Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
Meh, if she starts making a higher % of shots she's probably a 16 pt / 10 Reb player. Who plays plus defense. Because she rebounds a lot of her misses it inflates her Reb numbers but it minimizes some of the damage of missing so many easy shots.
Not taking away from her that she's very good by WNBA standards. But it's Clint capela good, where capelas style of play is more valuable to the WNBA that is more physical than it is athletic than it is in the NBA.
A lot of folks bring up Capela but Reese does hit threes and jumpers here snd there. So it's not like she can't shoot at all. Imo she's closer to Giannis than Capela. Dominant despite not being a great shooter. [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
A lot of folks bring up Capela but Reese does hit threes and jumpers here snd there. So it's not like she can't shoot at all. Imo she's closer to Giannis than Capela. Dominant despite not being a great shooter.
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
A lot of folks bring up Capela but Reese does hit threes and jumpers here snd there. So it's not like she can't shoot at all. Imo she's closer to Giannis than Capela. Dominant despite not being a great shooter.
Dude she is a 28% shooter outside 10 feet and most of those shots are completely uncontested. Giannis is a 75% shooter within 5 feet to angel's 40%. What are we doing here. [Reply]
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
Dude she is a 28% shooter outside 10 feet and most of those shots are completely uncontested. Giannis is a 75% shooter within 5 feet to angel's 40%. What are we doing here.
GIannis has built his game over several years. Reese is still a rookie fgs. I'm just saying both are good defenders, rebounder and get buckets despite not having reliable jumpers :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
GIannis has built his game over several years. Reese is still a rookie fgs. I'm just saying both are good defenders, rebounder and get buckets despite not having reliable jumpers :-)
Over his career Giannis has shot 56.7 from the field and 59.1% inside the arc.
Wide Eyes McGee shoots 38.5% from the field and 39.2% inside the arc. Also she's 2/12 from 3 lol.
She gets buckets because any idiot can throw it up 12+ times from the blocks and luck into making 5 of them. [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
GIannis has built his game over several years. Reese is still a rookie fgs. I'm just saying both are good defenders, rebounder and get buckets despite not having reliable jumpers :-)
Because Giannis can dunk so he's an excellent finisher. Angels entire offensive bag is 5 ft in and she's not even a 40% shooter. She absolutely can develop with time. But right now she just has zero offensive bag. Her entire technique is bully ball. Can't post, can't shoot, can't layup. Just throw a bunch of shit up, get second chance opps or draw a foul. [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
I've already explained that the Sky are shorthanded. They traded their best shooter (Mabrey) away and have lost their best playmaker (Carter) to injury lately. Take away Mitchell and Smith from Clark and Indiana would be losing too.
Clark has elevated the play of her teammates to winning basketball. That was your criteria a couple of months back. She is doing it. I think it is obvious that the Fever made the correct choice in picking Clark at #1.
Now what isn't clear is why the next 5 teams passed on Reese. She is clearly the second most talented player in the draft class at this point in time. She has skills. Fever need to get her in a trade this off-season. [Reply]
So now barkley, lebron, Stephen a Smith and Nick wright have called the WNBA media out for all the anti Clark weirdness. And big surprise, the WNBA activists are finally tail between legs. Finally. I've said it before, this is the last stand for activists trying to inject social issues. They've been kicked out of every other sport. Even women's soccer. These guys were tentative to give that full endorsement earlier in the year because they got pounced. It got so out of hand that they just stopped giving a shit about being polite.
Doesn't seem like a coincidence that all of a sudden the praise is raining down on Clark. From the NBA. From the WNBA giving her awards she was snubbed out of the first half of the season. To kicking Sheryl swoopes out of the broadcast booth for being a hater. I would bet the WNBA and even nba leadership saw the stupidity of how they're duffing a once in a lifetime opportunity to grow the league with this pettiness.
And man I just hope this is the last stand for this activist bullshit. If they get booted from the WNBA there's nowhere else for them to go. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Coogs:
Clark has elevated the play of her teammates to winning basketball. That was your criteria a couple of months back. She is doing it. I think it is obvious that the Fever made the correct choice in picking Clark at #1.
Now what isn't clear is why the next 5 teams passed on Reese. She is clearly the second most talented player in the draft class at this point in time. She has skills. Fever need to get her in a trade this off-season.
Cameron Brink is clearly was the right pick at 2, Cardoso is 6'7 and still defensable at 3 and given they got Reese at 7 hard to argue with.
Originally Posted by Shields68:
Cameron Brink is clearly was the right pick at 2, Cardoso is 6'7 and still defensable at 3 and given they got Reese at 5 hard to argue with.
The only one maybe is Jackson at 4.
Jackson is really good. In my opinion the second best rookie with Reese in third (though I think Reese has the best upside of any of these players outside of Clark). I dunno, I think cardoso is a finished product and it's solid but unspectacular. But still brink was a good choice for pick 2. [Reply]
