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First Take

Hour 1: Roll Tide!

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Paul Finebaum, Heather Dinich, and Harry Douglas react to Alabama's mindset heading into Kalen DeBoer's first season as head coach. We debate if CFP expansion makes this season less exciting. Bart Scott joins the crew to debate which team is a bigger threat to the Chiefs: the Ravens or the Bengals? Kimberley A. Martin is here to break down her issue with the placement of football players on ESPN's Top 100 athletes since 2000 list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well tonight it was. Hi hello good morning everyone

0:02.8

welcome in the first take happy Thursday I'm

0:04.8

Christine Williamson here from Molly we got Harry Douglas in the building and we

0:08.4

also have a whole squad coming through today a lot to get to but we start with the W because Caitlin

0:14.4

Clark she made history last night that's right she broke the W MBA record for

0:19.1

assists in a game with 19 in the fevers loss in Dallas swings and she did it just in time for the

0:24.4

all-star break and Olympic break. The previous record was set by Courtney

0:28.2

van der Sleut in 2020. Alia Boston, she knows how good of a pastor of Clark has been in the in the debut better than anybody.

0:35.0

Let's hear from them.

0:37.0

She's going to say it means nothing.

0:39.0

But I think it's pretty cool.

0:41.0

I think that's pretty cool, so it's all right. I mean, I just think I do it, like I just try to set my teammates up for success. I think at times, like I can almost overpass and that can maybe I don't know there probably could have been a few times where instead of passing that leads to turn over that I might have I can probably shoot the ball but we still didn't shoot it very good from three and you know I thought we

1:03.8

finished really well around the paint I'm sure our points in the paint were pretty

1:06.8

good 62 points in the paint so yeah. All right Mr butter, your reaction to Caitlin Clark breaking the record.

1:17.0

Unbelievable, but it's also a testament of how dynamic, how special she is to be able to have

1:22.2

19 assists in the game.

1:23.0

And forget the simple fact, Christine, that she's a rookie.

1:26.0

For her to do this, whether she's a rookie, a fifth-year player, a 12-year player,

1:31.0

doesn't matter the level, whether it's high school college

1:34.4

NBA W-M-B-A I just think it's fantastic and it's great for the game

1:39.2

and we've always known her to be a score, but what a lot of people didn't highlight or see a lot of when

1:46.4

she was in college because they weren't watching the game the proper way and they were just

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