1000% agree with this. She’s adjusting. No offense but 90% of you have never watched the WNBA. And that’s fine. But you expected her to come in at game 1 and dominate. Quit blaming the refs and everyone but CC. She’ll be fine. It a way bigger adjustment than most of you realized. She’s come a long way in 4 games. She’s got to quit getting stripped, and she’s got to play better defense. She never played it at Iowa. Last night was her best game yet. But she was still a -18 on the plus minus side.
Yes to many strips…yuck. And if they’re not calling it a foul then you’ve got to adjust.
The thing that is so cool about what we’re seeing here, and this ridiculous schedule has only multiplied it!
We are seeing CC and the league, changing and adapting in real time.
In the very first game against the suns, they chased her, grabbed her, chased her off her shot and wouldn’t let her do her traditional step back. But what really showed she could compete was the fact that she cowboyd up and took it hard to the rack a couple of times. That full court length dribble drive for a layup pretty much assuaged any doubts I was ever going to have about her struggling badly her first year. That showed me right there that her athleticism translated to the league. Everything else was going to be mental.
By this fourth Suns game, they knew she could get loose and get space and they we’re doing anything and everything they could to keep her from getting downhill which meant guarding her heavy, 35 foot from the hoop.
That girl from the Suns and no, I’m not going to look her name up, but she is a hellacious defender and CC had her on skates in that game multiple times!
And quite frankly, she could take her to the rack almost at will.
The nuance is really entertaining.
As far as her perimeter defense, it appears to me that the coach has allowed her to cheat inside to help on rebounding, but she could get out there quicker than she does.
