Her game is playing at the bar and I swear I have never seen any player in history get so many shots blocked. This isn’t a Clark vs Reese debate. She is actually terrible at basketball. It’s actually funny to watch.
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She has a good nose for the ball and fights hard on rebounds, yes including all the mebounds. That's all she does. She doesn't shoot well, doesn't post up well, doesn't score with her back to the basket, doesn't run the floor well, her defense is ok but not great.
But a big part of why she gets so many rebounds is having 6'7 Cardoso in there with her eating up space and occupying the other team's best big so she can kind of roam free.
The fact that she barely shoots over 30% from within 5 feet of the basket is pretty embarrassing.
But a big part of why she gets so many rebounds is having 6'7 Cardoso in there with her eating up space and occupying the other team's best big so she can kind of roam free.
The fact that she barely shoots over 30% from within 5 feet of the basket is pretty embarrassing.
She don’t even look at what she is shooting at. She just throws the ball at the rim. It’s totally bizarre
Her dribbling isn't much better, lol...
How that was never called a double dribble just goes to show how bad WNBA refs are.
That’s a decent percentage for an outside shooter. For a post, it’s terrible.
The league can only push her for so much longer. As gonzo mentioned she does have a better ability than some for rebounds but also not good or even above avg at anything else. She wouldn’t be a double double if she’s not getting 3 mebounds per game…sometimes more
Nothing wrong with mebounds. Seems like Moses Malone and Karl Malone were praised for their mebounds. Back then it was considered an effort or hustle play.
I realize you aren't being overtly negative about Reece's "mebounds". But I've had a few conversations with Clark fans whose main point why Reece is a bad player is her % of baskets made on getting her own offensive rebound.
Both of those guys shot around 50% for their careers. This year she's shooting less than 31% from the field. Her career so far she's at 38%. Shooting that bad when most of your shots are within a few feet of the rim deserves to be called out.
I don’t know if the league is pushing her as much as she seems to be media savvy on her own. I did get a kick out of her “people are watching because of me too” comment last year or whenever it was she made it. I might be wrong though, I don’t follow particularly close so I would defer to those that do.
She was a promising athletic kid as a freshman at Maryland but it looks like she has not done a lick of work to improve her game since than. The real stars work their butts off to improve both in and out of season. She gets by simply showing up. Well, showing up and talking, she does like to talk about herself.
She's loud... I'll give her that but I won't comment on how good she is at basketball since the next WNBA game I watch will be the first.
Just lemme say this for Miss Reece...her stats are better than mine ever were or ever will be.
She has a role but she did herself a disservice pitting herself against CC. I know some of it was media-made but she certainly hasn't run from it. Her overall game is atrocious but she's an elite rebounder. Problem is she thinks she's putting butts in seats, but she's not a draw at all.
Just from social media the WNBA seems to be leaning into the petty drama and glam for ratings much like other leagues do.
I've tried watching but imo it's not what it wants to be.
It doesn’t help that she looks objectively worse this year while before the injury Clark looked way stronger and much better on defense.
It was never a realistic competition but there were a few weeks last year where she put up monster numbers while CC had bad stat games. I doubt that’s ever happening again.
If she was half the player she claims to be she'd be awesome. It's the WNBA, people don't really watch because they play well. The drama she brings keeps attention on the sport so there's that.
I think she'd be better off dropping the public jealousy of Clark as she draws a comparison to a player that is simply way better than her.
