Somebody was watching the W before the 2024 season

Literally studying more than the Indiana Fever study defense lol

He only has to learn Indiana Fever players since they'll be the ones he's only covering . But seriously though; good thing AC is doing an effort in learning the player games.

lol it’s the bare minimum if ur going to cover something like this

Greg Maddux only paints the corners...

As a Braves fan, I can appreciate that commitment 😂

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I can't believe you actually think that the NBA fired Ham!!! What a joke!!!

It’s going to be the next Coach fault too, In fact it will continue to be everybody else fault other the CC the player who have the ball in her hands the most and constantly turning the ball over and missing open shots but her fans continue to shift the blame, It’s actually an amazing thing to observe.

​@crystalvegansmith5728 this is an idiotic take

Crystalvegansmith, if you know anything about basketball, you’d know with an actual system in place, the turnovers would go down dramatically right? The overall system is asking for her to make needlessly risky passes. And her shooting is objectively fine. Her TS% is perfectly fine, especially for a developing rookie. This isn’t even making excuses for her. I have my criticisms of CC, but one should also call a spade a spade: this offensive system sucks. Or rather, they don’t have one and a young, inexperienced team has no idea what to do with the zero guidance and direction to on they’re given here. If you can’t admit that it’s a multi-faceted issue, you simply aren’t watching.

@@crystalvegansmith5728 Crystal, you need a crash course in basketball because i's very clear you have a one-dimensional knowldge of the game and don't have any idea what you're taling about. Just an obvious agenda.

@emilyjohnson8427 it’s actually a spot on take, Is your brain working? Are you actually watching the games, What drug of choice is you taking?????

it looks like they are all only playing d for self, they could care less about working together. no way they are talking on d. you'd think None of the like each other

I said the same thing. They are all offensive minded players.

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Please yes!

She's never been a head coach, look at her resume.

A lot of defense is effort and the Fever lack effort on D. You can blame coaching too but not boxing out? You learn that at age 8. Boxing out takes effort and it's easier to just stand there and let the ball bounce your way.

@@mikeronald3812 So get rid of the loafers. That's their fault not Sides.

No, CC failed on defense.

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I've been living in Pyongyang since April because of Tommy Thibodeau. I could use the company.

This.

It's always 1996 in the WNBA.

She's the floor general and initiates the offense, which makes sense. Their offense isn't built for someone outside of CC to have 11 assists. She has the ball 42 percent of the time (which is good).

Please send the fever coaching staff these videos

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I needed this, thanks!!!

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Caitlin Clark couldn’t play defense to begin with.

@@commonsense3921 She's not hopeless. She has fast hands and leads the team in steals, 3rd in blocks, 3rd in rebounds.

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@@deepcosmiclove She gets a lot of rebounds, because she is a floater, meaning she don't guard anyone, she just hangs around the basket , waiting for rebounds, look at 1:10 to 1:20, perfect example, she not guarding a dam soul, just hanging around waiting to pad her rebounds, and she and the fever get burned on a 3, but i know you CC fanatics only concerned about CC shooting up logo 3s.

@@commonsense3921 I wouldn't say "couldn't" so much as "often doesn't"

That's funny

They could have plugged in some defensive help later in the game but that game was lost cause the Fever could not make their shots and shot poor from the line. The Fever had 6 more shot attempts than the Aces too.

Exactly,exactly, exactly!!!

Maybe they're trying to get another high draft pick.

The old lady is the GM, the owner has been on record saying he views the team as a tax write off. The owner doesn’t care enough to make a change.

What kind of view you think she's going for when she squats on the sideline like that? #FireSides #BasketballView

No the old lady is gm Who is galpals w sides and others in the league.

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I agree, but some of this stuff is common sense. CC is down in the block, waiting for a rebound instead of keeping her eyes on Kelsey Plum. Kelsey Mitchell is going under two defenders instead of going around. That's fundamental basketball.

Sides is playing checkers..they need somebody to play chess!

preferably in North Korea ofc.

We have yet to see the “great shooter” part in the pros.

@@commonsense3921 Very factual. I give WNBA rookies a pass since they get no offseason to work with their new team like NBA rooks.

That's not true. I've seen her force passes from many guards, knock passes away, make steals, block shots. Yes, he highlighted several poor defensive plays by Caitlin through 40 minutes..two of the last were late in the 4rth quarter when she had 5 fouls and was tired. I wish she could just play 33 minutes.

@@Oneanddone14 I get fans are paying to see her, but yes she shouldn't have to play all 40 minutes. The last 3 games were against quality teams, where she has 1 steal and 1 block total. Fever scheduled got front loaded with a lot of Chicago, Washington, and Atlanta games where her defensive stats looked better. DT's attitude about CC may have been catty, but she was right about levels to this, let's hope CC improves from this.

@@Oneanddone14 The OP is right and he explained it exactly the way I see it. She does go through the motions on D until she gets the ball back. Yes she will make some splash plays on D but they make up a fraction of 1% of all possessions. Her overall defense is not good and lacks fundamentals. She actually looks lost on D a lot and it's frustrating to watch. More importantly her body language on the court needs to improve. When things don't go her way her body language is poor.

They should have learned fundamentals as a child... Once the fundamentals are learned, common sense on the court is increased... Fundamental basketball isn't standing around watching the ball with your back to the person you're guarding... Common sense is realizing I'm being COOKED by the person I'm guarding, so I need to FULLY focus on that person, whether they have the ball or not... Defense is EFFORT and they lack the hell out of it... Blaming the coach for THEM not guarding their man... I'd sub their asses out in an attempt to motivate them to play harder... Again, it's common sense, and I wouldn't care if it was the best player on the team... Set the tone as a coach, and your team will catch on and flourish

The Golden Goose is being exposed as a low effort defender. It's SHE that has to do better and put forth more effort.

It's definitely going to be an Olympian this year. I wouldn't be surprised if it goes to Simone Biles.

@@1tonio567simone isnt nominated. its 100% going to be nelly korda, she’s having the best year of women’s golf ever and is the defending gold medalist this year.

the quality is fine - if you watch someone other than your new star play.

@clarifennell6248 Why is it that you old wnba fans assume that you are the gatekeepers of what good ball is? I have an answer for you: You delight in a game that was played in the 80s. The NBA left that game behind because it was not exciting. Meanwhile, your WNBA never bothered to evolve its game, which lost viewership every year since its inception. People m could see higher quality ball from both the NCAA[M/W] and the NBA. So knock off your smug bullshit and get used to some new and exciting higher quality ball coming to your league. This is now Clark's league, and next season, fans like you who actually don't know what good ball looks like will either assimilate or just go away completely. Which is just fine with us as you all are mostly social justice warriors instead of basketball fans. We've hijacked your shitty league and will improve it over the next ten years without you

@@clarifennell6248 - Agreed. The rest of the league doesn't look like this on defense.

Or tell Shaq to not get within 7 feet of the rim

So why don't the Aces look like an unprofessional team?

Colson is a bench player though... I don't think Clark was considering she'd drop a step back or anything.

Ever seen? You have never watched a regular season NBA game?

It's as if fundamental defense wasn't taught to her... I'm surprised Plum didn't drop 50 on them because they didn't pay ANY attention to the woman dropping bucket after bucket... I guess they were out there focused on Aja ONLY... Plum carved em up and they didn't do nothing about it, but ignore her when she was away from the ball

@@Vadimony It doesn't matter what she considered... GUARD YOUR DAMN MAN

@@RealBreakBreadFilms You could say the same for all of them, frankly.

It's a SHIT SHOW.

Why?

@@ronniecarter266 lol.....that's the exact word I said.

Fever total player payroll is about 1.1 million. So Sides makes almost 1/2 of the Fever payroll

@@finisher3x She doesn't deserve one dime of it either

They shot the same amount of 3's. Aces left the door open. It was a winnable game until it wasn't

Yes. Please.

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No she wouldn't.

She wouldn't even start.

Caitlin would be coming off the bench for the Aces

@@finisher3x Depends how much they valued defense. She'd be their best distributor on offense.

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The UN NEEDS TO STEP IN and SEND A PEACEKEEPING FORCE to the WNBA

Not a Clark fan but I agree that the coaches are insufferable. I don’t get it? Caitlin is NOT a point guard. The problem is she is a shooting guard WITHOUT a midrange game, lacks physicality, and doesn’t understand the word defense let alone how to do it. This is not her fault though. I blame ALL of her selfish previous coaches for allowing her to just shoot logo threes because it brought in ratings and won them games in college. Coach Blunders biggest blunder was not teaching and preaching to Clark how important it will be for her to cultivate her midrange game AND allowing Clark to be a pg. Sides is making the same mistakes.

@@YouAREyoubeYou How many WNBA players are well-rounded fully developed players? Very few.

@@X3bandsthat may be true AND my comment still stands.

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