ChiefsPlanet - Other Sports Caitlin Clark is ****ing awesome

That’s absurd. College sports is not a level playing field, especially in women’s college bball where you have super teams who pump lots of money into recruiting. Patrick mahomes never even came close to sniffing a national championship. Neither did Steph curry. If she doesn’t win one in the pros a few years from now we can start to have that discussion.

Men’s college basketball is like that, but there really aren’t a lot of elite women’s basketball players to end their college careers without a ring. Jackie Stiles and Kelsey Plum are really the only ones that comes to mind. Clark chose a similar path as Stiles and Plum for sure. Great talent that chose a small school without the elite pedigree as some of the others. This is a large reason why they are all top 5 leading scorers in the NCAA because they didn’t have the supporting cast to share production with. I think Brittney Griner is the only player to be top 10 in scoring to actually win a title. Sheryl Swoopes is the only player in mind to actually carry her team to a title pretty much single handedly that I can think of as well.

Pablo

06-07-2024 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by staylor26 (Post 17544991)

That should shut that mother****er up for a couple days at least.

How could he speak against her at this point?

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SAGA45

06-07-2024 11:34 PM

Good stuff by A'ja Wilson!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">With her performance tonight, A’ja Wilson has tied Diana Taurasi (13) for the longest streak of 20+ PT games in WNBA History ��<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WelcometotheW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WelcometotheW</a> <a href="https://t.co/UCqP1VWz8l">pic.twitter.com/UCqP1VWz8l</a></p>— WNBA (@WNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WNBA/status/1799289810336846013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

New World Order

06-07-2024 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by SAGA45 (Post 17545169)

Hey!!!!

Stay on topic here

Demonpenz

06-07-2024 11:47 PM

Man this thread is never going to die

UChieffyBugger

06-08-2024 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by tredadda (Post 17544890)

Clark is the all time scoring leader in women’s college basketball who willed a very meh Iowa team to two championship game appearances. That’s not a JAG. Why did I not compare Emmitt Smith to Barry Sanders? Simple. They are both legendary players and I don’t use rings to justify one over the other. You on the other hand are using rings as a measuring stick. Difference is your argument was foolish, flawed, and easily exposed.

I don’t hate or even dislike Reese. She’s a great player who did nothing her first two years in college, transferred to a more talented team with a HOF HC, won a championship and didn’t even make the championship game after. Clark accomplished far more with less talent around her in college and the jury is still out on whether that will translate to the WNBA.

Actually this is bs. Reese and Clark played eachother for a ring. So they faced off on the big stage and one beating the other had a direct impact on their own legacies. And your assumption that Reese was on some "all world team" is nonsense. Lsu were far from the favourites to win the championship that year themselves and were close to going out during that run.

New World Order

06-08-2024 12:53 AM

Angel Reese after seeing Clark's incredible performance tonight:

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/y8...3bbca51c0df234

UChieffyBugger

06-08-2024 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by SAGA45 (Post 17545169)

She's by far the best player in the league and it's great to see her dominance is finally being given the praise it deserves.

Anyway Clark went off tonight with seven three's for 30 points as Indiana and Washington played "the Paige Bowl" with them being the two worst teams in the league. You could see the confidence was flowing when she hit her third three and after that Washington were in trouble. Though tbf they did rally through the storm and took the game right to the end.

Another eight turnovers by Clark wasn't good though which is the fourth time she's had seven plus giveaways in a game.

All in all it was a step in the right direction for Clark so we'll see if she can keep this offensive output going.

Stewie

06-08-2024 02:44 AM

Just watched a recap of Clark's 30 point game. She was hitting bombs and a couple were off balance. She's a player.

Coogs

06-08-2024 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger (Post 17545180)

That's the same Mystics team your Sky-Town team played a couple of nights ago and you raved about your gals 29% effort from the floor.

chiefzilla1501

06-08-2024 05:33 AM

And now the USA has chosen not to include Caitlin clark on the Olympics. They continue to drop the bag on this. She of course should not and would not play, and she doesn’t need to. But for a team that’s a sure thing for gold medal why wouldn’t you include her to keep the interest going? I think the wnba legit thinks the ratings bonanza will continue but it’s probably not gonna happen without her there.

UChieffyBugger

06-08-2024 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Coogs (Post 17545199)

That's the same Mystics team your Sky-Town team played a couple of nights ago and you raved about your gals 29% effort from the floor.

She had a double double which deserved to be celebrated :evil:

Titty Meat

06-08-2024 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by SAGA45 (Post 17545169)

How many dunks she have?

Kiimo