Way Too Early Caitlin Clark Criticism

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Greetings my peeps and welcome to the All Things Basketball podcast with your boy GD.

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In this episode I'll be going through Caitlyn Clark.

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She's played two games already, one on the way.

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So I will talk about all the critique, the criticism from the fans, from a myriad of

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places.

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I'll give my analysis of what's going on with her and might squeeze in another few news items.

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So just sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

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Okay guys, this is your boy GD back with the All Things Basketball with GD podcast.

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I was going to hold off until the conference semifinals were finished but you know with

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all the WNBA talk now, all the things circulating as far as Caitlyn Clark goes, I said you

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know what, let me do an episode and kind of get some things off my chest in that regard.

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So here it is guys.

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So Caitlyn Clark, she has played two games already, one game on the road, her opener

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which she started in Connecticut playing the Connecticut Sun and then a couple of nights

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later she comes to Brooklyn.

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No I'm sorry.

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She goes and has a home game against the New York Liberty.

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So I will talk about that and then all the criticism and everything else.

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So her first game out.

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Of course she had the jitters and she even expressed so.

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And my new Connecticut Sun, one of the top teams in the East.

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Remember guys, she is actually in the Eastern Conference in the WNBA.

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So you have teams like Connecticut Sun, the New York Liberty, two of the top teams in

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the East.

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You also have there the Atlanta Dream, also the Chicago Sky is there and then the Washington

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Mystics.

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So that's your teams in that conference.

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So of course she's going to start out with teams within the conference and it just happens

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so happens to be.

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She faced the two top teams.

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And then remember guys, this schedule was put out well in advance right around I want to

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say around.

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It was just before or a little after the free agency period which starts like in February.

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So around January, February, around that time.

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So the schedule already laid out and and that's what it was.

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And this is before we even knew where she was going in terms of teams and all that.

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So once you set the schedule, that's it.

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That's what it is.

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Unless of course there's occasion, of course, we have the Indiana Pacers and the playoffs

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doing well.

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So things will get shifted around a little bit.

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But that's probably the only caveat in terms of moving the schedule and so forth.

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So I wanted to bring that up because it's why I'll talk about that later.

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But nonetheless, so those were her first two games against the Connecticut Sun.

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Here's her numbers.

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20 points.

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She did score.

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A lot of it kind of in garbage time.

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But her first basket was probably the easiest basket she'll get in the WNBA because you

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have to remember.

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Connecticut Sun is one of the top defenses in the league.

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And they have a number of players who has pretty good defensively.

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And she faced for the most part, DeGeney Carrington.

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DeGeney Carrington was a player from last year who was a runner up in the sixth person

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of the year coming off the bench.

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But now she's been installed as a starter now.

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Now that you had players being traded and you have another one retired as well.

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So she moves up the depth chart and now she's a starter.

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Which means she's being called upon to do a little bit more according to coach Stephanie

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White who I listened to her press conference where she was talking about Carrington.

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Where she has demanded of her to play a little more defense and be able to guard your man.

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So DeGeney in her first game, her first assignment, Caitlyn Clark.

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And she does it well.

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She covers her pretty well.

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She got a couple of steals off her.

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So on and so forth.

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So she played her very, very tough.

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And it was mostly one on one.

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They would switch off if she was to drive to the lane.

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So help would come to kind of help out as far as Caitlyn drives to the lane.

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Of course, the first basket that she scored, it was kind of a little late to the lane.

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But nonetheless, she was guarded tough in that game.

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That's what I'm trying to say.

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So she has the 20 points, three assists.

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She has two steals.

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She had 10 turnovers guys, which tells me she was really forced kind of forcing the action,

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so to speak.

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So I, and the 10 turnovers for a rookie is actually a record, a record one would like

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to have, but it's a record nonetheless.

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She did shoot at five or 15 from the field, four of 11 from three.

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So she did drop four threes in her first outing, which is good.

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Perfect from the line six for six.

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So all in all, it was, it was a solid outing.

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If you take away the 10 turnovers, which is kind of hard to do, but it's a solid outing

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and you would like to see that.

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So we'll move on.

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Oh, before I go on that game was watched by 2.3 million.

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And this is the largest debut in terms of those numbers since 23 years ago.

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So you're talking about some historic numbers here for Caitlin, her first time out.

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Then game two, she does it.

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She has it at home playing against the runner up from last year, the New York Liberty, New

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York Liberty on their team.

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They have a few pretty good defenders there.

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I wouldn't say the backcourt is the greatest defensive backcourt, but Sandy Bronne Dello,

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the coach over there said, you know what, let's take our best perimeter defender and

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put her on Caitlin, which they did in Banaji Laney Hamilton, who last year I thought she

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got Rob from being on the all defensive team.

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Even first or second, I think she got Rob.

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She's a very good defender guys.

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And actually she got some votes for defensive player of the year.

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That's how good she is.

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So she was given the assignment of covering Caitlin, which she did very well also.

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So much so, Caitlin in the game, just nine points, so 11 points less than her.

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First outing, she did have six assists.

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The turnover she cut down greatly, only three turnovers and then seven rebounds.

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So and oh, by the way, in the first game, she had no rebounds.

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So at least in this month, she was able to get in there and get some rebounds.

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Again, she didn't see too much of a double team.

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Every now and again, you'll see a player slide over somebody like a Kaila Thornton

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would slide over and guard her.

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And then after a while, when they saw they pretty much frustrated her, they ended up

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putting Courtney Vandesloot on her, which, you know, she was able to get off some threes

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against her drive on her.

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And of course, Vandesloot, she's kind of long in the two-fin term and WNBA terms.

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She's in her 30s.

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So yeah, she's been around the league a while.

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So Caitlin was able to get a little bit off on her, but not so much again, only the nine

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points.

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She was two of eight from the field, one of seven from three.

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So she only made one three in that game and perfect from the line four for four from the

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line.

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So all in all, if we look at her numbers, only shooting 30% from the field, not great

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from three point range, five of 18, that's not good.

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That puts you in the 30ish range.

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She is perfect from the free throw line.

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So she's at least knocking down the free throws, so that's the good news there.

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So with that said, those two games there, of course, the analysis is kind of all over

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the place.

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A few people I listened to and I respect.

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Tariqa Foster-Brasby, she covers the Connecticut Sun, and she's on a few podcasts.

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Her handle is she knows sports and she covers other than women's basketball, she covers

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baseball and other things.

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And she put it plainly, she was on the brother from another podcast and she said, listen,

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we try to tell you folks, she was going to struggle.

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And all in all, she has.

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Why?

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Because this is a league where you have women there, grown women playing that are not going

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to let some rookie come in and show them up.

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So you have that.

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And also remember two guys that I think gets lost in the whole umbrella of analysis.

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She's just less than two months away from competing in the NCAAs, guys.

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She was over there competing there where you didn't have all these games so close together.

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Right now, she scheduled to play Saturday in Barclay playing the Liberty.

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Then two days from then, they'll go back to Indiana, host the Connecticut Sun.

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Two days after that, she goes on kind of a road trip, a three game road trip where she

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goes to Seattle 24th, the Los Angeles sparks.

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And then she has a back to back to where she gets the sparks.

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The next day she gets to defending champ, the Las Vegas aces.

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So she's getting thrown right into the fire right off the start guys.

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And then from the Vegas game, they get a little reprieve.

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And then about three days later, they face the Los Angeles sparks in their arena.

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And then they end the month playing the Seattle storm.

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So I would say if I had to look at the schedule and kind of take a guess or two, maybe she

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gets a win perhaps against the Los Angeles sparks.

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I think that's her most likely chance of getting a win.

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I don't see her beating Seattle.

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I don't well, of course, the defending champ.

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I definitely don't see that.

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I don't see them getting the game against the Liberty or the Connecticut Sun.

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So she probably will finish this month with a win.

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And I would say eight losses.

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And then of course, everybody is crying for her coach to be fired.

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Christie Sides, which I think is a bit unfair.

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I do think though, Christie Sides, I think it's incumbent upon her.

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I understand she wanted to start of Erica Wheeler next to her because Erica kind of

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taken Caitlyn under a wing, but I think you're at a point now where, and I was just listening

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to actually Diana Tarasi, who, oh, by the way, seemed like she was right all along, guys.

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It was going to be not so easy coming into the league.

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She was right.

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But the problem with people dated like how Diana said says it.

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But that's Diana's personality.

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She comes off that way and all the vets can tell you about their welcome to the NBA moment

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that Diana Tarasi has given them.

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So that's just the nature of Tarasi.

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So I say that to say in the long run that first of all, Diana Tarasi has been in the

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league.

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This is her 21st year in the WNBA.

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So don't you think she's seen players come and go and she knows the good ones and she

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actually said it there.

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She says she admires how she's taken tough challenges Caitlyn has and rise above it.

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So I said from the outset that all this talk about her being a hater and all this was just

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plain ridiculous.

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And actually in my 200th episode when I was on the panel with my guys there, I mentioned

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that what is the difference between critique and haterism and now that bears fruit today?

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I mean, it was a honest critique.

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And like I said, someone I followed, Tarika Foster Brassby, she said the same thing.

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She said the very same thing.

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We told you folks, the people who are the, you know, I'm on social media.

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So I call them the ultra sensitive Caitlyn Hark sickle fans because there's no talking

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logic to these people.

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They think she's going to come into the W, drop 30 with seven threes per every outing.

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That's not going to happen guys.

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It's just not.

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Well, it happened like in the long run, probably, probably she she's a student of the game.

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She's going to figure these things out.

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And you just got to give her a chance and I blame media too for putting this kind of

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weight on this young lady's shoulders.

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She's a 22 year old trying to figure out her way in a new league.

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Give her some time.

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Give her some grace.

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And I say that not just for Caitlyn for all these rookies here.

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Give them some grace guys.

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We know this is going to be a fantastic rookie class.

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We know this.

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We just got to give it time.

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They haven't even gone around once in the in the WNBA.

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Give them a chance.

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That's all that's all we're saying here.

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I've heard Monica McNutt, the voice of the New York Knicks on the radio, who all by the

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way, she covers the WNBA as well.

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And she mentioned the same thing.

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Caitlyn's going to be fine.

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She's going to figure it out.

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She's she's smart.

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She studies.

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She knows what she needs to improve on and so forth.

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So figure these things out guys.

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Let's let's let's be honest about it.

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Yeah, I just listened to Sue Bird.

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She was on Rich Eisen's show and she said the same thing about the huge pressure that

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is put on Caitlyn Clark by the media, by her fans, that her delusional fans.

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I'm not even saying the whole fan base is the ones that think that what happened there

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will immediately happen in the W. And that's just not reality guys.

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And just think about it like this.

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You have a hotshot associate coming into a law firm.

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They're not going to get the huge cases there.

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Those are going to go to the partners.

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They have to work their way in.

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They have to earn their stripes, so to speak, to get the big cases.

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And they'll probably work under a partner there, but they're not going to get big cases

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where they they're the head of that.

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That's not going to happen.

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So just take it at any line of work that where you got a hotshot kid coming in, you're not

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going to throw them in the fire right away.

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You know, they're going to have to be seasoned.

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They're going to have to learn their way around.

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Even in department stores, you don't know where the laundry is from the men's belts.

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You have to figure all that out.

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So I'm just saying that to say there's a learning curve that must occur.

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That must happen.

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That's all that's being said here.

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So with that said, and then also to the perfect model to well, early model at least, is Sabrina

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and that's cool of the New York Liberty who came into the league.

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She was drafted in 2020.

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Her first three games looked like she was figuring it out.

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And then boom, ankle sprain, a three green ankle sprain that knocked her out for what

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was thought to be a month ended up being the whole season.

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So then she comes back her following season and she has a rough go of it because, you

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know, she's trying to acclimate herself back into playing.

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And she had she had a rough go her second year.

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And then the third year, that's where she you saw everything come together.

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Am I saying it's going to take Caitlin Clark that long?

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I doubt it.

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I don't think it's going to take her that long.

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But I'm just saying that to say that when adversity comes, it takes you a while to kind

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of get your sea legs, so to speak.

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So I think all in all, Caitlin is going to be fine.

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She's going to figure this thing out.

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And I just, I actually too think that the coach, Christy sides, I think she should probably

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take her off the ball for the moment until she kind of get her feet wet.

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She start her with a Grace Berger, who was a rookie last year.

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And it seems like as the season progressed, she kind of found her way.

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So I think maybe taking Caitlin off the ball will alleviate some of the pressure off of

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her in the game.

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So I think that's another option too.

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And Grace Berger is somebody who can knock down the three as well.

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You need somebody in there who's kind of a threat as well.

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I think putting Caitlin in with a Grace Berger can kind of alleviate things and even help

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the ladies inside, like Aliyah Boston, who's had an uneven start so far.

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And also Melissa Smith, who's also in the interior.

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So I think those are fixes that can help Caitlin at this moment, but I'd say take it easy,

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guys.

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One more thing before I go.

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This is going to be a quick one.

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But Colin Carr heard.

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I heard him talk about this and I said, this is a guy who's been on TV, who kind of knows

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the ropes.

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He went and said that the league should have made the schedule easier for Caitlin Clark.

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I'm like, where'd he do that?

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The schedule is already set.

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I talked about that earlier.

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The schedule is set.

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Everything's put in place.

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How in the world are you going to fix the schedule to help out a rookie?

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That's unheard of.

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And for you to even mention that, would you say that about the kid Caleb coming into

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the NFL, would you say that about him?

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Would you say that about Victor Winmayama, that they should ease up the schedule for

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him to make things easy for him?

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No, you wouldn't say that.

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It's a ridiculous take.

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It's a garbage take for somebody of Colin Carr heard's caliber.

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It's ridiculous.

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And I can't believe it came out of his mouth.

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All I'm saying is, let's give Caitlin some time, guys.

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She's going to figure it out.

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She's going to be fine.

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And they'll be beneficial for the league.

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So that's all I'm going to say to that.

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All right.

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So that was it.

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I had some more things to say, but I'm just going to leave it at this.

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All right.

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