Time for a Real Discussion About Caitlin Clark
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She is third all time in turnovers for NCAA women's division one at 639 TO's for her college career. This is no aberration and should have been a cause for concern for the Fever. Iowa fans absolutely dismissed the issue and the Fever chose to ignore the trait as well...now to their own peril.
Her production more than made up for the turnovers at the college level. Iowa got back to back title games without really having a loaded roster.
It is a question mark at next level though. Limiting the turnovers will probably reduce points/assists.
Luka Doncic was easily #1 in NBA in scoring/assists/points created, so it doesn't matter that he also lead the league with 4 turnovers a game. The guy is directly creating well over 50 points a game, 4 turnovers on that is a great deal.
They wanted ticket sales so they didn’t fully care.
That screen that Stewart set on CC was incredible. Clark got destroyed! Goes to show she doesn’t have the physicality for the league.
lol…. Frickin awesome LOVE the lil “ palms up” gesture.. classic cc move…. “ back at ya b***h”
A legal screen is not what the Pistons did to MJ come on haha.
It'll be interesting to see how she adjusts and what her TO numbers (current avg 7 per game) look like against regular teams when she's not going up against the best defenders in the league. She also needs to improve her shooting %. That said, her current avgs of 17 ppg, 6 asst and 4 rebounds against two of the best teams and defenses in the league is pretty solid.
She turned it over a lot in college against very average players... I'm not sure that she's going to solve that issue in the WNBA? But I guess we'll see?
It's still VERY early in her career obviously, so I'm sure she'll be fine... but I think we can tell from the short sample so far that she's likely going to go down as just another great WNBA player... but not the best ever... or the GOAT, etc, etc. She will just be on the level of all the other really good WNBA players in history. She was WAY overrated coming in. Her game is very limited.
She's always tried forcing passes that aren't there or the passing lane closes faster than she thought or she overthrows her teammate. That's where she's going to need to adjust her game. She's still making really nice passes in the half court offense, she needs to rein in the long passes in transition IMO.
Cc looks like a person who spent 4 years being told jogging back on D while yapping at the refs is ok.
Whether or not she's been taught that or not.. she definitely does it.. WAY too much.
It's why I've always said that I would not want my daughter to imitate many aspects of CC's game. The not getting back on defense, the constant pouting and whining, and faking injuries are the main things. I would also have them work a lot more on developing a mid range game too. It's pretty evident watching CC that she practices chucking Steph Curry 3's most of the time. Her game consists of really long amazing 3's, and layups... that's it. Have you ever seen her post up a smaller guard? Or pull up on the break and hit a 15 ft jumper? I can't remember ever seeing her hit a shot between a layup and a 3.
I guess people are now maybe noticing there are several great players in the league, but CC will always be the leader in hype.
