I just don't understand this. People need a reason to complain about her for whatever reason so they talk about her "maturity" on the court and her "antics". Have they ever watched the NBA in the last 30 years? Take a look at how pretty much every star player acts on the court. Have they watched how about half of all men's college coaches act? If her behavior bothers you, she learned it from watching those folks.
Eh, I don't watch women's hoops so I don't have a dog in the fight. If they're good, cool. If they're irrelevant, Beth will be on it. Franwich disappoints me more.
“He talks crap about politics he has absolutely no clue about.”
Not sure if you read the post I was responding to, or understood what I was trying to say. I guess I need to work on my communication skills. MitchLL wrote "We'd all dislike, but respect, CC if she played anywhere else." I said "Disagree" and that many of us WBB fans would still like CC even if she played for another team. I wasn't complaining about CC. I doubt there are 25 bigger CC fans on this board than me. I've paid good money to see her play numerous times this season in multiple venues. But I still think she has some on-court maturity issues, i.e. body language toward teammates. When she throws the ball to O'Grady and she fumbles it, misses it or otherwise fails to catch it, CC will frequently extend her arms and hands as if to say, "how in the hell did you not catch that pass." Not ideal, IMO, but not the end of the world either. But it is something CC could improve on. How you treat your teammates in the heat of the moment counts, even if you are otherwise a great teammate, as I think CC is, and even if CC is exemplary off the court, as I think she is, and wrote.
I wasn't reacting to your comments specifically, just the people in general who complain about her complaining to officials. You just posted something close to the topic I was commenting on which is why I quoted your post. Maybe you made an assumption based on your comments about maturity but you are far from the only person I've heard say that. I just find it demeaning and another double standard when so many star athletes act the same and don't seem to get criticized nearly as much for it. You can think that it is an aspect of the game that needs to go away and I would actually agree with that, but unfortunately it seems to be a part of the game these days. It's more than just CC that needs to change then, it's the whole of basketball. So, I apologize if you took my comments to be directed at you, they were not intended to be.
Now that the women players are acting like men on the court, people have an issue. Men started all the chest thumping, smack talking, gesturing, look at me, bullshit. CC does a little and it's a problem?
The women didn't want double standards, so if we take issue with the antics of the men, then we take issue when the women do it as well......which oddly enough is what they want us to do.........
