If I am not mistaken, USC lost their entire starting core from last season and then goes 38 - 0. This is what should be talked about. Clark is extremely good but when you put her scoring title in its proper perspective you will realize that there is a huge difference between what she did and Laynette Woodard. Woodard set the women's record using men's basketball and there wasn't a 3-point shot.
There’s a significant gap in talent with what Woodard faced compared to today.
The talent gap you mentioned which can't be measured could be said about every sport that has ever been played. The pace of the game wasn't nearly has fast as it is today which means players get more shots than they did back then. Your comments don't address the fact that 3 pointers add up much faster than 3s. I notice you didn't attempt to address the difference with the balls. The shooting range of Clark would have certainly been reduced if she had to use a man's ball.
That show will be one of their lowest rated ever.
I get it but with women’s sports, think how few actually played 40-50 years ago compared to today. The gap in talent was significant whereas that type of gap didn’t exist for men’s players, imo. Alcindor and Pete and company weren’t the product of bad competition and beating up in a small pond where I think that absolutely was the case for women’s athletics 40+.
Did you guys watch that Sue Bird feed? Is that what you’re talking about? I watched the main ABC feed so I didn’t see anything other than the commentary.
Woodard should be somewhat happy though . Without the Clark attention most wouldn’t have even known she held the record .
Yeah I understand the three pointer difference. But like I said in another post, I don’t think Pete and the stars of men’s college basketball just feasted on garbage. There was a significant gap in talent in women’s sports compared to men’s. How many women played sports 50 years ago compared to today?
I mean there is more talk on social media of the girls game at this point . Come Monday I doubt there will be much discussion after the Purdue and Uconn.
The woman’s final 4 was way more interesting than the men’s this year. And who gives a crap if they can play against the men? Why don’t you just admit you’re a misogynist asshole who can’t stand woman playing sports that “belong” to men. It’s so obvious.
Most on this board cried all year about the defense played by the Wildcats. So to say that Clark is the greatest women's college basketball player ever while being average on defense is crazy. Brittany Stewart, Chamique Holdsclaw, Tamika Catchings, Mya Moore were all better.
Yeah but the women’s game had stars. People obviously cared. The men’s final four isn’t as interesting. UConn’s fan base is so little that when they faced us in the final four in 2011, they had to use Rice students to fill out their sections.
Better at what? Clark averages the same amount of steals as Stewart did. She averages 7 rebounds a game. She’s third in assists. These are significant things one cannot overlook when comparing. This isn’t Jimmer Fredette who is just shooting. She’s doing a ton.
Seven of the top nine highest rated games this season were Iowa vs whoever.
The same could be said about Pistol Pete. Do you really expect for most people to walk around remembering those types of records. Most people who don't follow women basketball closely couldn't tell you who won the championship 4 years ago.
I hope you watched them by choice and not because you didn't realize that the regular broadcast of the game was on ABC.
Don't forget about Candace Parker and Cheryl Miller. Clark is a great shooter and she has a decent handle, but she gets lots of help from the refs. Some of her flops were beyond ridiculous. She complains after every shot. She doesn't even try to play defense.
Why didn’t you watch the ABC feed that had regular commentary?
Don't worry next year will be even more hilarious when they alienate the men that came over and enjoyed their sport when they call the drop in ratings on fans being "racist" for not acknowledging the greatness of Juju Watkins from USC.
Auriemma's team is making UK Men's team look like the Cal Ripken model for a program. That's how often his team has dealt with injuries. Need to look at the training and honestly these players need to rest a bit more-they do too much training/specializing at a young age and that's not good for the ligaments and joints of young people. Leads to more injuries. Why you should play different sports in HS--helps build up use and movements in different ways and not so much stress on knees/ankles/feet.
So your going to double down on Clark.
When your four other teammates aren’t much of a threat, there’s a lot more focus defensively on one player defensively.
They only had 8 players available and 3 starters were out for the season and 1 other was out for year as well.
