00:00jay well listen i i understand you were in on olivia miles am i to believe that olivia miles
00:07coming into the league and looking like one of the five best players immediately that was what
00:14we were expecting here how is this possible i don't know if i was expecting you know five best
00:19players in and wmba kevin i was expecting one of the five best or four best point guards in in
00:25the
00:25world caitlin clark uh sabrina nescue page beckers and then olivia miles and people be like wait wait
00:32wait come on jay seriously listen there is something to be said about the style of play
00:37that she had at tcu and this is a conversation that that i've had with mark campbell and i've had
00:44with
00:45numerous coaches on my coaches at jay show is the thought process of teams are starting to run
00:51uh wmba style offenses to get these ladies ready for the league i saw olivia miles with a tcu team
01:01i'll be honest and i and i know those guys they were good shooters but those were transfers that
01:09literally got that mark and javi got to play much better so i envisioned her in the wmba and i
01:16said
01:16holy smokes high pick and roll can shoot the ball has the best vision of any player in the wmba
01:23and
01:24i'm like yeah she's gonna have that kind of effect now what i did not imagine is you know natasha
01:31howard turning into natasha howard six seven years ago i mean i mean the way that they're playing is
01:36phenomenal folks they're doing this they have the best record in the league and nafica collier hasn't
01:42played yet like think about that the feature collier in my opinion kevin is the second plus best player
01:50in the world behind asia wilson to me it's asia fish then stewie then probably caitlin clark or page
01:57that's probably your top five right they have the best record in the league and they've lost players
02:06as well shepard mcbride alana smith right so what i saw out of olivia was an exceptional i'm gonna say
02:15this i have not seen a kid come into the league with that kind of sight vision and swag as
02:23a guard
02:24passing the ball ready since magic johnson caitlin clark is different because she's like logo threes
02:31but she passed the ball like magic came in just like dropping dimes on people her vision is like
02:38two seconds ahead of everybody else's i saw it happening the lines are dropping and as as minnesota
02:47continues to play well without fish you're gonna see that number keep dropping more and more for
02:52olivia miles to be mvp so i still struggle to believe that a rookie is going to win league mvp
03:00it's happened before it's also a different league because players come in much older
03:06right like olivia miles i actually think is older than victor webb and yama i'm just just to put the
03:13league into perspective for people i'm not that's not a shot or anything to be very very clear okay
03:19um i understand that you mentioned the passing but this is why i am floored a bit by what's going
03:27on with olivia i i don't think her passing is what's the the story okay she if you average 18
03:40a game in
03:41college and then you come into the into the league you should probably average i don't know 13 a game
03:50in your rookie season 14 a game in your rookie season let's make the comparison caitlin clark her last
03:57year at iowa averaged 31.6 points per game this year she is at 20.8 olivia is just scoring
04:11at the exact same rate as she was in college but more efficiently and that is wild to me
04:23that we have olivia miles giving us games where she has 24 points at halftime
04:30on i don't know almost 100 shooting and she's getting more and more comfortable i also think
04:40landing in minnesota has been awesome for who she is as a defensive player because we know that that's
04:49just a very great defensive system jy right and i think that that's allowed that's accentuated
04:56what she brings to the table as a bigger guard who can slide her feet on that side but it
05:03is now
05:06all of a sudden to your point about fee and we've talked about this year so i know i'm not
05:12wrong
05:13was having a weird off season that we thought might lead to her leaving
05:18the minnesota links if nefisha collier comes back healthy have a very clean argument that they should
05:25be the favorites to win the championship and there are they are the favorites right now
05:30so like to me i i think it's a little bit quick just because i don't know what the whole
05:37nafisha
05:37collier thing's going to be but it's not only hey we can be the favorites right now it's uh
05:45that is again coach i'll lean on you a little bit here but it's kind of how the storm went
05:50from sue to
05:51stewie right and there was wins together and it kind of but also like there was winning before and
05:57it's like a passing of the torch but all happening at the same time here like the the links have
06:03potentially set themselves up as the franchise kind of in this league now for a little bit
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