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Assistant Coach✖️Video Coordinator @TempleWBB

[Temple Women’s Basketball @templewbb]

Want to be part of the squad? 👀

Join us as a practice player and compete alongside Temple Women’s Basketball!

Interested? Contact Coach Aaron Thomas at [email protected].

#GoOwls

[Washington Wizards @WashWizards]

WELCOME TO THE DYSTRICT🧙‍♂️

#ForTheDistrict | @AJ_Dybantsa

[Ball Don't Stop @balldontstop]

This is a pure hooper.

[Coach Rich @CoachDianeRich]

🏀⭐ It’s time to send Jonquel Jones to the WNBA All-Star Game! One of the most dominant and versatile players in the league continues to make an impact every night. Vote daily and help her earn her spot in Chicago!

Vote here: https://t.co/oonc87yyfE

#VoteJonquelJones #WNBA

[A3 @3shootz]

That’s why you never stop playing no matter what the score is

[A3 @3shootz]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

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.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[A3 @3shootz]

S/o Hudl! Very much appreciated

[Hudl Hoops @HudlHoops]

3 teams went home with iPads today!
@templewbb @UOlivetWBB @DominicanWBB

We're giving away more tomorrow in the booth!

Come see us, get a code, and maybe win! 👀

[Hudl Hoops @HudlHoops]

3 teams went home with iPads today!
@templewbb @UOlivetWBB @DominicanWBB

We're giving away more tomorrow in the booth!

Come see us, get a code, and maybe win! 👀

[Zion O. @DukeNBA]

UConn.
Houston.

Back to back years.

Worst experiences you can have as a fan.

[USA Hockey @usahockey]

GOLDEN ONCE AGAIN 🇺🇸🦅 #WINTEROLYMPICS

[Unrivaled Basketball @Unrivaledwbb]

Shoutout to @TempleWBB for pulling up in Philly! The Owls linked up with Rose BC and the legend, @LisaLeslie .

[Alexa Philippou @alexaphilippou]

Attendance tonight at Unrivaled's Philadelphia stop: 21,490.

That's the all-time attendance record for any pro women's basketball (regular season) game and for any event in Xfinity Mobile Arena history, including concerts.

[Coach Rich @CoachDianeRich]

The #Unrivaled game in Philly was so exciting! Record attendance and @templewbb was there! Shout out to our homegirls @kahleahcopper and Natasha Cloud!

[TTN Sports @TTN_Sports]

.@templewbb tied the second-largest comeback in NCAA Women’s Basketball history in its 83-82 win against Charlotte Saturday afternoon.
https://t.co/b8piHQhraj

[Temple NIL Store @TempleNILStore]

0.1 % chance 🤔 Not a problem for us❗️

THE OWLS JUST COMPLETED THE THIRD LARGEST COMEBACK IN NCAA D1 WOMENS BASKETBALL HISTORY ‼️

[The American @American_Conf]

ICE IN HER VIENS🥶

Tristen Taylor makes 2 clutch free throws to win the game for the Owls!🦉

#BuiltToRise x @templewbb

[The American @American_Conf]

COMEBACK COMPLETE🔥

Temple comes back from down 25 points late in the 3rd quarter to win!🦉

#BuiltToRise x @templewbb

[Nook @NookAintastar]

@vettepassby35 @KDTrey5 They didn’t recruit KD for his defense 😂

[Coach Aaron @vettepassby35]

GSW Offense was ranked 1st in ppg that year. Defense wasn’t top 10 in opponents ppg. In the finals Cle avg 115 ppg on 54% efg. GSW avg 122 … neither finals team was top 10 in opponents ppg that year. @KDTrey5 is not wrong lol.