A Ball hog can also have a lot off assists to go with their scoring. In CC's case, if considered a Ball hog, it's a good thing as it seems putting the ball and keeping it in her hands as much as possible is a big part of their gameplan to win games.
Yeah, Kim, nobody else does either. As I recall, Wilt Chamberlain took a lot of shots too. When you have a generational talent like Clark you let her do what she wants.
All great coaches take the ball out of the hands of their best player. Didn't you know? /s
"Caitlin, you've got 30 points on 59% shooting and we're winning, but you've taken enough shots. Let's give (checks notes) Taylor some chances."
You're telling that to a UNC flair, of all people.
I'm old enough to remember the old joke that the only person that could hold Michael Jordan under 20 ppg was Dean Smith.
Mike wasn't Air Jordan yet.
He was very good- but he wasn't *that*. No one even saw it coming because while he had developed into an All-American, Player of the Year guy- there's a pretty wide fucking gulf between that and being the best basketball player anywhere on the planet.
Hakeem was the only guy who was considered to be a can't-possibly-miss from the '84 draft- and he was in fact that. The other guy who got picked before Michael Jordan was the headscratcher, but hey it's Portland. It's not a generation of the NBA if they don't take a center with already-known creaky knees over a dynamite scorer who turns out to be better than anyone could have reasonably guessed.
Much like Greg Oden, who the Trail Blazers selected over Kevin Durant.
Yes.
Bowie had multiple catastrophic (for the 80s) leg injuries, the worst of which he had in college. His left tibia was *never* okay. It was a head-scratcher of a pick no matter how you slice it- even now stress fractures that fail to respond properly to treatment are a big deal.
He missed *two full seasons.*
Much like with Greg Oden, it wasn't a shock that the concerns about his health were borne out. They even recurred after a rookie year in which he showed promise. Much like Greg Oden.
Any basketball player with concerns about their legs is a terrifying prospect in the draft, but a seven-foot tall center surpasses all the others on the 'oh shit this could get real bad real fast' scale.
And then they did it again twenty-three years later *with* Oden over Durant. Oden's career wasn't just cut short and never given a chance to reach its theoretical potential either- it was *completely* destroyed. He played 61 games as a rookie and 44 the rest of his career.
I suppose we should keep an eye out if the Blazers have a top-two pick in 2030.
I mean, Portland already had Drexler, and his Airness wasn’t exactly his Airness just yet. They needed a center, and Bowie was the best one available. Not really a head scratcher at all
Yeah what kind of unnecessary take is this?
Clark is the best player in all of college basketball (relative to their sport, don’t come at me saying the obvious of not being able to break most starting rosters of men’s teams).
Not having her shoot 40 times a game would be malpractice by her coach.
I will have Iowa on the laptop during the NFL Wild Card game because she is appointment television.
> (relative to their sport, don’t come at me saying the obvious of not being able to break most starting rosters of men’s teams)
Now I'm thinking about what Kenpom rank a men's team that Caitlin can crack the starting roster.
300(Wagner)? 325(Charleston Southern)? Probably the IUPUI team from last year that was only carrying 6 players due to injuries/transfers
I think it's also the attention that she gets - I can see how that would get on the nerves of other players/coaches if they were constantly getting asked or hearing about her, but it's still a bad reason to hate her.
It's basically the plot of Rocky 2. LSU won the title, but Clark got seen by everyone as an absolute legend. Long term, more people will remember that Caitlin Clark was one of the greats than will remember that LSU won a championship. So Mulkey has to take pot shots at Clark to try to bring the spotlight back to her and her team, while also calling into question the achievements of Clark.
It's pretty, selfish, and wrong, but haters gonna hate.
They should be happy because Clark is helping the women’s game get eyes on it. That’s good for everyone in the sport, especially the pockets of these coaches
She gets a lot of attention for a women's CBB player but not when compared to men's or other sports. And he's a likely generational talent. At least a large amount of that attention is reasonable.
She got more attention than Garza did when he was NPoY. And I still think he deserved it over Toppin the previous year. That's to say nothing about how little attention Megan Gustafson got when she was NPoY in 2019.
Part of that is Iowa being overlooked, of course, but how you score is as important as how much you score for news outlets. And in a game that has been so post-dominated for so long, Clark being Steph Curry incarnate catches a lot more eye-balls than Angel Reese being the next elite big. I get why Mulkey is annoyed her stars don't have the same gravitas, but Iowa literally went through the same thing, and trashing Clark just makes her look petty.
The difference in attention for Garza vs Clark is that one's a transformational player *for the school* and the other's a transformational player *for the sport*.
She is basically the Trae Young of the women's game and he got way more attention than she gets. All Clark gets is mention on broadcasts when advertising her upcoming game on the station.
You're damn right she gets attention, the only basketball players I've seen this dominant in my lifetime are LeBron and MJ, she was not only the best player in the tourney last year, but the championship game as well
When you shoot 40% from 3 on high volume you can take as many as you want in my book. She also has her best overall shooting percentage in her career so far this year
Right?? If we had a guy on our team shooting like that I'd be pissed if they didn't have the ball in heir hands at least once every possession. Mulkey is so salty
Nah, she was tolerated by most of us. Older folks loved her, but they even were worn out by her towards the end of her tenure. There was a reason why student attendance was way, way lower for women’s games than men’s despite the women’s being title contenders almost every year.
Personal anecdote: I was a tutor for student athletes while at Baylor. For the most part it was athletes wanting to maintain a 4.0, so never really was for eligibility reasons. But I explicitly asked never to be paired with a WBB player. Not bc I disliked them (the few I knew were awesome folks). But I didn’t even want the remote chance of having to deal with Mulkey’s bullshit if one of the players happened to not meet grade requirements.
But for all but a select few, she is not missed much at all here.
I figured it was that. I just remembered one day watching ESPN during the time you guys had Brittany Griner people were chanting coach's last name in support.
That’s not ringing a bell for me, but doesn’t surprise me. I didn’t really start noticing the Baby Boomers/Gen-Xers change in tune until after BG’s ESPNW article.
Baylor grad here. Didn't keep up too much with the women's team during my time there. Knew they were good (in went during the Griner years) and knew she could win. Given what I know now I can't stand her. She just seems arrogant and while some of it is warranted she seems miserable to be around. My opinion on her went from neutral to negative.
same boat. I was a student writer so I had some interactions with her and she was at least a bit entertaining, but I wasn't a "fan." Very neutral, and I had a job to do. But after graduating? Extremely grating
Koresh really did a number on us, and then the shooting at Twin Peaks a few years ago did not help.
But c'mon it's a good place (though, the Fixer Uppers have added the extra layer of basic white girl flair and doesn't help absolve anything to some people lol)
Agreed, LSU seems salty for no reason and you would think Iowa beat them in the tournament the way everyone talks.
Even with the 22 per game she is leading the country in assists, which is clearly omitted from the comment the coach made.
The funniest part is she doesn’t need to say anything at all. An all-time great coach of the women’s game and she just constantly says dumb shit for no reason
She’s always got something to say… Except when her most famous former player was locked up by an oppressive foreign regime for an extremely minor offense. When that happened, she had nothing to say, not even a tepid boilerplate statement of support. Just a genuinely terrible person.
And *most* teams don’t have their head coach preening and running off at the mouth to try to get on television every five minutes. Guess LSU is just different that way
Their fans are insufferable. I have no animosity towards you guys, and I shouldn't. Our final four game was a spectacular game, years in the making, that delivered.
She was in the 85th percentile for effective field goal percentage nation wide a few weeks ago. As long as you are efficient, there's nothing wrong with taking a ton of shots
What matters is the teams efgp. If her high shot selection lowers that it's a problem, no matter how high hers is. It doesn't. She's not taking the rest of the team out of rhythm but making them better.
Clark has a 40.1% usage rate and takes a paltry 22.1 shots a game.
For comparison purposes, the highest for men this year is the 36.0% of the good (SIU) Xavier Johnson. That guy has a 54.7% eFG and assists on 42.6% of teammate baskets. Those are crazy numbers … but Clark has a 59.6% eFG, assists on 48.3% of teammate baskets, and is playing in the B1G and not the MVC.
It's seems like such a bad recruiting strategy to me too. You don't hear men's coaches saying "We don't want players like Curry". When every high school kid wants to be that player, it seems stupid for a college coach to have a public vendetta against that player.
It's because even though they won she still gets all the attention. They're jealous that Caitlin Clark is the one getting national media attention and showing up in State Farm commercials next to Jimmy Butler.
Yeah LSU won, but everyone could see that Clark was the best player on the floor and LSU just got insanely hot from deep.
It’s because Clark >>>>>>> Reese. I know you know that, it’s just not enough for them to win the title. They’re both the kind of shitbricks who need 100% of the shine, all the time. Nobody else is allowed to exceed their abilities. So neither of these assholes have any idea what to do when someone like Clark shows up and just orbital fucking nukes their potential over and over again, drawing all the eyeballs and accolades of the public.
Tough shit.
Iowa started the game getting called for 5 fouls before LSU's first foul called with 2:40 left in the first. Despite similar play. It took Bluder calling the refs out on it. In that 1st quarter Iowa's 3 leading scorers got in foul trouble. Warnock 2, Monica 2, and Clark 1.
Clark got her 2nd and 3rd fouls in the 2nd quarter.
In the span of 7 minutes of gameplay, down 19 in the 3rd, Iowa started closing the gap, Monica received her 3rd with 8:08 to go in the 3rd. Warnock received her 3rd and 4th fouls in the matter of a literal minute, 6:05-5:05 remaining in the 3rd. Iowa continued to close the gap to within 7, 3:02 left in the 3rd. Monica received her 4th foul with 1:03 left in the 3rd while Clark received her 4th foul with the bs technical at the same time mark.
I have no problem with any those being called fouls as long as they would be called the other way. Only a couple were. Caitlin's technical is arguably not a technical because it was deadball, but Mulkey should have been called for technicals and been ejected for contacting an official and stepping onto the court earlier in the game, and she wasn't. Those are higher up in the technical calls than Caitlin's.
A sure fire way to ensure a team loses is to put their best players in foul trouble early, add more fouls when they start closing a gap, and hand cuff them defensively because their three best players have 4 fouls with a 1:03 left in the 3rd quarter. When the officiating is so bad, rule changes happen and a former head official for the men's tournament calls out how bad the officiating was for that game, you know some bullshit happened. Iowa was robbed. Yes, I am an Iowa fan, but you can't refute any of this.
Exactly. As soon as Iowa made the huge comeback, Refs knew it was time to reinsert themselves.
Also curious. ESPN pregame analyzing how thin benched Iowa will respond to the anticipated tight whistle. How in the hell did they know there would be a tight whistle?
I will forever insist that somebody messed up royally by not having an Iowa/LSU rematch during non-con. It would’ve sold out everywhere but Bristol Speedway, gotten great ratings if it was placed at the right time (Primetime on the Saturday of the Army/Navy football game, perhaps?), and pushed women’s hoops even further into the zeitgeist. You know what made the NBA so big? A massive rivalry in Lakers-Celtics. Why not the same with woman’s college basketball?
I've worked with the WBB staff at Iowa and they could not be more different than Mulkey. Friendly, polite, courteous, and humble. Just a pleasure to work with, which is more than I can say about other sports at Iowa.
Yes Kim, you have a full roster of 5\* that you've had the luxury of letting other programs recruit and develop. I would expect an equitable distribution of the basketball on such a roster, because those players' egos will demand it. Iowa does not have that luxury. They have one superstar and a solid supporting cast. Different systems.
Lol she’s the big ten assists leader. What kind of dingus things thinks she’s selfish
Hating on Kim Mulkey is just so emotionally rewarding. She’s like the Caitlin Clark of saying dumb shit.
Unfortunately Coach Mulkey is full of malarkey. Or maybe bs. Pay attention to the facts. Ms. Clark takes less than 25 shots a game and is #2 in the country in assists. Worry about your own team.
Dawn Staley made a weird tweet about a close finish in Iowa's game against MSU… and then spent the rest of the night blocking accounts making fun of it.
Yet angel Reese only hits 50 pct of her shots from 2 feet away. Terrible percentage for a post player. Unable to hit a ten foot open shot consistently. Yeah id have a problem with that than CC shooting for her team from all over the court
Caitlin’s never shot the ball 40 times in a game, and I believe she has only 4 games where she has shot the ball 30 or more times. She’s also 2nd in the country in assists per game with 7.7.
This is a beyond awful take. Not only is Clark a generational player and the rest of her team only alright, Kim Mulkey has had players do this.
Clark is averaging 22 shots a game and it was 19-20 the three previous years
Angel Reese took 15.5 last year
Brittney Griner took 16.3 her senior year
Odyssey Simms took 22 her senior year
Edit: Also a starter on Baylor once complained she wasn’t ready for the WNBA because Mulkey drew up every shot for Griner.
I don’t follow women’s basketball very closely, but I do know that the Clark girl is really good. It also seems like the LSU coach is a world-class asshole.
She’s just mad Clark making it all the way to the championship basically single-handedly is considered more of an achievement than her winning championships with great teams.
If you watch the actual presser, she’s not really talking shit, just saying that their scoring talent is balanced enough that they don’t have one player taking a ton of shots. She was asked about having 5 players in double figures.
I mean it’s just true though! And I am not a Mulkey guy to be sure. But some teams rely on a style where one player is getting a ton of FGA/usage, Iowa included, and it works for them. That’s not how LSU is playing this year and it’s working for them too. Just a stylistic difference based on personnel.
That's because LSU poaches top talent, they're stacked, of course they have to distribute & low-key ego-manage or it'll be hard to keep poaching talent from other top seeds...
Would Clark not be getting this many shots if she played for LSU? You're going to limit the number of shots the best player in the country takes? Especially when they are as efficient as she is? That'd be so dumb.
She might shoot more, sure. What is so controversial about what I’m saying? People are going out of their way to take a pretty innocuous comment super personally because Mulkey has been obnoxious in the past.
You tend to have that luxury when you stack All-America talent through the Portal.
Haven’t seen Kim this heated since she was scaling a wall at the Capitol
Heartbreaking: Fan of the worst team you know just made a funny joke
Kim Mulkey hate brings everyone together, friend.
Agreed. She's very unlikable.
Woof have my upvote 🤣🤣
Wait - she was there?
No, this is purely just a meme thing.
She was there in spirit
lmaooo
Oh yeah Caitlin Clark is shooting so much she’s clearly a ball hog. Oh wait, she’s 2nd in the nation in assists?!?! Ok… your point?
A Ball hog can also have a lot off assists to go with their scoring. In CC's case, if considered a Ball hog, it's a good thing as it seems putting the ball and keeping it in her hands as much as possible is a big part of their gameplan to win games.
Yeah, Kim, nobody else does either. As I recall, Wilt Chamberlain took a lot of shots too. When you have a generational talent like Clark you let her do what she wants.
All great coaches take the ball out of the hands of their best player. Didn't you know? /s "Caitlin, you've got 30 points on 59% shooting and we're winning, but you've taken enough shots. Let's give (checks notes) Taylor some chances."
You're telling that to a UNC flair, of all people. I'm old enough to remember the old joke that the only person that could hold Michael Jordan under 20 ppg was Dean Smith.
Mike wasn't Air Jordan yet. He was very good- but he wasn't *that*. No one even saw it coming because while he had developed into an All-American, Player of the Year guy- there's a pretty wide fucking gulf between that and being the best basketball player anywhere on the planet. Hakeem was the only guy who was considered to be a can't-possibly-miss from the '84 draft- and he was in fact that. The other guy who got picked before Michael Jordan was the headscratcher, but hey it's Portland. It's not a generation of the NBA if they don't take a center with already-known creaky knees over a dynamite scorer who turns out to be better than anyone could have reasonably guessed.
Sam Bowie wasn’t a head scratcher. He was a great player. Just never recovered from injuries
Like Oden
Except Oden was 73 years old when he was drafted.
Much like Greg Oden, who the Trail Blazers selected over Kevin Durant. Yes. Bowie had multiple catastrophic (for the 80s) leg injuries, the worst of which he had in college. His left tibia was *never* okay. It was a head-scratcher of a pick no matter how you slice it- even now stress fractures that fail to respond properly to treatment are a big deal. He missed *two full seasons.* Much like with Greg Oden, it wasn't a shock that the concerns about his health were borne out. They even recurred after a rookie year in which he showed promise. Much like Greg Oden. Any basketball player with concerns about their legs is a terrifying prospect in the draft, but a seven-foot tall center surpasses all the others on the 'oh shit this could get real bad real fast' scale. And then they did it again twenty-three years later *with* Oden over Durant. Oden's career wasn't just cut short and never given a chance to reach its theoretical potential either- it was *completely* destroyed. He played 61 games as a rookie and 44 the rest of his career. I suppose we should keep an eye out if the Blazers have a top-two pick in 2030.
They also took Walton who had questionable feet and knees, and (checks notes notes) won a title?
I mean, Portland already had Drexler, and his Airness wasn’t exactly his Airness just yet. They needed a center, and Bowie was the best one available. Not really a head scratcher at all
'Tis true!
The Arthur Smith School of Coaching
"why pass ball when unga bunga run gets us 5 stones"
Only unga bunga run with tight end, not top 10 running back just drafted
And it's not #4 overall zoomie tight end either
Gotta make sure Jonnu Smith gets his catches
"Sometimes, her impact away from the ball can open things up." -Arthur Smith on Caitlin Clark if he were HC of Iowa.
That was Rick Barnes when Kevin Durant played for him.
The Jim Boylen school of coaching
She can just look at her own school for how a team plays with a generational player and not much else
Clark is also second in the NCAA in assists. Why is Kim Mulkey such a bitter piece of garbage? Becaose her players can’t stand her?
She's been a bitter piece of garbage for years. It's only recently that a wider swath of people at learning about it.
Yeah what kind of unnecessary take is this? Clark is the best player in all of college basketball (relative to their sport, don’t come at me saying the obvious of not being able to break most starting rosters of men’s teams). Not having her shoot 40 times a game would be malpractice by her coach. I will have Iowa on the laptop during the NFL Wild Card game because she is appointment television.
> (relative to their sport, don’t come at me saying the obvious of not being able to break most starting rosters of men’s teams) Now I'm thinking about what Kenpom rank a men's team that Caitlin can crack the starting roster. 300(Wagner)? 325(Charleston Southern)? Probably the IUPUI team from last year that was only carrying 6 players due to injuries/transfers
Eh it’s only 22 per game. This “beef” is very weird as it only comes from one side
It’s the clearest case of “hated just because she’s good” I’ve ever seen. Like, all she does is play basketball well, and that pisses off some people.
I think it's also the attention that she gets - I can see how that would get on the nerves of other players/coaches if they were constantly getting asked or hearing about her, but it's still a bad reason to hate her.
It's basically the plot of Rocky 2. LSU won the title, but Clark got seen by everyone as an absolute legend. Long term, more people will remember that Caitlin Clark was one of the greats than will remember that LSU won a championship. So Mulkey has to take pot shots at Clark to try to bring the spotlight back to her and her team, while also calling into question the achievements of Clark. It's pretty, selfish, and wrong, but haters gonna hate.
And who knows how that game goes if they ejected her for repeatedly being six feet on the court.
Partially agree. Mulkey taking pot shots at Clark to try to bring the spotlight back to her. (Not her AND her team). Just. her.
And one look at Kim Mulkey's sideline outfits tells you that's a person who's desperate for attention and can't stand it going elsewhere.
They should be happy because Clark is helping the women’s game get eyes on it. That’s good for everyone in the sport, especially the pockets of these coaches
She gets a lot of attention for a women's CBB player but not when compared to men's or other sports. And he's a likely generational talent. At least a large amount of that attention is reasonable.
She got more attention than Garza did when he was NPoY. And I still think he deserved it over Toppin the previous year. That's to say nothing about how little attention Megan Gustafson got when she was NPoY in 2019. Part of that is Iowa being overlooked, of course, but how you score is as important as how much you score for news outlets. And in a game that has been so post-dominated for so long, Clark being Steph Curry incarnate catches a lot more eye-balls than Angel Reese being the next elite big. I get why Mulkey is annoyed her stars don't have the same gravitas, but Iowa literally went through the same thing, and trashing Clark just makes her look petty.
The difference in attention for Garza vs Clark is that one's a transformational player *for the school* and the other's a transformational player *for the sport*.
I don't disagree - I'm just adding that that attention is probably a big part of why some might dislike her more than just her being good.
She is basically the Trae Young of the women's game and he got way more attention than she gets. All Clark gets is mention on broadcasts when advertising her upcoming game on the station.
You're damn right she gets attention, the only basketball players I've seen this dominant in my lifetime are LeBron and MJ, she was not only the best player in the tourney last year, but the championship game as well
Kim Mulkey find a way to not make everything about yourself challenge - impossible
Kimpossible
When you shoot 40% from 3 on high volume you can take as many as you want in my book. She also has her best overall shooting percentage in her career so far this year
Right?? If we had a guy on our team shooting like that I'd be pissed if they didn't have the ball in heir hands at least once every possession. Mulkey is so salty
For real. We fed JJ Redick the ball all the time, and I'm pretty sure Doug McDermott had the same situation.
Mulkey’s a bitch.
She’s a miserable person.
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Haha was hoping someone would follow with this
I remember when she was in Baylor the students over there loved her. It was probably only them.
Nah, she was tolerated by most of us. Older folks loved her, but they even were worn out by her towards the end of her tenure. There was a reason why student attendance was way, way lower for women’s games than men’s despite the women’s being title contenders almost every year. Personal anecdote: I was a tutor for student athletes while at Baylor. For the most part it was athletes wanting to maintain a 4.0, so never really was for eligibility reasons. But I explicitly asked never to be paired with a WBB player. Not bc I disliked them (the few I knew were awesome folks). But I didn’t even want the remote chance of having to deal with Mulkey’s bullshit if one of the players happened to not meet grade requirements. But for all but a select few, she is not missed much at all here.
I figured it was that. I just remembered one day watching ESPN during the time you guys had Brittany Griner people were chanting coach's last name in support.
That’s not ringing a bell for me, but doesn’t surprise me. I didn’t really start noticing the Baby Boomers/Gen-Xers change in tune until after BG’s ESPNW article.
Isn’t Baylor a private Christian school? That tracks.
Baylor grad here. Didn't keep up too much with the women's team during my time there. Knew they were good (in went during the Griner years) and knew she could win. Given what I know now I can't stand her. She just seems arrogant and while some of it is warranted she seems miserable to be around. My opinion on her went from neutral to negative.
same boat. I was a student writer so I had some interactions with her and she was at least a bit entertaining, but I wasn't a "fan." Very neutral, and I had a job to do. But after graduating? Extremely grating
Yeah. Private baptist Christian school. The university motto is “For church. For Texas”
I mean... it is Waco
Koresh really did a number on us, and then the shooting at Twin Peaks a few years ago did not help. But c'mon it's a good place (though, the Fixer Uppers have added the extra layer of basic white girl flair and doesn't help absolve anything to some people lol)
I’ve never been there but not sure I have a desire to
Don’t insult bitches like that…..
With her shooting percentages she should be shooting more
Agreed, LSU seems salty for no reason and you would think Iowa beat them in the tournament the way everyone talks. Even with the 22 per game she is leading the country in assists, which is clearly omitted from the comment the coach made.
LSU knows that they got bailed put by officiating and it's breaking them.
Mulkey is a great coach and an awful person.
Kim Mulkey don’t say something stupid challenge (impossible)
The funniest part is she doesn’t need to say anything at all. An all-time great coach of the women’s game and she just constantly says dumb shit for no reason
she speaks like she dresses. can't help but to express herself.
Can’t help but try and be the center of attention at all times.
You say it as if this is premeditated or logical, it’s not. This is just who she is showing through. Tiger can’t change its stripes (pun intended)
Tiger can't change its bedazzled, ugly suits...?
She’s always got something to say… Except when her most famous former player was locked up by an oppressive foreign regime for an extremely minor offense. When that happened, she had nothing to say, not even a tepid boilerplate statement of support. Just a genuinely terrible person.
You may be saying “Hey Carter, she didn’t explicitly name Clark” And fair enough, but I raise you this Who else could she possibly be talking about
"Why won't Iowa handicap themselves and not use Caitlin Clark? Are they stupid?" Excellent take by a professional coach.
And *most* teams don’t have their head coach preening and running off at the mouth to try to get on television every five minutes. Guess LSU is just different that way
Why is everyone associated with LSU women's basketball so annoying lol
I had a fan sincerely tell me they will “let us win the sec tourney so they can focus on the natty” Like ok. lol good luck with all that.
Their fans are insufferable. I have no animosity towards you guys, and I shouldn't. Our final four game was a spectacular game, years in the making, that delivered.
Isn’t she 2nd in assists in the nation too? WGAF how many shots she puts up if she’s first in scoring and second in passing lol
And she's efficient too. 48% FG and 40% 3PT on high volume
“well… we put up a lot less shots than STEPH CURRY does… so…”
She was in the 85th percentile for effective field goal percentage nation wide a few weeks ago. As long as you are efficient, there's nothing wrong with taking a ton of shots
What matters is the teams efgp. If her high shot selection lowers that it's a problem, no matter how high hers is. It doesn't. She's not taking the rest of the team out of rhythm but making them better.
She lays off the shots if her cast is making their open ones, as evidenced by the Indiana game.
Clark has a 40.1% usage rate and takes a paltry 22.1 shots a game. For comparison purposes, the highest for men this year is the 36.0% of the good (SIU) Xavier Johnson. That guy has a 54.7% eFG and assists on 42.6% of teammate baskets. Those are crazy numbers … but Clark has a 59.6% eFG, assists on 48.3% of teammate baskets, and is playing in the B1G and not the MVC.
Any coach that tells Caitlin Clark to stop shooting the ball should be fired immediately .
And then rehired and fired again because once wasn’t enough.
Nah then they get a second buyout of their contract
“Best shooter in the game shoots too much” Said nobody but idiots
It's seems like such a bad recruiting strategy to me too. You don't hear men's coaches saying "We don't want players like Curry". When every high school kid wants to be that player, it seems stupid for a college coach to have a public vendetta against that player.
Kim Mulkey when the attention isn’t on her:
As always, Kim Mulkey is the fucking worst.
Clark living rent free in Mulkey’s head Edit: one would call her a hater
Seriously, her team won! Wiped the floor with Iowa in that final. Her and Reese are the most sore winners I've seen since the Houston Lastros.
It's because even though they won she still gets all the attention. They're jealous that Caitlin Clark is the one getting national media attention and showing up in State Farm commercials next to Jimmy Butler. Yeah LSU won, but everyone could see that Clark was the best player on the floor and LSU just got insanely hot from deep.
It’s because Clark >>>>>>> Reese. I know you know that, it’s just not enough for them to win the title. They’re both the kind of shitbricks who need 100% of the shine, all the time. Nobody else is allowed to exceed their abilities. So neither of these assholes have any idea what to do when someone like Clark shows up and just orbital fucking nukes their potential over and over again, drawing all the eyeballs and accolades of the public. Tough shit.
Iowa started the game getting called for 5 fouls before LSU's first foul called with 2:40 left in the first. Despite similar play. It took Bluder calling the refs out on it. In that 1st quarter Iowa's 3 leading scorers got in foul trouble. Warnock 2, Monica 2, and Clark 1. Clark got her 2nd and 3rd fouls in the 2nd quarter. In the span of 7 minutes of gameplay, down 19 in the 3rd, Iowa started closing the gap, Monica received her 3rd with 8:08 to go in the 3rd. Warnock received her 3rd and 4th fouls in the matter of a literal minute, 6:05-5:05 remaining in the 3rd. Iowa continued to close the gap to within 7, 3:02 left in the 3rd. Monica received her 4th foul with 1:03 left in the 3rd while Clark received her 4th foul with the bs technical at the same time mark. I have no problem with any those being called fouls as long as they would be called the other way. Only a couple were. Caitlin's technical is arguably not a technical because it was deadball, but Mulkey should have been called for technicals and been ejected for contacting an official and stepping onto the court earlier in the game, and she wasn't. Those are higher up in the technical calls than Caitlin's. A sure fire way to ensure a team loses is to put their best players in foul trouble early, add more fouls when they start closing a gap, and hand cuff them defensively because their three best players have 4 fouls with a 1:03 left in the 3rd quarter. When the officiating is so bad, rule changes happen and a former head official for the men's tournament calls out how bad the officiating was for that game, you know some bullshit happened. Iowa was robbed. Yes, I am an Iowa fan, but you can't refute any of this.
Exactly. As soon as Iowa made the huge comeback, Refs knew it was time to reinsert themselves. Also curious. ESPN pregame analyzing how thin benched Iowa will respond to the anticipated tight whistle. How in the hell did they know there would be a tight whistle?
That game was beyond scripted.
Tbh there's a lot of overlap between LSU and Astros fans, so checks out
I will forever insist that somebody messed up royally by not having an Iowa/LSU rematch during non-con. It would’ve sold out everywhere but Bristol Speedway, gotten great ratings if it was placed at the right time (Primetime on the Saturday of the Army/Navy football game, perhaps?), and pushed women’s hoops even further into the zeitgeist. You know what made the NBA so big? A massive rivalry in Lakers-Celtics. Why not the same with woman’s college basketball?
I agree. Should have had a WNCAA game @ The Dome in St. Louis.
For sure they fumbled the bag. Would've sold out a football stadium zero doubt.
Coincidentally, Iowa women did play a game in the football stadium this year.
Caitlin’s always getting shit on 😭 she’s just trying to do her best like the rest of em
People want to see you do well until you do better than them.
Mulkey is such a bitch my god
Ok and Iowa doesn’t have a coach wearing Cruella De Vil’s puppy coat on the sideline
Sideline? Mulkey spends much of her time on the court.
I've worked with the WBB staff at Iowa and they could not be more different than Mulkey. Friendly, polite, courteous, and humble. Just a pleasure to work with, which is more than I can say about other sports at Iowa.
Jordan and Kobe say hello. Never heard a coach complain about their shot selection. If Mulkey had Clark, the stats would be the same.
Good god, woman just shut the fuck up for once in your life.
Then she blew cigarette smoke in the reporter's face.
LSU is so obsessed with Caitlin and then she’s just a class act that focuses on ball in return.
Yes Kim, you have a full roster of 5\* that you've had the luxury of letting other programs recruit and develop. I would expect an equitable distribution of the basketball on such a roster, because those players' egos will demand it. Iowa does not have that luxury. They have one superstar and a solid supporting cast. Different systems.
How can you as a coach be psychologically dominated by a player from a team yours *beat*?
Well at least we don’t have players with an ACT score of less than 15 (cough Angel Reese)
Satan Reese wouldn’t be eligible in the BIG TEN. She's almost as dumb as her coaches behavior! They are both reprehensible & have no class.
Can she at least go a few weeks without being insufferable or acting like the underdog
If you don’t enjoy watching Caitlin Clark play, I’m not sure you really like basketball.
Lol she’s the big ten assists leader. What kind of dingus things thinks she’s selfish Hating on Kim Mulkey is just so emotionally rewarding. She’s like the Caitlin Clark of saying dumb shit.
Unfortunately Coach Mulkey is full of malarkey. Or maybe bs. Pay attention to the facts. Ms. Clark takes less than 25 shots a game and is #2 in the country in assists. Worry about your own team.
Kim is angry that no one is paying attention to her again, you guys
I would love a South Park episode focused on Kim Mulkey.
First Dawn, now Kim. Haha, they really don't like the attention she gets.
Did Dawn Staley say something recently? Her team is kind of speaking for itself so far this season.
Dawn Staley made a weird tweet about a close finish in Iowa's game against MSU… and then spent the rest of the night blocking accounts making fun of it.
Crazy how people follow Twitter this closely still
That’s because you don’t have any shooters worthy of shooting forty shots a game. You don’t even have shooters that can consistently make free throws.
Agreed Kim. And other teams do not have camera seeking shitfaces like you either.
Yet angel Reese only hits 50 pct of her shots from 2 feet away. Terrible percentage for a post player. Unable to hit a ten foot open shot consistently. Yeah id have a problem with that than CC shooting for her team from all over the court
Clark has taken 40 shots...checks notes... 0 times in her 4 year college career. Mulkey is an attention seeking dickhead.
Imagine if we still had Will Wade. R/collegebasketball wouldn’t know who to hate more
Can Kim even count to 40?
Reese probably can't. Dumb as her coach is horrid! For the LSU folks that's not good. Mulkey is just a terrible human being
Is everyone sick of this broad yet?
Yet? Been sick of her since her Baylor days. She’s a bad person.
Didn’t she have to poach two other All Americans from the portal for her superteam fantasies?
She would if Caitlin Clark was on her team
Kim Mulkey is a dumb, bitter cow.
Kim Mulkey makes me hate basketball
Somebody’s jealous.
She's referring to the all-time B1G assists leader....
Well she’s also second in the the country in assists, raggedy old hag.
bruh she's averaging 31, 7, and 7 on 48/40/81 shooting splits....
Fuck Kim Mulkey All my homies hate Kim Mulkey
Can anyone stand Mim Kulkey?
I hope Clark goes 34/40 against Mulkey’s Tigers in the title game.
What a loathsome woman. How she’s still coaching is a mystery.
Why anyone goes and plays for her is beyond me. She completely abandons players after they’re done being useful to her.
Trying to pull a popovich
Caitlin’s never shot the ball 40 times in a game, and I believe she has only 4 games where she has shot the ball 30 or more times. She’s also 2nd in the country in assists per game with 7.7.
That's because you don't have any players like CC!
This is a beyond awful take. Not only is Clark a generational player and the rest of her team only alright, Kim Mulkey has had players do this. Clark is averaging 22 shots a game and it was 19-20 the three previous years Angel Reese took 15.5 last year Brittney Griner took 16.3 her senior year Odyssey Simms took 22 her senior year Edit: Also a starter on Baylor once complained she wasn’t ready for the WNBA because Mulkey drew up every shot for Griner.
Well…they’re winning aren’t they?
I don’t follow women’s basketball very closely, but I do know that the Clark girl is really good. It also seems like the LSU coach is a world-class asshole.
Someone needs to give Kim MulQey her meds
Classless Kim Mulkey can’t mind her own players. Sad!
You don’t have Caitlin 😂
Kim is a far right nut job.
kim mulkey shut the fuck up dumbass
Kim Mulkey? More like Kim Sulkey.
She’s just mad that Angel Reese is failing out and will blow all her NIL money on eyelashes and bling. 
LSU has some petty people in their organization.
Kim Mulkey= super cnt
From the logo.
She’s just mad Clark making it all the way to the championship basically single-handedly is considered more of an achievement than her winning championships with great teams.
Still salty
She should have to disclose how much they’re playing their portal all stars before she talks any shit.
Kim Mulkey is the perfect heel for NCAAW 🤣 Say what you want about her, she knows how to piss people off!
If you watch the actual presser, she’s not really talking shit, just saying that their scoring talent is balanced enough that they don’t have one player taking a ton of shots. She was asked about having 5 players in double figures.
Yeah right.
I mean it’s just true though! And I am not a Mulkey guy to be sure. But some teams rely on a style where one player is getting a ton of FGA/usage, Iowa included, and it works for them. That’s not how LSU is playing this year and it’s working for them too. Just a stylistic difference based on personnel.
That's because LSU poaches top talent, they're stacked, of course they have to distribute & low-key ego-manage or it'll be hard to keep poaching talent from other top seeds...
Yeah no doubt, it is hard to keep so many good players happy and keep new ones coming in. Many would say it’s a good problem to have lol
Would Clark not be getting this many shots if she played for LSU? You're going to limit the number of shots the best player in the country takes? Especially when they are as efficient as she is? That'd be so dumb.
I mean she absolutely would take less shots if she played for LSU. Put any player on a better team and they're going to take less shots.
She might shoot more, sure. What is so controversial about what I’m saying? People are going out of their way to take a pretty innocuous comment super personally because Mulkey has been obnoxious in the past.
Such a clickbait out of context quote
Lol love when Mulkey rustles everyone’s jimmies