That's why she's speaking out, she doesn't want her "fans" calling out/harassing other players for her. Because a lot of them crossed the line when they did that this season.
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That's why she's speaking out, she doesn't want her "fans" calling out/harassing other players for her. Because a lot of them crossed the line when they did that this season.
Sometimes the best way to deal with a “problem” is to play through it without comment.
Basketball is a physical game and folks get knocked on their butts at times…. Women spend an inordinate amount of time in the floor, it seems. The refs will start “protecting ” #22 more as her cred increases…that’s the way “stars” are treated….and #22 is a star.
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Well most didn’t cross the line. A lot of people simply highlighted that the players were dirty
Well there you are desi. Simply means someone from South Asia. I know what it means
You are from the educated Brahmin class.of India. Look down on all those untouchables while enjoying the prosperity of this country. Weird you aren't fixing the issues in India with your superior education and skills. Call people racist here and yet maintain that elitist Brahmin mentality. Do you reach down below your caste and lift people up or are those people beneath you?
You are the racist. Enjoying all of the privilege of your caste while coloring people in this state and country as racist.
I’m waiting patiently for someone to hold Angel Reese accountable for all the internet trolls who refer to CC as The Great White Hope and Kaitlin Klark.
Ooopsies...
Now he's gonna feel "attacked" for being "racist and privileged" again!!!
Even CC recognizes that to be at the Next Level, she needs to rein in the TOs.
But pointing that out (by anyone else) is Verboten here.
Good for you.
98% if the “controversy” around #22 is (social) media generated noise that has nothing to do with the game of (women’s) basketball.. Petty jealousy and subtle racism seems to be the bullet points that drive this controversy…Sadly most of #22’s professional basketvall has been silenced by the noise surrounding her game.
Wilt Chamberlain was a huge liability at the FT line, too. I bet #22 will improve her floor game as time moves on.
I'd stated this, repeatedly (and showing that evolution through her first season) in the other thread.
When I posted that she was not playing "good enough" for the Olympics, the trolls came at me like drunk monkeys.
Now, she's come out and stated basically the same - she did not want to "be a face" that just sat on the bench.
And now that she has stated basically what I'd posted multiple times, those morons are completely avoiding that topic.
She was playing “good enough” to play for the Olympic team. It was an epic PR failure not to have her on the team. Women cut their noses off to spite their faces all the time. (My opinion only) Larry Bird was on the Olympic Dream Team and he could barely walk.
No; she was not.
She was "on the bubble" at the time of the selections as her overall play was fairly average.
After that point in the season, her play improved, dramatically and in line with other WNBA superstars stat lines. Again: I've posted the metrics on this dozens of times, and the numbers don't lie.
CC would have excelled at the Olympics and will in the future. Imagine her getting to play in games where the refs actually called fouls and against opponents that are lucky to be Big10 level talent. She needed the break after playing in the champ game then going straight to the draft and into the W season.
I agree at the time of the team selection; she had not done enough to be on the roster by merit. But the all-stars did defeat the Olympic team and if the Olympics were after the season rather than in the middle of it, she is probably on the team.
I agree at the time of the team selection; she had not done enough to be on the roster by merit. But the all-stars did defeat the Olympic team and if the Olympics were after the season rather than in the middle of it, she is probably on the team.
She didn't even "excel" in the WNBA AS game last year.
I'm sure she will in future years.
She was playing well enough… her name recognition was second to none…she deserved a place on the team and she was not afforded one. She moved on…I saw it as a huge miss by US women’s basketball.
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The he’ll she didn’t! That is just a reckless statement to make. She was one tge tge 5 best players in the WNBA when it was all said and done last year. And yes, barring injury, she will get better… as will the talent in the League. .
The best players in the world all played in that All-Star game and play in the W with very rare exceptions. CC's performance in that game shouldn't be compared to how she would perform against lesser competition who aren't all out to shut her down.
I was disappointed she was left off the team but not upset by it. From a $$ and marketing perspective she should have been on the team, from a competitive perspective it's not cut and dry she belonged AT THAT TIME. By the end of the season, she was playing as well as anybody in the league and it would have been damn hard if not impossible to keep her off the roster.
Like I said…Larry Bird was put on The Dream Team and he could barely walk. Bird was there because he was Larry Bird… #22 deserved the same honor as the games most recognizable (active) name at the time of selection. Again… she moved in and J couldn’t have cared less… but women’s basketball in the USA made a huge (PR) mistake.
They were at the opposite ends of their careers. If you want to make the argument that she belonged because there was precedent by other rookies being on the Olympic teams in the past, I follow you there, but they played in a different era. I think the All-Star game proved, the W could have sent 2+ rosters worth of women to the games and came away with the gold.
Lost in all of this is the fact that Clark is busy this off-season using that White privilege to make herself much better. She will probably add 10lbs of muscle and add the mid range floater.
I bet she has a good credit score too
So are the detractors here saying that “white privilege” does not exist in the USA? That being said”white” in the USA does not automatically provided advantages that brown, black, red and yellow folks in the USA do not intrinsically enjoy?
Typical. Honestly, she needs to apologize…
I just don’t think skin color matters in 2024. In 1963 I would say yes….today…nope.
MLKs line about “judge me for the content of my character and not the color of my skin”
Well, people don’t like being judged for their character…so they have to create the narrative that it’s their skin color
Is there an “attractiveness privilege”? Is there an “Asian privilege”?
The only real Solution is that she needs to dump her boyfriend and date a black lesbian.
Funny how attractive celebrities never discuss that one.
That is not the question here… stay focused! I would say there is an attractiveness privilege…. But “attractiveness” is purely subjective whereas “white” is objective.
I strongly disagree. Skin color is the primary determinate of how we judge people we don’t know even today.
I don’t think so necessarily… but understand there are plenty of racist folks out there today…plenty.
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