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Message: [QUOTE="BigTenGuy, post: 4912373, member: 12979"] "Efficiency issues" Clark's freshman year? I have seen this take elsewhere as well, and can't figure it out. Guess it's just part of the anti-Clark sentiment. Not sure how an effective field goal percentage of 57.4% (ranking in the 96th percentile) can count as having efficiency issues, let alone the same efficiency issues as Watkins, with her 44.9% effective field goal percentage (ranking in the 48th percentile).. Clark's a high-volume turnover player, but the Watkins turnover comparison seems incomplete. Clark had a 1.49 assist-to-turnover ratio her freshman. A solid, not great figure, and not too far south of Hidalgo at 1.61. Watkins is at .77, meaning more turnovers than assists. That is a pitiful figure for a guard with high utilization, and not comparable to either Clark or Hidalgo, let alone Paige at well over 2. [TABLE] [TR] [TD]SEASON[/TD] [TD]PLAYER[/TD] [TD]TEAM[/TD] [TD]PTS[/TD] [TD]EFG%[/TD] [TD]AST/TOV[/TD] [TD]AST[/TD] [TD]TOV[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]2020-21[/TD] [TD]Paige Bueckers[/TD] [TD]UConn[/TD] [TD]20[/TD] [TD]59.9%[/TD] [TD]2.3[/TD] [TD]5.8[/TD] [TD]2.5[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]2020-21[/TD] [TD]Caitlin Clark[/TD] [TD]Iowa[/TD] [TD]26.6[/TD] [TD]57.4%[/TD] [TD]1.49[/TD] [TD]7.1[/TD] [TD]4.8[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]2023-24[/TD] [TD]Hannah Hidalgo[/TD] [TD]Notre Dame[/TD] [TD]23.3[/TD] [TD]49.5%[/TD] [TD]1.61[/TD] [TD]5.5[/TD] [TD]3.4[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]2023-24[/TD] [TD]JuJu Watkins[/TD] [TD]Southern Cal[/TD] [TD]27.0[/TD] [TD]44.9%[/TD] [TD]0.77[/TD] [TD]3.2[/TD] [TD]4.2[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Also, her freshman year, Clark was 1st Team AA by USBWA (5 player) and WBCA AA (10 player). She was also 2nd Team AA by AP (5 player). Those are the three AA teams the NCAA uses to determine unanimous AA. So if WBB had a consensus 1st-Team AA, Clark would have made it, but not unanimous AA. [/QUOTE]

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