You're right, it was just like the championship game. She used up so much energy at the start of both games
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Angel Reese has a fg% of 41.8!!!! C’mon, man! That is just not good. She is a good rebounder.
Well, if it wasn't obvious before, perusing the sports channels today and on social media, the push is well under way to "keep" Angel Reese in the conversation for ROTY, with several using their platforms to name her as the leader at this point of the season.
Their reasonings may be severely flawed, but hey as long as they put Reese's name as the frontrunner, that's all that matters to the gullible casual masses.............
Their reasonings may be severely flawed, but hey as long as they put Reese's name as the frontrunner, that's all that matters to the gullible casual masses.............
Angel had a good game yesterday. If she had 10 more assists she would've been as good as Caitlin the previous day. That should tell you all you need to know.
Is 1.5 steals a big leap from the 1.4 that CC has? If so 0.8 blocks is a big jump from 0.4 blocks.
I found this amusing: "Based on the style of play and the caliber of finishing – or inability – of the WNBA in the paint, I would argue it’s much easier to get rebounds as a player of Angel Reese’s size and strength, than it is to get assists with girls who could not catch a cold buck naked in Antarctica."
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Jason Whitlock: WNBA Has Launched an Anti-Caitlin Clark Propaganda Campaign | FOX Sports Radio
Jason Whitlock of Blaze TV’s Fearless discusses the ‘anti-Caitlin Clark propaganda campaign’ the WNBA establishment is currently launching to once again publicly minimize the significance of Clark.
I thought the W was just incompetent but I don't know, they really might trying to actively undermine Caitlin. She is averaging 1.4 steals per game, virtually the same as AR, but they substitute her TOs for steals. Meanwhile, for a stat meaningful for a post player - blocks per game - Caitlin is averaging .8 as guard while AR is only averaging .4.
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I believe it was Stalin that said it doesn't matter who votes but who counts the votes.
when you throw in the dramatic increases in TV viewership & ticket sales, the vote should be a landslide.
People are idiots ... most of the folks on this board included.
Up 7 with 8 seconds left, AR calls for the ball so an Atlanta player can grab her and send her to the line for 2 shots. She made both tu get to 11.
I guess I never knew double doubles were such a big deal. It's remarkably lame for an opponent to assist you in breaking a record or continuing a streak. I'm guessing Joe D didn't get many 60mph fast balls on his way to 56.
I guess I never knew double doubles were such a big deal. It's remarkably lame for an opponent to assist you in breaking a record or continuing a streak. I'm guessing Joe D didn't get many 60mph fast balls on his way to 56.
If Clark consistently plays up to her ability over the second part of the season, she'll very likely win ROY. Reese is a valuable player inside, and double-doubles are fine, but she can't compete with Clark's multiple stat performance (points, assists, rebounds, steals, blocks). Clark will finish the season with a bunch of rookie records, and she may lead the league in assists. It will be difficult for the voters to not choose her.
Caitlin is currently top 15 in the WNBA in 4 of the 5 main statistics categories, and top 20 in the last category. But she is not "quite ready physically to perform at the highest level in the league", right Geno?
Points/gm - 13th
Assists/gm - 2nd
Steals/gm - 13th
Blocks/gm - 15th
Rebounds/gm - 19th
I'm even surprised by how well she has performed given the focus she gets from defenses. I might have hoped for top 20 or top 25 in points and assists her rookie year, but I never would have thought she'd be anywhere near top 20 in steals, blocks and rebounds. I've come to expect that she will get screwed over for ROY based upon an overemphasis of importance of her turnovers, and bs celebrating of a forward getting points/rebounds double doubles, but if she maintains or improves on these numbers, only an idiot can deny that she is not only the best rookie this year, but that she is having one of the all-time best rookie seasons in the history of the clown ass wnba.
Points/gm - 13th
Assists/gm - 2nd
Steals/gm - 13th
Blocks/gm - 15th
Rebounds/gm - 19th
I'm even surprised by how well she has performed given the focus she gets from defenses. I might have hoped for top 20 or top 25 in points and assists her rookie year, but I never would have thought she'd be anywhere near top 20 in steals, blocks and rebounds. I've come to expect that she will get screwed over for ROY based upon an overemphasis of importance of her turnovers, and bs celebrating of a forward getting points/rebounds double doubles, but if she maintains or improves on these numbers, only an idiot can deny that she is not only the best rookie this year, but that she is having one of the all-time best rookie seasons in the history of the clown ass wnba.
And her stats are trending up as she picks up steam with her teammates getting better at receiving and converting passes. More assists and less turnovers. I think she could pretty easily average double doubles with pts/assists from here on out.
Because Angel does things like today. That whole last 10 seconds of the Sky game were ridiculous. Keeping her shady but much talked about double double streak alive
You absolutely nailed it.
Angel was stuck on 9 points and 13 rebounds. Watch the video below & note the score and time left (15 seconds).
Chicago was up 7, had the ball, and 99.999% of the time the team leading would just dribble out the clock.
But no! As everyone can see, Angel was desperate, demanding the ball, and had to get that double double.
She got fouled, hit both FTs and ended up with 11 points & 13 rebounds.
What a joke, indeed.
You are so right about the trend line for CC. By way of example, before today's games, CC was behind Reese in each of the following advanced stats for the season:
PER-player efficiency rating, an advanced statistic to estimate the per minute value of a player from box score stats
PER*Minutes, an estimate of the total value created by a player in their minutes played with their per minute value estimated via PER.
Win Shares, an advanced statistic that approximates the total number of wins a player produces for their team through their play on the offensive and defensive ends of the court.
CC has been closing the gap on Reese, and passed her today in PER*minutes, while still being behind Reese in PER and Win Shares.
But I would pump the brakes on CC averaging a points/assists double double for the remaining 17 regular season games. I realize 17 games is a little less than half of a season, but only 2 players (Ticha Penicheiro and C. Vandersloot [6 times]) in the history of the WNBA have averaged 8 or more assists per game for a whole season. And only 1 player (1 time) has averaged 10 assists per game for a whole season. So 10 APG for the remaining 17 games is a pretty big ask.
Magic's comments related to the hazing he experienced when he joined the league ... and was comparing it to the hazing that Caitlin was experiencing.
Nothing Magic said was stupid ... pretty good comments, actually.
However, my reply before related to the fact that Sheryl certainly said stupid things before. So have many folks on these boards (myself included ... occasionally).
OMG, it looks like there is even more momentum to award it to AR.
www.espn.com
WNBA rookie rankings: How Angel Reese surged to No. 1
We're roughly halfway through the 2024 WNBA season, and rookie stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are making their mark. So where do they rank?
Espn is so blatant in trying to push an agenda.OMG, it looks like there is even more momentum to award it to AR.
WNBA rookie rankings: How Angel Reese surged to No. 1
We're roughly halfway through the 2024 WNBA season, and rookie stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are making their mark. So where do they rank?
The only reason Reese wins the ROY is race
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say CC has two more triple doubles this year.
OMG, it looks like there is even more momentum to award it to AR.
WNBA rookie rankings: How Angel Reese surged to No. 1
We're roughly halfway through the 2024 WNBA season, and rookie stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are making their mark. So where do they rank?
Click bait.
They want all of us crazy CC fans to get outraged and pay to read it.
ESPN knows there are a TON of us.
Perhaps. I already have an ESPN+ subscription so I guess I didn't realize it was a pay to read article.
Here is a chart plotting turnovers versus assists over time. As we can see, a rough start, but the separation between the two lines is really starting to separate in a positive way. Things are looking up to finish out the season...
It would be glorious if Clark fans all canceled their ESPN subscriptions in response to the garbage they continue put out.
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