I’m working online this afternoon; I had the game on in the background. A 4-10 team was playing a 4-8 team, more than half the shots were missed, and the pace was about 1/2 what it’s been in the NBA finals. In short, no one for all practical purposes would be watching the game if Caitlin Clark weren’t playing. When the other Fever players start flagrantly fouling the flagrant foulers like St. Michelle the Archangel fighting the Devilette, it will end. OTOH, it’s quite possible the other Fever players are passive-aggressively supporting the flagrant foulers, the way half the GOP House and 90% of the GOP Senate support the Democrats.
“...it’s quite possible the other Fever players are passive-aggressively supporting the flagrant foulers, the way half the GOP House and 90% of the GOP Senate support the Democrats.”
Good analogy.
Donald Trump = Caitlin Clark
GOP house and senate = Caitlin Clark’s team (supporting the opposing players)
Democrats = opposing players
Even in an WNBA basketball thread, you GOP haters find a way to express your hate. Really sick of you people who add nothing to FR.
-PJ
This reminds me of the scene in the movie Heaven Can Wait where Warren Beatty's character, an NFL quarterback who was prematurely taken to heaven by an angel is returned to earth in a multi-millionaire's body.As the millionaire, Beatty buys his former NFL team and demands a tryout for the QB position. During his tryout, the team conspires to undermine him and the offensive line refuses to block and lets the defense through to tackle Beatty over and over.
In real life, I believe this also happened to Tim Tebow when he was traded to the New York Jets in 2012. Either the Jets were just a bad team, or the offensive line refused to protect Tebow, because he was never given the protection he needed to give him time to complete passes to receivers.
I fear the same thing is going to happen to Clark. Her teammates either will not protect her or are too poor players to get open to receive passes, and will let the other team swarm Clark until one day she gets critically injured and can no longer play.