Dawn Staley’s coaching masterclass was too much for Iowa

Dawn Staley’s coaching masterclass was too much for Iowa | The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

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Live from Ohio, Claire breaks down a blockbuster NCAA Championship between South Carolina and Iowa - and why losing her entire starting five from last season brought out the best of Dawn Staley (02:45). Claire discusses what made this year’s South Carolina squad (literally) unbeatable, why Iowa’s seniors should be at peace with their performance, and what comes next for Caitlin Clark. After previewing next year’s NCAAW season (18:45), Claire turns her attention to the USWNT and their SheBelieves Cup win over Japan (21:15).
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@builtonabudget6767 Ай бұрын

You are the first podcast that told the truth and gave credit to the Gamecocks that they deserve. As great of a player as CC is, Raven just shut her down, and nobody talks about that. Thanks for your honesty and understanding of that game and having the guts to stand alone and report it as such. MAD RESPECT

@Aalender Ай бұрын

I don’t think people realize as real basketball fans and those who love the game what it takes to get all these players to buy in to this gameplan and actually execute it - egos and expectations are real and what Dawn her staff and the program has done does NOT happen frequently these are the best young ladies in the country - that’s a coaches dream 9 players score in a competitive game and everyone made some impact scoring defensively championship effort - it was incredible

@BlakAfricanInAmerica Ай бұрын

Excellent point, @Aalender. Most people who weren't rooting for South Carolina disparage what Dawn has built by saying that she simply has a tall team with a deep bench. She's assembled a team of McDonald's All-Americans who sacrifice playing time for the greater good. That's hard to do! Especially considering how young her players are and how popular the transfer portal is.

@Aalender Ай бұрын

@@BlakAfricanInAmerica and now with social media and the NIL kids don’t have to be “ stars “ you can now win 🏆 play a part and get paid - that’s how Dawn has done it everyone can eat and win

@mplou699 Ай бұрын

You are SO blessed to have been able to witness HISTORY made! Thank you for your support of our Coach Staley and her NATIONAL CHAMPION, UNDEFEATED TEAM!! And yes, Claire, you have a very special gift!

@helenoftroy1227 Ай бұрын

Great analysis, Claire. Thank you for giving Coach Dawn Staley and Lady Gamecocks the credit they deserve. It’s funny how lots of people discounted South Carolina because they lost their entire starting lineup to the WNBA. That’s a story in and of itself. The AP had Iowa 3 spots ahead of South Carolina in their preseason poll. The press pretty much ignored SC all year. Now, people act like going undefeated and winning the championship after losing such immense talent and leadership is an everyday occurrence. It’s absolutely not. South Carolina put their head down and got to work. They ignored the distractions. They ignored the disrespect. They turned toward each other and got the job done. Kudos to Coach Staley, the coaching staff and the Lady Gamecocks! True team effort! Congratulations!

@jacobwatson3781 Ай бұрын

The press did not ignore SC, SC wasn't a victim in any sense.

@LIvey-fv8ct Ай бұрын

Being ignored by the press probably helped them. No Spotlight so decreases the outside pressure.

@builtonabudget6767 Ай бұрын

@jacobwatson3781 they were ignored. It's just now that the real reports of their true success are coming out. Every reporter and every news cast focus was on CC. She lost. Much respect for her and her achievements, but she lost and was in every picture with the gamecocks. If SC had lost, they would be an afterthought. Not to mention that CC was shut down and rattled after the first quarter by Raven. That alone shows what a good defender could do to her game. So yes, they were ignored

@jacobwatson3781 Ай бұрын

@builtonabudget6767 So, no one, no report had SC losing. Everyone agreed that SC was the better and best team in the country. SC got all the love. Also, it seems everyone had forgotten, CC torched SC, and every defender SC threw at her during the Final Four. If anything, it's a wash between those two games. But hey, if you want to believe SC is a victim, go ahead.

@LIvey-fv8ct Ай бұрын

@@jacobwatson3781no one made SC a victim. Saying the press focused on Clark is fact. It’s ok.

@paulkeller6075 Ай бұрын

Dawn Staley will likely be considered one the top coaches in all basketball history. She is a master. Clark started hot but they couldn't sustain that momentum and once they slowed their pace it was SC's game. Wish I could have been there. Next year will be even better!

@orthenight Ай бұрын

The Women's World Hockey Championship is happening now also. It would be great to see some coverage of the PWHL & Women's Worlds outside a couple blurbs in the email newsletter.

@TransGuyReactsWBB Ай бұрын

Great anaylsis!

@EmDe69 Ай бұрын

22:29 "I mean the big, big headline, big headline, is that Jaden Shaw is very good." Fantastic.

@MKelly-pm1np Ай бұрын

Dawn was a legendary player and its no surprise that she’s also a legendary coach. Getting her teams to consistently buy into her coaching is no small feat. She’s been there 15 years and has gone undefeated 38-0 is AMAZING

@destinypirate Ай бұрын

How can it be amazing when she had 9 5 stars and 1 4 star? Krusty the Clown could coach an all star collusion team to the FF.

@MKelly-pm1np Ай бұрын

@@destinypirate I’m going to believe that comment is a limp trolling attempt for attention. There is way too much free information available to make a comment this glib. Do better, it’s embarrassing.

@destinypirate Ай бұрын

@@MKelly-pm1np How ironic that you make weak phallic references yet fail to discover the ''free information'' you speak of. No one likes monopolization of talent - it destroys sport - which is why no one but gatekeepers/homers care about UConn, SC, Tenn, or any team that will get 25% of the 5 stars in an association of 350 teams. The championship game was a travesty. 500% more people showed that they are willing to tune in for an organically developed team that has a great talent and great coach. But the NCAA paves the way for a parody of competition, a team of all-blue chips. What's next, the Dream Team incorporates to play the League? This is why WBB has been dead on the vine for years. It took the best ever to break the boredom of the monopoly, the gatekeepers were happy to give her the fuzzy Tiger Woods treatment so no one will watch them. Next year will be the biggest drop year over year drop in viewers of any sport in history.

@patrickrojas8514 Ай бұрын

Love watching your show 🔥👏👏

@BeverlyAnn57 Ай бұрын

Iowa was a ONE MAN GANG option in Caitlin Clark and Dawn built a TEAM and basketball is a team sport, that’s how you win Championships! Now that Caitlin is gone, where does Iowa go from there? What pieces of their Final Four team do they build off of?

@helenoftroy1227 Ай бұрын

Iowa has to build around Hannah Stulke going forward. We’ll see if the “Clark effect” translates to top level talent wanting to play for Iowa.

@kheldaryt Ай бұрын

strange take OP, I mean you are right Iowa's going nowhere in the near future. This was a brief moment with one player. But who's arguing otherwise?

@MKelly-pm1np Ай бұрын

We aren’t going to hear about this Iowa program again. I don’t see enough of a foundation that could draw top talent to the program. Even with CC playing out of her mind for 3 years, that still didn’t draw top talent to enter the transfer portal. Iowa essentially threw all of their chips in on CC and didn’t build for the future. Congratulations to Coach Dawn and SC. Its no small task to get all of your players to buy into a system year over year

@kebandomerb3431 Ай бұрын

Spot on analysis regarding the mentality of Dawn and the culture she has created.

@maikelbelfor7286 Ай бұрын

Best Breakdown I have seen

@kevinmcclainsr.2706 Ай бұрын

Actually coach Staley made a few great coaching moves. She put a taller player who could play defense on Clark to make her shots more difficult, put her scorers in the game to widen the score and once she got Iowa down she kept them down. She didn’t take her foot off the gas pedal. That’s how you win championships.

@micheleking3160 Ай бұрын

Hopefully this will continue to the WNBA viewership and attendance. Great if you were fans of CC, but there were Angel Reese fans, Uconn fans, Dawn Staley fans and South Carolina fans. So I hope folks get away from the narrative of people only watched for CC!

@builtonabudget6767 Ай бұрын

Very true. The girls games had a lot of talent and super stars. The media has painted CC as the best player ever. CC didn't ask them to do that. That was their way to promote the game. It worked, we are still talking about it now. I hope it translate over to the WNBA and they'll show more prime times games. Those girls be balling. I wish the best for all of them. They have worked hard to get there.

@williamfragaszy6016 Ай бұрын

Let’s remember that Staley was out coached in the semi-final last year, when she had no response to Clark and Czinano. Good for her for learning from her mistakes.

@mzprince4139 Ай бұрын

She wasn't out coached, they were robbed by the refs, moved on and got the job done.

@williamfragaszy6016 Ай бұрын

@@mzprince4139 difference of 2 fouls between the two teams. Iowa outplayed them last year and South Carolina out played Iowa this year. Only one team beat the Gamecocks in the last two seasons - Iowa. Iowa didn’t make up excuses for losing this year like South Carolina did last year.

@Michelle.85Fly Ай бұрын

4 point loss from LAST year is no blow out; you live and learn, now we are in the 2024 season 🏆😤

@willielittle9301 Ай бұрын

Hats off to Coach Staley...She is a sumpreme coach but Coach Bluder is a very fine coach in her own right...However...Coach Bluder and her AD need to come together to find out how they can recruit "more" gifted players to Iowa...What hurt Iowa was lack of overall ...size...length...and...depth...This also hurt Iowa last year in the WBB CC game against LSU...Coach Bluder can recruit effectively for the "starting five" line-up but she seems to struggle recruiting additional players to Iowa for depth...Coach Staley had more personnel options while Coach Bluder didn't...

@sherylbrown8428 Ай бұрын

Regardless use what you have . No Dawn is the number 1 coach!!

@professorxaviour3649 Ай бұрын

Stop making excuses! The Hawkeyes have been beating teams all year! Iowa claimed they had the best team and the best player! LSU out rebounded the Hawkeyes too but Iowa still won! Angel Reese had 18 points and 20 rebounds and Iowa still won! Cardozo only had 1 5 points and 17 rebounds! So stop acting like South Carolinas size and length were the reason why Iowa lost! Because Iowa fans weren’t saying that when Iowa beat UConn who had a big girl in the middle and long wings! Iowa lost because ravens johnson shut Caitlin down! Caitlin only scored 10 points in 3 quarters! Lisa blunder is not on dawn staleys level!

@sherylbrown8428 Ай бұрын

@@professorxaviour3649 couldn’t have said it better 😀😀😀

@waldolydecker8118 Ай бұрын

Lisa Bluder is a nobody coach - she's been Iowa coach for 25 years - A QUARTER OF A CENTURY - and she hasn't developed one pro player in 25 years. Clark will be the first Iowa player who has a chance to make it as a legitimate pro player. Megan Gufstason was drafted out of Iowa a few years back, but she was cut before training camp was over and recently came back to the league as a minor bench player. Bluder is a poor recruiter whose best NCAA results in 25 years only happened the past two years with Caitlin Clark. If Bluder was being held to the same performance standard as other top NCAA coaches, she would have been fired years ago for poor results.

@jaybryson7268 Ай бұрын

The great ball players will things and make things happen...the greatest has 4 rings!!!

@mzprince4139 Ай бұрын

Breanna Stewart?

@user-gn4mq9wi4j Ай бұрын

SC just wore Clark down with fresh legs. Clark wore down over time - 36 hours prior she scored 40 with UConn defenders harassing her. Her usage rate is hard to sustain in a tournament against great teams. If you look at the box score - SC destroyed Iowa (51-29) on the boards due to their size, including 11 more offensive rebounds. Nothing great from an X-O perspective - just depth and size. Staley should be lauded for building a juggernaut of talent like Uconn did in the 2000s.

@professorxaviour3649 Ай бұрын

Y’all be lying on this app and it is really sad! Caitlyn only had 21 points against UConn! And Clark is used to playing 40 minutes a game! She played in 2 different tournaments this season where she played 3 games in 3 nights! Averaging 33 minutes a game! And she played 44 minutes in the big ten title game that went to overtime! The 3rd game in three day! She shot the ball 29 times had 34 pt, 12 ast, 7 rebs! So stop with the fresh legs excuse for why Caitlin got shut down by raven Johnson! Raven made Caitlin quit!! And dawn staley did use x&o’s to dominate Caitlin she slowed the game down and gave Caitlin less open shots on the fast breaks! I will not let you and the rest of the Caitlin crybabies get away with lying and making excuses on KZfaq and Twitter!!

@neetrab Ай бұрын

9:41 - and *THIS* is exactly why i can't call Caitlin the goat of anything because, let certain other players play 40 minutes, their numbers would most likely be similar. I guess we can say she's the goat of shooting from the logo. 🤷

@evilsimeon Ай бұрын

I wasn’t coaching that won that game

@neetrab Ай бұрын

14:08 - No, SC wins 10 out of 10 times if that was the case. There was nothing indicating Iowa could beat this team. Shucks, SC spotted them 10 points and SC ended up winning by dbl digits 😂

@reactflex1981 Ай бұрын

Dawn Staley Definitely outcoached Lisa Bluder. after the first quarter I would have just found ways to let Caitlin Shoot. When your shooter is doing what she did in the first quarter, you DONT slow her down. The ONLY WAY Iowa was going to win is if CC has the Game of her life. She was on her way until something changed going into 2nd quarter. CC is one of those shooters that goes off feel, in the first quarter there is no doubt SHE Felt it, her shots were going in!!!

@narlywaves2371 Ай бұрын

Raven was the change you casual. Lmao. 😂

@mzprince4139 Ай бұрын

Raven Johnson is what changed😂

@michaellove2637 Ай бұрын

Clark had an off night, nobody else on Iowa could score when they needed to SC has great, great players who made the clutch shots. I could have coached them to a win

@robertpannell5486 Ай бұрын

It wasn't an off night. That is an excuse. Clark was dogged after the first quarter because of the defense Raven Johnson put on her. You have to put a defensive minded athlete on Clark or else she will burn you.

@poloregal Ай бұрын

Takes like these. Totally disrespectful to the SC players. So you would have coached them last year to beat Iowa too I guess.

@poloregal Ай бұрын

@@robertpannell5486that’s exactly what it is. Had she beaten SC they would have been bragging like they were last year.

@jdneely9939 Ай бұрын

I'll say this once, SC ONLY won by twelve. They doubled out rebounded n doubled second chance points n only won by twelve, if Iowa had a legit center SC doesn't win this game. If ya out rebound a team 52-29 ya BLOW THAT TEAM OUT BY TWENTY. 23 More rebounds?, if Iowa rebounded half those twenty three Iowa is the champs.

@janictealbert4010 Ай бұрын

You are forgetting they were also contending with the refs and their phantom calls. Other than that it was going to be a blowout by South Carolina. This year their team could sustain the officiating.

@Michelle.85Fly Ай бұрын

@@janictealbert4010 Yes because we had a DEEPER bench regardless of all the foul calls again this matchup 😝

@kheldaryt Ай бұрын

masterclass? .... SC won this game in the off season by getting shooters, while Iowa got a downgrade from Czinano to Stuelke..... not hating on Staley but I didn't see anything that special strategy wise... think SC wins 9 out 10 times those 2 teams play.

@latreswilliams Ай бұрын

That’s because you don’t want to see it

@vincentjack735 Ай бұрын

This says you don't understand nothing about team sports..

@Aalender Ай бұрын

And those ladies could have not bought in - that happens often - I would even say can Iowa not develop their bench or get their “ good “ players to buy in ? No transfers want to go to Iowa and win to get a chip ? Sounds like the staff and Dawn did a pretty good job of getting those kids to buy into a game-plan and let’s not forget she cut a contributing player during the season

@5thgen916 Ай бұрын

@@AalenderIowa had 2 starters announce a covid year so they had no roster spots for transfers without telling someone on the bench to move on...which isn't the Iowa way.

@kheldaryt Ай бұрын

@@latreswilliams lol, go ahead make the case that there was a great strategy masterclass in the championship game. That's what the vid title said and I didn't hear any real points supporting it... again as I said, not hating on Staley, if you want to say she's a great coach overall then that's an easy case to make with undefeated season and multiple championships.... just in this game, I didn't see anything particularly earth shattering.

@destinypirate Ай бұрын

This is parody right? One team with 10 5 stars , loses 5 and gets 5 more. Krusty the Clown could coach such an all-star inbalance of talent distribution to the Final Four after spending the day with Snoop Dog. - Imagine giving Coach of the Year to Red Aurbach. - Even the bent '60s NBA knew better than that - he had leveraged a talent in-balance and it wasn't great coaching but an all-star team (with 9 Hall of Famers) who won 8 in a row. Of course that nearly destroyed the NBA until draft reform and a salary cap directed Kareem and others around the leage in the 1970s, growing until the right moment - then exploding with Magic, BIrd, Jordan. - Right now IS the right moment for WBB with Clark (like a Magic/Bird) but the gatekeepers are trying to destroy the moment built by HER and claim it for themselves. Won't work. Clark and Iowa proved that 500% more viewers want to watch the WNCAA, but they want to watch a fairly built team, with a great star, the best coaching, and organically developed team work. Nobody wants to watch the same 5 teams win 70% of all of the championships, making the final 4 a joke most years. That's why nobody (but homers) cares about UConn's or SC's 5 star monopoly rings. - We are about to see the biggest drop in viewership of any sport league in history. Until we can stop praising the Emperor's New Clothes, the kingdom (or queendom) of the WNCAA will be dying.

@janictealbert4010 Ай бұрын

When there is no narrative, especially a racial one. Quite naturally there will be a drop off. They were bandwagon fans. The game was growing organically and there was no reason to turn it into a racial show. But, even I say good riddance to the bitter bandwagon racially motivated fans. Let the sport grow organically like it was doing. there was record viewership last year before anybody knew who Caitlin was. So carry on.

@destinypirate Ай бұрын

@@janictealbert4010 Actually, the record viewership last year came with Caitlin and the organically developed Iowa team - because they were compelling and a fresh take/challenge to the gatekeeper teams... Yet you are right, that was before Dawn Staley started the race-bait game and Angel Reese became all fueled up.... All of the records from last year were before the race/region garbage built up. Had we kept the airwaves clean this year, to just talk about basketball, Iowa still would have set records because Clark's hero status just keeps growing and intriguing people.

@janictealbert4010 Ай бұрын

@@destinypirate If you believe that, I have an ice bridge in Arizona for sale, that you ought to buy.

@destinypirate Ай бұрын

@@janictealbert4010 if I believe the facts, then you go into denial. I understand, this is a common affliction in a culture where there's ever more noise and adherence to the media-led hive mind and ever less rational thought and discernment between useful knowledge and spin.

@janictealbert4010 Ай бұрын

Look in the mirror. Thank you.