What do you think of Caitlin Clark?
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Exactly. They play a fast enough pace where they can absorb some extra turnovers plus the women's game has a higher turnover rate than the men's game anyway.
KidSilverhair
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What won the game for Iowa, I think, were these two late fourth-quarter plays:
- Iowa lofted up a long shot (might have been a three, might have even been Clark, I don’t remember) up two points. Clanged off the rim, but Iowa grabbed the rebound and ended up extending the lead to four.
- with under 10 seconds left down four South Carolina put up a three pointer that missed, but Iowa fought for the rebound and it ended up going out of bounds off SC.
Despite getting absolutely owned on the glass all night long, Iowa was able to get those two critical rebound opportunities to go their way in crunch time. That was the ball game, IMO.
She has nothing else to prove in college plus you have the risk of a major injury your final year go pro the $is there
Staley got embarrassed. Bluder just ran circles around her.
All South Carolina had to do with the girl that wasn't being guarded was have her drive to 12 feet and get the ball on the rim to let their height board and put back until it went it and she just froze.
When you're entire offensive strategy is 'we're taller and stronger than you are', it's really easy to get exposed.
Right, but the point is still the same — the fanbases get jacked up for football and MBB. I think most ISU fans will never root for the Hawks in those 2 sports but will root for their WBB team or don’t care what they do.
Except she will earn 10 times the $’s playing college ball another year…it would take 5 years of WNBA to match that.
Bluder really coached circles around Staley. From what I've seen in the tournament most of the SEC teams are worse versions of SC, who play two true bigs and don't have a ton of shooting. Iowa being able to play someone like Warnock as basically their four and pull one of those bigs away from the hoop really took a lot of the teeth out of their defense. Iowa wasn't even shooting well from outside but still just spammed spread pick and roll and was getting to the hoop at will, either Clark taking it herself or dropping off to a wide open big.
Was also really impressed with how Clark was able to get pretty much wherever she wanted. I knew she was quick and had a great first step but didn't realize it would still be so noticable against a team as athletic as South Carolina. None of them could stay in front of her.
This is true. She takes 30 shots a game because frankly why shouldn't she? She's the most qualified person on the team to do it.
There is a blueprint to beating this team. Stop Clark and Czinano. Even stopping just one of them would beat them most nights. Teams are struggling to do that right now
I honestly thought their defense was more embarrassing. Going straight up against Clark and Czinano was so dumb. They were the only ones doing anything. Everyone else should have been helping on them and then make the role players hit shots
A quick Google search tells me we were in her final 3 with Iowa and Notre Dame. Now, was she always Iowa's to lose, I am not sure
I hate all things hok but I love sports and Caitlyn is a special talent. Bluder should be fired if she Clark ever takes < 20 shots in a game. Wish she played for a different team but I will have no problem rooting for her against Mulkey. She absolutely carved the top defensive team in the country, you could see the look in South Carolina's eyes- 'WTF are we supposed to do'
She’s knocked the Garzas out of all the KXNO and WHO Soundoff Twitter accounts. I guess that’s something.
I just saw she turned the attention to that about the media. You had the most talented team in the country and you got out coached in the final four because of your arrogance and you focus on something perceived.
That's the thing, though. WTF did they even try to do? Do you really believe that they couldn't have taken better steps to defend her?
Adjustments were few and far between and largely ineffectual.
Caitlin is an amazing talent, but it isn't as if a top defensive team had no chance to contain her. It looked to me as if the Cocks were accustomed to winning simply because they have more length, athleticism, and brute strength than other teams.
Hats off to Frau Bluder. From a coaching stand point she absolutely kicked Staley's ass. She had good defensive schemes, like junking it up with the Triangle and Two. She had great offensive sets that SC never really did effectively adjust to.
It was. But imagine an alternate universe where Staley had a clue and attempted to adjust to what Iowa was doing. If she had, I'm not sure it would have been close enough for those two critical rebounds to matter.
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