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The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

“This year is completely different” with Lo’eau LaBonta

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

Sports

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Claire sits down with Kansas City midfielder Lo’eau LaBonta to understand what’s driving the Current’s unbeaten streak, celebration culture, goals under Vlatko Andonovski and more. Then Claire takes the mic alone to look at the state of the WNBA, which teams are surging and which could use a reset after another week of highs and lows.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Blacko is not going to be happy.

0:01.8

Blacko is a defensive coach.

0:04.1

Everything he wants you in a system, you know, defense.

0:08.6

It's no question what you have to do, right?

0:10.9

Offends you can be creative, defense, no, it's black and white. You either choose to do the right thing or you don't.

0:16.5

And today when we went into film after we've gotten scored on twice. We were down twice at home. Never ever would we have

0:26.2

thought that was a situation and he was like I don't care everybody knows here that we're

0:30.6

going to score goals. We need to be better and not getting scored on.

0:39.2

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub.

0:43.1

I am your host Claire Watkins.

0:44.4

It is Monday, June 17th,

0:46.4

and we have a very special episode for y'all this week.

0:50.2

Real quick, we're actually just gonna jump right

0:51.9

into some end of USL chat. It was not that crazy of a weekend,

0:56.1

to be completely honest. Five of the weekend's seven games finished in draws. Three of those failed to produce a single goal with shared points in Nill, Nill,

1:05.3

deadlock. So Gotham got a win this weekend. Utah got a win this weekend.

1:09.5

Congratulations to them, but there was not a lot of movement up and down the table.

1:13.5

Things are pretty much about where they were when we came into this weekend, which is actually

1:17.7

perfect for us here at the Lape Sub because what we're going to run at the beginning of the

1:22.3

show this week is a nice long chat that I had with Kansas City midfielder low Labanta. We had Labanta hop on a call last week to chat with us. So some of this is going to feel a little bit, not even

1:33.8

really dated, but more just a chat before this weekend's games. But it was really nice to pick Labont's

1:38.4

brain on kind of the Kansas City vibe in the locker room this year on her evolving role with the

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