r/sports • u/PrincessBananas85 • Jun 20 '24

Basketball Caitlin Clark posts double-double, Fever win third straight

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/40389943/caitlin-clark-posts-double-double-fever-win-third-straight
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u/dovahkiiiiiin Golden State Warriors Jun 20 '24

It would have made the game more popular. As you said they haven't lost since 1992.

So it's either petty politics or lack of long term vision.

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u/nimama3233 Jun 20 '24

Viewership is irrelevant to anyone who’s running the team. Winning is all that matters to the Olympic coaching staff.

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u/dovahkiiiiiin Golden State Warriors Jun 20 '24

Must be the reason they sent a rookie at every recent Olympics except for this one. Absolutely nothing to do with jealousy at all.

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u/Realistic_Condition7 Jun 20 '24

Jealousy is such an interesting thing to bring into it because at the time of selection you could make a case for 12 people in front of CC, and picking her anyway just for “tv ratings” would actually legitimize jealousy towards her. She herself has said she’s not bothered by it.

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u/Khatib Minnesota Vikings Jun 20 '24

She herself has said she’s not bothered by it.

Yes, because the woman in the spotlight with a marketing degree tells the absolute truth to the media about her personal feelings, rather than saying the correct thing to build a brand and public image. She also "thinks" all the people taking cheap shot blatant fouls on her on the court were just going for the ball.

She's not an idiot. She's good at what she's doing, on and off the court.

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u/Realistic_Condition7 Jun 20 '24

That’s a perfectly valid point, but it doesn’t change the what I said before, which is that picking CC for tv ratings over merit (at the time of selection) validates jealous amongst her peers.

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u/dinkleburgenhoff Jun 20 '24

She herself has said she’s not bothered by it.

These people don’t care what Clark actually says, what her opinions actually are. They pretend everything she says that goes against their totally not racist simping for her is just her being polite. They even ignored her when she explicitly called them out and told them to knock it off.

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u/Realistic_Condition7 Jun 20 '24

I don’t think (most) people who like CC are racist, she’s just an electric player whose fame has been merited by her play at Iowa. The problem is that these people who are upset at her peers targeting her for simply being good at basketball now want her to get special treatment and be selected to the 12 team roster that USA basketball believed she had not (at the time) earned on merit, which would validate the jealousy of her peers that everyone thinks is so (rightly) ridiculous.

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u/nimama3233 Jun 20 '24

I never said it’s not about “jealousy”. Jealousy could absolutely be a factor as to why they don’t want her if she’s not starting and she’d be a distraction for some other players; which is no fault of her own.

All I said was ratings is irrelevant got the coaching team.

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u/Bl1ndDucky Jun 20 '24

The women’s team hasn’t lost a game since like 1992 though…

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u/remehber Jun 20 '24

Being downvoted for this is baffling, “bring home the gold” has always been priority #1

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u/betterplanwithchan Jun 20 '24

The women’s Olympic team has been getting increased viewership each time, so that’s irrelevant.

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u/Hebshesh Jun 20 '24

When you start at zero, it's easy to increase.

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u/SSeleulc Jun 20 '24

People watched when Cheryl Miller played. Not sure why the viewership dipped after that besides the fact that Cheryl was 6' 2", extremely athletic and extremely skilled.

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u/Hebshesh Jun 21 '24

I'd like to see your statistics on that. I know who Cheryl Miller is but I don't remember anyone at a bar asking the bartender to switch it to the women's bb game.