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Joined June 2009
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Jesika Quintero Ph.D. retweeted
CC Is ICED Out Of SW's Offense.. People Will Try & Convince You CC Is The Problem CC Is Currently 0-5 Forcing Shots Because Her Coach has Drawn ZERO Plays For Her The Whole Game
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Jesika Quintero Ph.D. retweeted
CC In The First 4 Minutes Of Play Led The Fever To An 8-2 Start 2 PTS 3 AST 1 REB 4 (t-Highest) Since CC Went To The Bench The Fever Are Down 10-15 In Just 2 Minutes.. WOW
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Jesika Quintero Ph.D. retweeted
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Trade her. You made your choice for White, now trade CC so I can enjoy watching my favorite player again. @IndianaFever
What is actually going on between Caitlin and Stephanie White???? Pretty obvious that the coach doesn't like her superstar. This madness and disconnect has to end at some point😶😶😶
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Yet CC leads the Fever in Steals, 1.3, Blocks 0.9, AB is at 0.6, and is second in Defensive Rebounds behind AB at 5.4 with 3.7. but the narrative is she's a defensive liability?
Every team is going after Caitlin Clark in isolation more than anybody to foul her out. Bad coaches allow this on star players only. Those coaches get fired. Nobody is even close to CC iso’s in D. Good coaches don’t allow this by providing help or hiding ‘ the star in the D. This is why I want an NBA coach to come to the Fever.
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I’m going to say this as calmly as possible: Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach. Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great. It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big. And that is insane. This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her. She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude. No. Her attitude is not the story. The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance. This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.” That is what this looks like. The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it. And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped. Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd. You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room. Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing. Fans are not stupid. They see the fouls. They see the double standards. They see the jealousy. They see the media resentment. They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her. And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly: People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled. They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great. If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid: Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark. At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question: How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her? Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse. It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care. x.com/i/status/2060921884666…
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This! #FreeC22
.@CaitlinClark22 it doesn’t have to be like this. You have the power. You know what needs to be done. Stop letting them f your legacy. Your coach said your team is faster w/someone else @ PG1. What else do you need to see? They want to kill what makes you great AND IT’S BAD BBALL
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Replying to @IndianaFever
WTF was that? What is this coach doing out there? Why is CC and AB sitting on bench in 1st qtr after going 8-2? Why you playing 11 players in first qtr ??
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As a life long Knicks fan and Liberty fan of Lobo era I know my preference. #FreeC22
Its time CC Nation. There is no way this Fever organization will do anything serious around Caitlin. I'm ready for either of these franchises. Make that trade😂😂😂 @valkyriesreport @DayDreamThis
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Jesika Quintero Ph.D. retweeted
Since Caitlin Clark's Quick 8-2 Run To Open This Game Before Being Benched.. Fire Are On A 48-29 Run Against The Fever.. Stephanie White Ruined The Momentum & She Is Incapable Of Adjusting
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Jesika Quintero Ph.D. retweeted
Update Since SW Pulled CC 1/7 FG 5 Fouls -9 So Much For What Was On Pace To Be Another Legendary CC Performance
CC In The First 4 Minutes Of Play Led The Fever To An 8-2 Start 2 PTS 3 AST 1 REB 4 (t-Highest) Since CC Went To The Bench The Fever Are Down 10-15 In Just 2 Minutes.. WOW
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Jesika Quintero Ph.D. retweeted
Stephanie White Has Officially Brainwashed Caitin Clark.. It's Over Dawg
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No live? What's the reaction on the back "injury"?
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Jesika Quintero Ph.D. retweeted
Crazy Stats
Dylan Harper has the most bench points (136 PTS) in the playoffs and is the youngest guard ever to record multiple double-doubles in the playoffs, passing Derrick Rose.
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Bluder took a group of women ignored by the Elites to consecutive title games, defeating the reigning National Champ to get there as well. All of this by adapting to CC's game.
Caitlin Clark has had 3 coaches the last 7 years . 2 tried to change her Stephanie white and Christie’s sides . The 3rd lisa bluder , built around her and knew how to coach her style and maximized her with far less talent. Find a modern coach plz
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Jesika Quintero Ph.D. retweeted
Caitlin Clark has had 3 coaches the last 7 years . 2 tried to change her Stephanie white and Christie’s sides . The 3rd lisa bluder , built around her and knew how to coach her style and maximized her with far less talent. Find a modern coach plz
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