USA Today: Caitlin will not be selected for Olympic Women's Basketball Team

[doughuddl2]

They also put Chelsea Gray on the team and she hasn’t played in 8 months, so she’s not one of the 12 best either because no one knows how she will be after the injury.

Correction, she has 5 pts in her first 2 games back. World on 🔥.

 

[BioHawk]

Multiple people involved with selecting the team have actually said that

Well, now they do, but that's not what they said first. Sometimes you only get one opportunity to explain yourself.

 

[Bro D]

Well, now they do, but that's not what they said first. Sometimes you only get one opportunity to explain yourself.

They messed up, plain and simple. Replacing Griner and Gray with clark and Arike made the most sense. Get DT her precious 6th gold while passing the torch to CC would have made for good TV.. but we know the wnba doesn't make the best decisions and DTs crusty old ass probably wouldn't want that either.

CCs play clearly deserves it. Her marketability puts it over the top. Still a mind-boggling decision and one that's going to look worse and worse as the season goes on

 

[BioHawk]

They messed up, plain and simple. Replacing Griner and Gray with clark and Arike made the most sense. Get DT her precious 6th gold while passing the torch to CC would have made for good TV.. but we know the wnba doesn't make the best decisions and DTs crusty old ass probably wouldn't want that either.

CCs play clearly deserves it. Her marketability puts it over the top. Still a mind-boggling decision and one that's going to look worse and worse as the season goes on

I blame DT and the old guard more than USA basketball. I'm almost positive USA Basketball took input from them and all of them basically black balled her off the team. Basically, all that talk about growing the game and getting paid more was complete bullshit if they weren't the ones doing it. But, USA Basketball just wants a team that will win and if putting Clark on the team is going to make everyone else suck then you keep her off the team. It speaks a lot to the maturity and professionalism of those players that they would let that happen but here we are.

 

[VodkaSam]

We took the 12 best players…well, other than Diana Taurasi, she’s a legacy pick. Oh, and Chelsea Gray, she made it based on the previous few years. Oh, and Britney Griner, she also made it based on past performance. But other than that, we took the 12 best players.

Yep…picks were not based on merit. Just more of the same “ Old girls club” favoritism.

 

[Mister_Man]

My god. So Bobby Knight shouldn't have had MJ on his team.

 

[Tylerl_28]

Clark chose U of I over her country when she turned down in invite to training camp.
Not sure why people are then whining when she is not selected for the team.

 

[Franisdaman]