***Official Caitlin/Fever/Kate/Meg Games Mega Thread***

[Franisdaman]

If you took away those that her teammates should have caught, Clark would average 3-4 turnovers per game. She had 7 last night and three of them should have been handled by her teammates.

Yep. Turnovers go down, assists go up and assists to turnover ratio goes WAY UP.

 

[Franisdaman]

 

[Franisdaman]

 

[Franisdaman]

 

[Franisdaman]

 

[Franisdaman]

The United Center seats 20,917 for basketball.

Wintrust Arena, where the Fever play Chicago tomorrow, has 10,000 seats.

 

[Franisdaman]

 

[Franisdaman]

Selling out arenas, home & away.

And putting up numbers.

 

[Franisdaman]

It is a much different looking team. Can they keep it up?

If the playoffs started today, the Fever would be the #8 seed. They are 1/2 game out of the #7 seed (Atlanta), 2 games out of the #6 seed (Phoenix) and 3 games out of the #4 seed (Seattle).

 

[ZachJump]

Also, Boston at #3 is certainly the CC effect too. Love it.

No question that everyone is getting more votes this year because of the fans who that came to the WNBA through Caitlin.

But

Boston was 4th in the voting last year….just a handful of votes from third…with a large lead over fifth…she has her own fans as well.

 

[ZachJump]

If she gets top ten, she's in the all star game.. amazing

No - in the context of fan voting

Top 10 automatically make the all-star game.. Olympic players are already on it.. so right now there are 5 non-olympians in the top 10. So she needs to pass brink who just got hurt and hamby. Doable!

Clark, Boston, Arike, Reese and Martin being those 5 players would be awesome

Another No.

Have to be in the top 10 to make it, yes, but top ten. It’s not the top ten of non Olympic players…top ten. Only going to be a handful that are automatically in the team.

The fan votes are only half the vote.

The WNBA players vote as well and count for 25% of the vote.

Media that covers the WNBA get the other 25% of the vote.

Going to be tough for Kate to get enough support from the players and media to make the top 10 to be automatically selected.

 

[hawkeye_wx]

The Dallas Wings really stink. They started 3-2, now they are 3-12. They lost to the Mystics today by 28 points. The Fever play them for the first time on July 17th, the last game before the Olympics break.

 

[Champ_Kind_whammy]

Indiana congressman Jim Banks has had enough. He sent a letter to the WNBA requesting that the league take action.
In a letter addressed to Cathy Engelbert, Commissioner of Women's National Basketball Association, Banks wrote:

Like many Hoosiers, I have watched in admiration as the Indiana Fever have captivated a national audience following their selection of Caitlin Clark as the first overall pick in the 2024 WNBA draft. As a father, it has been heartening to see my three young daughters more excited about and inspired by the WNBA than ever before.
As you know, Clark has shattered on court and viewership records for women’s basketball. Unfortunately, since joining the WNBA, Clark’s exceptionalism has been met with resentment and repeated attacks from fellow players.
During the Fever’s win over the Chicago Sky on Saturday, Chennedy Carter went out of her way to knock Clark to the floor while neither player had the ball. Further, the excessive attack was visibly cheered on and supported by Carter’s teammate Angel Reese.
Indiana is a basketball state. We don’t wince at aggressive defense, but this was not an example of playing “tough”; it was a cheap shot that could have resulted in an injury and should not be tolerated.
While the foul was retroactively upgraded to a flagrant, there appears to be no further punishment for Carter or the Chicago Sky organization beyond fines related to a lack of media appearances after the game.
Every data point shows, when Caitlin Clark plays, more people watch and what they are seeing right now is a league that refuses to hold hostile players accountable and enforce their own rules of sportsmanship.
It is not only a disservice to Clark and the Indiana Fever, it’s a disservice to the millions of young girls who are watching with dreams of playing in the WNBA one day.
In a 2019 interview with The Athletic, you said that one of the “three pillars” you were focused on was the “player experience,” including “health and well-being, wellness, mental health and all that.”
I believe you meant it back then and you have a chance to prove it now.
As such, I request answers to the following questions by next Friday, June 14th, 2024:

• What steps is the WNBA taking to curb excessive physical targeting of specific players?
• Will individual organizations be held responsible for allowing players with histories of violence to physically target their competitors?
• Do you believe that WNBA players repeatedly diminishing the talents of their fellow players is beneficial to the leagues’ overall success?
• Do you believe that it is inspiring to young female athletes to see players like the Indiana’s Caitlin Clark physically targeted for her success?

 

[ddeanHawk]

Indiana congressman Jim Banks has had enough. He sent a letter to the WNBA requesting that the league take action.
In a letter addressed to Cathy Engelbert, Commissioner of Women's National Basketball Association, Banks wrote:

Congrats for someone with some common sense to speak up

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Indiana congressman Jim Banks has had enough. He sent a letter to the WNBA requesting that the league take action.
In a letter addressed to Cathy Engelbert, Commissioner of Women's National Basketball Association, Banks wrote:

America must be absolutely in a much better place than four years ago, if this is the type of stupid shiz a US Congressman has time to worry about.

 

[AWS1022]

America must be absolutely in a much better place than four years ago, if this is the type of stupid shiz a US Congressman has time to worry about.

Well, a president spent a lot of his time trying to get a WNBA player back from Russia, so apparently the WNBA is important enough.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Well, a president spent a lot of his time trying to get a WNBA player back from Russia, so apparently the WNBA is important enough.

American citizens held by dictatorships on trumped up charges are usually a pretty big deal to the US State Department. We’ve gotten five back from Iran in the last calendar year alone. And while it isn’t a dictatorship, there was that dumbass we freed that was stupid enough to carry ammo in his luggage that we just saved.

 

[ddeanHawk]

America must be absolutely in a much better place than four years ago, if this is the type of stupid shiz a US Congressman has time to worry about that.

🤣 🤣🤣....that's all I got 🤷‍♀️


Edit...It's actually mind-boggling there are people that can actually believe this

 

[flaiawis]

Watching the Phoenix Mercury & Minnesota Lynx.
I cannot in good consiousness select Brittany G. & Diana T to the Olympic team. Their form is horrible and neither is deserving. The eye test does not lie.

38-25 Lynx at the half. If you had two Olympians on your side, it would look different.?!?

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Watching the Phoenix Mercury & Minnesota Lynx.
I cannot in good consiousness select Brittany G. & Diana T to the Olympic team. Their form is horrible and neither is deserving. The eye test does not lie.

Reminds me of how the USWNT tried to hang on to too many of the old players in the last World Cup. Spare me the “Taurasi is a legend so she gets to play anytime she wants” argument people make. It’s the Olympics, not some exhibition send-off match.

 

[AWS1022]

American citizens held by dictatorships on trumped up charges are usually a pretty big deal to the US State Department. We’ve gotten five back from Iran in the last calendar year alone. And while it isn’t a dictatorship, there was that dumbass we freed that was stupid enough to carry ammo in his luggage that we just saved.

Well, she confessed to the charges, so I’m not sure how trumped up they were.

 

[AWS1022]

Reminds me of how the USWNT tried to hang on to too many of the old players in the last World Cup. Spare me the “Taurasi is a legend so she gets to play anytime she wants” argument people make. It’s the Olympics, not some exhibition send-off match.

I’m not sure why we’re not suiting up Sheryl Swoopes and Maya Moore, since they’re legends too.

 

[flaiawis]

Reminds me of how the USWNT tried to hang on to too many of the old players in the last World Cup. Spare me the “Taurasi is a legend so she gets to play anytime she wants” argument people make. It’s the Olympics, not some exhibition send-off match.

The tape continues to roll and the selection process continues to look more and more pathetic.

The WNBA "Old Heads" arguments is becoming untenable.

 

[F5n5]

Reminds me of how the USWNT tried to hang on to too many of the old players in the last World Cup. Spare me the “Taurasi is a legend so she gets to play anytime she wants” argument people make. It’s the Olympics, not some exhibition send-off match.

well.. if Taurasi is still getting lots of All Star Votes.. its hard to argue she doesn't belong

 

[BrewHawk]

Yeah, but John Wooden was a crook.

Sam Gilbert

 

[ddeanHawk]

Yeah, but John Wooden was a crook.

I must live under a rock...never heard this

 

[BrewHawk]

I must live under a rock...never heard this

There's a really good reason UCLA was so dominant...

...and it wasn't his coaching.

 

[SunzOutGunzOut]

 

[Tom Paris]

🤣 🤣🤣....that's all I got 🤷‍♀️


Edit...It's actually mind-boggling there are people that can actually believe this

Oh...you're one of those who thinks the lockdown four years ago is better than NOT being locked down. What a silly thing to think.

My investments are up more than 4 years ago too. Not to mention we don't have a rapist conman in charge like 4 years ago.

 

[Champ_Kind_whammy]

America must be absolutely in a much better place than four years ago, if this is the type of stupid shiz a US Congressman has time to worry about.

The world is better off than it was 4 years ago? I don't know what credibility you had ... but I would suggest waiving bye bye to it.

 

[Franisdaman]

Today's game:

Fever (7-10) at Chicago (5-9)
Tip: 3:00 pm CT
TV: eSECpn

Indiana is a 1.5 point favorite
O/U is 168.5

The Fever, at the moment, have the 8th best record in the W; the Sky are just 1/2 game behind. The top 8 teams make the season ending playoffs.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

The world is better off than it was 4 years ago? I don't know what credibility you had ... but I would suggest waiving bye bye to it.

Remember when the last President broke up a pandemic team and then scoffed at thousands dying of COVID, then said it would probably go away like an Easter miracle, then our economy tanked, over 1 million Americans died? Oh, and also he instituted massive tax breaks for the wealthy and ballooned our national debt at a pace not seen before or since? Or how he kept telling us he had the best people but his administration was a revolving door of corruption that ran so rampant that he had over 20 convicted of felonies in his administration (before himself)? Or how as divider-in-Chief he inflamed tensions across this country ultimately ending in his electoral defeat, but he was such a narcissistic loser he led a violent coup of morons?

But now America’s GOP Congressmen are obsessed with Bud Light cans, NCAA rules, and infighting over their speaker. Ts and Ps on your brain injury.

 

[Pawkhawk1]

Guys, let's not derail this thread. Please.
I like this thread.
Thank you!

 

[83Hawk]

Remember when the last President broke up a pandemic team and then scoffed at thousands dying of COVID, then said it would probably go away like an Easter miracle, then our economy tanked, over 1 million Americans died? Oh, and also he instituted massive tax breaks for the wealthy and ballooned our national debt at a pace not seen before or since? Or how he kept telling us he had the best people but his administration was a revolving door of corruption that ran so rampant that he had over 20 convicted of felonies in his administration (before himself)? Or how as divider-in-Chief he inflamed tensions across this country ultimately ending in his electoral defeat, but he was such a narcissistic loser he led a violent coup of morons?

But now America’s GOP Congressmen are obsessed with Bud Light cans, NCAA rules, and infighting over their speaker. Ts and Ps on your brain injury.

Take the political crap to the off topic board.

 

[Georgia_Hawk]

Clark generally has 2 types of turnovers. Those where she is trying to make something happen (which are the ones where the recipients often deserve half the blame). And those where she is lazy in protecting her dribbling or lazy on the passes out of the double teams. She does need to work on reducing the 2nd type (I am confident that she will)

 

[kceasthawk]

I’m not sure why we’re not suiting up Sheryl Swoopes and Maya Moore, since they’re legends too.

Lolol.. I get your point, but Swoopes couldn't get her fat A-- out of her warm up suit and down the floor even once.....

 

[kceasthawk]

well.. if Taurasi is still getting lots of All Star Votes.. its hard to argue she doesn't belong

I see what you did there, (since she's not). Well played....

 

[DewHawk]

Take the political crap to the off topic board.

menace suckeyes is a woke idiot

 

[SoonerBeAHawk]

Hey, let's recognize and give a nod to the Fever's esteemed opponent today and their rookie phenom:

 

[SoonerBeAHawk]

The TV announcer actually said that the southeastern part of the country has a huge amount of women’s basketball fans and the Dream are the premiere women’s team in the southeast, so it was good they moved the game to a larger arena so all those fans could get a chance to see the Dream play….bwahaha.

Somewhere I read where the Atlanta Dream organization itself was promoting the fact that they led the league last year in sellouts. I thought that was pretty funny. Hopefully they were trying to be a tad cheeky 🤣.