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Because she's not big enough or strong enough. She's an excellent, excellent, excellent basketball player. I don't think she can compete physically with professional level men due to the size and strength and agility differences.
Sorry 18. It's not interesting, it's just moronic!!!
The forearm push-off to get off her shots wouldn't last one game.
Because women don't want to have to compete against men. Only men who can't make it in the men's sports wants to become a girl so they can finally be worth a sh#t in their sport.
Just once, I'd like to see these sort of situations play out. Leave all the talk behind and put her on the court. Then just watch.
This happened in golf a couple decades ago, and the obvious happened.
This happened in golf a couple decades ago, and the obvious happened.
Agree.
It is level dependent tho. I know a lot of scratch or even plus handicap men who think they could compete on the LPGA Tour. They would get their asses handed to them. But Annika on the PGA Tour? Or Nelly if you put her out there today? It won't work.
It would be even starker in a game defined by lower body strength and agility like hoops.
Slower. Smaller. Weaker. More frail. Bigger ball to shoot. Do we need to continue?
She couldn't compete against high school boys.
The NBA game isn’t about just throwing up great shots. Even if CC shot 100% from the floor, she would be guarded by taller stronger players with faster reaction times and faster twitch muscle response. She’d get dominated.
AS John McEnroe said, Serena Williams could not beat the 500th ranked male player in tennis. Caitlyn Clark could not make an NBA roster, and maybe not the Iowa men's roster either. That does nothing to take away how good she is in the women's game.
Apparently you are unaware of the non travel calls against MJ and LeBron.
Her forearm push-off wouldn't even register a casual 2nd hand look.
It's not an interesting question at all. You know that, you just want to get the obvious reaction.
I am aware
As one person noted: every player currently in the NBA is far better than any woman who has ever picked up a basketball anywhere in the world in all of history.
So?I am aware
As one person noted: every player currently in the NBA is far better than any woman who has ever picked up a basketball anywhere in the world in all of history.
I’m assuming you mean it wouldn’t even register a casual 2nd hand look from refs as an offensive foul. If that is the case, I find it laughable anyone would even think her forearm push would actually move NBA players. So, I suppose from that standpoint I certainly agree.
So that was kind of the point of the post. To respond to the X post of why Clark couldn’t compete in the NBA. You know, the more I think about it we’d have to get really specific about our definition of compete. She could certainly take the floor, and I suppose that’s competing to a certain extent, but my short, fat self could also take the floor and “compete.”
Again, she is a very good offensive player and will deservedly go high in the WNBA draft. I think she will struggle in the WNBA due to her defensive skills weakness being a liability.
The above would be amplified in the NBA. I doubt she'd even make a roster.
I believe she could play Women's 3x3 in international competition. Her defense wouldn't be as much of a liability.
I believe she might could play Men's 3x3 in international competition. That's the real interesting question.
The above would be amplified in the NBA. I doubt she'd even make a roster.
I believe she could play Women's 3x3 in international competition. Her defense wouldn't be as much of a liability.
I believe she might could play Men's 3x3 in international competition. That's the real interesting question.
She could probably start for some small private Christian high school team made up mostly of small, slow white boys.
They said the same about Curry. Too small cannot compete with the larger NBA players. Well we know the rest of the story.
No comparison. Curry could have scored 100 pts a game if he had played on a WBB team in college and Clark wouldn't average 2 pts a game playing MBB in college.
When I was in college, me or my brother and about 50 other people we know would have beat her in 1 on 1. But the woke society will beat this drum until someone tries this narrative. So please let the Lakers or some dumba$$ west coast team draft her, and let’s end this.
It would be like that stupid girl kicker at Vandy. Some team would draft her, she'd make the roster because cutting her because she was getting dominated every day at practice would be "misogynistic", she'd be put in at the end of some blowout game to get fouled and go to the line and make a couple free throws and every camera within 1000 miles would be there to record the historic "first points scored by a woman in the NBA".
That first kickoff by the Vandy kicker was simply hilarious. Honestly, ANY of us in the forum could have done at least that well. And that's not hyperbole. Then they trot out the PR machine after the fact to say that was what they wanted in that situation.
I'll take the 50 other people broke all the scoring records, if so tell me their names. Nothing woke about giving CK her dues. Sure those 50 other people are considered elite and will be in the hall of fame like CK will be one day.
It has nothing to do with giving Clark her due. It's about suggesting she could compete with men. She could not. Not in college and absolutely not in the NBA. And, frankly, probably not for a great number of high school teams. I don't know anything much about her other than she's really good, but people start sounding stupid when they talk about her competing with men.
In addition Clark would be a HUGE liability on defense -- but first she would have to learn what defense is.
Part of the issue is that people look at how much faster she is than the other players she's playing against in WBB and draw comparisons in their mind to men players who are comparably faster than their male counterparts and then assume that Clark would be comparable to that player in men's basketball. Clark would get absolutely crushed in the NBA. And that's not in any way insult to her. She's just not a man. It's not derogatory to say she can't play in the NBA.
Some say "well, she dominated boys when she was in elementary school" or whatever. But the physical disparities between the genders are not really developed at that age.