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Five games of experience, lol.
Also, do you think this observation was accurate:
"She's just not built for the physicality of this league, and she's not quick enough to get away from the physicality."
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Also, do you think this observation was accurate:
"She's just not built for the physicality of this league, and she's not quick enough to get away from the physicality."
At the time that quote was made, she was getting pushed around and was not playing well vs physical play.
I watched the games; numbers back up the result.
Just as numerous league players claimed - 'she will need to adjust to the league'.
She needed to adjust. She has (but still struggles against aggressive defenses). She needs to cut down on the flopping down when fouled, because when a foul is not called, it leaves her teammates playing 4-on-5 while she complains to the officials and crowd.
You're letting me down Joe. I always have respected your opinion. Maybe stay away from sports threads?
Whenever I watch her games it’s clear she’s playing a different game than the others who are lumbering up and down the court, missing her passes and chucking up bricks.
Some of her passes are not good ones.
Go re-watch the last game and check the couple behind-the-back tries she made, that just weren't good.
Seems like most Iowa fans can only "remember" the good plays, and cannot acknowledge when she make bad ones.
Lexie Hull is Gabbie Marshall.
Another win; CC with a 22 point, 10 assist, 10 rebound night. Ho hum triple double.
No other rookie in the history of the WNBA has ever posted a triple double. Clark has done it twice. Great game for Aliyah Boston - 24 points and 14 boards. Indiana needs her playing at a high level in the playoffs.
Joe might be the only person on here that I would actually go to the fight bar for. Punchable attitude
WNBA T-Ds
For perspective, Thomas is in her 10th season.
She didn't record her first T-D until her 8th season.
- Alyssa Thomas: 10
- Sabrina Ionescu: 4
- Candace Parker: 3
- Chelsea Gray: 2
- Courtney Williams: 2
- Caitlin Clark: 2
For perspective, Thomas is in her 10th season.
She didn't record her first T-D until her 8th season.
2020 Olmpic basketball started July 24, 2021.
Final Four played before then April 4, 2021
111 days
‘Over a year’ Joe
Yet, 2024 was the shortest of all of them.
So, go complain to the Olympic Committee if you want.
Ask them what their schedule limitations are.
CC did not try out. Period.
Her play into June was nowhere close to what it is today. That's not remotely debatable.
Weird how none of those happened before June 10th....
Almost like she took her game up a notch or two since the Olympic "snub" and after the break....
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What a magical burst of physicality she has had in 3 months!
lol.
Phucking triple double tonight - only the second time a rookie has done it - and the other rookie is also the player without enough physicality to handle the WNBA.
You and Geno can both go eat a big bag o’ dicks 😂😂😂
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Nah.
No one punches the dumb drunk at the bar trying to defend an indefensible position because his ego is fragile.
You point and laugh and maybe buy them another drink.
Here ya go, Joe:
🍺
If you track her numbers, her play is nearly 2x better recently than it was into June.
Go back and look at the graphs. She's been making the adjustments she's needed to, to compete.
That's not a "dig"; that's a fact and an impressive one. Most 1st year players do not make those adjustments that quickly and take a year or more in the league.
And none of them ‘almost a month’
Better talk to the poster who went with ‘almost a month’ maybe Nate Silver or Dawn Staley can help that poster with this.
I think it’s the same guy who is still looking for the 2020 final four dates
But nowhere near the month that you repeatedly claimed. But the best part is that it didn’t even matter. At all. Because the timeline that actually does matter is Final Four to the date they select the team.
They officially announced this year’s team on June 11. Taurasi was invited to join Team USA’s training camp in Colorado two days after UConn won the 2004 national championship and she was selected to the Olympic roster on May 12, before she ever played a game in the WNBA. Even though the Athens Olympics started a little later than the Paris Olympics, they announced the roster 30 days earlier than they did this year.
30 days. You know. An actual month.
Geno Auriemma held a special tryout camp just for Breanna Stewart. He had several members of Team USA fly to Connecticut to practice with her on the UConn campus in February 2016, in the middle of her senior season. She was officially added to the Olympic roster in April, shortly after completing her senior season and before she ever played a game in the WNBA.
That’s two months earlier than this year’s roster was announced. So nobody’s interested in listening to your horseshit about how the committee simply couldn’t figure out a way to let Clark tryout because they were just too doggone pressed for time.
If they were even a little bit interested in having the most prolific scorer in the history of Division 1 college basketball on the team then they could have moved the April camp back a few days until after the title game. But for whatever their reasons were, they simply didn’t want her on the team.
Now would you please just shut the fvck up? Some of us are trying to enjoy the Fever’s run to the playoffs and you’re being a dick just to be a dick.
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Yeah which had NOTHING to do with improving physicality.
Geno was full of shit and so are you.
And with that, I will no longer engage in this debate with you as you are the metaphorical inchoate inebriate at the end of the bar arguing for the sake of arguing and nothing more.
Is that the same graph that has the magical 9.1 point steal on it?
Actually, it does.
She's playing into much more contact and more aggressively (she would get called for fouls for this in NCAAs; not in WNBA)
Early season, she got that contact and she turned the ball over and complained to the refs.
She's also learned to keep her dribble alive longer, to draw the defense and get teammates open.
It is no coincidence that all of her 20-10 pts/assists games have occurred over the past 12 games vs her first 12 games. It's why her Game Efficiency metric running average is nearly 19 now vs barely above 10 early season. And that is why she's far more deserving for ROY talk than Reese is - her play is improving, Reese's is stagnant or dropping (but still good - just not game-changing good)
Clarks shooting percentages are also running much higher recently.
First 12 games she was >40% FG% just 4 times.
Last 12 games she's had 11 of them shooting >40% (looks like 6 of them, 50%+)
She puts up a full season of these kinds of numbers and that's MVP-level stuff.
It's just silly to pretend she was putting up these same numbers in the first dozen games, because it's simply not true.
I haven’t watched a ton, but I’d bet her great passes that her teammates flub outnumber her truly bad passes.
She’s just playing at a faster pace and can shoot. So many of them have zero touch and can barely get the ball to the basket.
2020 Final Four Champion was………?
You have almost a month to come up with it. See you in 12 days.
It has been a little surprising that professional basketball players miss that many open layups. CC even missed an open one today.
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