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definitely not derka

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  1. a)as if this solution was not objectively worse b)as if they couldn’t find enough PT for her as team usa defeats kyrgyzstan 115-28.
  2. this thread has more posts in the last three weeks than this forum’s wnba thread has in its four-year existence. and people seriously ask why caitlyn clark should be on the team. smh.
  3. are you serious? pancho i’ve “known” you for probably 20 years on these boards, and i generally respect you and your takes, but you are so far off the fucking deep end when it comes to the wnba that it’s impossible to take you seriously. you are way too smart to be making the posts and taking the stances that you’re taking. stop it. use your head. use even a modicum of common sense. you know the answer to this question. that said, to answer your question, which again is a completely asinine and tone deaf question, the reason that NOW is the time to do this is because THESE UNTALENTED BITCHES HAVE BEEN BEGGING FOR ATTENTION FOR DECADES. HELLO!!! all we ever hear from these entitled “athletes” who play a sport that nobody likes is how much more attention and respect they deserve. they FINALLY have a player who puts asses in the seats and eyeballs on tv and instead of embracing her the entire league treats her like a pariah. they push her away. they turn up their collective nose at the attention they’ve been begging for. it is just monumentally stupid and petty, the way these women have reacted to caitlyn clark joining their league. leaving her out of their worldwide showcase event is just the cherry on top of the tone deaf sundae. it’s pathetic. seriously dude- you should be better than this. objectivity should not be beyond you.
  4. so do they want eyeballs or not? do they want to grow the game and its popularity or not? the team is going to win every single game easily, but you’re going to have about 10x more viewership if CC is on the team and being showcased all over social media and television. look, pick only the best players if you want to, but STFU about it if nobody watches. this summer is this sport’s one moment in time to actually advance the popularity of their sport, something they’ve been desperately trying to do for years, and to this point all they’ve done is taken people who were indifferent about the league and it’s players and made them anti-wnba. one of the all-time fumblings of a great opportunity. just hilariously pathetic.
  5. they did the same thing for angel reese’s game too, right?
  6. super fun week to be playing against him in the shaggy fantasy league.
  7. from gerry’s notes posted here yesterday: guess gerry didn’t have that in his notes.
  8. love that guy, and am dreading the day when he inevitably leaves for another opportunity.
  9. usa and england giving their golden generations to gregg and southgate is criminal. i mean to be fair lol @ england, but still, sucks for us.
  10. hurley also seems to have a very keen eye for winning players. he’s made it very clear in countless interviews that his program will only recruit and offer young men who they see as having the winning qualities that they look for, regardless of stars or rankings. they will spurn a five star in a heartbeat if he doesn’t meet their criteria of what a winner is. if LAL does hire him as their next HC then LeGM is going to have a come to jesus moment with hurley, because hurley ain’t letting lebron choose the team. it’ll be an interesting dynamic if hurley does get the job.
  11. so weird, i was just thinking about him earlier today. unfortunately that’s the least surprising update possible.
  12. he’s clearly got a great basketball mind.
  13. not for me, and not for plenty of other people i’d suspect. the first non-Longhorn female hooper who grabbed my attention was seimone augustus, all the way back when she was in HS. her ability, her play style, her swagger- all of it was captivating. if she came out today i think she’d be a star. for me it’s the same with cc. it’s her play style, her elite vision, he ability to shoot from 25 feet, and to drop 40 on any given night. she has a very watchable play style and she has been promoted like crazy by espn. now then- at the same time as cc is blowing up, angel reese and her LSU team are also being heavily promoted by espn. that’s a fact. and they even won the national title. so what’s the difference? it’s two simple, obvious things: angel reese’s play style is about as fun to watch as a middle school parochial league, and then she talks a whole bunch of shit, she plays the villain role, then turns around and plays the victim role, then tells everyone how she props up her league just as much as cc does, etc, etc. in other words she’s not fun to watch and her personality is fucking terrible. it has absolutely nothing to do with her race, her gender, or her sexual orientation.
  14. thats another part of the women’s game where they do themselves no favors, and it’s not the players fault: you would never see a tweet about an nba player who went for 13 and 10 on 3/12 shooting with a -6 +/- that said, “Player A is must see TV”, and yet i routinely see bad-mundane things like this from the women’s game being propped up and bombasticized whenever i find myself exposed to the game. like the top 10 on sportscenter will have a home run robbery at no.8, a windmill alley oop at no.6, a 30 yard direct fk goal at no.4, and then the no.3 play is some wnba lady doing some slow motion, regular-ass no-look pass to her teammate who’s standing four feet away and the anchors lose their shit over it, as if everyone watching doesn’t know how routine that just was.
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