To be honest, I donโt think she is cocky enough. Angel Reese is cocky, and has earned the right to be with the resume and body of work she has amassed in her four years in college. She is one of the most dominant and decorated players of a generation and delivered a national title to LSU when they had never won one before. And truth be told, I think the game is better when you have a dynamic personality like Angel Reese in it, itโs much more entertaining. If Caitlin Clark were just as cocky as Reese, it would be well deserved and well within her right. The fact that she hardly speaks at all from what we see tells me she isnโt as cocky as she could be. Lord knows if I were as good as any of these women at basketball, I would be unbearable on the court, and even to my detractors on social media.ย – Kam
NO! We are the same basketball fans that celebrate and laugh at Steph Curry’s shimmy & gallop down court after threes. We praise Kobe and Michael Jordan for their killer mentality and always wanting to smack talk. Heck, we compare Anthony Edwards to MJ because of it! We are the same fans that criticize players for being too friendly in basketball culture today. Caitlin Clark’s on-court gestures and confidence is what we ask for daily so why would we hold it against her. She’s competitive and she has earned the right to talk her talk because at the end day, you can’t stop her.ย – Zionย
Is it Because You Think She’s Overrated or Overhyped?
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I just don’t get how you can call her overrated. She just averaged 32-7-9 with every defense keying in on her. She’s a talent we’ve never seen before in the women’s game. She’s brought attention to the game like nobody else. Like Dawn Staley said, she’s one of the greatest to ever play. All the record-breaking television ratings included games revolving around Caitlin Clark. Sure, she doesn’t have a ring but that doesn’t away from what she’s done for the game and what she’s produced on the court.
I mean, she dropped 18 points in the first quarter of a national championship game against undefeated South Carolina. You’d think the discourse would be about her performance. Nope, most people were complaining that refs were blatantly favoring Iowa. Instead of uplifting a great performance, we are finding ways to belittle it.ย – Zion
I honestly think she is appropriately rated. Whether you think she is the GOAT is your own prerogative, but she has forced her way into the conversation and is not out of place. The NCAAโs all-time leading scorer for menโs and womenโs basketball as well as one of the greatest passers we have seen means she belongs in the conversation. Factor in that she took a program that had one Final Four appearance in their programs history before she arrived to two consecutive national championship games, itโs hard to see how you can slight her. She might not have won the national title, but you canโt say she isnโt a winner.
She defeated an undefeated South Carolina team in a Final Four, got even with the LSU team that beat her in the national title to advance to the Final Four this year, and then bested the player most directly compared to her in Paige Bueckers to reach the national championship this season. If you are trying to slight her and knock her down, I donโt understand it. If you recognize her greatness while also believing somebody like Breanna Stewart or Maya Moore or Sheryl Swoopes or Candance Parker is better, youโre not wrong at all.ย – Kam
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Mean people will bully the weak and hate the Rare. Caitlin Clark is a rare talent. People are tuning in because she is a phenom. But the old guard doesn’t like being upstaged. Caitlin Clark is elevating the sport like non-other. She has re…
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80% of the people who have an opinion never played organized sport’s. Initially, I wasn’t a fan of Caitlin Clark until I watched her games. If you look at her games you can tell she put the work in. 5am – 9pm work! work! work! If you can’t…
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What Caitlin has accomplished with inferior teammates could not have been accomplished by any of those who are considered GOATs. They all had stacked teams. Iโm just sayin.
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Iโm a 65+ SWF who loves all sports. For some reason she makes it hard for me to like her, but I love Kim Mulkey and the entire LSU team and I agree that the emphasis on womenโs college basketball has exploded this year. Iโve been watching …
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I actually agree with Lynette Woodard. Comparing eras is like apples and oranges. There were no 3 pointers when she played and they played with the same sized basketball as the men. Today women play with a smaller ball so the chances of ma…
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All was well when Angel Reese was hated by it seems every white person in America for repeating what Clark started. Give me a break , I take nothing from Clark she is a gifted player. To all you haters of Angel Reese remember that โIt ainโ…
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Women are the biggest critics of other women.
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Welp, Swoopes was wrong. She apologized. Taurasi stated her opinion and did not make a threat. Stewie, again just her opinion, but with all her โships I give her a pass. Lynette should not have backtracked. She should have been consistent …
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Itโs because of her acting like a victim when she ran into that fan. Multi million dollar athlete. Acting like she was assaulted by a kid. She was running in a direction she wasnโt looking and acted like a fool in the presser after the gam…
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If that is your legitimate reason for not liking her, thank you you really didn’t like and/or respect her that much to begin with.
Fans should not be on the court when athletes are present; that cow could have taken out Shaq.
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Stop saying she broke Maravichโs record. She didnโt play in the menโs division of NCAA basketball. There are no intergender sports records.
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