Stop it. We’re getting no one.
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She’s a junior
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Fresh, I’d be curious to get your take as someone who played at the highest level of college hoops.
CC is in a class by herself at the women’s level, but could she play/contribute against the guys? Certainly not at the level she plays at now, but at all? If not at the P6 level, as a mid-major?
My wife and I were watching last night, and she asked me what I thought. I told her ultimately as skilled as she is, the strength/physicality difference and ability to defend would limit her, but she might be good for some instant offense with her range.
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She is a beast. For anyone who missed last night, highlights below.
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Yea. You are right. She would not be able to against the guys. The one thing she does have and not many women players have is a really quick flick pass and shot. She gets it off so quick. I feel like most women players need atleast a hitch or so firing from three (much less from 30)
My niece was a 4 year scholarship player at Presbyterian, and set all their D1 records. Was such a pleasure for me to watch her
Edit: if she got the chamce and held her own I would be happy to be wrong but dont think so
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Nailed it my wife and I have talked about that as well. Physically she matched up with some of the men stengthwise but not nearly close enough across the board.
The sheer physicality is what separates the 2.
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Fresh I’m assuming you’re talking about at the D1 level. Maybe at D2 but certainly at D3 I think CC could play.
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What’s the definition of play? Being on the court? 100% get some buckets because she’s a shooter and can get off a screen yea. dropping 40 10 and 10 no that’s not happening.
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Wonder how long it would take her to get used to the men’s ball though….
Unless she was being guarded by a certain other Clark
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Yeah no 40 and 10, but she sure wouldn’t embarrass herself.
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Let’s put it this way every he’s too small you hear about Kihei is x3 for CC
And no I’m not saying Kihei is better than CC just more physically suited for the game
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For sure the physicality is totally different. Speed of the game too. That’s why a lot of first years have problems adjusting they’re just not used to the speed of the game.
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Also no, I think
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She is really fun to watch but I don’t think there’s any way she could play for any D1 team. She’s only 6’0” so she’d be undersized and there would be a major strength and quickness gap. The men’s game is so much above the rim and the women’s is almost 100% below it. I’m thinking about the guards for Fairleigh Dickinson. They would blow by her at will. Nothing at all against the best women’s players but the physical advantages men naturally have are just too much to overcome with skill.
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Don’t tell Britney Griner that… she thinks she would dominate…
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1212795031209304064?s=20
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A lot of the elite women’s college team’s practice against men (basically intermural all-star types). One of my buddies did it and told me that the guys won most of the time when they scrimmaged straight up (which was almost never and never more than a few plays) and the coaches had to tell them to not do things (like block all their shots). The job was to be the green team.
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I saw a really eye opening comparison of the top high school boys track & field and swimming results compared to the women’s Olympics results from the same year (I think it was 2016). The high school boys would have won almost every medal over the female Olympians across all of the events. Even though it’s not specific to basketball, I think it shows pretty clearly just how big the physical advantage is for men.
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I did this for a year at X scrimmaging against the women’s team who was ranked at the time. We’d beat the crap out of them they just weren’t physical enough to hold up. The coaches did put restrictions on some of the things we could do.
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