It's funny, but not really, how the Caitlin stans in this thread are so quiet about the toxic nature of her cult followers. Probably cause they share a lot of the same DNA.
"if you're not posting ITT actively deriding clearly insane people's actions you're as bad as them" stunning logic, champ. then again, some of you got awfully quiet when Sheryl was running her mouth. didn't manage to see some of you say anything on that one, probably because you agree with her.
Yes, Sheryl being a hater is the same as death threats and racism. Fantastic comparison. You're the same guy claiming dijonai poked Caitlin in the eye on purpose even though anyone with a brain could tell it was an accident, including the announcing team in real time and Clark herself.
What is this fingernail thing? Player poked clark in the eye or something and now racist idiots are coming after acrylic nails? Even after clark said it was an accident? Is that right?
your purity testing is really sad. "not everyone ITT is saying racist loons are bad, they must be racist loons!"
Everyone here thinks Swoopes is a moron re CC. Only certain posters find it necessary to denigrate other players and amplify fabricated outrage in service to elevating CC. And she doesn’t need it - her game is fantastic and only improved over the season. The Kaitlin Klark Klan here and elsewhere make it nearly impossible to enjoy CC and the golden era of the W.
Nah, you guys just share the loons part and don't acknowledge you're part of a racist cult, even though you yourselves aren't necessarily racists. Kinda like when you cherry picked the flagrant fouls percentage to make it look like Caitlin was being unfairly targeted. That's loon shit that has been co-opted by the racists.
you need to log off Twitter if you think anyone that enjoys watching or rooting for CC to do well is part of a racist cult. the thread slowed down bc of a thing called ‘football season’ .
If you’re repeating the same debunked conspiracy theory as racists what does that make you? Oh I guess you’re just racist adjacent, right? My bad.
That post specifically calls out the fans that are loons, not all Caitlin fans. Hell, I'm a Caitlin fan and have been since her freshman year.
Unfortunately with the Clark stuff, you get the combination of both the insane Clark faction that is racist and very online + a fan base with a documented history of the same stuff happening toward black athletes at Pacers games.
Aliyah Boston, CC's own teammate, had to delete her social media earlier this year because of how toxic the CC fans are. If you're a CC fan who doesn't see a problem, then you're part of the problem.
nobody says this here. this is a tiny message board with one thread featuring fewer than ten regular participants, nothing anyone does or says here is stopping the insanity going on in the real world. I said this already but a lot of this problem alleviates itself now that her season is over. non-Iowan Trumper CC fans won't make it to her second season, they'll quit caring, and that in and of itself should solve an enormous amount of the harassment being shoveled out online. they only hung around because the college season ends and rolls immediately into the WNBA and so it was nothing for people who were just watching the NCAAT a few weeks ago to roll right into the women's season and watch it. there's no quick fix for this on social media, everyone has to grin and bear it (easy for me to say) until those people find a new target to harass and quit caring about women's basketball. unless you want to change the laws and start punishing people for racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc (I'm fine with this btw, I don't give a shit about our 1A being so broad). like I said, I think non-Iowan Trumper CC fans will all but disappear now and going forward every year should be a bit better than the last but it's still probably going to take some time. as for at the games, I've always been a proponent of a one-strike system in all pro leagues and all pro sports. force people to upload a driver's license in order to purchase tickets and if someone fucks up then you remove them, permaban them, and share that info across all teams so they can't buy a ticket ever again. would solve an immense number of problems from constant fights at men's games to hurling insults courtside at players. everyone's an adult so they shouldn't need warnings or suspensions, just remove them from the equation. everyone's just too scared to go scorched earth in this country, that's why nothing ever changes.
I just think the more racist people don’t even view CC as a person but more as just an avatar for their racism and bigotry
this I absolutely agree with you, it's also why I think they won't stick around for future seasons. they view white women as inferior but still view Black women below that so they use Clark as an attempt to just endlessly shit on the other people in the league. but because they're not intrinsically connected to Clark, they'll be given a new target to hate and shift their attention there and should fuck off from the league. they didn't care about women's basketball before March of 2023 so it's unlikely they stick. the only issue that'll be left is the Iowa Trumper CC fans and I'm not sure what can be done about them.
The Connecticut Sun were just the Bad Boy Pistons to the Fever’s Young Bulls team sell off NaLyssa to Golden State or anyone willing, get some freaking VETERANS in there, and try to your hardest to get Satou Sabally. And hopefully Caitlin can find a way to channel the spiciness in her. Sides isn’t going anywhere for another 1-2 seasons imo
I also think the organization didnt know they or CC would be good this soon so it kind of caught them off guard I was shocked that they didn’t really make any moves during the season
Mitchell having a resurgence probably threw a monkey wrench into everything. Hull is also complicating things (in a good way). I think anyone not named AB or CC had the potential to be traded or waived prior to a couple months ago but now it seems like they've got a solid nucleus. they need a good 4 and they need to build depth and seniority, like you said. but did they just catch lightning in a bottle for half a season or is there something to it? because they're going to have to commit to one option or the other, either tear it all down and rebuild around AB/CC or try to keep the current core and go from there. going to be interesting to see if Mitchell chases the bag or hangs around to see what may come. I think one potential benefit down the road with Clark is I can foresee her doing a Mahomes and taking less to be able to spread more around for other players. with her endorsements it's not like her game checks are anything but extra change so there's the chance they're able to go that route as well.
These players need to answer Nneka’s calls so they can go ahead and opt out of this CBA and get some more money for themselves AND force some of these cheapskate owners to hire more security for the players These next 2-3 seasons are gonna be so crucial here with the new CBA and expansion teams to where if you do not have adequate facilities good fucking luck getting any good player to come to your team
sheesh and FWIW the Mercury-Lynx game is the 3rd most-watched PO game ever on ESPN. rising tides and whatnot.
so there's either something rotten in Denmark, which I imagine will bubble to the surface in due time, or the Sky front office are just extra-special stupid (very possible, we've seen their trades).
To be fair to them, T-Spoon was not a very good coach. But yeah…they should’ve given her another year to try figuring it out given how much the players love her.
I’d say the latter given the stink around the Sky organization for quite awhile now I mean she did pretty damn well given what they gave to her and then traded away one of their best players midseason safe to say they would have made the playoffs had Angel not gotten hurt
Muting the Angel Reese fan club and that child abuser Deloris on twitter has made my twitter so much better
I have zero trust in the Sky organization. Spoon definitely wasn't great but man, that org continues to do head scratching stuff while also pissing off its players.
Dump they made five. You just never saw them because they were on lifetime. Kidding. Not a Clark fan, but have watched Angel Reese lowlights and think it's interesting Reese's PR team has tried to get them removed from social media.
The only thing I would have changed about Caitlin’s response was to just call them what they are, racists, instead of using the generic coverup such as trolls
this level of conspiracy is very fun when it's college sports and very dumb when it's professionals imo