He's not going on a show to talk about a subject, a subject that is supposed to be his area of expertise.
Yeah, but it's not like she's going break out her phone and check it during this on air conversation, so though she's clearly wrong, I'm not that troubled by it. Now, the fact that she didn't retract this immediately afterward is a bad look.
The parallel I see is the recent Pivot podcast with Michael Porter Junior if anything. His misunderstanding of pay equity, along with comments that the women's game doesn't bring in fans or that the rims need to be lowered for the women's game was painful.
She actually lost 8 games during her freshman year due to COVID. Iowa only played 4 Out of Conference Games rather than the normal 12. Regardless she is still on pace to do it earlier than Plum.
This is a great point. It's a weird state of affairs in this new media world. I'm empathetic, as she is an all time great and has the sweat equity and time spent in the sport to seemingly have a voice. But at the same time to be that incorrect is strange, especially because I think she has an active role in wcbb media covering big 12 games. So it's a weird dichotomy. Everyone has their preference but id rather hear a fan\journalist who is invested talk about the game than a player who obviously knows the game of basketball but is not as obsessed. It's interesting.
It is incredulous that people are trying to make the whole topic of the conversation about the record. It was not, and it is not like we havent seen many journalist on the men's arena get facts like that incorrect once or twice in their professional lives or arguments. The bigger issue is that she was discussing the progression of Caitlyn and Angel Reese into the league and for some reason, no one is to critque (notice i did not say criticize) Caitlyn Clark or her game without it being considered some form of blasphemy. Swoopes was telling her truth, which is based in fact. Ionescu and Plum were supposed to be transformational, but neither were that in their fist year or two and that is exactly what Swoopes stated in her opinion. She is not the only pro that has stated this fact. Also, she will have to be able to guard the guards and wings without getting cooked, with no allowance for the hang in the paint zone she has bacially played all of her college career. Caitlyn maybe able to get to all star status with her talent and skillset, but this "she will be MVP level" her first year is a reach. All this worship, may turn into what we have seen in the NBA, where pros go out of their way to attack her game on the court because they have been told she is the best coming in, ala Lonzo Ball, and even this year with the Victor Weymbena treatment.
Ionescu was seriously hindered by ankle issues for at least her first 2 seasons as a pro.
Maybe to you, but others asked if she thought Swoopes didn't deserve to be corrected in response to your post. She clearly states that there was nothing wrong with that.
I disagree. The premise of Robinson’s point - it was simply getting a fact or two wrong - was off so her “context” seemed irrelevant to me. You can respond however you see fit as you did.
Clark will be the best player in the WNBA next year so maybe then Swoopes will waste time learning about her. Every team she plays is trying to do one thing, stop Caitlin Clark, and they are failing every night. She will do for the WNBA what Jordan did for the NBA and the ladies will finally be able to make some money playing BB.
, Davis fell short by 4 pts.
