Analysis of Women's Basketball Game

But it's actually Indiana that has seven points off of the turnovers

that Atlanta

has created until we saw Angel Gray in part- or excuse me, Angel Reese, shout out

to our teammate. Angel Reese in particular,

her energy shifted.

I thought when she got some of those easy baskets to go in the paint, that quite

frankly she had struggled with to open the ballgame, that's when you saw this

defense begin to pick up its energy, this dream squad to begin to play with a

little more confidence.

Yeah, athletes know it's not how you start,

it's how you finish, and that energy is

contagious because if you look at Angel Reese,

she already has seven and nine.

She's already getting close to a double double.

But then also, if you think about, you know, on the other side here,

you're seeing

the Indiana Fever. They're just being a little bit methodical

as well because

I like these good to great plays.

Yeah.

You see Caitlin orchestrating. It's like both sides

are leaning into their

strengths-

Yeah

... on this one.

Let's go back to, to Angel really quickly though,

because she was part of the

catalyst that you saw to be able to change things around and, and she said to

Holly, "I just feel like I needed to take a deep

breath and maybe star- stop

overthinking some of these."

Oh, I've been there. I've been there. Like, sometimes the basket is too open.

Right.

Right? She's used to getting double-teamed,

she's used to triple-teamed, and she's

used to contact, and so sometimes when you see her you're like, "Wait,

what's

coming?" You wanna look over your shoulder.

But she settled into the game well, and what I like is she's been such a great

mentor also to Medina Okatt.

Yeah.

I believe Medina Okatt has six points, six rebounds as well.

There's no one better to learn from when it comes to being a beast on the

boards-

Being around it, yeah, for sure

... than Angel Reese.

Yeah, because when the game started and Angel Reese was missing some of those

bunnies, we were all talking about it, and I was like, "She's not missing these

because of Indiana's defense."

Mm.

And she's getting these layups, so that was a good sign.

Even though she wasn't finishing them, then she's able to finish some of them,

and

then Atlanta goes on a run. The person I wanna give credit for

is while Atlanta was

struggling, Alysha Gray was holding it down