ellobo wrote:TerrenceClarke wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:
All of these people are f*cking pathetic, this is basketball. Leave the racism out of it. Was it a racial attack when Alyssa Thomas basically chokeslammed Angel in mid air like the Undertaker?
This stuff poisons everything and ruins the fun. I can't help but notice how people are doing everything that they can to spew toxicity around the women's game.
Last week Luka cussed out Rudy Gobert and was talking a ton of sh*t to Ant-Man as things got heated during Mavs/Wolves. Yet no one made it about race, because it's guys hooping and being competitive. Why is what's happening in the WNBA any different? Are people that triggered by seeing women being fierce competitors?
Yes because this was all started by this one moment.
A large portion White America and casual BB fans who only started watching because of CC could not handle their princess being treated like this and it’s been a war since.
Let’s keep it 100%
Prior to this moment …..Angel and CC were not even connected.
If Ant Did this to Luka nobody would care.
All of this tension started a whole year prior, it just spilled into the wnba.
the undertone is that “they” need to kiss CC feet…. Which brings a whole new element to it.
The league is majority Black ….so we already know what the Drill is…
Clark and Reese's teams actually played three times before the Iowa-LSU national championship game, when Reese was at Maryland, with Maryland winning all three games. I've also seen mention of matchups going back to AAU. It's a longstanding rivalry.
Yeah, there's a lot of Clark stans who see Reese as a villain, no question.
As far as I'm concerned, and (as far as I can tell) also as far as the two women are concerned, they're just two competitive rivals playing basketball. It's a real competitive basketball rivalry, which is great, and it's unfortunate that a lot of people can't accept it and enjoy it for what it is.
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Even then they still was not connected. Nationally the were NOT connected. Saying anything else is just fabrication.
What you speak of Is some basic AAU class stuff. All AAU players have certain ‘rivalies’ they been playing each other for a while. They were NOT tied to the hip like they are since that moment.
Angel never does that….and it’s a whole different reality basically. It’s a huge what if….
Angel profile was always small in Maryland and in high school. When Angel was in Maryland she had no national buzz at all. She was not even the best player on the Maryland teams.Diamond Miller was,
Angel was a basic college forward untill she left Maryland
LSU put her on the Map. And the national spotlight. She became a ‘villain’ before she played against CC that year because she was called ‘ghetto’ for her just being competitive all year LSU. That’s why her profile started to rise because she was so feisty and people were not use to women being so competitive as her. LSU being so dominate that year also helped.
She was allowed to be herself which at Maryland she was not….its why she left. She felt she was bigger and she was proven right when she left. Many people thought Reese was dumb for leaving Maryland who already have a good program. She proved everyone wrong and became the national star she became that year.
This Championship Game moment is when Angel Reese truly became public enemy no 1 cause she showed up Clark. since that day Clark became the victim and Reese became Evil Reese. The disrespect that went her way since that moment was ridiculous. People felt so bad for Clark and wanted to make her some victim over basic basketball stuff….you got the damn White House inviting the LOSING team to the White House.smh.
They are tied from this moment and no other moment regardless of anything from Maryland days or AAU.
This was the date everything got set off and became a NATIONAL CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE…
Many people still did not even know who Reese was cause it was what she did that made the situation a national topic. People learned about both of them from casuals simply for that moment cause it became a racial topic.
this stuff is aggravating me
