Really, really, really weird that this is a thing.
Rebecca Lobo Explains Why Caitlin Clark Didn't Make Olympics Roster
The Olympic gold medalist broke down Clark's absence on the Team USA roster.www.si.com
Caitlin Clark Snubbed
- Thread starter DDE-6-20-23
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I think Lobo’s take is the right one.
Most of this controversy is about ESPN trying to make everything controversial in some way, and the rest is that many are eager to inject politics into everything.
Clark peaked people’s interest in the whole league.
Why all of a sudden the increase in season ticket sales.
I am fine with Olympic team. But the younger players are building the brand. The older ones barely moved the needle with people. Many of those older stars including retired ones are better than Clark and Reese. But they still didn’t move the needle like Clark. Tauresi, Bird and others were white. I don’t think this excitement with Clark is about race.
I think it’s about race and logo 3s. If she scored all of her points the conventional way (regular 3s) I don’t think she’d be a phenomenon. And if she were black I don’t think you’d see thousands and thousands of little white girls standing in line, wearing her jersey and idolizing her. It would all be isolated to the basketball community, not the public at large.
I don't care either. Just making an observation.
Probably should have said black OR gay. The fact anyone even knows their sexual preference is weird. Who cares?
Brian Griner can go f*ck himself. So can anyone that sticks up for him and I have zero respect for any of that sickness. Just another in a long, long, line of liberal stupid sh!t. It never ends, gets worse, and needs to be stomped out and destroyed yesterday!
I have nothing against Caitlin Clark, but statistically, what makes her worthy of the Olympic team? She's 4th in the league in assists. And tied for 4th in the league in 3 pointers made.
www.espn.com
Why are right wingers so hung up on the most ridiculous things? I'm sure she'll eventually be an Olympian, but at this point, she simply doesn't make the cut because there are better players in the WNBA than her.
WNBA Player Stat Leaders, 2024 Regular Season - ESPN
The 2024 WNBA Regular Season Player stat leaders on ESPN. Includes stat leaders in every category from points and assists to rebounds and blocks.
Why are right wingers so hung up on the most ridiculous things? I'm sure she'll eventually be an Olympian, but at this point, she simply doesn't make the cut because there are better players in the WNBA than her.
Meanwhile, the Fever are in 2nd to last place in the league and Clark doesn't have the numbers to put her on the Olympic roster.
Do you want the US to win the gold medal or not? The best players should be on the roster. I remember the Jacksonville Jaguars fans saying "Sign Tebow! Fill the stadium!"
FAIL
I am not even close to a right winger and I think leaving her off the team was a stupid move by USAWBI have nothing against Caitlin Clark, but statistically, what makes her worthy of the Olympic team? She's 4th in the league in assists. And tied for 4th in the league in 3 pointers made.
WNBA Player Stat Leaders, 2024 Regular Season - ESPN
The 2024 WNBA Regular Season Player stat leaders on ESPN. Includes stat leaders in every category from points and assists to rebounds and blocks.
Why are right wingers so hung up on the most ridiculous things? I'm sure she'll eventually be an Olympian, but at this point, she simply doesn't make the cut because there are better players in the WNBA than her.
It never ends because people like you make it pop up in places it doesn't need to be.
Quick, now tell us how your apples are liberal.
Stupid for who, though?
Do you think she wants to be some token player to appease whatever publicity could be gained by it?
Of course she wanted to play. A 22 yr old with a chance to play in the Olympics? Please. She reportedly told her coach “hey coach they woke a monster.” And anyone that good inside doesn’t think she’d be a token player as evidenced by her quote.
This thread sullied the issue with politics. Growing a league and a sport few give a shit about is the topic. No different than how mls brings in washed up players who are household names vs younger guys in their prime that no one has heard of but would cost the same and be an upgrade in quality
Name recognition brings viewers
Thanks your MAGA buddy DDE...the thread STARTED with absurd politics.
She got off to a bad start on becoming a monster, her +/- was -30 yesterday. That is biblically bad. The coach, who appears even worse than a -30, got on the team for a lack of effort. On what I saw in the first half, that lack of hustle certainly included Clark. She also can't even pretend to guard anyone without fouling.
If she made the team and played junk minutes, would that make people happy? I am not sure it wouldn't hurt the sport if Mc cleared his night to watch the women's team play to see Clark and she played the last 19 seconds of a 48-point win.
She was psychologically broken from being snubbed. Devastated. A natural reaction 😉
MC ain’t watching that shit. But our law school buddy took his girls from Chicago to a fever game and the girls loaded up on her jerseys. They wouldn’t have gone save Clark. Those girls would tune in. Now I bet they don’t.
I played usisl soccer which at the time was the top professional league in the states. My guess is that if 4,000 people showed 3,000 were kids. They would put speakers at each corner flag and play Britney Spears during the game. And the usisl was massive. I can’t even remember how many damn teams there were. I played on two different ones and it was always the same crowd. Dad and four kids. Like my daughter bringing three friends. Tickets were cheap. Those kids today are mls season ticket holders. Stand alone spectacular stadiums all over the country. Messi.
Winning a game is smaller than building the game. Clark can help do that today. Her star will never be as bright as today
She's not good enough right now, and as good as she will be, it's not close. He's a high volume inefficient player who clearly, along with last year's #1 pick, isn't good enough to win consistently. You want to have a basketball discussion, start there.
If the selection committee and coaches didn't think she could earn minutes, then they shouldn't keep her.
I'm a big Clark fan because from the end of the 2023 season it was clear she was going to be a Fever. They were going to move heaven and earth to make sure of that. She's fun to watch, but she's not ready.
And the monster they 'awoke', laid a big fat f-ing egg last night vs. Connecticut. Again, it just means she's not ready. She will be soon, and I hope she has a Curry effect on the women's side.
This thread didn't sully the issue with politics. This thread was about 'politics' out of the gate and not even the politics of the sport.
I didn't respond to a post like he wanted. He's a victim, didn't you know?
Of course this is the most rational and reasoned post here. I don’t know enough about the selection process for the Olympic selection process to make an informed opinion, but given where Catturd and Dave Portnoy have come down on this I feel like what you’ve laid out is accurate.
Of all the well-known people on the internet they’re up there for being the dumbest. If they both came out with multiple posts with chest-beating rants about water being wet I’d spend some time independently verifying it and making sure something didn’t change overnight before agreeing with them.
I won’t pretend to know more than Lobo on this topic, but if anyone was snubbed it was Arike Ogunbowale.
Plenty of time to represent her country has nothing to do with growing the game. By the next Olympics she’ll be an afterthought. This college run and notoriety will be a distant memory.
She’s not cute in the least. Alex Morgan etc. as mark referenced so her sponsors will dwindle as well. Guaranteed
Leaving her off was bad business
All I did was point out your non sequitur to my point. You don't have the wherewithal to make me a victim via anything you say or do. Now, move the goalposts again in an attempt at a W.
If she turns out to be as good as people thinks she is she’ll be a start for 10-15 years. Steph Curry and Larry Bird aren’t exactly GQ models.
LOL
And why would she want to participate in what you were talking about is a legitimate follow up. You'll be OK, pookie.
She won’t garner the attention she did in college. Not near the audience etc. the novelty etc
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