Eric Apricot

Our friend Eric's here now, too, by the way.

The voice of Eric Apricot.

Eric Apricot.

Eric

Apricot.

And I'm not saying that's the end all be all.

And there's a, there's a, this blog Valkyrie nation run by Eric Apricot does a great job.

Who's like done the research that actually like, uh, But the research historically had shown that fouling up three in the WNBA was not as much of a winning strategy as just playing it out defensively.

But, like, the Valkyries got burned by it once, so they didn't let it happen again.

You don't have to know every little thing about basketball.

Um, if you wanna learn about basketball, Eric Apricot is our-

Ugh

... our fellow basketball nerd, and he breaks it down in such a lovely way.

Provides all the great pre-game, post-game interviews, practice interviews on his YouTube channel.

And then Eric Apricot, right? The master of breaking down.

Yes, explain one play.

And he even explained three today.

And then since this happened, I mean one thing that kinda stands out to me, um, the follow up three thing.

Um, my friend Eric Apricot-

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... who's sometimes on the podcast, um, Courtside Report and runs Valkyrie Nation, uh, newsletter, um, he asked like very, very early in the season like, "What's your strategy following up three?" And she literally was like, "I'm not gonna tell you that." Um, and then I think it was after game two Vegas he was like, "Okay, following up on that." And she was like, "Oh, I remember you asked this before, yeah." And then she like answered a question, and she was like, "Yeah, here's why we're doing that now." And it was like, wow, what a like progression from her to go from like, "I'm never saying anything about this" to like, "Yeah, here's why we did X and Y." 'Cause like she sees us around and stuff.

not to be fair, I don't think she actually outright admitted that what they failed to do in game two was a mistake.

She did not give, it was because Eric Apricot followed up on this because he actually asked that same question, which Natalie says she remembers.

She like goes, oh, like, ha, ha, ha.

I remember like, you know, you asked me this during preseason, which he did.

True.

Are you and... anybody from valx media gonna like try to hit the sphere or something when you're out there

you know i know uh valkyries united definitely said uh they want to that's john wong of valkyries united i think eric apricot valkyries nation too so yes i mean if they're going i'll i haven't been there yet what's playing at the

sphere right now i was about to check

when, right, the Valks, when, then I'll definitely find a way to make an appearance because I think a lot of people's perceptions and the narratives will shift very quickly.

My question is that it sounds like I listened to the Valkyries courtside pod, as I usually do after games, and it sounded like maybe Kenzo and Eric Apricot took claim to the media room for recording their post-game podcast.

Where would you do it if...

I would probably do it at the Chase Center Club or Media Row because my credentials, they can't kick me out until the building closes.