What do you think of Caitlin Clark?
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this is seriously one of the DUMBEST takes this message board has ever had. Probably going to get banned for saying this, but come on... this is such a whiney little baby take about it. Clark is a good player - you can chose not to like her because she's a hawkeye, but saying she's not doing anything for the sport is just being dismissive of the last year of women's basketball. Grow up.
What exactly is she doing for the sport?
She's fun to watch and can score 30 with her eyes closed but is what she's doing now going to matter in 5 years? Is women's basketball going to have huge ratings and the WNBA going to be able to stand on its own?
Lobo, Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie etc. seemed to be generational type talents that really elevated things. Will Clark do the same?
What the **** are you talking about? Caitlin Clark is just as hot as Olivia Dunne, you dumb ************
Don't forget that hawk journalist who said she's better than MJ. LoL
She’s bringing some eyes but evidence shows those eyes will turn away when she’s gone (see Ionescu for example). I love when WBB gets attention, but I’m a firm believer that she’s very cocky and takes away from what the TEAM accomplished this year.
Yes, elite player, but there are elite players every few years, what exactly makes her standout performance so much bigger for the sport than those before her? She isn’t the second coming of Christ and savior of all things WBB like many try to make her seem like.
Keep digging that hole. Maybe you can make it on Message Board Geniuses twice in 24 hours.
The information that someone shared earlier showed that Oregon attendance is still nearly 4x as high as it was before Ionescu was there.
Some eyes will likely turn away. There will also be new fans that will remain.
Of course she's not the second coming of Christ, that specifically is an absurd comment. She is elite and plays a unique style / pace and handles it with aplomb.
She’s the best thing that ever happened to Iowa wbb. No doubt a generational talent in college wbb. But that only lasts so long. No one cares about the wnba. So she better make the best of her college years. I personally don’t watch and don’t care. Hawkeye fans and the media go way over the top, but cyclone fans would be in the same boat if she were at ISU. I rarely even watch ISU wbb play and don’t care whether they win or not, so I’m definitely not tuning in to watch iowa play. It’s ok if some fans do not care about women’s sports.
Sorry but I think you're trying a little too hard to downplay what she did.
- only player in WBB NCAA tourney history to record back-to-back 40-point games
- first WBB player to score 1,000 points and 300 assists in a season
- most points ever in a women's NCAA tourney semifinal (41), against a pretty good South Carolina team
- most 3-pointers in a women's NCAA championship game ever (8)
- most assists in a women's NCAA tourney (60) beating the previous record by 10
- she scored or assisted on ALL 18 of Iowa's 4th quarter points in the win over South Carolina
- drew 9.9 million viewers for title game, peaking at 12.6 million; the previous year drew 4.9 million
- praised by Lebron, Magic, Curry, Mahomes and others
I do think some of her on-court antics are off-putting, never been a fan of trash talk. But to downplay the impact of her season and tourney and try saying it's no different from other WBB stars who've come and gone misses the mark IMO.
Fair. Like I said, she is elite and it shows. I don’t like the antics and showboating so naturally lump the good with the bad, maybe unfairly so.
I predict that we won't have to wait until Clark is gone to see a significant decline in attendance in Iowa City. If they end up in the middle of the Big 10 pack, lots of their "fans" won't show up this year. It was the big wins and front-running status, not just the dramatic play of Clark that brought their band-wagon fans to Carver-Hokeye Arena.
Not even as hot as Angel Reese.
I'll respectfully disagree on that one. They'll ride the Clark train till she graduates then drop off in about 3 yrs. She is their generational gunner. The range of her shooting is entertaining if your a hawk fan.
I hope you're right though.
My personal info has been posted and already receiving threatening emails. That hasn’t happened in several years. When the post has been seen 400,000 times, it’s pretty personal.
This year sucked enough with 2 strokes, a heart attack, 2 months of mental health leave, 42 doctor appointments, etc.
This year sucked enough with 2 strokes, a heart attack, 2 months of mental health leave, 42 doctor appointments, etc.
You cannot possibly be this stupid lol.
The men's tournament always does well, it is an event on its own, the teams barely matter. The women's tournament doing as well as it did is a massive outlier and it's largely because of her. It was almost double what the next highest rated title game of all time did. She is a big national star, I am sorry this hurts your feelings because you don't like the shirt she plays in
Not surprisingly the Iowa fan doxing me is on the Iowa Sex Offender Registry.
Lascivious acts with a child…
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