EPISODE TWO - Gaga or Bonkers? An Opening Weekend Recap

Opening Weekend Reactions, New-Fan Q&A, and Early WNBA Stats

Sylvia and Madeleine recap Double Drivel’s opening-weekend WNBA coverage, beginning with a correction that Kelsey Mitchell finished fifth (not fourth) in MVP voting. They discuss the Wings’ 107–104 win over the Fever, noting standout scoring from Arike Ogunbowale (22), Paige and Odyssey Sims (20 each), limited minutes for the No. 1 pick (18, 3 points), and minimal use of Li Yuru; they also critique Indiana’s defense and Caitlin Clark’s inefficient shooting, five turnovers (three offensive fouls), and a milestone as the fastest to 1,000 points/250 rebounds/250 assists (54 games). They briefly survey other weekend results, highlight Olivia Miles’ strong rookie line, and launch “Open Gym” to answer new-fan questions about player-only fandom, skipping games, and why watch the WNBA. In “Open Book,” Sylvia reviews early minutes leaders, shot attempts, turnovers, and a notable rise in foul calls (22 per team vs. 17.5 in 2025). They share upcoming “Couch Picks,” celebrate feeling better about the Wings and publishing their first episode, and invite listener emails and follows.

00:00 Welcome to Double Drivel

00:56 Quick Corrections and Word Swap

01:43 Weekend Games Overview

02:06 Wings vs Fever Breakdown

07:44 Fever Takeaways and Caitlin Notes

11:54 Other Weekend Highlights

13:38 Open Gym New Fan Questions

18:18 Open Book Early Stats

19:26 Minutes and Coach Trust

23:10 Shot Attempts and Usage

25:53 Turnovers and Whistle Trends

27:02 Fouls Up Leaguewide

31:37 Couch Picks This Week

32:40 Swish List and Wrap Up

Transcript

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Welcome or welcome back to Double Drivel. We're a mother-daughter podcast covering the WNBA from a fan perspective No gatekeeping. I'm Sylvia. And I'm Madeleine. If you didn't listen to the first episode and want to hear more about who we are, how we started watching the W, our podcast values, and our favorite teams, you can go back and listen. One of the podcast values we highlighted was accuracy, so I'm gonna fact-check myself here to start this episode. In the first episode, I mentioned that Kelsey Mitchell was fourth in MVP voting last season. She was actually fifth, and actually pretty distantly to Allisha Gray from the Atlanta Dream, so correcting myself there. Not a fact-check exactly, but looking back through the transcript last time, I realized I used the word excited or exciting a lot 25 times. So I printed up a word list of synonyms here that I will try to be using that word a little less, although some of these synonyms it's suggesting are pretty funny. I don't think I'm gonna be saying that I'm gaga or bonkers about anything, but we'll see how it goes. All right. Today we'll be covering the first weekend of games, questions new fans may have, and a look at some early statistics. Okay. So starting with the first weekend of games, there were 11 games this weekend. We are recording this on Tuesday just before the Wings game starts that Madeleine is in a hurry to go watch, so we'll try to keep moving things forward here. We obviously were very interested in the Wings and Fever game. So Madeleine, let's start out with your thoughts and observations. I definitely think the game was very interesting to watch. It was also very nerve-wracking'cause I was not at home, and I had to just watch it on my phone, and sometimes it would randomly go black, like, near the end of the game, and I was really annoyed'cause I was like,"What's happening?" Especially at the end of the game both threes that Caitlin and Kelsey tried to shoot, I was really scared that they were about to go in. And then when Paige missed both free throws, which I don't think I've ever seen her do, I was like,"Oh my gosh, they're gonna lose." But they won, thank goodness. Like just playing observations in general they didn't start Paige as much as they did last season, which I think she kind of needs that, but also- I mean, she did start. What do you mean they didn't start her? I, I mean, not like start, but like play- Play point guard? Yeah play her as much. I feel like she didn't have as much minutes. Gotcha. And- I'm still sad that they didn't play JJ. I wanted her to play, but there were definitely a lot of really good players in the Wings game, especially I was very happily surprised that Arike got 22 points, which is a big upgrade from what she was doing last season. I'm actually surprised that the Wings kept her. I actually thought they weren't gonna sign her again, but they did. Jessica Shepard was pretty good. Alana Smith got into foul trouble pretty early, so she only had six points, but she had she had two steals and a block, and then both Paige and Odyssey Sims got 20 points, so that was also good. I know we kind of, we took Odyssey Sims from the Fever. There was actually two, like, past player match-ups because there was Odyssey Sims, who was previously on the Fever, and then there was Myisha Hines-Allen that was on the Wings last year, which I didn't like her that much. I didn't think she was much of a, like- Contributor? Yeah, a contributor to the team, so. Yeah, Odyssey was an injury replacement for an injury replacement last season after Ari McDonald, who was a replace, injury replacement for Caitlin, and then Sydney Colson also went down, and Ari went down. I think that might have been in the same game, if I'm remembering right. Odyssey came in and did an amazing job, was a critical part of the Fever's a- near run to the finals. They went to OT in game five of the semifinals against the Aces. She definitely deserves a starting role though, which she would not have had on the Fever, um, with Caitlin back and hopefully healthy. Um, and I know she has said she wanted to be closer to her son, who lives in Texas, so I'm happy that she found a spot on the Wings, although I didn't really like seeing her play amazing against the Fever. That was a little bit painful. How did you feel about AZ not starting? I didn't expect her to start be- especially since they re-signed Arike. Her debut was pretty disappointing with only three points, but I mean, then again, she didn't play all that much. I mean, she played, like- She played 18 minutes. Actually, that is quite a bit- It's a decent amount for three- Yeah points. But you know, it's the first game, and it's her s- I mean, she's still adjusting to the WNBA. Other people adjust faster, and some people adjust slower, so you never really know. Yeah, and I mean Maybe she was feeling more confident passing the ball for more open shots or, or who knows, but m- I'm not too worried about her. And I mean, you know, a lot of number one draft picks go to a team and they're in the starting lineup right away because you get a number one draft pick because you were bad the year before, and that was definitely true for Dallas. But they made a lot of really good off-season moves, so they're a much stronger team this year. So when you think about, you know, who would she start in place of between Odyssey, who did amazing, Paige, who did amazing, Arike, who did amazing, that's kind of a hard question to answer. But I wouldn't be surprised if we see her starting at some point as the season goes on, or at least occasionally maybe depending on match-ups. Any other things from your side before I talk about the Fever? Oh yeah, I was actually a little bit surprised that they really did not play Li Yuru very much. She had four minutes. I really like her'cause I think she's very versatile. Even though she's a big, she's actually very good at shooting threes, and she was, like, really helpful last season. But they definitely were using Jessica Shepard most of the game, and Maddie Segrest and Alana Smith, which of course they're all good players too, but I was a little disappointed not to see Li Yuru. And also, uh, Aziah James, I really like her. She had 16 minutes and 10 points, so I think she did pretty good. I'm just disappointed not to see JJ playing. Yeah, she, uh, I think was guarding Caitlin the whole time she was in, at least most of it. There were probably some times that Caitlin was on the bench, but, uh, w- we'll talk about something that came out of that shortly. Okay, so moving on to the Fever. Obviously I'm disappointed in, in the loss, but it was a very close game. I don't think you could have asked for more in terms of an opening game that featured the last four number one draft picks. A very close and exciting game the whole time. The Fever definitely had plenty of chances to win, including the threes that both Caitlin and Kelsey missed in the final seconds that you just mentioned a little bit ago. Their defense definitely needs a lot of work still. I know that's a big focus area for Stephanie White, so I was kind of surprised it looked as bad as it did for most of the game. Well, I was gonna say I thought that the Fever's defense was better than the Wings. I don't know if that was just- Well, I think with a score of 107 to 104, nobody's defense was very good clearly. Well, I think that, I don't know, I just felt like to me when I was watching it, it might have just been because I was nervous watching a close game, but I felt m- it was like Dallas would be finally score points, and then it felt to me like the Fever would just immediately go get those points back. Like, that's what it felt like to me, and it felt like the Wings' defense, even though, even if like both the, if the defenses weren't very good, I feel like the Fever's was much better. Yeah. I mean, they did have a couple good moments. They did cause two different five-second inbound violations on the, on the Wings. I feel like we don't see those super often in the W. But definitely need to see a lot of improvement there. Caitlin, you know, her stat line overall was pretty good. She had 20 points, uh, I think seven assists, and five rebounds. It's in really small print in front of me. I believe that's correct. I'll fact check myself later. I think she... But her shooting efficiency was really poor despite that 20 points, in particular from f- from three. So I think she was shaking off rust from not playing a regular season game since last July. She did go back for a couple of back adjustments, uh, in the middle of the game, so I don't know if maybe something there was bothering her. I hope that's not a start of a new injury that's gonna plague her throughout the season. So I was a little bit nervous to see her leaving the game a couple times for that. One thing that people always like to talk about with Caitlin is the turnovers. Um, she did have five, which is around what her average has been career to date in the WNBA. And that's definitely an area she needs to continue to improve upon. But looking back at the de- details, three of those were actually offensive fouls, so they weren't bad passes or, you know, other more common turnovers. They were both steals, um, for the other two. I believe all three of those offensive fouls were on Azia James. Um, there was definitely one time where she fully pushed her to the ground somewhat out of nowhere. I will say I don't think I ever really thought about offensive fouls being turnovers previously. It makes sense because it causes a loss of possession, but it's just not something I'd really noticed before. So that was interesting. That being said, the refs are calling a ton of fouls so far this season. We're gonna talk about that a little bit more, in a little bit more detail later. But I think that was part of the three offensive fouls. I, I can't recall a time where she had three offensive fouls before. So, definitely those, those whistles have been very active so far this season., One exciting accomplishment I think that was my first exciting accomplishment that Caitlin had in this game is that she became the fastest player in W history to record over 1,000 points, over 250 rebounds, and over 250 assists. She did this in 54 games and the record was previously held by Diana Taurasi who did it in 62 games. So that's a big accomplishment we wanna celebrate for Caitlin. Okay. Any final thoughts on that game? No, I don't think so. Okay. So moving on, we didn't get to watch in detail a lot of the other games, but it was a mixed bag in terms of how close those games were. Four of them were quite close, four were huge blowouts, the others were kind of in between. Some of the teams played twice already, so the Liberty and the Valkyries are 2 and 0 going into this week. The Aces were interesting. They got absolutely slaughtered by the Mercury, right after having their ring celebration from last year's championship, and lost 99 to 66. And then the Mercury lost pretty badly to the Valkyries in their second game of the weekend, and the Aces beat the Sparks by quite a bit as well. So little bit of story of two games for both of those teams. We'll we'll see how that shakes out, but obviously we know the Aces started very slowly last season and ended up on an insane win streak all the way to winning the championship again. So I wouldn't read too much into that at this point. The Mystics beat the Tempo narrowly and went to overtime with the Liberty. Uh, Kiki and Sonia continue to shine, uh, but the new rookies had modest performances. The Lynx lost to the Dream by one point, but Olivia Miles was playing very well with 21 points, three rebounds, eight assists, two steals, and two blocks. I have to say if Dallas didn't already have a point guard, I wouldn't have been surprised if they pick her, if they picked her. I think she's a really good player. Yeah, she definitely would've been a reasonable number one pick for sure. And she definitely had the strongest rookie performance of the weekend. So I expect her to definitely be in the running for Rookie of the Year. Okay, so we're also doing another new segment called Open Gym that I'm gonna be doing. So this is gonna be a segment where we answer any questions a new fan might have. If you're a newer fan, or even if you aren't but have a question, we'd love to turn this into more of a mailbag segment in the future. So you can email your questions and feedback to doubledrivelpod@gmail.com So a few questions a new fan might have is, one of them could be: is it okay to be a fan of just one player? Obviously, I started off as a fan of one player, and obviously it's okay to be a fan of just one player, but I do think you don't need to be respectful about, you know- You mean disrespectful? Yeah, you don't need to be like disrespectful about a player you really like. Like, even if you think they're the best player ever, like, you know, some Caitlin fans are like you don't need to be disrespectful about it. Um, you also, I feel like you can try and become a fan of the team that player is on, especially if, I mean, if you're trying to watch the player you like, you should be rooting for their team, so. Yeah. One thing that I think is different about the W than a lot of sports leagues is that a lot of the fans are fans of a lot of different players across a lot of different teams. Of course, sometimes that happens because your favorite player gets traded at some point, et cetera, and you become fans of other people on the team. But people have kind of a more diverse fandom, and less focused to one specific team in the W. Yeah. Another question a new fan might have would be: do you have to watch every game to be a real fan? Obviously, the answer is no. I mean, even we who love the WNBA, we are not watching every game. Obviously, it's fine if you do, but that just would mean you're really into watching it. I mean, you don't have to watch every single game, and you don't have to be a fan of every single team to be a real fan of the WNBA. Right. And realistically, there's other things we need to do in life, and it's just often not actually possible even to watch every single game of your favorite team always. Yeah. And then the final question I have here is what someone might ask is why should I watch women's basketball when there's already the NBA? Now, I feel like I always see a lot of people, especially men, asking this. Like, why would I watch a sort of more unathletic version of the NBA when I can just watch men play it? And I think in a way it's a different... It's not a different sport, but I think it's played differently, so it's not the same experience to watch both, and you can be a fan of both. You don't need to be like- Oh, well men are better at the sport. I think there's different styles of playing it in both leagues. Yeah, it definitely doesn't need to be an instead of. I totally agree, you can watch both. I'll admit I haven't watched the NBA in quite some time, but a lot of people say that the women's game has better fundamentals. And the W is known for being a pretty physical league. I've heard a lot of people say that it's actually more physical than the NBA, and better defense is played there. You could argue, you know, it doesn't need to be that physical to have better defense, and there's a lot of truth to that. But definitely it's played a bit differently, and these women are amazing athletes and deserve to be watched and celebrated. Yeah, I also think a lot of people like to argue, well, of course the men are better at defense. And the thing about that is, are they really... The argument you could bring up is they're not really better at defense itself, but it's more the way men are physically built that they are just much taller and can be more muscular and bigger. So obviously if, like, an average WNBA player would try to go against, like, LeBron or something, like, he's gonna be better at so-called defense because he's much bigger. That's not really something you can actually fight against with skill. Right. Yeah. Some of it's just more power versus necessarily having better skills, for sure. Okay, so as Madeleine said, definitely email us if you have questions or even any feedback for us. We'd love to hear what topics you'd like for us to cover, either in the mailbag segment or just in general. Okay, so we've had Open Gym. Now we're going to open the book. This is Open Book, and this is a segment where I will break down some numbers behind the game. No big jargon or judgment, just trying to do very simple stats to help people understand the game and some of the things that we're seeing on the court. You don't need any spreadsheets. You don't need to know advanced metrics. If you're curious, you're already qualified to talk about that, so let's take a look. This is Open Book. Because it's opening weekend, the number one rule when we talk about any of these stats are at best they're clues. These are definitely not verdicts. They're not super meaningful. The s- sample size is very, very small. It's often said that numbers don't lie, but like I said, it's very early for them to be terribly meaningful, and numbers can definitely be used in a misleading way depending how they are positioned. And so teams at this point have had one to two games. Some players haven't really played yet, not meaningful minutes, are coming back from injury, et cetera. So there's a lot of different factors that are, need to be considered at this point in the season. But one thing that is interesting to see early in the season is the number of minutes played. Points, you know, somebody can have an off shooting night, maybe the plays weren't designed for them as a, a rookie is getting used to the league or something like that. But minutes tell us, or at least give us some idea of who the coach already trusts. So if somebody's playing 30 plus minutes in the game, even if they don't have the best box score, that means that is somebody that the coach probably plans to play quite a bit. There are exceptions because of injuries. For example, uh, on the Fever side, Mo Billings is out with an injury, so Myisha Hines-Allen started in the game. We don't expect her normally to be a starter when Mo is healthy and ready to play. In New York, both Satou Sabally and, uh, Sabrina Ionescu have not started the season yet. So there were players on the Liberty that were getting more minutes than they probably regularly will during the season. But that being said, we'll look at some per game averages. Some teams have played more games than others, so per game averages are definitely more appropriate at this point. And just for reference of how many players have played so far, there are 180 roster spots in the W, uh, 12 people per roster times 15 teams, and only 156 of those players have played so far in the opening weekend. So the top five players and minutes per game, would you have any guesses off the top of your head? I would usually say Napheesa, but I actually don't think she's up there. Yeah, she's, she's injured. Yeah. She's out right now. That's what I was g- that's what I was saying. Probably I'm gonna guess, why'd I forget her name? A'ja? No. All right. We won't put you on the spot any longer. So here are the top five in minutes per game so far, which again, is on a very small sample size. The first is Rhyne Howard. She played 37.9 minutes, so only sat for a couple of minutes. Um, so that's very high usage for her. She's followed by Rickea Jackson. Oh, I just remembered. I was gonna say Alyssa Thomas. Oh, okay. She's not top five. I'm not sure where she falls. So yeah, Rhyne Howard, Rickea Jackson, Sonia Citron, Kelsey Plum, and, uh, Jaycee Sheldon coming in fifth, which was a little bit surprising to me. I didn't... I don't know off the top of my head if she started, but those are certainly starter-like minutes, and I don't think I would've expected her to be starting on Chicago, but maybe somebody's out right now. So Jaycee in fifth had 34.3 minutes, so she played about three and a half minutes less than Rhyne did in first. So all of them were guards, which is interesting. The first rookie shows up at number six, Olivia Miles, with 33.8 minutes. We already talked about what an amazing game she had, so she definitely made the most of that time that she played. The next rookie appearance was number 19 in terms of minute u- minutes used, Gabriela Jaquez for Chicago. She played 32 minutes. And then Flau’jae. Lauren Betts is pretty far down the list, and then Azzi Fudd on the wings, of course, the number one pick. She came in at number 92 in terms of minutes used, and she played about 18 minutes. But again, like I said, a lot of factors here, so that doesn't necessarily mean what we'll be seeing from all of these players for the season. I think it will remain a good bet that Rhyne Howard and Kelsey Plum, for example, are going to be playing a lot of minutes all season. But it might fluctuate for some of these other players. All right. So another one is shot attempts. I would say let's not focus too much on the ones actually made this early in the season. There were quite a few players who actually didn't have their shots falling super well in these early games. They're kind of all over the place. But attempts do give you an idea of kind of who they're drawing plays for, who the coach wants to be shooting, and how the offense is supposed to work Um, yeah, I was also gonna say, especially in the first few games shot attempts versus makes. Obviously, unless you played in, like, a league overseas or, like, in a Unrivaled or something in the off-season, it's been a bit of a break since you've actually been shooting and making hoops in a game. So I think that's also a big difference for some players. Definitely. Um, and you know, a lot of teams have new pieces coming in at the start of any given season, and so they're s- still developing offensive chemistry, and everybody's kind of a little bit sloppy early in the season. So not panicking about anything yet. Um, it's just sort of an interesting data point at this point. Uh, the most shot attempts per game were Kelsey Mitchell with 22. Um, probably not surprising. Kelsey is a volume shooter. Uh, Brianna Stewart was next with 20 shots. Uh, she also obviously shoots a lot. I'm not sure how that compares to her average, but like I just mentioned a little while ago, both Satou Sabally and Sabrina Ionescu, who, uh, both will be starters for the Liberty, were not in the game. So I'm sure she probably took some more shots because of that as well. And then we had six players tied for third with 18 attempts. Those were Allisha Gray, Brittney Sykes, Caitlin Clark, Courtney Williams, Kelsey Plum, and Marina Mabrey. Kelsey Plum had the best shooting percentage at about 56%, and the next best three were tied at 38.9%. That was Allisha, Caitlin, and Courtney. Caitlin was shooting poorly from three, which pulled her percentage down. She was two of nine from three, but from two she was five of nine, so hopefully that three shot, uh, just needs some rust shaken off. And hopefully we'll see that improve. I know that was something she was struggling with last season, um, when she was really never fully healthy, even in the 13 games that she played. And then coming back to Olivia Miles, she was also the rookie with the most attempts. Not a big surprise given that, uh, she was the rookie with the most number of minutes. She took 14 shots and shot about 43%, which is pretty good. Okay, now we're gonna talk about turnovers. It's early, a lot of new systems and learning chemistry with new teammates, so again, I wouldn't read too much into this at this point. This is a favorite topic of Caitlin Clark's detractors. We talked about this a little bit earlier. It's a fair criticism that remains a development area for her. She's tied for first, uh, in this very minimum sample size that we have so far with five turnovers with Angel Reese and Natasha Howard. So as I mentioned earlier, three of those were offensive fouls for Caitlin, and then two steals. So none were bad passes, so that's encouraging. We know particularly in her first season as she was getting used to her new teammates there were a lot of passes that ultimately didn't hit their target which was probably a combination of both parties not always being ready for, for the pass as well. On Reese's side, two of hers were offensive fouls, and then she had a bad pass, a steal, and a travel. And then for Howard, it was one offensive foul two steals, one bad pass, and one step out of bounds. So we'll keep an eye on that, but again, nothing to panic over at this point. And that kind of segues into the final stat that I'm going to talk about, which is the fouls. Yeah, the fouls have definitely, I wouldn't say been happening more, because I think they've been happening just at the same level as they always have been, but there's definitely been a lot more called. I think the referees are sort of overcorrecting for all the complaints of not calling anything, and I think now they're just calling everything, which is s- I think they kinda need to find a middle ground because it's also, like we don't need the whistle blowing every second. Yeah, it's very disruptive to the flow of the game. I think there were some games that were close to three hours long because of all the foul calls in opening weekend. Um, but there was a lot of talk about the physicality and the number of injuries that we had in the league last year. Napheesa Collier and Cheryl Reeve have both talked pretty famously about it. Uh, Napheesa ended up with broken ankle and very recently just did an interview with NPR where she was still talking about how the game should be a little more offensively focused and not as physical, which is somewhat surprising from somebody who is a former defensive player of the year. Yeah, I was also gonna say there was the interview that AZ had n- before the regular season started where she also said, you know, everyone talks about how the WNBA is all about physicality, but I'm in the WNBA and I'm being physical and I'm being called for it, so. Exactly, and I do think that has, was a factor in Caitlin's three offensive fouls. Like- They were fouls, don't get me wrong, but those weren't being called a lot of the time last year, so- I mean, definitely the push one was a call, but- Yeah. A- and, you know, it, it is said that she pushes off a lot to create space, not necessarily pushing the player to the floor like we saw at least once in that game. But often that hasn't been called historically. She's also not the oth- only player that does that, to be clear. So I think some of it is, you know, they're trying to set the tone. They've increased fines for technical fouls, flagrant fouls. Apparently there's always been a potential fine for flopping, which wasn't discussed- Oh very publicly in the past, but they've also increased the foul for, the fine for that. I'm not sure how exactly they decide what's definitely a flop versus not. That seems pretty subjective, but- Yeah, I was gonna say I've never heard of that be- before'cause you always see players flopping, but also, like, you can't really tell'cause a lot of times it gets called, so I don't know how they're just deciding, oh, this is, you're flopping, and sometimes they're not. I don't get, really get that. Yeah, and I don't know if they'll be very public about when those fines are dished out this year either. If they are, I'll be curious to see which ones they are judging as definite flops that are worthy of a fine. So it may be that they're being overzealous with the whistle right now, and then they're gonna pull back a little bit. It also may be that the players are just gonna get used to, you know, them being more aggressive with the whistles now, and so they'll start adapting how they play, so we'll see fewer fouls. It might be a little bit of both, so time will tell. I think they're clearly trying to set a standard right now and allow for more freedom of movement for the offense. But it is definitely, statistically significant in terms of the fouls. So in 2025, the average fouls called per team per game was about 17 and a half, and so far in 2026, which again was just these 11 games over the weekend, I'm not counting the preseason, is an average of 22 fouls so far per team. So an increase of about four and a half fouls per team and nine per game since obviously there's two teams playing in every game. So that's about 21% increase year over year. So that's quite significant and definitely something I'll be monitoring to see how that shakes out as the season goes on. So if you watched opening weekend and thought,"I'm totally not sure what to make sure of all this yet. I don't know if I should be concerned about this statistic or what I should be thinking" You're watching correctly. That's right. It's time to notice these things but not overreact to anything. It's, you know, very early. Anything could be an anomaly based on just one or two game. So that was Open Book. We're only on the first few pages. This is a segment that we'll bring back from time to time. We won't bore you with the numbers every single episode but hopefully it helps you make sense of some of the things that you might be seeing in the box score. All right, so now, we have another segment, but we're calling it Couch Picks. So these are the games we're actually planning to sit down and watch. Obviously I'm gonna watch the game today when we're recording this, the Dream versus the Wings, and then I'm gonna watch the Lynx versus the Wings on Thursday. And similarly, I'm sure no shocker for anybody that I plan to watch the Fever games. They have three games this week: Wednesday versus the Sparks, Friday versus the Mystics, and Sunday versus the Storm. Um, I'm probably gonna need to watch both the Sparks and the Mystics game on replay. Always a bummer not to see it live, but I will be at an event on Wednesday night, and I'm actually going to the P!nk concert on Friday, so that'll be a fun thing to miss it for, but I'll definitely have to catch up on the game. Couple other games that will be good to take a look at this week are the Aces versus the Dream. Those are two potential title contenders, and I expect that should be a really good game. Uh, yeah, so now we're going into our segment that we did the first episode, which is Swish List, one thing we're excited about or want to celebrate. I think mine is that I actually kind of... Well, I was a little nervous watching the whole Fever-Wings game, but I didn't have a horrible time like I usually would have last season with their three wins, and I didn't, you know, leave after watching the game feeling like,"Why is my team so horrible?" Yes, that's a good feeling, for sure. Mine is that we published our first episode a few days ago, and seeing that actually show up on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and others just made it feel really real, really real and exciting. And for those of you that have listened already, thank you so much. We're really hoping that you enjoy it. We welcome your feedback. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us, rather. And that's it for this episode of Double Drivel. If this show made you smile, think, or just feel a little more connected to the WNBA, please follow wherever you listen. And if you're willing, leaving a review helps keep this kind of fan-first conversation going. We really appreciate you being here. 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