The Clark phenom was the perfect storm of many things, no doubt. The biggest of which is she plays an exciting style of ball in a league that has been a yawner for quite awhile.
Caitlin Clark goes woke
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Meh…. interestingly enough, and since you were present in my conversation, with chance, you may even disagree with this, but I believe racism is overused 1 million fold in today’s society every which way it can be used.
With that said, there was most assuredly jealousy, pettiness, and a concerted effort to keep her from succeeding. Now I’m not one that leaps to thinking that has to be because of a persons “skin color“ but the more liberally minded often do.
But in Truth they did not want this phenom showing them up. We’ll see how Paige gets guarded when she shows up next year.
Honestly, most of what’s wrong with human beings can be summed up in about four or five catch words; Pride, selfishness, jealousy, lust & self doubt. With a little ignorance mixed in.
Everyone wants to talk about gender and race and hate crimes….
Let me tell you something if you kill someone or take their stuff, that’s a hate crime😉
All that stuff is encompassed above.
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Meh….I think they are more about telling people to F-off than organizing a protest and whining incessantly about free expression like the hard left radicals.
I mean, I think his takes dumb, but nobody is telling him he can’t have it, right? So no I’m not sure your dig fits him…
Nothing says MAGA moron like telling someone that THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE is wrong.
Please put in qualitative or quantitative numbers how she is so much more exciting than previous players? I agree with you, but what stirs the drink that makes her play more exciting than a player in a previous era, say Sheryl Swoopes (just as an example)?
Cool, so we both agree they have been beating a dead horse. Our opinions are more similar than they are different. We are just coming at them from different angles.
Bs. Tiger woods, Michael Jordan and many others are universally exonerated. Our own fans admire Caleb johnson and our 2 great linebacker above the rest of our football team.
He literally cancelled. No one is talking about "hard left" anything. That's a hard pivot.
I think you mean exalted….they would only need exonerated if they were being excused from an obligation or potential wrong doing ?
I will preface this by saying white privilege exists america, as a general statement. But, to raise a counterpoint as to Caitlin's fame specifically, why didn't Stewart's, Plum's, or Ionescu's white privilege heretofore garner such attention, fanfare, and endorsements? I think the answer is that Caitlin is the perfect storm of being an athletic freak, with a freaky work ethic, with freaky skill, with a freaky competitive spirit, all allowing her to put up freaky numbers, in an exciting way, while doing her best to ingratiate herself fans. She has built her following brick by brick, hour by hour of practice, performance by performance, autograph by autograph.
They probably do think that, but this chart drives home for me just how different she is from everyone else, and explains her insane popularity.
I did read the article. What point do you think you are making? The point I am making is that compared to all other players in the country, including Juju Watkins and every outstanding male player, she was like 10 standard deviations from the norm, if not more. Just because she was able to do that against D1 athletes does not mean anyone else can.You should read her quote about D1 athletes in the same article. 😅
It's gotta be hard to be called low IQ even if its done by a genius.You should read her quote about D1 athletes in the same article. 😅
That when she was on the court against other D1 players she was the dot in the upper right hand corner.
Yup, i had great seats to watch in HCA the last 3 years. Anyone who thought her talent was only logo 3s was a moron.
To me that was the least impressive part of her game. I also think you have to be courtside to understand how far ahead she was of everone around her.
I guess we are misunderstanding one another. I read your post to say her statistical peculiarity was no big deal because she admitted she did it against hapless people that couldn't do anything about it. My counterpoint is that no one could do anything about, and no one else could do what she did. But I guess what you were saying is that she did it against hapless people and she knew they were hapless, or better understands now how hapless they were.
One of the biggest fails I think my son will look back on with regret is that he and his buddy had tickets to the game where she broke the record. They lifted before going to the game, and then it took longer to get to Carver than he thought it would. She broke the record like 3 minutes before they got into Carver and their seats.
My point is that she was way better than everyone else and she knew it. Or at least now in retrospect understands that she was way better than them.
You mean she played against mere mortals? The Iowa staff had to address that when she got here
LOL…. first, I’m not against you or trying to screw with you. I just didn’t see the need for the MAGA reference.
And second, you’re seriously going to try and say “me” quoting you calling him a MAGA hypocrite (because that’s what you meant) is a non-starter…WTH.
That is literally the start, middle and finish…
You said MAGA people were supposed to be against cancel culture… and he basically said be who you want, but I’m not watching it
And you, not me, YOU, referenced MAGA and then git offended by my hard-left mention.
Super strange…
Her ability to see the court and understand the patterns of the defense, their reads, and for the most part knowing where the opponent was going to go before they maybe knew themselves was lost on a lot of her critics.
We have been going for years. It got insane. If you arent there at least an hour b4 tip good luck, you are in for a looong walk.
Yeah, interesting take there and I’m a huge fan. But I believe she could have said that better and as rule, I think her ability with language is remarkable.
In their defense, I'm not sure anyone thought she'd break the record a minute and a half into the game.
It's probably a safe bet that this will fall on deaf ears, but maybe give her quote a bit more thought than "that's woke, and woke is bad."
She said all of these things as a response to winning Time's "Athlete of the Year". A year where she won zero championships.
How do you think Caitlin, a fierce competitor that wants to be the best women's basketball player in the world feels about this award, playing in the WNBA, and the discussion around her popularity?
Yeah, he had no excuse. He was a freshman and hoofed it from the Wellness Center. He just miscalculated the length of the walk, and he missed out on witnessing probably the single greatest individual athletic achievement ever to happen at Iowa.
Your take for sure.
I'm not offended, he'll hell i don't even know u. And yes he personally cancelled just because he thinks she went "woke".
'Bout as MAGA as you can get.
But hey, you have a good one
I will. Nothing worse than White Guilt. I’m tired of this apology for how you born and what you accomplish. Fun fact: More Poor Whites than any race. More cops killed whitey than all other taxes combined. Been advantages for every race but whites since Affirmative action. Fvck off with this narrative and take. You sorry for being white that’s a you issue don’t clump all whites in. I apologize for nothing I haven’t done myself. Weak and soft. Fvck off CC
Hey I was thinking about you the other day. I have come ot the realization that topping lovers don't know what good pizza is because they mask the real flavor of the pizza with all the stuff they put on it. I've been like this since before Dave Portnoy started reviewing pizza. I've eaten pizza at some of the best places in the US. I've made trips around good pizza. I love pizza.
Occasionally, I'll do a light pepperoni, but everything else can take a hike.
..um,, she wanted it over with and everone knew she was gonna be chuckin bombs.. : )
