KembaWalker wrote:dhsilv2 wrote:KembaWalker wrote:I think you guys way overrate the level of play in the big 3. Half the dudes in this league don’t have the cardio or footspeed to keep up with Caitlin Clark if she ran from the baseline to one of her spots 30’ out more than a couple times. Cuttino Mobley and Mahmoud Abdul Rauf are not chasing her around the court. She’d get plenty of shots up and do fine
You're massively overrating the ability of even the greatest woman ever in basketball. She couldn't make a high school allstar boys team. She'd not make a D3 men's team. And that's not a knock on her, it's just biology.
No, I’m really not. There’s high school boys that would dice up most of the big 3 for the same reason, actually being in shape. There’s some younger guys that would give her problems but the guys that are there to sell the tickets, the old 45+ year old fat guys with the names are literally physically incapable of keeping up with her even in a half court setting.
Of course they could post her up every time but that’s not what I claimed, all I said is that she’d have no trouble getting up open shots against some guys in that league
Y’all don’t understand the difference between a high level performing athlete in their cardio prime vs some fat circus sideshow acts
We've seen fat old men run circles around the top women's soccer teams too. Even reaction time between men and women is significantly different. So even when it comes to putting up shots, men react faster, significantly faster.
If it wasn't a half court event, that cardio could quickly become a bigger issue. But having it in the half court just makes this worse. I'm not saying she would never get an open look or get a shot off. But she'll be a cone on defense and her shots will get blocked an altered far more than you're giving credit for.