Caitlin Clark will THRIVE in the WNBA 🗣️ - Chiney Ogwumike says she'll excel next year | NBA Today
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- Опубликовано: 7 апр 2024
- Chiney Ogwumike and Ramona Shelburne join Malika Andrews on NBA Today to discuss if South Carolina is the next dynasty in women's college basketball and Caitlin Clark's expectations in the WNBA.
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Everyone should be feeling for the year Aliyah Boston had. She lost to CC last year, she loves her SC sisters, she was in front of a mic all year having to discuss this hype, and she knew she was going to get CC on her team. I can't wait to watch her put down the microphone, suit up with CC, and show out. Boston and CC and crew are going to bond and shut up a lot of WNBA stars.
I do not feel she has Caitlin's back at all.Boston is just another player that doesn't have the guts to answer questions about Clark fearing her rebuttal from other black women in the wnba!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@kathyshea2444they’ll get her respect if she is a beast in the WNBA Period end of story.
She doesn't rely on explosive speed, which leads to injuries, and we all slow with age. She has a great shot and good vision. I think that'll make for a long and fruitful career. I wish her the best!
Caitlin will ball out in the WNBA. Especially with Aliyah Boston, Nalyssa Smith, and Kelsey Mitchell as her teammates. They are a thousand times better than anybody she played with at Iowa. The Indiana Fever will make the playoffs next season.
If she becomes a pass-first player, I think she will be a great one.
Ball out???
@@fredradon2484 yes ball out. Do you not know what ball out means? 😠
@@ReadR00ster1 She will be top 5 in assist as a rookie and top 10 in points
@@gphillimo I have her putting up something like 17/6 which would be like 15th in points and 6th in assists. I could see the points being a bit lower though.
Caitlin Clark is going to be for the WNBA, what Magic Johnson and Larry Bird was for the NBA! I swear I never cared for the WNBA, but forsure I’ll follow what she does next year!
Great! Because she’s paving the way for the Jordan of the WNBA JUJU!!
If you have that kind of rage, you're gonna be successful at the next level. It's not even a question
😂😂😂
@@desotohybrid2175
Exactly.
I wouldn't call it rage.
Maya Moore had rage. Angel Reese had rage. Caitlin Clark's game is fluid and poetic.
@@ZenigundamNot fluid enough to win a championship, stop riding that tail
@@NoLuvCityTell me how many 5 star recruits does SC have? Caitlyn had to lead the scoring and rebounding, as a guard, for her team then you look at the player production for the cocks and you see a huge difference in depth. You just another nobody trying to diminish a somebody.
Salute to Caitlin Clark’s Father. He deserves his flowers as well has her mother of course. But her daddy deserves his flowers 💐
Hazing is fine but if it goes too far and a wnba player hurts CC, I hope they get suspended so badly they would have to sue the league to get reinstated. No matter who it is. CC is the W's golden goose and they know that.
Absolutely
Lord, she is the FIRST woman in the WNBA, she will be fine. Their players ...
Stop 😢
Ofc 💯 it's CC 💪💪💪
People can hate all they want but she is gonna bring alot of eyes to the wnba. Me personally, I'll start watching when Juju comes out in 3-4yrs.
5:08 What Taurasi said was not hate, but a good way to promote The WNBA
Watching someone get hazed is fun? Seriously?
They better build their offense around these young girls, Boston and Clark. It's how you build a longevity franchise. They should make Clark the face of the franchise.
Caitlin goat - Indiana fevers about to be awesome. Old heads salty
Facts
She will retire when no rings...100% guaranteed
I'm and old head and Tamika Catchings is one of my favorite players ever. And the Greatest Fever of all-time. She did win a WNBA Title with Indiana.
Most influencial? Sure. Goat? Stop it.
Well it will be a good test of her impact going to a team that went 13-27 last year. Granted they were likely going to be a bit better with the likely growth of Boston. Awesome might be a stretch though.
She needed one more line on that shirt
Bc of CC
Thanks to Caitlin we will have to pay for a streaming service next year to watch the women's finals. Just like we do tonight & for the BCS.
It sucks you can't watch state schools compete without paying.
I'd lik to see her raise her game playing with older professionals. It would be hard to imagine an even better version of Clark.
Relax they get drafted next week and tip off there season May 5th there is a learning curve. More physical and faster game. Players fighting to take care familes, keep mortgages going. All of them will have Welcome to WNBA moment
Every sport has that.
💯
Thank you! Bunch of babies riding for Clark 😂
Yup.
I can't wait to see caitlin play On a team with good players. The fever better not screw this up for her.
Dawn 'The Don' Staley❤❤❤
They better hope Caitlin does well. She's the only one who can improve ticket sales and T.V. viewership. Nobody else has the potential to turn around their balance sheet.
The question will people follow her longterm with the wnba
It was nice to see women’s tournament seem more fire and competitive this year.
HOWEVER, this take on dt is terrible. she says any rookie goes through transition. Different levels exist at each level. Please stop reporting bits and quote everything. It’s bad reporting when you twist the narrative to cause debate. That isn’t right to pull half of what dt said.
Im in Chicago looking up the fever vs the sky. Tickets are like 108. Lol . I mean they more than the weakest bulls lol..and I'll pay...why? cuz me and my little girl wanna see CC baby . And greatness
Chinyere Ogwumike reping Nigeria
If she stays healthy she will be a superstar in a few years. She will be face guarded by bigger and more athletic women. That Mhule girl from UConn was locking her up the first half
Muhl is a beast with her sites set. I hope she gets on a team.
USC vs USC in Championship game next year.
Taurasi is such a beast. Excited to see her and Clark play next year. What a time for women’s basketball as a sport 🔥
Niece has shot range with “Larry Bird” 🐦 cockiness… She will excel no doubt
I hope CC goes and plays in Europe for a couple years, BUT...she's going to go to Indiana. C'mon.
Personally, I don't think there would be much hazing if they had more WNBA teams. Spots are limited, so people have to be mean. It's like trying to get a job in a super competitive company.
Company that has been working at a loss for 30 years
Dang. DT still sour about that rolling screen call against her alma mater? Must've had a load of cash riding on UConn beating Iowa, and as we know WNBA stars make about as much as bus drivers.
THRIVE With BOSTON AT HER SIDE!!
I thought this was nba today? Should just call it Hoops today if covering all things basketball.
I'm sure that Caitlin will be fine in the WNBA. No one will know or care ... but she'll do fine.
The question is will people watch the WNBA.
They've already sold out every arena she's playing and then she hasn't even been drafted yet. So I think the answer is already a resounding. Yes.
She will obviously lead in the butts in the seats category
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
What a bunch of crap, Caitlin Clark is bigger than that hate , the WNBA NEEDS to stand behind her for its own sake, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson weren’t hazed
Simple question to answer, no, because "show out" isn't a thing.
I will be following my favorite player of the Hawkeyes #22
Prolly keep it on the players and less on the hot topic. Talk about like any other sport… since 96
Hopefully her fans watch the WNBA.
F the WNBA. She should take the money and play in Ice Cubes league.
Well she can do both. Get that 5 million. Otherwise, it may go to her rival Angel Reese. Obviously Ice Cube wants to compete with the WNBA. I think if he gets Caitlin Clark just part-time even, he will start competing. He may even overtake the WNBA in five years.
They can do both. They operate in different seasons throughout the year
She won't score a point in the big 3, unless it's a women's big 3.
She wouldn't score 6 points points a game....she would never accept it
Hopefully she gonna join allstar weekends 3 point shot vs curry next n beat him..hopefully
24 Million tuned in to watch Caitlin/Iowa , even though they lost they WON ,Fact
Averaged 18.7 and peaked at 24 million, that’s crazy
The jealous players will make it difficult for her!
Going down the path of history there are many similarities between Clark and Iowa to Larry Bird and Indiana State
Both were overhyped by some and underrated by others due to their skin colour (Isiah Thomas said if Bird was black he would just be another guy)
Both were turned away by powerhouse programs - Bird left Indiana and Clark never got an offer from UConn.
In their title matches then both played clearly more talented teams
They both lost by 12.
They both had chances for their teams to win (both Iowa and Indiana State had runs to get within 5 points) even though individually then did not have stellar performances.
Clark is going to Indiana Bird came from Indiana.
Its sad that no one is talking about south Carolina went 39-0 and all you guys can talking about is Caitlin.smh
Did you even watch the video? The entire first half of it was all about SC. Also, about 10% of the 19M viewers tuned in to watch SC, the other 90% to CC.
She needs a mid-range game and defense.
Mid-range is the least efficient shot and should only be taken as a last resort (for those that can't create their own). If you have an offensive weapon like her, you can have others cover the defensive end (and she holds her own well enough anyway).
Plot Twist: Shes going to the Big 3 for 5 million 😂
So many jealous people. CC got already future ahead. Haters none. Old WNBA smh.
ESPN needs to stop defending Taurasi and providing a platform to broadcast her trash. When she's on the court with Caitlin she can speak all the trash she wants. But off court, particularly at this point in the history of the WNBA, she should be lifting the league up and that includes everyone associated with it. This kind of belittling of Caitlin Clark is the antithesis of what Clark has achieved for the league and the trajectory she's providing. 20 million viewers will not tune in for Taurasi and she knows it. The league needs ambassadors...not trash talking twerps. If Taurasi, and the people defending her, had any real class and character, they would know this.
Bruh dawn staley starters went to wnba and so more wnba soon to be players joined. South Carolina was so stacked. Coach didn’t even need to coach ahha 6ft 7 post player like come on
Let’s not act like she didn’t have to do anything. This team wasn’t supposed to be here this year & still went undefeated
@@dwightyawg7781 you mean iowa... the team that wasnt suppose to be there?
@@thannypadlan those bums shouldn’t have been there either
@@thannypadlan iowa was ranked #2 at the start of the season. they WERE supposed to be there. carolina was #6. NO ONE expected them to do what they did this year.
No Kaitlin will not show out. I think she is careless with the basketball when not shooting. Although, with bigger teammates, she has great vision and elevates her teammates. Who knows.
Haven't watched her play much
Diana Taurasi is the GOAT with (3) NCAAW championships, (3) WNBA championships, (5) Olympic Gold Medals, (1) WNBA MVP, (2) WNBA Finals MVP, Rookie of the Year, (5) WNBA scoring titles, (10) WNBA All-Star appearances, and the only WNBA player to score 10,000 career points.
Women will spend the whole show complimenting themselves 😅😅😅😅
Why would this Diana say those words about someone that's going to give The WNBA a bigger payday. As soon as the narrative is they're "jealous" of her you're already going to lose some viewers. Women are already infamous for envying each other. y would she add to that narrative? Just let the game speak for itself.
Goat 🐐
clark will enter the WNBA as the best player in the league. this is not the transition from college to the NBA. look at the stats other great WNBA players put up in college, and it’s mostly the same in the league, except for players like Ionescu and Plum. Caitlin Clark can and will take and regularly make shots that no other woman can, and that even most men in games are unwilling to attempt. I would be surprised if she isn’t a top 5 scorer and top 3 in assists. i could reasonably expect 22 and 7 (though she averaged 8 assists with some pretty weak talent). i could honestly foresee 25 and 10 assists with 5 or 6 rebounds and a league mvp in year one. people are underestimating how good this girl is. the only person who will be competitive with her as the potential GOAT of women’s basketball in 5 years will be an arriving Juju watkins. that’s it. nobody else comes anywhere close.
she won’t have to take so many impossible shots, bc she will not be the entire offense. she will have more open looks, more space, and in the passing game will have real bugs to pass to.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣 sorry dude, but raven showed us how good this girl is. shes gonna be facing REAL defensive talent like that every other night. and shes not gonna play 40 minutes a game so she prolly wont average anywhere near 25 points. the hard part for her will be having to un-learn how to carry a team! the fun part will be getting to watch how she does WITH a better team!
@@gnphillips5481 CC will shut your mouth very soon
@@gnphillips5481 yeah i mean you can definitely imagine to yourself that every team is gonna solely focus on clark and defend her like it’s the national championship game every night of the season, but i’ll bet otherwise. like i said, i’ll bet that not playing every minute improves her efficiency, playing with better players improves the sort of looks she gets, and not having to carry the team every night comes as a relief.
also, after playing 40 minutes a night every game for the last month, do you really believe she’s not good bc one defensive player got the best of her in one game?
Totally agree.. generational talent and GOAT conversations are happening for a reason. Candace Parker already won ROTY and MVP in her first season, and CC is definitely more skilled.
Note that in the WNBA over the past 5 years, there have been only 7 players that have averaged over 20 pts/game for the season! The top scorer is in the 21-24 range, so being near the top of the league isn't that unrealistic.
Lebron didn’t go through it.
SC has a bad team❤❤
Snope 😂
Everyone is here for CC that shirt is stupid
Hazing Rookies is standard practice??? What a utterly stupid take.
Heres the priblem
Raven Johnson exposed all Caitlin Clark flaws but no white folks or media said nothing about that. Why didn't you guys tell Caitlin to stay and develop her defensive game. Caitlin so limited defensively but nobody is talking about it
Reese is more of an all round player with VERY LITTLE AREA that needs development like Caitlin who HAS NO CLUE ON HOW TO PLAY DEFENSE.
I hate folks who are hypocritical when analyzing a BLACK player's skill sets as against .white players
Cameron Brink has just one skill she's good at which is SHOT BLOCKS. but everyone is blind to a whole lot of other areas which she has ZERO SKILL in especially in offense. No one is expecting her shoot 3s like you all want Reese despite not being a PG(shooting Guard) like Caitlin.
Kamila Cardoso is ONLY good in one area which is Rim protection but has ZERO skill OFFENSIVELY. Only shoot ONE 3 pointer all her college career . But she is ranked 3 and nobody expects her to have jump shots like you all want Reese to be shooting
Paige Buekers has ZERO skill defensively but such flaws are being overlooked by everyone.
Jacy Sheldon has just one skill which she is good at but everyone overlooked all her flaws in other areas and she is ranked 6 in the draft above Reese
I can go on and on
Every player on the WNBA mock draft TOP 5 has ONLY one skill set or area where they are good and a WHOLE LOT OF OTHER AREAS where they have deficiency or has ZERO skill in. Why nobody is tellinf them to stay one more year in college to develop those aspect of their games to be that PERFECT TYPE OF PLAYER you all want Reese to be?
So, why do you all want Angel Reese to CHECK ALL THE BOXES while those other white players are evaluated on ONE SKILL SET they possess and their NUMEROUS FLAWS overlooked?
Have you seen the HYPOCRISY in all of this????
Good for CC, but she did nothing to get black girls' interest in basketball period.
There’s always one
@@michaelwilliams5234she didn't? I'm a white girl and I went to college playing basketball because I was motivated and inspired by Sheryl swoopes. I grew up in Southern Missouri with pictures of Sheryl, Lisa Leslie, and Dawn Staley on my walls. Is something wrong with that? They were my role models.
What she suppose to do ? How do a white girl from Iowa get black girls interested ?
I've seen many black girls in CC #22 jerseys in line for her autograph after games. Thank God kids are more colorblind than adults.
Lets see rating next year now thay cc is gone
Why the coach skin color matter?
I’m actually going to watch the WNBA to see what happens. Boston and Clark will be filthy. I can’t wait to see Clark surrounded by top talent. Not taking away from her teammates at Iowa but she was way short handed. Boston will be MVP and Clark will be ROTY.
Guess that "goat" got put on the grill yesterday huh?😂😂
30 pts
Whats gonna be funny is when shes gonna be cookin em and viewership will go way up... well relatively speaking, The old guard will bend over backwards to not give HER any credit... Just wait
I'm so glad that she's out of college! She's so full of herself. If you watch the video of her returning home today in Iowa she was wearing a hoodie over her head and didn't even speak to any of the fans! That's ridiculous. Well that's all she wants to talk about is show me the love show me the love at the ball games which is what they did everywhere they traveled! Shame on you Caitlin Clark!
You didn't witness all of the coverage coming home. Shame on you.
@@griddog1 well please feel free to forward it to me because the 5 minutes off the bus she didn't even look anybody's way!
Why would she go to the WNBA, with the offer Ice Cube threw at her to play in Big3? 5 million a year vs 100k?
Solar eclipse was more enjoyable than this
She’s a great player who didn’t win a chip😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
She will live in your head forever
@@jennahawk12 your right as the one who never finished the story 😂😂😂😂😂😂
And what have you won? They one the big 10 championship
Add her to a list of a bunch of nba greats , not bad , glad she still got her wnba career wheeew
@@playamadetx5279 that I can agree on. I hope she is very successful in the wnba and brings more people to watch the game.
Dana is one of the haters Lebron was talking about
Temper your expectations. She is not the 2nd coming. Average at best.
Wrong 👎🏼
An average person that averaged 31 per game and is gonna be the #1 pick. Interesting perspective
@jasonisaac9614
She's manufactured. Not an all around player. I am glad certain ppl are seeing this blatant superiority agenda for what it is. Just like Taylor Swift. It's a newer form of ancient times. We will zealously advocate our own as "greatness" so ppl think we are superior.
The way the media is covering her and she lost BOTH championships is evidence of that.
What a farce.
@@mushmouth610 My Ninja!
@@jasonisaac9614 I know. It really is. Same phenomen with Lebron James. The fix is in. Amazing what the "powers that be" can do.
Dawn said that she wants to let males into female sports so whatever good she has done is gone!
Nobody watches it who cares
"First black woman of undefeated national champs " - leave it to ESPN to always mention race.
The WNBA is boring. I won't watch the games. Perhaps if Caitlin plays well.
Give kudos to Staley and S. Carolina but can we lose the "first black woman " rhetoric. Perhaps its time to tell Caitlin congratulations for her year, career and wish her well for her future without the hatred/jealously. Just a congratulations, no buts or ifs.
"First black woman...blah blah blah..."
Stopped listening there and thumbs down. Stop with your garbage identity politics!
I'm sure she will.
Why didn't she win a CC in college though ? Y'all told me she was soooooo good she would win it herself 😂
Cathy Engelbert, WNBA commissioner, knows where her bread is buttered and so do Caitlin's new WNBA coaches and teammates. They will provide all the help CC needs to transition and guide her team in the WNBA. From a marketing perspective it is in all of their best interest to help her success as, like it or not, CC is the main talk of basketball in the last 2 years and she'll put money in everyone's pockets. She also will be surrounded by an elite group of teammates for the first time.
I mean, it’s the WNBA and she can shoot a cap off of a lid. She’ll be fine. She does need to learn to move much better when she doesn’t have the ball. She can come off screens really nice, but she does not maneuver around the court. Well when she doesn’t have the ball. As a matter of fact, it’s extremely disjointed at times, virtually pushing other teammates out of the way to get in the line of the ball.