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If I had any doubt before, now I know you've got tongue planted firmly in cheek...
5 Reasons UConn has Improved
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It's really machs nich
It's really macht nichts, but the UConn website lists her as a forward.
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Stewie,DT,and Maya I can see.CC is much better than the rest you mentioned and by far not even debateable..how many championships would Clark have if she played with other AA's like those 3 played with
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Zero, if you mean she'd take Stewie's place, or Diana's or Maya's. She has yet to show she can consistently play with other greats. She is great in her own way. But that's not the same as lifting a team to a championship.
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I agree with Bone Dog. Clark would win zero championships because she hasn't proven she can play with other great players.
There isn't a single player I listed who I wouldn't take over Clark...
The other great thing about those Uconn players is that they checked their egos at the door when they all arrived at Uconn. Everyone of them have something that Clark does not have.
The ability to learn that basketball is a team sport.
Even Michael Jordan realized this but it took him 7 years in the NBA to start winning championships. For the first 6 years, Jordan would score 60 and lose.
There were several reasons why Geno didn't recruit Clark too. Of course the obvious one is that Paige and Clark played the same position...
But there were other reasons Geno passed on Clark. Immaturity was a big factor.
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When has she had an opportunity to play with a team remotely close to the teams those players you mentioned played with? Are you seriously claiming that if she had had Stewie, Mo, KML, Morgan, Gabby, Kiah, and Kia on her team they might not (definitely would have imo) have beaten South Carolina or LSU? How about Sue, Dee, Swin, etc.?
I’d say a career average of 8.2 assists per game says that she is a pretty good team player.
Geno didn’t recruit Clark because he had his eyes set on Paige for years.
I’m not here to carry water for Clark. As I’ve said before, I’m a Paige man but this ludicrous idea that Clark could be the 50th best player (presumably even lower if adding one more team’s players dropped her 30 places) is, as someone else said earlier in this thread, just silly. She is manifestly, one of the best college players ever and if she could ever play in a league that did not actively hate her and constantly attempt to injure her she would dominate there as well!
Finally, refresh my memory, which of those players you are lauding as being so much better than Clark, were picked up (from day one of their rookie season, assuming they were even drafted) by the opposing team’s best defender 94 feet from the basket? How many of them suffered routine cheap shots from other players virtually every game?
You clearly don’t care for her. That’s fine, but belittling a clearly great player because you don’t like her doesn’t change objective reality! By the way, I’m done here, but there are a lot of players on your list that would be second to Clark by virtually anyone choosing from a draft made up of that list + Clark! I suppose Indiana and all those teams that wished they were Indiana were all wrong. Not to mention all the analysts who ranked her as the #1 choice in her draft? Oh, and how about Kelsey Mitchell (a great player in her own right) who played for Indiana from 2018 and never even sniffed the playoffs until Clark arrived and played team basketball with her and the rest of the team and (voila!) made the Eastern Conference semifinals?
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"Geno didn't recruit Clark because he had his eyes on Paige "
True. But there is so much more to his not recruiting Clark. I didn't want to post any of that back story stuff here but you can do your research.... Clark wanted to be recruited by Uconn but there were some serious issues about her "temper tantrums" in high school.
Geno looked at her and didn't like what he heard apparently. Her high school coaches discussed this. She had a lot of outbursts and sarcastic remarks towards her own coaches... Not Uconn material.
Look it up. It's all there.
I don't hate Clark at all. I just think she is a media creation. Yes she is an excellent player but like I said before, Uconn had at least 20 players as good or better. So did many of Pats players.. How about Griner? How about Cheryl Mills? Both better than Clark.
On the BY, you are in danger with humor. It often doesn't work. Sarcasm almost never works.
I don't agree with everyone on your list, but you might as well through in Nika, you know, "get that #10 out of my face", and make it 16.
After last night's game here are my 5:
1) Kayleigh- She fits into this team perfectly. What a back up PG.
2) Serah- Although not looking like it last night, she is an offensive presence in the post.
3) Azzi is better.
4) Sarah is better.
5) KK has an offense now.
1) Kayleigh- She fits into this team perfectly. What a back up PG.
2) Serah- Although not looking like it last night, she is an offensive presence in the post.
3) Azzi is better.
4) Sarah is better.
5) KK has an offense now.