Transcript of ALLEY OOP BONUS EPISODE: Paige Will Take Care of the Dallas Wings & Protect Griner at All Costs | Alley Oop | Bonus Ep 21

Welcome to another show on the Alley Oop. I'm joined by my big dog, Trista Crick.

We're here. We're everywhere. I need a ball. You got faith in every team in the WMBA.

No, I don't, bro.

Who do you not have faith in?

I don't got faith in the Dallas Wings. Say them. Hey, you're talking about the Dallas Wings. Look, they better get it together, too, because Because I understand. Every time I turn on the TV, Page is Page. Every time I go like Page doing Page things. But at the same time, salute the Louisa Geisler soldier and them girls. They needed a roster turnover as I assume, because it's a different day and age. You see, I'm just frustrated after year one, after year two. I mean, Dallas, they got to get it together, in my opinion.

Yeah, they're probably going to have the largest odds to get the number one overall pick, though. And guess what? Chicago traded their first round pick next year to the Minnesota Lynx. Now, Minnesota Lynx, I believe it was for their rights to draft Haley VanLyth.

Oh, my God, bro. That's crazy.

The rights to draft the player that did not play coaches decisions, a. K. A. D. N. P. C.

D. Bro. And then the Lynx got D. J. A. Out of That whole deal, the link is rolling, man. Rolling. I also don't have faith in Connecticut at all. I don't say, Salute to the good folks in the Connecticut Sun organization. You got to know I love you. But at the same time, bro, It ain't looking good to me. They stringing together some good performances at the end of the year. I see it, but man, I don't see them folk winning no damn Championship behind Salute to Sis, Marina Mabry, and Olivia Nelson, Udoda. Come on, what are we talking about?

I agree. I think those three teams are the biggest messes in all of the WMBA. I don't have faith in any of them, but I do have faith in Page because I think Page is different than Angel, right? Like, Paige. Paige would be the one to call her folks at, what is it? Wme. So she calls her agents up and says, Listen, I'm going to be preaching togetherness, like Mr. Mamba and the head coaches. But here's what we're not going to do.

Salute to Coco Klanis.

Also, shout out to those people who said that Trista looks like this girl looks like a younger version of that old hag that's on Camomace. I am still that old hag on Camomace. I just have a hoodie on.

I think that's a compliment. That's a beautiful compliment. They're like, dang.

It's a low-res camera. You can't see the wrinkles or the gray hairs. Anyway, I think Paige is going to try to clean it up behind the scenes. I think she's very good at having her public face not be tarnished by saying anything in the media. Angel is one of those ones. I respect the one of them ones. It's like, Listen, I'm not dealing with this shit anymore.

Right. You know who I lost faith in a little bit and it hurt me, my heart, how they ended the season? The Washington Mysties, bro. They were in the mix. They was right there in the thick of things, and they just put out turd after turd, man. Sonja sits around my sister. I love you. She don't show up. She don't even wake up to the third quarter. She's not going to shoot that bitch either. She's going to pass it. She's team first. The Kiki, everybody like, I'm I'm not saying it falls on any of them individually, but I would have thought they were going to put forth this playoff push that would have got them in there, man. Two all-stars on the team, man. Like, bro, and great rookie head coach season. You feel me? I don't look down on them, but it's just sad how they went out. They just got beat by like 40, 50 points down there. Then next night getting beat by a dog. Come on, man. You all boys in the playoff hunt, man. Wake up. What do you think about those states, man?

Yeah, I'm looking at seeing how they've been doing down the stretch. The fever beat those girls by drubbing. Here's the thing. They have these quarters, Juju, where they score They're like sub 10 points. And you talk about a team that's rebuilding. The Mystics are a team that's very exciting and someone that you should feel optimistic about. You got Kiki, you got You got Sonia. You got Georgia Amor, you got Lucy Olson. You got Madison Scott. You got Alicia Clark, you got Shaqira Austin. You got Shud Sutton. I mean, come on now. And you're going to have a good draft pick moving forward. Who knows you're going to end up getting in the lottery. So I think this is a team that all in all is going to be playing fast. They're defensively starting to figure things out. But I think it's just all the injuries. You've had a trade in the middle of the year with Brittany Sykes, who, let's be honest, was one of their best scores in the beginning of the season. So it's just been a little bit of turmoil as they're trying to rebuild on the fly.

Yeah. They're trying to make an airplane in the sky, and it's not working at all. Who do you What do you think is going to take the ultimate crown this year?

Well, I think two things can be true. One, momentum is critical in a playoff setting. Whoever's the hobbiffs, whoever's gelling the most, whoever's clicking on all cylinders and has figured it out offensively, defensively. They're the team that you could say has the greatest chance, and a team that's already won in the aces. So you have to say they've got the Championship pedigree. They've won multiple titles already. They've got the best player in all of the WMD NBA in Asia Wilson. They've figured out their rotations. Becky Hammond has figured out life after her top assistance with Tyler Marsh and Natalie Nacasse. She figured out exactly how she wants to run the team. They're taking things seriously. The culture is gelling. Fourteen in a row is a lot. So you have to give them slight edge just based on everything that they've done. Now, Minnesota has the Championship pedigree, too, just not this roster in particular. Minnesota is one of the most storied franchises all the WMBA. That's all they did when they had My Amour was win. You've got all the pieces. You added Nizhny Karrington. Nafisa is back, and she's healthy, and they're out for blood since they got absolutely fought last year in Game 5 of the Finals.

So I think it's those two. I think for New York, it's really, really difficult to put things together. You talk about putting a plane together in the air. The plane was together. They took off and the plane was there. And then pieces, John Quell, the left wing starts falling out. And then you got Stewy, the engine falls out. And then the tip of the front of the plane falls out in Sabrina. And then you start trying to tape it back together. So they not only had the plane in the air. Now they're trying to put it back together in the air. So I can see New York, depending on how this all goes, getting into a dogfight with the Phoenix Mercury, who, listen, they They are not playing great on the road. And if the Mercury have home court advantage, that's very, very tough.

Right, bro. And the way they do it, I'll be forgetting that they don't got no real East versus West in the playouts. It's eight. So if you happen to have the Mercury on your list, I'm sorry, here's AT for you. Here's a mad and angry Satu Saboli. Here's a pissed off Kaleya Copper. Damn, that's rough. We need to stay two, three, because I don't want to see the Phoenix Mercury in the first round, even though they're our little brother, because every time we play them this year, we spank them boys. Get them out of here. They don't mean anything to us. As a matter of fact, I wish we could play them in the first round. I talk myself into it. Atlanta Dream, I wish we could play anybody. It don't matter who we play first round. We win in the first round. Good luck, Golden State. Good luck, Indiana. Good luck, whoever the hell going to end up in that third spot, that seventh spot. That seven I'm biased. I can't not look through my glasses, bro. I feel like the Atlanta Dream can beat anybody in the world. I'm sorry. They can beat anybody in the entire world.

That's on Everything I know and everything I love.

If their name was the... If their name was the law... If they were the Houston Comets, would you be saying the same thing?

Exactly, bro. We can beat Sheryl Spouse for them for real. I ain't going to I told you, we'll beat Tina Thompson now. For this year, we'll beat them. We'll clean them up. I ain't going to lie to you.

Can we give our flowers really quick before we go to Brittany Griner, who everybody was throwing dirt on her name? Everybody was saying she was cash, cooked, washed. She was not. She wasn't washed. She was plenty nasty, plenty dirty, plenty ready to defend the rim. She hasn't been washed yet, folks. Not at all.

She hasn't. Right. I think we I'm going to put her in a plastic bubble route until the playouts. I mean, forget this last week, bruh. We don't need her. This is where injuries happen. This is where the good ones happen, too. Brianna Jones, too. Let's let Sis sit down. These days, a couple of games.

Well, but do you want the two seed or do you want healthy players? Because you're not going to get the two seed then. You might even get the four seed.

As long as we can beat Connecticut, when we're taping this on Monday, tonight, and then beat Connecticut again.

Listen, here's the thing. Now we have a longer game series for the first round for the first year ever. We got to discuss maybe then going to a game either in Atlanta or in Golden State to go a little nit-nat, pattywhack, give a little ball holla Golden State, Valkries versus the Atlanta dream.

You just said two of the highest tickets in the damn playouts. We might get hit Phoenix. I feel like a plane ticket and the ticket won't be as much as the ones here in Atlanta or Balhalla. You got connections.

Call Ryan up.

Say, Hey, Ryan. Ryan is not answering my goddamn phone. Come on, Ryan. Help us out. Look, salute my sister. I'm pretty sure she good.

I've never said anything. She said, I'm good. I've never said a thing mean about Ryan Howard. I know that for sure. One, because she's really good. And two, have you seen Ryan Howard?

Exactly. My dog, man. Come on, man.

She could probably take Take me underneath her arm pit and pop my head off.

Exactly. Look, last thing before we get out of here. Two things right quick before we get out of here.

Two things now.

We went from one to two. Exactly. Because it's like, can we not talk about how Asia Wilson has taken over the MVP race?

Or is that- She hasn't.

She hasn't? You don't think she has?

The odds say that she has, but I think that's Fugazi.

You think it's Fugazi? Okay. I think it's Fugazi. Look, I believe you. You're my sister. You My sister, you connected. You plugged. Last thing before we get out of here, the WMBA playouts start on NFL Sunday next week.

Dumb.

Look, this is what I'm saying, bro. We right here, the horse is at the water. We have led the horse to water. I understand we're not supposed to care about these.

Friday night. Do it Friday.

Something, bro. Monday, Tuesday. We have to understand that, look, So reality is we won't folk to really love the W, but let's help them love the W. Don't make me choose between my football team and watching my WMBA team today, because me personally, you know what? I'm going to choose to watch I'm not going to put it up for.

Unless you're going to put it up against Spencer Rattler and the Saints. Come on, man. Just go neck and neck with them. People are watching those Atlanta Falcons now. They want Michael Pendex. They want Bajon Robinson. They don't want to mess with the multi box on Sunday ticket. Come on, man. And then the small box with the Atlanta Dream on there on their table. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. We got Red Zone to compete with. What are we doing?

Bro, what are we doing? At least at bare minimum, start a Sunday night when you got a Sunday night football game. Come on. Something. Don't start at 1: 00 PM on Sunday. We're not helping these sisters get the eyeballs we want. We want sports fans to lock in with sports. Most sports fans been waiting for this football season to start for so long. Man, they can't wait to watch the first five weeks until their team is completely sucking. Ain't nobody team suck just yet, except the Panthers in the Dolphins, but not that they're not there. But yeah, man, another great episode, man. My sister, I wouldn't be I wouldn't be anything without you. And I also wouldn't be anything without these wonderful, beautiful listeners and subscribers, man. Thank you all so much for subscribing. I don't take now one view. I don't take now one subscriber for granted, man. Thank Thank you all for keeping us a part of your life. Tristan, anything you want to say on the way out.

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