kate Martin play better? She stayed in front there and Citroen. What a move. Sonia Citroen. A little fake inside out dribble then turn the corner layup good. Whoa. Oh, she’s a baller. I like her and Paige. She’s the poor man’s Paige. Tammy for three. No good. Rare time she’s open from there. Uh oh, they’re pushing it up. Sonia’s open. Blocked by V. Oh, that’s a Josh Hart block. And now she got the loose ball. Running the break. Four on two. Kate Martin three. Got it. Kate Martin, you are absolved. And now we foul again. Sonia draws another foul. Boy, I tell you what, Sonia Citron looks way more confident than last game we played them. Like, wow. I mean, we knew she was good. She’s better than the last time we saw her. So, it’s been about 10 games, including All-Star break. I like Sonia. Oh, Citroen is all NBA. All right, buddy. People telling Kerr this or you know who did that is meaningless to me. Huh? What’s that mean? Because Oh, I do not. Oh, right. Right. I had to read both comments. Veronica. Oh, crosses over Melbourne. Melbourne on on scramble mode and Tammy hits the bucket from the nail. Yeah, let’s run that play 10 more times in a row. Veronica gets decked. Suddenly, the pendulum is shifted. Way to go, Natalie. Whatever you’re doing, this is this is this is good coaching, man. just whatever you’re doing, whatever you’re yelling at the at the players to go wake up, they did. So, they came out, let the Mystics go up and down the court unmolested two times, of which they only scored once, but that was a quick timeout. Then Kate Martin give the ball away and something else happened, but we fought through it and now we’re back in the momentum again. with Iliana up top. Veronica, we’re up by 17. 4427. We’ve held them to 27. Tammy missed the jumper elbow. They left her open. Melbourne going to bring it up. And Melbourne looking inside. Nope. It’s going to be a pick. Pick and roll. It wasn’t executed well. Kick it two times right side. Sutton stay in front. Veronica gambled. That leaves Melbourne open for three. Got it. Shouldn’t have gambled that one. Well, oh well. You know, sometimes you take chances. And uh V certainly took one there, but you were up 17. So maybe that was a good risk up top. VB. Tam elbow handoff. VB couldn’t turn the corner. Screen Tammy. Oh, Tam was open. Didn’t get it to her. Be stuck. Their big is doing a great job. And V throws it to the other team. Bad left-handed pass. Three ball. Sutton. No good. We dodge the bullet. Tammy rebound. VB brings it up. Natalie call C, whatever that is. Here we go. Uh, Veronica barely got that over again. Um, what you call it? Crosses over Melbourne inside of Tam. Loses it. Got it back. Could have been double dribble. Nothing there. Short. That was an ugly fadeaway by Tam, but oh well. Usually she hits those. Actually, no. Usually inside she’ll go to the basket instead of fade. And that fade wasn’t the right move. Citroen. A lot of body from Janelle. Lost her dribble. So it goes to the corner. Three ball. Air ball. Melbourne. Tami. Another rebound. VB tries to find some room. Didn’t. Tami screen. What a screen. gives her room for a three. No good. And then Iliana gets fouled on the arms by 44 um Shakira Austin. No, Arafin. Wow. The Allstar Kiki. Yeah. Oh, Notre Dame was good, huh? Crowded Notre Dame. Didn’t know that. Of course, I don’t know much about women’s college. V. Kick it. A me here. Three ball. No good. And that’s Austin pulling it out and bringing it up. Kicking it down low. Strong move. I the all-star. Good move. Wow. Rook. Wow, they had two rookies as all star. That is nuts. I didn’t know she was a rook. Actually, I did. I just didn’t pay attention. V pick and roll. Um, Ilana kick it. Amir, here’s open again. They leave her. So then she dribbles into trouble and loses the ball out of bounds in rather embarrassing fashion, but that’s okay. Um, but we need to pass the ball a little bit more, I think. So next time down, let’s run a play. Sutton right side on tip post up here’s the all-star kick it back out back to Finn elbow doesn’t go with the split but now pick and roll elbow no good Austin with the rebound out to Citroen Citroen making moves on V got a screen roll good pass and fouled almost an and one but no but fouled by a me here Austin will go to the line. 44 seconds left until halftime. We’re up 12. So overall, can’t complain. Uh pretty good performance by Golden State. And that one was good offense by the Mystics as they move the ball around a lot. And I tell you what, Sonia Citroen, she’s very unselfish. She’s complete player. Free throw goes in and out and in. Are uh are Citroen’s shoes are those silver or gold? I can’t tell from this far away. I think it’s both. It’s probably more silver. It’s interesting. I think it’s got both gold and silver. Those are neat shoes, man. Cool. Carla’s in the game. Tip up top looking for Janelle down low and they can’t get it to her. I don’t know why we didn’t really try on that one. Iliana fake a three drive foul. Foul on Erie Finn. Let’s check her fouls. She’s got two. Good. Let’s try to get her three fouls before the break. Way to go. Uh, Ilana, man, that was a hack by Erie Finn. I tell you what, if you’re going to foul somebody, foul them like that. That’s a good foul, but you got beat. So, that’s that’s the main thing that they she would need to correct. Repair. Good. And buckets’s good. Sykes brings it up. 15 seconds. There’s about 1 second differential. 10. Shot clock. Nine. Eight. Seven. Here comes the pick and roll. Janelle gets picked. Let me hear switches. Sykes tight roping. She Oh, I thought she lost the ball. They didn’t call it. And buzzer beater three. No good. 4634 halftime. Hey, pretty good half, guys. Yeah, Valks. Let’s take a look at our Discord server. Anything else? Look at some Valkyries. Uh, let’s see. Collier has a an article out. Matt Lively is on the scene, but he is talking about um the Giants here. So, let me delete that from the Valkyries category. Um, we got some good Valkyrie stuff up here. Here’s some pregame. Um, just us type stuff, except they call it GS. Let’s go all the way down. I missed it last time. Here it is. Uh, the Matt Wy one. Where is that? I don’t see it here. Cool. It is it is all Valkyries in this channel. Kevin Danai is out. Ankle sprain. Uh, we got some new posts. Three threes for repair. So, we’ve covered that whole thing. What’s in the salary cap? Oh, yeah. It’s been a while. This is my personal account. So, uh, I’ve already read all of these for the main account. Um, Lonnie Walker IV will remain with Euro League, who recently signed with the club, had an NBA out clause through August 1st. The deal was negotiated. Uh, so Lonnie Walker is no longer available as a free agent, and that’s kind of a a good post to post for uh us Warriors fans to keep a note of for later. I wish this kid Ari would just put his last name behind everything, but all righty, whatever. So, I’m going to repost that in the every post. Um, what else we got? Veronica Burton. Harbaugh pounding Tre Lance’s pads. Trey Lance is on the Chargers. Okay. Did not know that. Um, what else is there? Let’s go to the live live feed. So, you see I just put that there. It’s a new one for the free people or the No, actually this is a VIP. Um but um that kind of stuff actually I would need to copy down here. Um which I’ve done. So if you’re VIP to the Discord, you get these live feeds. Naji Marshall gave high fives. This is news, bro. Okay. All right. This is news. Um, Diamondback’s news. Um, that’s because Kellen Olsson is a Phoenix Suns reporter. And I don’t think there’s much Wait a minute. Is this a preseason game? Oh, yeah. The uh Hall of Fame game. Trey Lance. Oh, Chargers Lions. That’s That’s not a uh matchup you see all that often. Or is that me? I just I don’t recall that many Chargers versus Lions games ever. Why is that? That’s funny. Maybe I just don’t pay attention to the NFL enough. Yeah, that’s it. Uh, let me go check my uh Warriors kids feed. See, uh, which kids Warriors pages are crying today. Uh, let’s see. Um, boy, kids are always mad about something, I tell you. Yeah, I don’t see anything of note. Uh, one of the uh game plan uh items for Natalie Nakasi is to um box out Kiki. And so far it’s working. Excuse me. Left foot is the chiendini diagnosis. Um I’m going to Okay, I’m going to add a new reporter to uh the Valkyries. Looks like he’s been doing tweeting a good job. So, let’s give it a try. Uhuh. That didn’t work. I’m going to check something. Okay. Almost done. There we go. Um, what else is up? Hey, call GSW. Yeah, no. Totally, dude. Blocking kids. Burton. Um, what else we got here? Oh no, I lost my screen yet again. At least it’s halftime. Call DSW. Give me a screen. Screen. No signal. You lie. Gosh, this is bad. I swear, man. When can I send this in? When did the Valkyries have a break? Send in this bad screen. Oh, I lost it again. Don’t buy Zbeck. It’s trash, man. Give me some light. There it is. Finally. Press that in. How many high vibrationals? Five votes. Five votes. All high vibrational. Yeah. And I screenshotted it just in time. We have set a record, my friends. A record indeed. And yeah, blocking kids. Totally. Wait, my back screen’s on something weird. What is this? Big Sarge. Okay. All right, Big Sarge. Let’s go to Valkyries here. Scroll all the way down. Let’s do a good one. There we go. Halftime score. That’s a good one. Screenshot. Yeah. Oh, pleas. Oh, whoa. Some fun facts. That’s crazy. Pleasy Haitian Creole for pleasure. That’s neat. Fun fact. That is that is our our type of content. Everywhere else complain about something. Cool. Got to screenshot that one, too. Dude, this is killing me. The screen is just not working. It’s not going to Try that again. Oh man, foot fell asleep. Come on. No signal. Killing me. Absolutely killing me. Still haven’t started the third quarter yet. So that’s the good news for me. 71 days ago was the last time the Mystics were at Chase Center. That’s a while. And why is this wrong? I swear I’m going to throw this off a building. This is absolutely ridiculous. Tip Hayes left hash mark. Janelle posting up Citroen. Fake drive fade away. No call. Wow. Citroen. Good defense, man. She continues to impress. Offensive foul on Austin against V. I don’t know what else I got to do here. This a bad screen. V up top. Pick and roll. Tammy, kick it. Iliana drives. Austin fell down, but she didn’t know about that. Pick and roll. Tip throws it throws it away. Citroen twoon-one. Finds uh trailer back to Sykes up top. No good. Short, but Austin got another rebound. Sykes dribbles around looking inside. Got position. Bucket. Kiki V will bring it up. We’re up by 10. This is why we got to be careful. That 10 mark will always be in control. And then suddenly tip pace screen repair. She’s doubled. Hey, you’re doubled. Kick it. Corner Timmy three. No good. Kiki rebound or Austin rebound. Let this Suge. She is gets a screen. We got a mismatch here. Suge and Rupair. And back up top. Sykes and tip gets a screen switch. Sykes and Janelle find Citroen. What a cut. Can’t put the shot in though. Got lucky. Veronica screen Tam back out the tip. Looks at it back to V. Screen Tam right side. Roll Tam down the lane. Oh, swatted by Austin. What a swat. And Sykes would go 94 against Tip. Almost a travel, but she actually wanted an N1, but converted it. V hand off Iliana and tip. Pop a three. No good. Way off. Tammy hustles. Oh, out of bounds on Sykes. Great hustle by Tam, as you would imagine, because she does that a lot. Tam is so good at just hustling after the ball, causing the other team to screw up. I swear she gets two of those every game, and those should be like rebounds. She’s always responsible for the team rebounds. Tip Hayes, screen, Tammy. Nope. Swing it to repair. Swing it to V right side. Tammy’s open inside. Rupero will shoot a three. Brick it. But Tammy’s right there. And oh, then never hit rim. So it’s a shot clock v violation. But Tam, wow, she was this close from getting another rebound. Like she deserves way more rebounds than whatever her rebound total is. Carla Le as Tip Hayes looks like she’s limping a tad bit. So I would say that she’s a little bit injured and that’s why she came out with only 709 to go and three ball catch and shoot. Sykes. And we’re only up by five. What did I tell you? Screen Tammy V reach in by Citroen. Not enough to foul though. She just she just gives just enough physical contact. So that’s that’s a good baller. And Tammy tramples Sykes. Not Tam repair. Repair trampled Sykes on the switch. That’s another turnover. And how many turnovers is that? That is now Veronica. Three turnovers. Nine. Nine turnovers. H Golden State teams, but steals it. Very bad pass by Austin V. 94 ft. Oh, good defense by Citroen. She just made herself as wide as possible. But Janelle catch and shoot three over Sykes. Who cares about the good defense by Sonia? I do. One of my favorite players. Handoff screen. Oh, Citroen threw it behind and Veronica slapped the ball away. Good look though. Just kind of threw it behind her, but there was a lot of traffic. Man, Citroen is solid. Like she just doesn’t make mistakes both both ways. Janelle is guarding the inbounder and it goes out to Suge. Suge and Carla right side one-on-one. Iliana reverse layup. No good by Finn. Kiki missed the reverse even though she had the step. Screen and roll. Roup error. V out to um Carla. Back to V up top. Making a move. Back to the nail. Back to Carla. 4-3. Catch and shoot. She was fouled. And it’s a it’s a splash. Timeout. That should have been a foul. What? Come on. It’s an N1. 5241. Just like that. 545. That should be an N1. Oh, I forgot to put it back on the box score. My fault. Let’s get it back on the box score, which is right here. Now we’re back up comfortably. Man, it went from 10 points to five right back to 11 just like we planned it. Oops. Nearly uh destroyed my laptop. Whoops. H how’s everybody doing? Uh I don’t know what else to talk about. Let me check the Discord. I won’t switch screens real quick because there’s not much going on. Um nothing there. Yep. Tiffany Hayes heading to the locker room because she was limping around. Hey, nobody nobody saw that except looking at the uh Mystics broadcast. What else is going on here? All right. Hey, I got a Equifax breach settlement card. Let’s see if this works, man. How much is it? A dollar. I’ll let you guys guess. How much was the Equifax settlement breach settlement? How much did I get? Let’s see. Activate. Verify address doesn’t say we’re unable to register your card. Of course you are unable to register my card. Of course. Oh man. horrendous. Whatever. Okay. Iliana up top. Hand off. Carla screen. Illiana right side. You got the mismatch back up top. Ami here makes a move and it’s a reach in on Kiki. Are we shooting free throws? No, not even close. One foul. I think it’s one. Good balance of scoring today. 1110 987. Kate Martin with nine. That’s surprising. Oh, they’re going to call that shooting foul. Yeah. Am I here at the line? She struggled. Hits that one. Carla gets everybody in a huddle. Oh, me here was at South Carolina. Yeah. Rattles it in. We are now up by 11. 505 to go. Suge and Carla up top looking for a screen. It roll. We blitz. Good job by Rupair. Swing it to the big. No good. Doulson misses a three. Janelle rebound. Takes Melbourne. Kick it back out. Ami here. Veronica pin down. And it’s a hockey check by Suge Sutton on the pin down by Veronica. So that will be two team fouls. And next up is side out post up Janelle. She’s got Sykes. Jab step fade away elbow short rebound. Sykes downhill on a me here. Reach in. Should have reached in. You don’t need to do that when you’re four inches taller than Sykes. but she’ll go to the line. Good play to initiate that. And uh pretty much it’s hard to prevent yourself from reaching in on strong moves like that, especially going downhill. Free throw. Good. Um, I forgot to check if I Oh, missed a free throw. Did I screenshot Nobertos? Yeah, I did. Cool. All right, rebound or bringing it up as Veronica looking to take Melbourne. Gets a pick by Ami here. But back up top, Carla goes away from the screen, gets to the paint, spray to Ami here, smokes a layup though, gets a rebound, fouled. Kiki, another foul and she is upset at the referee, but yeah, four fouls, Kiki. Four fouls, Kiki. Ami here. Another rare trip to the line. Can she connect? Yes, that one looks better. It’s the best looking uh release that she’s had in a while. Kate Martin in the game. takes out Veronica, I think it was. And we have 408 to go in the third quarter. And LA at the line hits it. What are we up? 12. Melbourne gets a switch. Kick it back up top. Sykes and Carla stay in front. She does. Over to Olsen. I feel like Olsson should play more. Olsson and Carla to Austin looking for the handoff. Got it to Sykes. Got to pop a two. Late shot clock. No good. Tip tip. And it’s a me here. Now she’s downhill. And she keeps going downhill. Sykes swats it off of her. It’s a foul on Sykes. I think her left arm was all over the back. Otherwise, beautifully athletic swat by Sykes. It’s just that she got away with hanging on the backside of a mi here. A mi here. Yep. So, her arm is all over me here’s right shoulder and that’s definitely a foul. And uh still though, she uh skyed for the swat of the ball. It’s just that applied a little bit too much contact. They’re going to challenge. They’re gonna lose this challenge. There’s absolutely no way that’s a foul. That’s not a foul. The left hand is all over. And let’s get a score. We going to do that. No. KPIX refuses to throw us a score. So, we’ll just look at the box score, which is uh 5644 Q3337 challenge coming up. And should we do a vote? Let me see. We are high vibrational five votes. So I kind of want to keep that. So we’ll we’ll keep the poll going and not vote if this is Keystone Cop’s moment to shine and screw this one up completely because that is definitely a foul on Sykes. Like you can’t just ignore the other arm. Q Jeopardy theme song. Wonder how long this is take. Really, really the question isn’t how they will rule. It’s just how long will it take usually is the problem. Let me check Discord for any news. Um, Tiffany Hayes went to the locker room for about seven minutes. About seven minutes. Okay. Really? Seven minutes. Not Not five or six or 10. Seven. Uh, what else we got? Um, well, someone wanted to know about JK. So, I said I told him this. October 1st is the deadline to sign the qualifying offer. If JK does not sign by then, he will forfeit the upcoming season. This is based on Google research I did earlier today. I need to answer these with my own personal account though, so I got to strive for that. But I have a few other things I need to work on tonight. So eventually, Yep. We’re just still waiting for the ruling and it’s taking forever. I just realized that I left you guys uh I was talking about something I saw on Discord and I didn’t have it on the screen. No big deal. Um Lonnie Walker is no longer a free agent. There’s not much more to talk about. NBA feed is talking about baseball. It’s that time of year. Are we going to get a ruling any now and now anytime soon? Please. Fever wings. Ooh. Paige versus Caitlyn. And then Sparks Storm. And then Lynx Aces. Lynx is going to win that one, I think. Oh, come on. Come on, Ref. I think he’s explaining that she went like this, but it was her left hand, my friend. Come on, refs. What’s taking so long? Come on, refs. Let’s go. Sykes is pissed. That means we won the challenge or they lost the challenge. Nice try. But that was totally a foul. If you I mean, if she she only had one arm, then that was clean. Oh, it’s a foul on Olsen. That’s wrong. Oh, that is a hack on Olsen. Yeah, it’s also She was fouled twice. One by Olsen, the other one by Sykes. Look, that is a nice block by Sykes. But you were grabbing her shoulder. You can’t do that. Oh, yeah. You did call that right. Yeah, there were two fouls, but like I hope they called the second one a foul. I think they had to change it to Olsen because Olsen technically fouled her before Sykes did. And doesn’t matter here missed the second free throw and then they can’t get the rebound. Look at Sykes is pissed. Don’t be pissed at your own teammate for not catching the ball. That was uh Angler couldn’t handle it. Carla to inbound Ami here um with a good cut, but it goes way out to Rupair and then Kate Martin looking for Carla wide open. She’ll attack. Kick spray three ball. A me here way off. Rebound Citroen of course she’ll keep it. She’ll bring it. But is someone gonna stop ball? Janelle does and she blocks it. Hey, that’s not bad. You just blocked a all WNBA um candidate. Although me and Bruce will definitely vote for Sonia Citroen, one of the what top 10. Oh, Citroen got away with the push on Janelle. Just wasn’t quite enough. She just does just enough physicality. She kicks it. Olson misses a three. Out of bounds, Zarball. Yeah. You know, I I think a lot of this game is the Mystics can’t find the bottom of the net. They’re shooting like horrendously. What? Um, let’s go to ESPN for the totals. ESPN.com. Oh, that’s not ESPN. ESPN.com. WNBA. Oh, we got a whistle. Oh, turnover. Ah, turnover. I look up and it’s another turnover. Guys, this game would be over if we just didn’t do the turnovers that we do. They’re horrible. Yep. Bad pass is what the gamecast said. And Mystics are shooting 38% 17 on threes. See what I mean? Austin draws a foul, but she passed the ball at the last second, so it’ be side out. And we are still up by 13. Uh 234 to go. Huh. Interesting. Carla was talking to K Martin about something. That was interesting. Not sure what, but she pretended she was doing a catch and catching something. Catching three three triple threat. Oh no, we’ve got a foul off the ball, I think, on Janelle. And then Janelle is holding her arm. Is that an elbow? Let me rewatch. She’s holding Citroen. Okay. Lot of contact. And uh Citroen went like that and Janelle went ouch. Citroen hits the free throw. Um oddly enough, Citroen has not been called much as far as scoring is concerned. Six points on three for 10, 0 for three downtown. Yet she still does a lot of fundamental things very very correctly like set a pick right there on Rupair back screen. But they go inside and loses the ball and Iliana deflected it and uh it’ll be Suge Sutton to inbound. Sonia sets the pick for Austin. Hand off back to Suge. She turns the corner on Carla. Missed missed another layup. They’re shooting blanks tonight. Like that’s makeable. And you actually beat Carla off the dribble. So, I’d like to see Carla stay in front better. She’s got the ball up top behind the back dribble. Her favorite. Back up top to Kate. Swinging around. Ami here gets it back up top. Carla late shot clock shoots a three. Swatted and rebound by Suge. Finds Citroen. Uhoh. Better call timeout. Yep. She hits the three. Perfect arc. Timeout. You do not want Citroen to get hot. That’s her ninth point. 149 up by nine. Good timeout by Natalie, especially as Washington, just like Bruce said, they’ve been flat. So, there was no need to call timeout. But now, pretty much got to call timeout on that one. That was kind of ugly possession in terms of just the shot clock just running down, running down. Carlos shoots a desperation three. It’s gets swatted. They run the break. Citroen wide open in the corner. Uh all net. You got to call timeout. That’s funny for a baseball broadcast and a white announcer to throw shade on Angel Ree. What? What’s going on here? Brianna Stewart, bone bruise. Oh, wow. Nfisa Collier 30 and9. They beat New York Liberty. Asia Wilson, LA won five straight games. What? Wow. Asia Wilson. Wait a minute. Asia Wilson has pink hair now. Is that true? Um, Caitlyn Chen brings it up. Maybe because Veronica’s got three turnovers over on the flare to tip. Gets a nice pick by Iliana. This is a designed play. Caitlyn to the elbow. Good. What a play called by Natalie. That was a beautifully designed play. Yes. I love X’s and O’s, man. That was sweet. Uhoh. Citroen wide open. Splash. What are we doing? You can’t leave her open. Suddenly 12 points. Is it 12? 13. She’s got even more points than I guessed wrong. The heck is going on? I thought it was two points too much or some uh Janelle fadeaway line drive brick. Here comes Suge to Citroen. Entry pass. Austin one 101. Rupair reverse layup. Foul. Iliana. She can’t believe it. But yeah, a lot of contact. We’re only up eight. Could be six. Oh man. Oh, Bruce with the gauntlet throw. Okay, Bruce. Wow. Oh, wow. But it’s not off the dribble. They’re different, though. One one is catch and shoot, one’s off the dribble. But yeah, I would say catch and shoot. Citroen’s better. Obviously, we’re seeing that with our own eyes. And Caitlyn off the dribble. That’s the thing is basically Caitlyn’s the only um yeah, she’s the only one in the WNBA that can shoot off the dribble. Who the heck ruined the high vibrational pole? Oh man, who ruined it? Oh well, poll’s a poll and there’s nothing to pull about right now. Oh, look at that entry pass that Austin just swatted away. And Tammy says, “Throw it up higher.” Yo, Tammy, come on. Like, that’s great athletic defense. That throwing it higher to you was not going to get there. That’s just tremendous athleticism from Austin. Let’s give her some credit. Tammy Caitlyn Chen with a beautiful pass to the corner. Tip Hayes drives in. Crazy shot against two people. That’s low probability. Guess who runs the floor? Citroen touchdown pass and one against Caitlyn Chen. Suddenly it’s a fivepoint game. Maybe four. Ah, Citroen just went from like what was it? Six points to 16. Man, she’s so good. I mean, I was just saying that she was three for 10 and now she’s six for 13. Hits a free throw, of course. Ah, yeah. I think favorite players in the league. I’m going to go uh number one Paige, number two Citroen, number three Carla Le. Those are my three faves and they’re all two guards. Kate Martin at the buzzer. Oh, Kate Martin, thank you. Thank you for hitting threes today. Citroen. Look at Citroen. Uh, is it Citron or Citroen? Last game the announcers were going Citroen and then today they changed it to Citron. The heck is going on? Make up your mind. But, uh, K Martin. Yeah, I mean I I was going to say I was going to say, look, they inbounded it to Citroen. Citroen passed the ball to her teammate. buzzer sounded. I’m just saying if her teammate was an NBA player, that was the perfect pass. Like, perfect timing. Like, Citroen is way ahead of everybody. She’s so good. But I love watching good basketball players and man, Citroen is up there. Um, but we are up seven. End of Q3. Of course, I don’t like them more than wanting to win. Uh, so Clark is 28%. Wow. Oh, way to go call. Yeah, I have definitely jumped off the uh Caitlyn Clark bandwagon, but she is what drew me to the WNBA. And then obviously the Valkyries, uh, they have been just just a joy to watch, you know, just it’s it’s not even the skill, it’s not even the talent, which is pretty good. It’s not great, but it’s pretty good, but it it’s really the go get the ball. Um, play with force, play with grit, like they got that down pat. And that part is just um you know it’s really inspirational. It’s uh makes you have to root for them. So that’s part of you know I mean look the way that we play Valkyries like it’s not pretty. But the one player that does have nice moves is Carla and shots. Um so I’m biased there. you know, my my my fourth favorite player is going to be like Tammy. My fifth is going to be like Veronica. Uh switch them around or what have you, but like yeah, but really Sonia Citroen just vaulted up the rankings. Of course, like Nafisa Collier, you know, no doubt she’s way up there. And I’ve always liked Asia Wilson and Brianna Stewart and obviously Sabrina. Love Sabrina and that’s hometown bias as well. But yeah, just uh daybyday stock market rankings. That’s what I got for you. But yeah, Caitlyn’s out of the she’s, you know, number nine or 10 right now. Tip Hayes baseline dribbles back out to Veronica. Screen Tam another great screen. And look at Citroen’s defense. Amazing. Kate Martin three ball blocked. Shot clock violation. Man, I’m telling you, man. Citroen’s moving up the charts. Who’s the better defender? I wonder, Bruce. I am curious. Of course, these are all one game samples. All right, inside Austin handoff. Uh-oh. Citroen, look at that pass right back into Austin. Perfect pass. Bucket good. Almost an and one. We escaped that one. Shoot, man. What’s the score? We’re only up five. 850 to go. Lot of time. High pick. Tam. Good crossover. V. Back to Tam. Nail kick. Martin for three. No good. Uh-oh. Citroen on the run. Touchdown pass. Of course. Come on. She’s too good. What are her stats? Is this 22 and two? That’s it. Feels like, you know, five, five, and five. Veronica fouled. And you know what? Even on that one, that’s a good foul. You’re They executed the pick and roll perfectly. Citroen’s behind the play. She’s going to argue with the ref, but she holds Veronica. I mean, we’re running the perfect pick and roll, which we we do a lot. We do it better than the Warriors, I would say. un unless unless we play a good game where you know Draymond or last year and Looney are setting good picks one after the other. Of course the other guys setting picks are young. Trace Jackson Davis, Quinton Post, they don’t do a good job all the time. Veronica Euroep swatted Austin with another one. Here comes Citroen and she turns the corner on Kate. Look at that sling pass to the corner. I could watch Sonia play all day. Three ball up top. I mean, that’s just all caused by the Citroen sling pass to the corner. Get you on your heels. Three ball Olsen. And we’re only up. No, we’re tied up, man. Ah, I mean, part of me is like, well, Citroen’s pretty damn good, so that’s why it’s a tie ball game. But come on, Valkyries. Kate Martin. There you go. Wow, Kate. Okay, show me some defense. Kate Martin running scoop. Amazing shot. Janelle stays in front. Good screen. Kick it. Melbourne. By the way, Melbourne’s probably been a minus today. She hasn’t done much thankfully for us. Corner. Uh-oh. Three balls. Good. They’re getting confident. Angler. And we’re down by one. What happened? We were up by 12, man. I tell you, it was a burst by Citroen doing everything. Iliana handoff Kate. Traveling Kate, I bet. No, that’s got to be Nope. Hand off. Uh, moving screen by repair. How many fouls on repair? Four fouls. Uh, this one’s tough cuz like if we can’t pull this one out, like it’s like we were in control of this game, somehow it got out of control. I I don’t even know what happened. All I know is Citroen was making um amazing passes and cuts and just doing everything perfectly. Um, and uh I our offense just sputtered a couple of blocked three-pointers at the end of shot clocks. Look at the screen set by Citroen. Like the man. Can we Can we get her on trade for Citroen? Kaminga for Citroen. Uh, they tip the ball tip the ball out of bounds on us. So, baseline coming in. No, I’m serious. Like if if every NBA player if they if they played basketball like move your feet, go where you’re supposed to go, make the pass when you’re supposed to make it like Citroen does, you’d have many in All-Star. Can you imagine if Kaminga had Citroen’s uh fundamental abilities? Fade away. No good psyches in and out. Barely. We escaped on that one. Kate Martin pick and roll. Tammy, kick it, Veronica. And it’s going to be a reach and foul on Melbourne. Thankfully, Melbourne’s been bad tonight. Citroen is a young clay. Oh, I can I can see that in terms of the uh prime clay. Wouldn’t Wouldn’t it be Prime Clay like his his defense? Kier Yep. is definitely top three on most people’s list. But Young Clay could make layups. Remember Clayups? And Citroen can in traffic. So, I just blew your comparison to Smitherines. Yeah, I’m just kidding. H, a little boring tonight as we wait for an inbound. What are we doing, refs? Okay, Kate Martin is about to inbound it finally. How many fouls? Two and 0. At least we have zero fouls. And uh, did Kate just nutmeg Melbourne on the inbound to Tammy? She loves those. Tammy screen. Kate goes away from it because great defense by Melbourne. Give her credit and missed the jumper at the shot clock buzzer. Melbourne bring it up. Screen coming. Guard guard. Kick it. Austin’s not a three-point threat, but Citroen is. Lefty sling pass to Austin. Nail shot. No good. Rebound repair. Escaped. Another assist. Kate with all kinds of pressure. Don’t lose the ball. Melbourne. Good defense on Kate. And Kate’s going to kick it to Veronica Sykes. Washington Mystics playing good defense right now. Back to Tam. Open on the top of the key and scores. Wow, we needed that jumper like no tomorrow. We’re up by one. Seesaw battle. 523 to go. Sykes calling out a play and nobody’s running it correctly. Three people are going. What play are we running? So, she’ll improvise. Kick it. Angler for three. Broken play. Back rim. No good. Jump. Good job, Kate. Just got the rebound in front of Citroen. And Kate gets it knocked away. Almost a turnover. Luckily got it back out to V. Good thing by Rup Rupair was there. Waves off the pick and roll. She’s going to try and take Melbourne one-on-one. Josh Hartstyle. Great defense. Wait a minute. Didn’t it go off Melbourne? Well, we couldn’t tell from that angle. Veronica’s complaining about a lot of physicality, but I thought that was good defense. Burton really uh initiated the contact. And maybe we’ll challenge here because I did think it went off of Melbourne. We’re going to replay the Tami long two and I don’t know what’s happening. So, let’s check play byplay to see if it’s a challenge. Fourth quarter. I would challenge this because I thought it was well I didn’t have a good angle. Neither did you because we we saw the ball and it it was covered by the the angle that we had was covered by Melbourne. So, we don’t know if it went off of Melbourne. It certainly felt like it. And maybe it’s a challenge because there’s a timeout here. I I don’t think you would you would use a timeout normally in this spot. So, it’s more of a crucial call coming up. So, I’m going to guess that it’s a challenge, but I don’t really know. And um we’re going to be up by one with 450. So, we we turned a game that we were controlling into a nailbiter, but a lot of that was Sonia Citroen. So, I’m almost not that mad, but I don’t know. Just can’t have those droughts and lack of uh execution. I mean, I know one of the three-point block shots at the shot clock buzzer was Carla. Anytime we’re unable to get a shot off, I’m thinking and Carla’s on the bench, I’m always thinking, should add Carla in there. I mean, especially with the injuries that we have. Um although, yeah, those are two. I mean, obviously Kayla Thornton, but also Mo Billings, she’s not really a shooter, but um Chichilia Xandelini, that’s who we’re missing. Just another shooter out there. And um it hurts not having her. Ray Allen Citroen. Oh, it has been a tiring day. I tell you, tiring day. And I got a lot of work to do. I I can’t wait to tell you. Oh, I might as well tell you. So, we’re going to do an online summit. Um online summit coming uh week before media day. Um, anyone want to be a speaker? Any blue wrenches? Yeah, let me know because I’ve been advised to have one of you on there or one of you Blue Wrenchers on there. Okay. Off the ball foul by Janelle. as guess who was cutting Citroen. Only the first team foul. Man, Citroen’s so good, dude. Makes me want to watch every Washington Mystics game. Like, just everything she does, even off the ball. Look at the way she’s physicality with Janelle. Um, but good defense. U back up top. Melbourne. Kate try to stay in front. Janelle being a little handsy. Citroen at the buzzer. Whoa, that never hit rim, but okay, fine. We have a long rebound and we’ll control it rather than break. Up by one. 416 to go. V up top. Here comes Iliana. No screen. Waves it off. Back out. Kate. See, that’s not executing it right. But Kate on the handoff. Ah, lefty smoke layup. Ah, now we’re four on four. Kick it. Three ball shook. No good. Oh, we escaped it. That’s a make or miss league right there. She makes it. They got all the momentum. She misses it. We’re back in control. Up one. 345 to go. V with the flare screen from Kate. Met by the big and throws it into the stands. V, that’s your fourth turnover. Golly, it’s a plague for her. Too many turnovers for Veronica this whole week. Every game is at least four. It’s not good. Natalie, time out. I mean, we might as well have Carly in there if you’re going to throw the ball into the stands. Love V, but like she’s been doing that too much. 6665 timeout. Not sure who called it. Maybe Washington did. Let’s see. And these play by plays are not grouped very well. Got to scroll just to get in. Yep, Natalie took it. Man, we had to burn a timeout. 340 to go. Okay, let me check. uh Discord since uh not much else to talk about at the moment. There is nothing new and I forgot to tweet out the game. Oops, that’s been a tiring tiring day. So, give myself some grace. Oh, excuse me. Um, Valkyries has a tweet going on. It’s uh just the Valkyries tweeting out a replay highlight. Let’s mark all of these as red. Congratulations, Mikuel Bridges. He is going to get a 4-year $150 million extension. But that’s what teams that are vying for the championship do when they have that ability to pay their guys being in the second apron. Um already mentioned Lonnie Walker is going to go to Euro League. So, that’s one free agent off the board because his buyout, his uh NBA um his NBA um release clause expires on August 1st. All right. K. Martin stays in the game because she’s hit a couple clutch ones. But you need to play defense. And quite frankly, Kate has struggled to stay in front on the point of attack lately. So, let’s hope she does. Here comes Citroen. Oh, Janelle got screened. And Citroen finds someone underneath the hoop. And Kate Martin blocks it. She blocked Kika. Kiki. Sorry, I said Kiki and I at the same time. Kika. Veronica. Uh screen Iliana. Nobody there. Nobody open and gets it to Janelle. She’s gonna have to create. Running out of shot clock. Right side. Banker. Her favorite side. Missed it. Brick 44 with the rebound. Is that Is that Kiki? Yeah, that’s Kiki. Sorry. And hand off to Citroen. Too much too much handsiness by Veronica. That’ll be two team fouls. That’s okay. Honestly, don’t be mad about that, Veronica. It’s two team fouls. It’s side out. No big deal. Move on. You You guys played good enough team defense to afford a couple silly ones. So, the sideline inbounds. Janelle. Good pressure on Sykes. Back out to Suge. Suge and Kate got to stay in front. Suge passes it. Elbow Kiki on Iliana over to Citroen. Citroen and Kate. Kate falls down. Citroen and Citroen dribbles off of Kate and that’s a turnover. And then Kate and Citroen jump ball. A rare mistake by Citroen. Um, and did we call timeout? I feel like we called timeout because it looks like everybody’s going our ball or a foul on Citroen. No, should be. And I think if it’s a time Oh, her shoes are gold, by the way, not silver. I tell you what, I don’t know what just happened, but we got the ball. Okay, I’ll take it. Especially in a one-point game with 235 V and Janelle. Good screen and roll. Janelle tried to post up on the switch. Didn’t happen. Tammy’s got the switch. She attacked Suge easily. Smoked the layup. Oh, she smoked it. Point blank. No. Inside to Kiki. Kiki dribbles it too high and Tammy’s there. Oh, and then Kate was there. Great defense. Valkyrie style. V, don’t lose the ball. She killed her dribble but got it to Janelle. Come on V. Man, she’s giving us heartbreak vibes. And it’s a foul down low as Tam got the ball against Suge once again. Boy, Washington’s team defense has been a little discombobulated last couple times down because Sutton gets stuck on Tam and that that is going to be a foul or a bucket for us each time except Tam smoked the layup last time down. So, still a one-point game. Still 2011 to go up top V and Suge. Janelle shows nothing there. Tammy fake handoff. Kick it. Iliana’s going to attack. travel. Oh, I h 152 to go. We’re up one trying to protect the one-point lead. And that’s going to be our three turn. Oh, man. Seven turnovers amongst Ilana and Veronica. 8 n 10 11 12. 12 turnovers. That’s That’s too much in a 40 point uh 40 minute game. 12 turnovers is like 16 in the men’s. Suge brings it up on Kate. Kate getting all the minutes. She should, but it got to stay in front. And Sykes trying to break Janelle. She does. Misses it. She smokes the layup. You got to go with the left hand there. Left side. Kate in chase. 94 feet. Blocked out of bounds by Angler. Good defense. Citroen was in the vicinity as well. But good job by Kate to just give uh to just take what was given, which is, you know, again, that’s that’s great defense by Citroen. She guessed correctly. Wait a minute. Okay, so we were doing the replay. Suddenly, there’s a Valkyy’s turnover. I don’t know what it was. Uh, no, there’s a timeout. Suddenly a Valkyriey’s timeout. I’ll take it. It’s not a turnover. I’ll take anything that’s not a turnover right now. 128 to go. Up one. Okay, since we have time. Oh, no. No. It It is a turnover. Kate Martin stepped out of bounds. Are you kidding me? It’s also a timeout. What are we doing? Come on. We keep doing these mental mistakes. Ah, well, if you didn’t know any better, you’d think that we’re an expansion team. Yep. Yes, we are. Um, expansion team blues. Oh, we cannot throw this one out out like this, please. You Okay, here they come. Kate Martin is guarding. Suge gets the screen. Kate stays in front. Good job. Bad. Oh, airball. Oh, Austin got her own rebound and puts it back. I mean, got the rebound, put it back. Well, Austin was more active there. Oddly enough, she played like Tammy on that one. We’re down one. 105 to go. Veronica finds Janelle at the nail. Attack Citroen. Tough one. Good way to take her. Good job, Janelle. Can we do that more? probably should have done that all game long in clutch situations. Just find Janelle at the nail. It’s kind of like, you know, Jimmy Butler type play for for the Warriors. Uh Suge against Kate. Kate stays in front. Good tip by Veronica out of bounds. Baseline coming up. And they’ve got a timeout. I’m going to tweet out our game. Doing my best to tweet this game out. inside. years. Oops. Angler for three. No good. Iliana rebound. Yay. The one time I look up, something good happened. It’s V trying to kill some clock up top as we’re up by one. Left side. Tam finds V again. V keeping the dribble alive. Screen. Tam. Not the best screen. Reaching two times. Over to Ilana. Timeout. Natalie. Oh, that is a crazy nailbiter. One timeout left. Good timeout call, but there’s only three three on the shot clock. Oh boy. Okay. Three on the shot clock for Natalie. What are you going to draw up here? I think you got to go to Janelle. She made the last shot. Start a poll real quick. Ah. Ah. I don’t know who else is shooting this. Tam or uh Iliana. Start poll. If it’s not too late. I want Janelle to shoot this. It’s going to be our big Ilana and they’ve got a small lineup in there. Um but yeah, smaller lineup. Angler on Rupair. Got it to Janelle. Attack Citroen. Shoot it. No good. Off the rim. Tammy rebound out to Janelle. Don’t need to shoot it. Oh, Tammy. Oh, Janelle threw it to the other team. What are you doing? You You don’t need to do anything. You’re up by one. Oh. And the coach goes crazy. I What’s going on? Oh man. Well, let me rewatch and see just what the hell happened there because they don’t know when the timeout was called. They don’t know when it was a maybe a shot clock violation. Oh, good job by Janelle to get it and it hits rim. So, looking back and Janelle just what are you doing? She wanted to shoot it and then guess who guess who got this got the deflection? Sonia Citroen, of course. And I cannot tell when the timeout was called. Let me because of the annoying YouTube moniker. It should be 3.8 or so. It should be 3.8 or so. Um, what are you doing, Janelle? Like we do these things that the basketball gods do not like this. Like you are supposed to lose these games when you do something as brain dead as that. So I don’t know. We’re down one. Goes to Sykes. Chance to win it. Shoots it. Missed it. We just won a game we shouldn’t have won, but I’ll take it because we’ve lost games we should have won. Janelle Salon escapes embarrassment. Wow. Uh, she escapes probably an entire night of sleeplessness. Now she can sleep. But I tell you what, that was poor basketball. We’ll take it. Yay. Update the standings. We are in eighth place, y’all. 13 and 13. They’re 13 and 14. We survive Sonia Citroen with all of her little things that she does. What a relief. Janelle time and score. Janelle, you you got to work on that one. Oh, that’s okay. Oh, man. She She was just locked in into the game-winning shot mode. H let’s hope we get Chetchy back next game because we need some more scoring badly and uh we escaped that one. 68 points in a win, man. You’re not supposed to win those, but we did. Uh we got to hit 80. 80 every game, I would think. We’ll take it. Take it today. He came back. He came here today talking about how he got You got a new blicky. You got a new blicky. For the uninformed for the uninformed. What’s a blickie? You don’t know about no blick. You don’t know about no blicky, man. You had a blickie. You had a blickie. You told me you had a blicky. You told me you had a blickie growing up. You was a shooter. You was a shooter. That’s a blickie. That’s a blickie. More fire. Buddy. All right, Bronte. And next live is uh coming up tomorrow. Next live tomorrow um 81 same time. Um, GSV Chicago. Blicky believes in Blickie. Believe in Blickie.

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