They can share an Uber with Jrue Holiday back to Charles de Gaulle Airport.
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True, but she has so much experience. She has countless memories of playing against opponents who have long since retired.
Hey, knock it off. She had zero turnovers in the face of the incredible international defense. That is way more important than creating points for the team.
Just watch the Staley video it addresses it all
And yet, she outplayed CC in the WNBA All Star game...
🤷♂️
Weird how 25,884 people watched this game, even though CC isn't there...
I saw quite a few Iowa jerseys in the crowd, who probably bought tickets a year ago hoping she’d be playing.
And, btw, the All-Star game stats are the least meaningful criteria for her selection, which had already been made.
If you watch this team, they are missing a point guard. They are trying to do it with Plum and Ionescu, because Taurasi has been so bad.
I’m guessing a few of those fans were rooting for Germany. I don’t know if you’re a geography buff or not….
CC had more points and assists in one exhibition game against the best team in the world than DT has so far in three Olympic games combined.
I'm sure they were.
As well as loads of Team USA fans.
Pretty much a sellout, for a daytime game vs. the 9PM starts for the US's other games (and any other 9PM games France isn't involved in)
And yet, Taurasi outplayed CC head-to-head in the AS game.
CC certainly deserved to be on the team. Reese could have a legit claim; any of the WNBA All Stars could, as well.
A lot of players are more deserving of that spot than DT. That's been my primary point throughout this discussion. At this point you could literally draw the name of any WNBA starter out of a hat and get more production.
It insults my intelligence when USA Basketball claims they left CC off the team because their singular objective is to field the best team to win a gold medal. That's clearly a lie because DT being on the team is nothing more than letting a 42-year-old veteran collect one last gold medal before she retires.
I don't know why people continue to do this, you're not going to get the last word. That's been proven time and time again.
Because it’s entertaining. You never really know what JP is going to do next in his defense of the indefensible.
If I had given up three pages ago then I would have missed out on him attributing a completely fake quote to me and claiming that the reason only 13,000 spectators showed up to watch USA vs Japan is because the 9:00 game was past France’s bedtime.
25,884 attended the USA "daytime game", Cletus.
Why don't you post what all the game attendances are, so we can see the trends.
Why don't you defend his 9PM game-time comment w/ some data, then?
Only USA game so far (I'm aware of) at a daytime slot was Germany, and it seems as though attendance was at or near capacity
"The United States women's basketball team doesn't need Caitlin Clark in order to be dominant at the Paris Olympics, but the No. 1 pick could've helped them sell tickets.
According to Juliet Macur of the New York Times, this weekend's game between the United States and Germany isn't exactly a hot ticket.
The Olympics has a "special offer" available where fans can grab tickets to this Sunday's game for just 24 Euros. In theory, fans can sit near the first row for that price.
"Paris 2024 is having trouble selling tickets to the US-Germany women’s basketball game on Aug. 4. ‘Special offer’ tickets now available: only 24 Euros each and the seats can be anywhere in the venue. Maybe front row," Macur wrote on X. "Would’ve been a sellout with Caitlin Clark on the team."
This isn't a great look for Team USA's marketability, especially after it had low attendance numbers for its opener against Japan.
It was previously reported that just over 13,000 fans attended this week's game between the United States and Japan. For comparison's sake, Spain and China had over 27,000 fans at their game. "
https://thespun.com/wnba/olympics-a...kets-to-united-states-womens-basketball-games
According to Juliet Macur of the New York Times, this weekend's game between the United States and Germany isn't exactly a hot ticket.
The Olympics has a "special offer" available where fans can grab tickets to this Sunday's game for just 24 Euros. In theory, fans can sit near the first row for that price.
"Paris 2024 is having trouble selling tickets to the US-Germany women’s basketball game on Aug. 4. ‘Special offer’ tickets now available: only 24 Euros each and the seats can be anywhere in the venue. Maybe front row," Macur wrote on X. "Would’ve been a sellout with Caitlin Clark on the team."
This isn't a great look for Team USA's marketability, especially after it had low attendance numbers for its opener against Japan.
It was previously reported that just over 13,000 fans attended this week's game between the United States and Japan. For comparison's sake, Spain and China had over 27,000 fans at their game. "
https://thespun.com/wnba/olympics-a...kets-to-united-states-womens-basketball-games
Someone else posted attendance figures and you dismissed them because you don’t trust Twitter. If you first acknowledge that USA/Japan was the lowest attended game in any time slot so far in these Olympics then I’ll post the attendance figures for every game using ESPN as the source.
Someone else posted the 9PM game number, which are the "outliers"
Other two Team USA games have had >25k fans (look them up).
Caitlin Clark isn't helping sell tickets to Belgium vs. Brazil.
Whoever had ‘bring up a game that was well past the cutoff for selection’
As Joes next deflection can pick up their prize at the customer service desk.
This starts the next contest to see where he will attempt to go because his premise doesn’t stand up well.
Reminder, these are off the board
What coach Staley said
Experience
Fouls
Assist to turnover
9 PM
Attendance
What’s rowing doing to grow the sport
And All Star game
Need a ruling on Arike was more deserving than CC
Waiting for him to tie it to BPA soon.
As Joes next deflection can pick up their prize at the customer service desk.
This starts the next contest to see where he will attempt to go because his premise doesn’t stand up well.
Reminder, these are off the board
What coach Staley said
Experience
Fouls
Assist to turnover
9 PM
Attendance
What’s rowing doing to grow the sport
And All Star game
Need a ruling on Arike was more deserving than CC
Waiting for him to tie it to BPA soon.
Again: show us the numbers.
US has had high draws in regular daytime games. Late evening times have had poorer attendance, which you can look up, if you like.
In fact, it looks like the Olympics says women's BB may be on pace for record overall attendance. You can look that up, too.
Paris Olympics basketball attendance might reach record numbers
Following the finale of the first stage of the Olympic Basketball Tournament, held at Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille, FIBA published the overall attendance numbers.
basketnews.com
Celebration of women's basketball continues with record-breaking crowds
The amazing crowds in Lille have set new record highs for women's basketball games in Europe.
Serbia vs. Puetro Rico had a bigger 9 PM game time attendance than USA vs. Japan did.
https://brobible.com/sports/article/caitlin-clark-team-usa-olympics-women-basketball-attendance/
It is the cheapest USA ticket of the main sports.
https://www.sportscasting.com/news/team-usa-ticket-prices-2024-paris-olympics-schedule-cost/
That’s only because Serbians have a reputation for staying up late, sometimes as late as midnight on special occasions.
Not by much.
And the WBB fans who stayed up late to watch that one firsthand may have decided it wasn't such a great idea when they missed AM events the next day.
You seem to have no answer for the 25k+ fans that have watched the non-9PM games. Or the overall records being broken.
| Team | Game | Date |
| |
| Basketball — Women | Japan vs. Team USA | 7/29 | $86 | |
| Basketball — Women | Belgium vs. Team USA | 8/1 | $67 | |
| Basketball — Women | Germany vs. Team USA | 8/4 | $66 |
I’m trying to make sure I understand your point here. You’re saying that people can’t attend 9pm basketball games because it makes them too sleepy the next morning and they miss other events. But they are perfectly willing to miss those other AM events by attending daytime basketball games?
Is that your argument?
Americans traveling to France for the Olympics are jetlagged by 6-10 hours. For Japanese, it's worse
They're feeling that during the earliest days they are there.
US's first game was 9PM, against a weaker opponent. No one (aside from fans of those two teams) was all that interested in going (Caitlin Clark, or not).
Next opponent was also 9 PM; that was a nearly 26k crowd attendance against a "home team". Belgians showed up.
Next opponent was an earlier game; again, nearly 26k crowd.
You think jet-lagged Americans and Japanese are going to flock to a very late game (early in the Olympics), when they already feel like shit? Or don't you know what jet-lag is like?
Clark isn't the "draw" you think she is for the international circuit. Maybe in 4 years, she will be.
We've now moved on to the jet lag part of the argument
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