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Here is my long, overly self-indulgent, potentially boring take on
@CaitlinClark22
's popularity (mostly written for myself):
Let's accept that there are a LOT of variables contributing to Caitlin's success in driving women's basketball into the mainstream. Trying to isolate a
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Caitlin Clark is currently tied for 7th in the WNBA in total blocks, along with A'ja Wilson.
(This is not a joke)
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Wasn't until today that I realized why Caitlin Clark was so pissed during the tech.
That's contact with the body and obstructing her left arm as she tries to complete the between-the-legs dribble. Thomas doesn't even actually touch the ball at all on the turnover.
Can't miss
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Did I really watch Caitlin Clark lead an 8 point run against the Storm to tie it up with 5 minutes left only for Christie Sides to bench her for two minutes while that tie eroded into a 7 point deficit?
No I didn't, this is just a simple nightmare and I'm gonna wake up in 3,
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Seen so many comments about how Caitlin Clark's triple double has an asterisk because "her rebounds are always wide open." None seem to understand that this is directly tied to how lethal the Fever are in transition because of her.
Do they think she's just luckier than others?
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So, I want to talk about the reasons I'm still in the Caitlin Clark for Rookie of the Year camp, without trying to unfairly disparaging Angel, who is having an incredible season herself.
One of the biggest reasons I'm pushing for Clark (outside of personal Iowa bias) is that
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Clark is the tiny, fraying rope keeping me tuning in to the horrifying natural disaster that is Christie Sides.
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Remember the beginning of the season when critics were saying that Caitlin Clark didn't have the handle or athleticism to be a Point Guard in the WNBA?
Take a look at the Week 8
@StateFarm
’s Top Assists Leaderboard ⤵️
Caitlin Clark is back at No. 1 leading with 194 dimes
#StateFarmAssists
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Caitlin Clark is the greatest and most consequential Iowa Hawkeye athlete of all-time at this point, right?
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Caitlin Clark for 18 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists, and 4 steals.
She's gonna deserve someone else's Olympics slot by the time the games start and USA Basketball is gonna look idiotic.
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I still cannot fathom Christie Sides' brain. Indiana had cut the lead to single digits. Clark was starting to feel it. Carrington is in the locker room. And your instinct in this moment is... sit your 3 best players and allow Connecticut to go on a 5-7 point run?
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@bg0dly247
It can be true that she has a lot of work to do on TO's (and self-control with the refs), and that this particular call was bad and hugely influential to the outcome of the game.
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It must be a dream, because if it isn't, that would mean I also watched Christie Sides go back to playing Clark as a Shooting Guard for the first 2 miserable quarters of the game.
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@Trysta_Krick
They're picking her up at 94 feet, face-guarding, top-locking, and hard-hedging her on almost every possession and Sides hasn't even made her the primary ball handler.
There's some serious hazing energy from vets, for sure.
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@SwannMarcus89
"Hello comrades today we have 7 labors to complete so we will give each labor to each next worker in line and you will all be happy because then you all did the same number of labors and then you can go learn the flute"
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@BarstoolBigCat
Had to put my best friend of 14 years down a couple months ago. Leia was with me through my entire adult life, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Bears being fucking terrible over and over again. She would have loved Justin Fields. Hope Stella is doing well.
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As a huge
@IowaWBB
fan, I never thought I'd say this, but I absolutely NEED to see Grace Berger and Celeste Taylor in the game with Caitlin Clark.
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As of this moment, Clark is also tied for 6th in total steals, along with Brionna Jones, DeWanna Bonner, and Jewell Loyd.
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@dwcprodz
Iowa ranked 133 out of 133 FBS teams in offense last year. They scored 15 or fewer points 8 times, and were shut out 3 times.
Yet at the end of the regular season, they were 10-2 in a P5 conference. The previous best record for a 133rd offense in ANY conference was 4-8.
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I know some Bears fans thought Iowa fans were being ironic with their "TORY TAYLOR FOR HEISMAN" takes but.
Tory Taylor flipping field position.
He will be a game changer. Defense should feast.
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@WNBA
@Kia
@IndianaFever
If literally any other player in the league had put up these stats (along with her blocks/steals), they'd be PotM in the East. The lack of subtlety is almost as pathetic as the pettiness.
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@TheResIsOurs24
I didn't try to interpret anything. It's just impressive for a rookie PG to have the same number of blocks as A'ja freaking Wilson at any point in a season outside of the first game. Not meant to suggest she's a better defender.
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@SwannMarcus89
This is a 6 year-old-who's-just-learned-addition-and-subtraction's understanding of labor dynamics.
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Just fyi, this post was not meant to take shots at Alyssa Thomas, who's an MVP-caliber player.
And while I think this call contributed to the loss in a major way, it's true that Clark can't lose her cool like that regardless of the situation. I just wanted to know why this
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I'd like to thank my quick trigger finger the night of the WNBA draft.
@IndianaFever
#CaitlinClark
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Watching this Fever offense, it strikes me that Lisa Bluder is a hell of coach.
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@DavidEickholt
They aren't even making her a true 2. They want her playing off ball, then refuse to initiate anything for her away from the ball-handler. No off-ball screens, no cutting, no Boston looking for shooters from the post. The offense looks like random bankers playing a pick-up game.
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@dave_bfr
I'm telling you as an Iowa fan, the Tory Taylor worship, the shirts, the chants - they weren't being done ironically.
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@KamalaHQ
JD Vance is like if the Michael Dukakis tank photo came to life and had to relive that day over, and over, and over again for all eternity.
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@iamcoachval
The pass wasn't perfect, but it hit her in the hands. That's gotta end up as an assist, not a TO.
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@KohliZarik55959
Also bad, as was the 30-13 FT ratio. But I was mostly curious about what set Clark off to that degree. She's emotional and vocal during games, but she doesn't typically push it that far.
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@AmyEGardner
@cgjinks13
I'm not so much worried that Wayne County didn't certify the results, in a vacuum.
I'm worried that Wayne County will represent a seismic shift, giving permission to Republicans nation-wide to refuse certification and push for the legislative electors scenario.
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@KimmmBrulee
WNBA rules state that it's a foul if:
"...a player attempts to play an opponent from a position where she has no reasonable chance to perform without making contact with her opponent, the responsibility is on the player in this position."
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Here are the 3 possible outcomes of this possession and the default response from Caitlin Clark haters for each:
1. Hold on and turn the ball over (sad, another TO for Clark!)
3. Take a shot (trying to statpad to get her ppg up!)
4. Attempt an assist (trying to statpad for the
3 possession game under 15 seconds and Caitlin Clark tries to stat pad for an assist record😂😂
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@ErinKPeterson
@11AliveNews
@ChristieOnTV
I think I've slept maybe 3 hours since Tuesday. This might be the first time I've smiled during that period. Thank you.
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@rkrager8
Playstyle and the narrative of staying home and willing a nontraditional power to victory.
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@chloepeterson67
Completely independent of Clark being a 3 point specialist, does Sides not see how spacing issues are affecting Boston, specifically? She's really encouraging their best reliable spacer to move closer to the basket?
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The Christie Sides criticism is not simply a Caitlin Clark-stan thing.
Christie Sides had a 32% win percentage as an HC before Clark even got there (she's at 29% now). This is also her only HC experience.
Her year as an assistant in Atlanta, they won 39% of their games. As an
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To be transparent, while rewatching it looks like the Fever take her off to wipe something, maybe blood, off her jersey after a foul at 5:49.
But she's already sitting on the bench before play even resumes, and proceeds to sit until 3:13 left in the game.
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@revhowardarson
I'm sure all the 30-34 year-olds in America are just going through something.
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@adam_jacobi
Think it has a lot to do with playstyle and position. Jokic doesn't have one either, seems like it's a lot more common for Guards to get them.
That said, I expect she'll probably have one within the next 6 months assuming the W momentum continues.
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@SwannMarcus89
I remember reading that we were spending about $20 billion a year on air conditioning back when we were in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of those vital features Americans tend to take for granted - it's not an inexpensive novelty.
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@xbzpapi
@CaitlinClark22
I would encourage you to read the full post, either way, I wish you well.
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@cooley2012
@CaitlinClark22
I would encourage you to read it all, the overall assessment may surprise you. But I wish you well, regardless.
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@The3008Final
The Fever had just taken the lead and were leading when this happened. After this call and the transition foul, the Fever relinquished the lead and never regained it.
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@QueenEsther328
@TheResIsOurs24
I said total blocks. I did not say bpg. They each have 9, which is very impressive for a rookie PG! It does not mean she's a better defender, and I never suggested that it did.
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@iamcoachval
This is your definition of "at your feet?" It's a little behind, but it's also in stride and she barely needed to turn her upper torso. That's a catchable pass for college players, let alone professionals.
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@iamcoachval
I said it wasn't a perfect pass. If you're a professional basketball player, you're expected to hold on to balls that hit you in both hands. If you think that WNBA players can only be expected to catch picture perfect passes, your standards are low.
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Damn, Iowa, you gotta space some of this stuff out. Reacting to Kate Martin officially making the Aces, Lisa Bluder retiring, and Jan Jensen becoming head coach all within 2 hours involves waaaay too much emotional turbulence for a Monday.
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Anonymous poll of 130 NBA players. Caitlin being
#2
is absolutely insane.
And Angel and Juju on there too... WNBA needs to knock it out of the park this year and take advantage of the moment.
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@sarapickett09
@CaitlinClark22
Absolutely. It's already started. They may come for Caitlin, but they'll learn about so many other deserving stars as a result.
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@dwcprodz
Somehow whenever I see this clip posted it actually feels INADEQUATE to describe the Bears' luck, given the prior 4th-and-12 AND the successful 2 point conversion surrounding this play.
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@QueenEsther328
@TheResIsOurs24
What am I trying to do? Do you honestly think I'm trying to say she's a better defender than A'ja?? It's just a fun stat!
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@crampell
To be fair, I'm convinced that the only way to remain a part of Trump's administration at this point is to have your mind automatically convert everything that comes out of his mouth into the Charlie Brown teacher noise.
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@adamorgler
@NWSDesMoines
@NWSOmaha
That thing destroyed my entire hometown and nearly killed my parents.
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Kate Martin is going to have a long WNBA career (if she wants) before becoming one of the greatest basketball coaches of all-time.
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@JimMaisano
While SC is probably receiving the smallest ever proportional share of the overall post-tournament media coverage for a champ, they're also receiving a higher AGGREGATE level of coverage than any previous winner. Seems fair, since any story about ratings absolutely has to
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As far as the criticism that Angel Reese gets most of her rebounds from her own misses (z-bounds) - that's incorrect and should be called out.
Not that it never happens - she's going to crush the Z-bound record (27, she's at 21) - but they're only about 10% of her overall
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@ChaseDaniel
I tend to agree when the contact is incidental and doesn't affect the play. Not what happened here. Edwards basically does the splits and throws a shoulder, knocking Iowa's best perimeter defender out of the play. If UConn wins on that illegal screen, there's even MORE
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@Joeeyfetta
@CiscoMom11
@bg0dly247
There was a 30-13 FT disparity favoring the Sun and they shot a nearly identical number of 3's.
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@FilmBayona
@colintrevorrow
It takes supreme clarity of vision to risk moving a beloved franchise in this direction. If
#JurassicWorld
was a love letter to Spielberg,
#FallenKingdom
is sheer Crichton reverence. Incredibly well done, I can't stop smiling. Thank you.
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@KwistyWilkes
If it's incidental contact or it doesn't affect the outcome of the play at all, sure. But the only reason this was a turnover was Thomas literally prevented Clark from catching her own dribble by pinning her arm.
When a foul completely alters the outcome of a play, you can't
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@CyFanJohnny
@u_fullback
Player Efficiency Rating:
Clark: 43.9
Bueckers: 40.7
True Shooting%:
Clark: .616
Bueckers: .636
Wins Above Replacement:
Clark: 14.5
Bueckers: 13.4
Assist%:
Clark: 51.3
Bueckers: 24.1
Win Shares:
Clark: 13.0
Bueckers: 12.1
Usage%:
Clark: 40.3
Bueckers: 29.0
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@QueenEsther328
@TheResIsOurs24
She is currently 13th in BPG. It's not "misleading" to show a stat which says she's 7th when a different stat measuring the same variable says she's 13th. And it's not the result of 1 game.
By your definition, ANY stat is misleading lest the players play the exact same position,
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@_talkswithtj
Ah, I yearn for the days of Iowa fans being called bandwagoners because we "only followed college WBB because we had Naismith winner Megan Gustafson."
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I was and am looking forward to the pairing of Caitlin Clark with Aliyah Boston, but Boston has seemed pretty gassed in the preseason, so I looked at team pace stats.
The Fever ranked 11 out of 12 in pace last year. In Boston's last two seasons at SC, their average pace was
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@barstoolsports
This system destroyed my entire hometown of 500 in Iowa and nearly killed my parents. I don't know how to help them, yet, but I'm sure Minden, Iowa will need some support, too. Please keep them in mind.
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Lol all this is missing is Sides explicitly telling Clark she should "try to be more like Kristy Wallace." This coach is an absolute menace. Not just incompetent, a legitimate detriment to her team.
Christie Sides: "We're spending too much time talking to the officials. We've got to leave that alone. We've got to just play our game and let them do their job and not put it in their hands... We shouldn't get technicals. Let me get the technicals."
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I don't wanna hear shit about these CC turnovers after this game. Borderline HS level hands on her teammates.
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@janecoaston
Looking at the comments in the original post, and the most bitter ones seem totally convinced that their antisocial grievances about sports are shared by most of the nation.
Like, the NFL is more popular than ever. So are college sports. Even the WNBA is exploding!
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@jonstewart
Zelenski has been extraordinary so far, but don't sell yourself short. Met you in Afghanistan, and I suspect you'd demonstrate some eloquent leadership capabilities as well.
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@postherhoops
Swoopes may be right. But given that she formed her opinion while believing Clark was a 25 year-old (she just turned 22) in her "5th or 6th" year (it's her 4th) taking 40 shots a game (averages under 20 a game through her career), if she is, it'll be purely by coincidence.
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@RebeccaLobo
@IndianaFever
@CaitlinClark22
@Kelz_Hoop
If it were a more established league with static ratings, I imagine she would. I doubt Clark is going to sit when the WNBA has a showcase against the reigning champs with her former teammate and best friend on the roster. Mitchell might.
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@Jay_3shifty
Think her defense will improve a lot without her having to initiate virtually everything on offense for 40 minutes a game and having to avoid fouls at all costs. She's got the size, speed, weight, and basketball IQ to be a decent defender.
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Christie Sides decided, at some point, that the best point guard on the team must be the 5'7" player with no vision and no shot, and not the girl who has limitless range and more assists than the rest of the team combined despite being used as a spot-up shooting guard.
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Also that look of absolute disgust on Shery Swoops' face is life-affirming😂
Y’all sayin it was a push off but idk, more like a love tap, Caitlin Clark is insane tho. And 1
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@walkesman
If "it happened fast" is a justification for missing calls, then 80% of calls in professional sports are a coin flip. The game is fast. Get refs who can process it quickly.
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@OsiUmenyiora
Yeah it's crazy how adding LeBron James* this year turned the 18-19 Lakers from a sub-.500 team that couldn't make the playoffs into a championship team.
*Anthony Davis
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@whitneybogard3
No? You said the take foul happened on a different possession with Carrington guarding. It didn't. I showed you a video proving it didn't. That's the very definition of "wrong."
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If you made a basketball movie and created a character that just does what Christie Sides does, the audience wouldn't be able to suspend their disbelief. The incompetence would be too much for them.
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