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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 4897092, member: 1673"] To answer your question, I don’t think Iowa makes the FF without Clark last year. However, last year Iowa shot about 51% collectively with Clark, 53% without her. If the team shot even 48% without Clark, still a good percentage, they don’t make the FF as well. True, Clark enabled her teammates to shoot better, but … To compare Clark’s Iowa, a major with a good coach, some previous success and teammates capable of collectively shooting 53% (a fantastic percentage!), to Bird’s Indiana State, a mid-major with no modicum of previous success or real talent, is quite the stretch. Bird then took a paltry 20 win Celtic team and doubled their wins in his first season, then led them to a championship in his second season. I believe the only WNBA player who caused a remotely similar turnaround is M. Moore with the annually underachieving Lynx (getting Reeves as a coach helped). I pledge that if Clark causes that type of turnaround as well I will come here and publicly announce my unwarranted skepticism. Please remind me to do so if I forget. [/QUOTE]