Did Diana Taurasi DESTROY Her Legacy For a 6th Olympics Gold Medal...
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- Did Diana Taurasi DESTROY Her Legacy For a 6th Olympics... In this video we are going to be talking about team usa who did not pick Caitlin Clark, the number 1 pick in the WNBA draft and how she is ready to take over the WNBA.
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Did Diana Taurasi DESTROY Her Legacy For a 6th Olympics... In this video we are going to be talking about Caitlin Clark, the number 1 pick in the WNBA draft and how she is ready to take over the WNBA. In this video we are going to be talking about the WNBA. THe league is growing with Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Cameron Brink, Diana Taurasi, Breanna Steward and A'Ja Wilson who have all been incredible
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If she had given the spot to CC by herself, she would have been remember as a heroine for Women's basketball, for making the game bigger. But she preferred to have a one more medal on the bench. How petty these women are.
Exactly all the new Fans will remember Taurasi as a selfish asshole. The 6th gold does nothing for her legacy because she threw Caitlin Clark under the Bus for it.
That's why they fail as an organization
Absolutely.
Diana Taurasi felt she needed to break Sue Birds record.
CC had the opportunity to break Sue Birds asst record in the All-Star game but opted to stay off the court cause Arike Ogunbowale was on fire and CC wanted her to stay in. Taurasi is about her first and CC is about team first.
And guess who WNBA leadership prefers? Old, tired, slow, broken legacy players.
I think Taurasi missed a great opportunity to actually burnish her legacy, not merely as an athlete, but as a person. Can you imagine the reaction if she had thanked the committee, but said she was giving up her spot for a younger, upcoming star? She would instantly go from being hated by millions of CC fans to being loved by them. And what would be the better legacy: a patently undeserved sixth gold medal she got by sitting on the bench, or 5 gold medals and praise for a selfless, classy act that helped promote women's basketball? (And it could be very lucrative, too. Ad agencies would be offering her plenty to do "passing of the torch" commercials with Clark.)
🤣 Taurasi got benched & she didn't earn that gold medal. What a embarrassment.🤣
Absolutely she destroyed her legacy winning her sixth gold medal, it's a sham gold medal, she should never have received that gold medal.
DT added to her legacy: TRIPLE ZEROES and DNP in the Olympics of all tournaments. Earning a gold medal at that stats is an embarrassment not only to herself but to women's sports as well. You don't deserve it. By the way where are the ratings for the games vs Germany & France???
Won a gold medal for bench warming.
Nice work if you can get it.
Don't forget the cash prize everyone gets from Team USA.
Don’t forget, she went to her rookie Olympics without earning it too.
She started 3 games…
... when she deserved a participation certificate.
Reality was coming. Taurasi was very right! Yeah, Taurasi may look superhuman playing against 40 year old ladies, but not against real young players that can run! And reality came to bite her butt!🤪
Good one!
she did.. freeloading Taurasi.. benching in a gold. ... the new fans are 400% more than the old 3000 that used to watch her games.
6 gold medals is not a legacy. Being a pathetic Olympic performer is a legacy and not a good one.
Yes. She lost alot of respect from fans. She doesn't care.
She DID ruin her legacy! We are ALWAYS remembered for our last mistakes!
If she wanted to get a gold for sitting on the bench, she should have coached and let a player that could contribute on the court take her spot on the roster.
Sad. No one was watching her achievements before but she could have been great if she gave way to the new crop of rookies who would have taken the game to higher levels. Shows what her character is made of.
Diana Taurasi will NEVER be forgiven for taking this Olympic medal from those who were more deserving....This will HAUNT Taurasi for the rest of her life - just like Angel Reese's terrible "You can't see me" gesture will never go away. Instead of being remembered as the greatest, Taurasi will now only be remembered as the player who stole an Olympic medal.
Yeah, when she was twerking in celebration, it just came off REALLY wrong. lol She showed up to check a box that ultimately she didn't deserve to check. Especially in light of the fact that there were players who deserved to go, over whom there has been a lot of controversy... and now they've been vindicated.
Taursai is way out there. In her mind there were book deals, a movie, and multiple documentaries. Now it's all meme's and you'll need to wear a hazmat suit for all the BS she'll spit out.
I really would like to know what her former coach at U.Conn is thinking right now, I bet Geno is scratching his head thinking what is this lady saying about her winning 3 national championships, she's talking like she was the one scoring all those points in those three championships,I wonder if U.Conn would have won those championships without Sue Bird
No, she didn't damage her legacy. But it makes me appreciate Sue Bird for retiring when she realized that she was diminished.
Greed.
Absolutely soils her legacy... petty disgrace of an Olympic games appearance!! Wnba has integrity problems..now we know why they're were falling apart instead of building up!!
Taurasi's legacy is that of a thief who stole a gold medal
DT is still a good player, but at 42 years old on a roster of stars, she was completely useless. There was ZERO reason for her to be on the team. Even worse, she has been a total ASS for the new players coming into the league. How about you bring in the floor, school the rookies, then talk shit? Nope. It's just a sad look.
She wins as the Biggest Head in women’s basketball of all time.
The Dianasaurus won her 6th gold medal and now she can rest in her tomb with all of her medals as the rising wave buries and washes away her legacy.
Just invite Sue Bird to the 2028 games :)
Of course she has destroyed her legacy. She had an opportunity to rewrite history here and been the guide to these new kids coming in. Instead it is the same old Petty DT we all know. I was on the olympics because I won 3 college championships.... Really what is more impressive being second to Sue bird and having 10 or more WNBA players or Clark going to the dance with the team on her back hitting all of the biggest shots?
Then we get in and establish a team that isn't the best players in the world, ride the pine for 2 games and your team wins the gold by 1 pt when it should have been a blow out. Oh and you got spanked in the game against the all stars, a game that could have easily been a 20-30 pt blow out. Most of this team won't be in the league for the next damn olympics, you didn't pass the torch, you didn't help the new group succeed, you selfishly went after a participation trophy that will have an * for the rest of time. If clark win's five they will say yea at least she was a major factor in all five. Never mind she blew one of the biggest shots at growing the game. Why? They could have given her a coaching spot, she could have been an adviser to the team and traveled out there, there were a lot of things that could have been done. No, not for old DT the cheapshot artist, dirty player, self centered individual who is one of the greatest if not the greatest just ask her. Old DT could have went out like Kobe, or Lebron, or Even MJ (Started mentoring younger talent), instead she will be the one in 10-15 years holding a mic, wrinkled and gray, talking about how she did something prior to asking the player a question for what ever network has the league.
It is going to be up to Reese and Clark to grow the game. Somewhere in the world is a little girl watching clark and curry, who will practice the step back and shots like steph has, that will come in and be the MJ to Reese and Clark. Clark will pass the torch and build the game, DT will be like Wilt , on the outside looking in.
Refusing to pass on the torch to the next generation has been incredibly cringe on the part of WNBA old guard.
She "was" a great player.
You’re totally right that the new fans are a big reason why random games get more viewers. I watch every one I can, not just Fever.
Definitely cheapened her legacy. A definite astrick by her name like Barry Bonds.
@@jimvandas3153 ok that’s a reach 😂
@@jaymula6660 That's absolutely fair. You could suit up MJ and give him 6 DNPs on the end of the men's bench and get him gold after gold until he's 90 years old. Would anyone really act like he "earned" 12 gold medals?
"REALITY OF GREED" TAURASI
The game just grew exponentially with new fans. First impressions matter. All of the new fans think negatively of her now because we don’t have all the years of her dominating the game. We just see her bashing a rookie, getting schooled by said rookie, and then being useless at the Olympics.
One thing for sure, a record that’s pretty much unbreakable. That’s a fact.
She WAS one of the best. Not even top a 5 player on Team USA this Olympics. We didn’t watch the Olympics for Taurasi, we watched in spite of Taurasi.
I will always remember DT for this Olympics - nothing else
DT’s fall from grace is a classic Greek tragedy of her own making due to SELFISHNESS and GREED. She wanted to be the first player, male or female, to win 6 Olympic basketball golds. By ensuring the exclusion of Caitlin Clark or other rookies from the 2024 Olympics, she also ensured that nobody will tie or break her record until at least 2044, or even beyond as long as no rookie gets selected for the Olympic team in the future.
Taurasi's legacy is not destroyed, but it is tarnished. Taurasi has benefited over the year of her career from going to UConn, WNBA politics & her seniority. Though we all know she was on the Olympic team her rookie year because of Geno, when Taurasi talked about it she actually said, "After I won 3 NCAA championships." As if she won 3 NCAA championships all by herself & it was not because she was recruited by the top team, UConn, along with multiple future WNBA stars.
And she was playing very well this year. If she wouldn't have gotten greedy for that 6th gold medal, she could have played out the year & been considered a great player when she retired, even by the new fans. But her need to be on the Olympic team, yet again, just so she could say she have 6 gold medals, has just put a glaring spotlight on the favoritism that has benefitted her career over the years. So now it is tarnished.
no. because she was loathed prior to the genocide olympics.
We have become a society that rewards those that don't do anything.
Emma Hayes, came into the USWNT and got rid of the older players like and brought in Fresh Ideas and her team won gold and have been celebrated without any issues. The opposite can be said for the USWBT with an average age of 30
It’s too bad that they didn’t bring any rookies because then she could be the vet that helped them through their first Olympic team
Sue bird admitted she didn’t really know how good Dawn was for a long time bc she came into the league when Dawn was jn her final head
athletes hit a certain age, and their performance just drop off
All those millions of new fans, this is the ONLY thing they will remember of Taurasi. Ha ha.
Both Caitlin games had higher ratings than the other 2 you mentioned , but they were still impressive
She has a legacy but it has been tainted IMO. People will remember her 0 pts, 0 mins in the GOLD MEDAL GAME vs France! She averaged less than 1,0ppg, less than 1rpg and less than 1,0 apg, That was her las Olympic game for Team USA
I started off only caring about CC. I also care about Kate Martin. No one can say I only care about 1 one player.
What spells the difference between greed and reality. Reality is coming.
She will be remembered for the last thing she does good or bad and this Olympics was bad can she do something to make people forget it
Diana Taurasi has earned her new nickname Dino-saurasi
What might save Taurasi's legacy is the 2024 USA Women's Olympic Team drew a record low viewers.
DT just got greedy.
If she retired with Sue Bird she would be hailed as one of the greats, of all time.
Taurasi….what a piece of work
I didn’t know who Taurasi was , just like most people.
She could have retired from international duty with honour and the respect of many, instead she ruined her legacy.
Diana Taurist in Paris . Gifted a free tour in Paris..no self respect at all.
Who gives two sh*ts about her past. All the new viewers have to judge DT by how DT is treating people today, CC223D and the new fans. Let the old fans idolise her. DT failed to grow the game for a reason. DT didn't become unlikeable and selfish suddenly in 2024. DT long time toxic.
I don't think Taurasi was good enough in the last Olympics in 2021. (2020 was delayed to 2021) Taurasi averaged 5.8 ppg on 33% shooting.
By going to the olympics this way she has proven she no longer has what it takes and should just retire. she has proven she now makes bad decisions and is content to accept things she did not earn, this is why they do not like CC as they are currently unwilling or unable to put in the work
They almost lost. What an embarrassment.
Tom Brady's final season was a disappointment. For the sake of his six Superbowls and his years with the Patriots, his reputation as the GOAT won't take a hit because he ended his career with a lackluster season with the Bucs. Taurasi's reputation is secure.
Like many sports people before her she has played on too long, her legacy is damaged
There were far more deserving players that should've been there
I said that Taurasi was a liability on the Olympic team and a medal without decent and less legendary performances from the supposed goat of women's basketball, so anyone wins 6 medals
Her legacy is fine. Stuff like this happens in sports all the time. She's one of the greatest WNBA players ever.
Not only legacy but Taurasi lost respect as well
DIABOLICALLY CALCULATED MOVE: Diana Taurasi was also a 22-year old WNBA Rookie straight out of college, just like Caitlin Clark now, when she first made her USA Olympic Women's Basketball Team debut in the 2004 Athens Olympics.
DT, Olympic Team USA Women's Basketball Selection Committee, and the Team USA Women's Basketball Headcoach Cheryl Reeve, made sure that Caitlyn Clark would NOT be able to touch DT's Olympic Games appearance or winning gold record.
Due to Caitlin Clark's 2024 Paris Olympic SNUB, she now needs to be 46 y/o and actively playing, in order to just tie DT's Olympic games and gold record! What an ABYSMAL ATROCITY, all in the name of jealousy, envy, ego, and pettiness! Shame on them!
DT might have beat Sue Bird’s Olympic game and gold record, and mostly likely stopped Caitlin Clark from tying her record but gold does not always equal respect. Sorry, but not sorry, DT is NOT my G.O.A.T.
Diana Taurasi has participated in 6 Olympic Games and won 6 Olympic Games
1. 2004 Athens Olympics: 22 y/o - GOLD
2. 2008 Beijing Olympics: 26 y/o - GOLD
3. 2012 London Olympics: 30 y/o - GOLD
4. 2016 Rio Olympics: 34 y/o - GOLD
5. 2020 Tokyo Olympics: 38 y/o - GOLD
6. 2024 Paris Olympics: 42 y/o - GOLD
Caitlin Clark's ages in her projected upcoming 6 Olympic Games:
1. 2028: 26 y/o
2. 2032: 30 y/0
3. 2036: 34 y/o
4. 2040: 38 y/o
5. 2044: 42 y/o
6. 2048: 46 y/o - In order to tie DT's Olympic Games Record.
Diana Taurasi made the Olympic Gold medal a partisapation trophy. They're all winners! 😂
She will forever be known by the new fans (which probably are over 50% of total fans) as the women who trash talked Caitlin Clark before the season and put a target on her back for other players to rough Cailtin up. And then keeping her from going to the Olympics while insulting the new fans...
I barely remember her now .
YES she did......Sue Bird was better to me. She got old and refused to accept it.
""All Time"" ??? the WNBA is only about 20 yrs in existance
30 actually
When you compare what she said about CC to her Olympic performance, yeah, Turasi looks like a narcissistic has been.
Taurasi didn't put herself on the team, or Gray for that matter. I blame the selection committee. Maybe going in Taurasi thought she could contribute, as she is having a decent year during the regular season. I remember Larry Bird sitting on the floor on the sidelines during his last Olympics, in pain and contributing little. He didn't even want to go, but Magic convinced him to. That situation has had zero effect on Larry's legacy.
You gotta have something before you can lose it. She is a me first player. If you look @ the USWNT @ the WC they had the same problem. Look at them now...She is well past it.
What legacy i. Never herd of them old stars until CC arrived the wnba is a forgotten league it been out of business if wasn't for the nba
Destroy? No. Tarnish? Yes
Why was the women's USA Basketball team so tired after the Olympics? Because they carried Taurasi to her 6th gold medal! lol.
No! And I'm not even going to watch this video before responding! She's never been my favorite player but here's a little nuance. Every team needs experienced veterans who are "coaches" in the locker room and not matter what you can say about her she is 100% HER!
Um, being 100% oneself, for better or worse, is sort of unavoidable.
Diana Taurasi stole a medal from a younger more deserving player. Her performance was absolutely abysmal. Other injured players are in the same boat. They will probably never admit to this selfishness. France played with courage while team USA was flopping around incapable of getting the ball in the air near the basket. This was not a good team. Cheap politics ruined this free advertising for the WNBA to satisfy the little egos of the old so called elite players and coaches.
Bench warming gold medal as good as playing? Nah.
DT cannot do anything to sully her legacy. She’s arguably the GOAT.
In her mind and yours... will be remembered by her failure at the 2024 Olympics ,winning gold riding the bench... most fans today doesn't know who she is and won't be known in a couple of years... maybe one
@@pudgieayer9052 Nah. DT won in both the NCAA and the WNBA. She’s easily one of the top 5 players to ever play.
She was instrumental in winning 5 gold medals. She probably shouldn’t have been on this team ahead of Caitlin, but this does zero for her overall career.
BUNK
Nothing to remember because a lot of new fans, local and international only know of her because of CC. I don't really care
YES ! She’s sooo selfish ruined her legacy 😊
Whatever Dinosaur Taurasi's legacy is, it is now trash. Her 6th Olympic gold medal is a fraud. She will be remembered to be egotistical selfish basketball player. whatever her game was throughout the years is now tainted with disgust and thrown in the history bin.
It's Diana Fraudasi from now on
Grifter in old age.
I don’t care about how great she was. There is a time when you need to step aside and let the next generation step in( Caitlin) she is selfish, egotistical, and selfish. Not the goat.
I'm 62 years old. Watch them women. Stop when Bob Grinder came in . She became a joke.
So what happened to Elena Dele Donn??? I keep hearing about her but no one has said she is retired.
Injured/ taking time off. She's not super excited to play in the WNBA. She has a special needs brother she really loves and wants to spend time with him than play.
@@jaimefish173 Got ya. Thanks. Doesn't she also have some medical condition that she tried to get an exemption for during the pandemic? I don't remember her condition.
Short answer: Yes.
She is a joke.
I am one of the new fans. I always hated basketball. Hated it. But, I was inspired by Caitlin Clark in the lead up to March Madness and have enjoyed learning that there is actually strategy, plays, etc. to this game. To me, Diane Taurasi is the worn out hack who denied Caitlin Clark the opportunity which Taurasi herself had twenty years ago, that is, the chance to play in the Olympics as a rookie. To me, that stinks. That's all Diana Taurasi is to me. the worst of what a lousy league the WNBA was in the past. I know nothing about her play in the past; I do not give a damn what she did in the past. To me, she stinks. The sooner she gets out of the game entirely, the better. Pffffft.
Sadly yes. We see that she a selfish person 😮 and has no game. And the things she said to CC.
She’s not a top 25 this year !
Gotta admit tho. 6 gold medals is insane 😂😂
6 gold medals are insane if they are earned. Doing nothing to get one means absolutely nothing. A Olympic runner can’t go to the Olympics and not run a race and get a medal. A solo performer getting 6 gold medals is insane. But sitting on the bench and not burning a calorie doesn’t mean crap. And now everyone will remember her for her last irrelevant Olympics just as much as her great WNBA career. Kinda embarrassing.
@@ShawnGlaze-gm4ce it’s the Olympics . Everyone not going play that much. As you seen on the men side with Tatum and Halliburton . I’m not a big DT fan myself. She still deserves that gold medal.
I don’t care for her, but u can look at every Olympic team and see players that don’t do much. Even in 2028 u will see the same thing, so what will people say about those players that struggle in the Olympics?
Destroyed her legacy?? LOL! In two weeks nobody will be talking about this. In two months nobody will remember. But the record will still be there. That's what will be remembered.
Mick, you can read out ALL the history you want. I. DO. NOT. CARE. period. I cannot stand her.
Yes
Omg a 42 yr old Lola dianaaaaa tausi hw disgusting dis Lola's players
Taurasi not the goat Sheryl Swoops is a legend and the greatest player to ever play in the NBA
Sheryl Swoops has 3 MVPS and 3 defense MVPS Taurasi has never made an all defensive team
Didnt Jayson Tatum ruin his legacy by only scoring 5.3 points a game and having 2 DNP. Or what about Tyrese Hailbuton only scored 2.7 a game and 3 DNP.
I think the situations are a little different. Taurasi was a starter, didn't perform despite multiple opportunities, and was benched. Tatum and Halliburton were given little opportunity to play and perform, which might say more about Coach Kerr who was calling the shots.
@@francesw.6774 she only took 12 shot attempts in 5 games cause the USA entire offense was getting the ball to Wilson and Stewart to take advantage of size mismatches. All 7 guards the USA had on there roster saw the number fall by more then half. Plum had 6 points per game Sabrina had 5 points per game. And both played less then 15 minutes per game when both had over 30 minutes in the WNBA.
@@SukiDhillon-zk5dg I don't think anybody's legacy got ruined. In fact, I think the idea that they did is absurd. I do think Tatum and Haliburton's lack of impact had more to do with who coach Kerr decided to play and how he wanted to run the offense, while Taurasi's lack of impact had more to do with her ineffectiveness, but it is not a fair comparison, with Taurasi at age 42 and Tatum and Haliburton in their prime. Taurasi's basketball legacy has long been decided, and clearly she's one of the best female basketball players to ever play the game. I blame the selection committee for putting her on the team. There were better choices, and she didn't need it after already being on 5 Olympic teams and winning 5 golds.
SORRY TO SAY THIS BUT PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR ACHIEVEMENT DIANA'S GREED