She is a hugely heralded rookie. Vets are going to make her prove herself. Happens to men as well. It's just there's more tendency to see white woman as fragile. Caitlin Clark is not fragile.
That's the thing about dishing it out to the whole league... There are more of them to dish it out to you. Play a respectful game and most people will play a respectful game with you. There will always be assholes. But if you ARE one of the assholes I don't have much sympathy for you.
She's not an asshole. She's just better than everybody else at embarrassing her opponent. She's cooking now and I love to see it. She has a great handle, great vision, and she has the most range of anyone in the league.
She can be all of that and still be an asshole. You don't two hand push a defender in the chest like that for just standing close to you unless you're an asshole. You don't do the other antics she does either unless you're an asshole. All of the other stuff you said can be true. She's definitely an asshole. Barkley was an asshole too. And he was one of my favorite players. But he didn't stoop to the childish crap like she does (walking into opponents and then flopping… etc). She is 100% a cheap asshole. She's also incredibly talented, and yes, she's cooking.
that two hand shove happens on basically every single out of bounds play in the NBA. how tf is that childish?
I didn't specifically say that was childish. Walking into players and then flopping like you were shot away from the ball to try to draw fouls. That's childish and cheap. Two hand shoving a defender who is just playing good defense is a cheap asshole thing to do. And it's fine. She's a grown woman and she can be a cheap childish asshole. And the rest of the league are grown women too. They can dish it right back. I don't feel the least bit sorry for her. *Edit* And no, I completely disagree with you about the two hand shove thing happening every game in the NBA. Not like that. That was nearly a punch.
That's fine. People will do it back. I always played the respectful game unless somebody played cheap with me. Then people didn't like playing me anymore. I promise you, I'll ratchet it up more than you will. And there are players in the league who are the same way. Again, these are adults. Shit happens in games. I don't feel the least bit sorry for anyone who plays cheap basketball like that. But she's killing it. And that's awesome. It's been great for the game. But don't expect the league to just let you disrespect them and not fight back.
Dude. I've seen women run into her back at near full speed. Now that is dirty and could cause an injury. Pushing off with your hands is part of the game although it can be a foul if it's too forceful. She reminds me of MJ when he entered the NBA. You had teams like the Pistons beating the shit out of him, and I think a similar thing is going on with her.
Yeah, and that was called a foul. It was a foul. She plays cheap as well. Played cheap all the way through college. I'm not going to feel bad for her. She asks for it as far as I can tell.
Yeah, nobody would really care if she wasn't any good. She'd be like that player who hit her in the back... Nobody knows her name or really even cares about her antics.
Oh absolutely. She's doing incredibly well. Just all the talk of people being harsh on her while she treats others the same way is kind of stupid. She plays dirty and that encourages others to play dirty with her.
WNBA hard its collective breath when Caitlin Clark rolled her ankle early in game against Atlanta and collapsed on court in obvious pain. Fortunately not serious. She was able to walk it off, got wrapped and back in court.
