Midwestern Views

Proud Hoosier, love family, free enterprise, travel, IU sports, good friends/good humor. Seek common sense political solutions, civil debate & 18-yr Term limits

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@AlexGoldenNBA No, he is hitting prime and then downward descent - let him walk at end o this deal at 34-35 right?

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@esidery Not apples to apples, JVerse is a budding superstar, easily worth 1-2 first round picks dees alone. So need more to your analysis.

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@TheCalvinCooli1 Love to see him hit the final 2 for sure. But it’s LA, so I will believe it when I see it.

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@WLWT Until the new AOC wing turns against him?

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@ChadBianco Sheriff I truly appreciate how much effort you put into a race, heart and soul. But sometimes in life you need to take one for the team. No poll has shown you in top 2 in months. Save your rep, build Goodwill and unite behind Hilton now. Will pay off later for you! 💪

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@jasonwhitlock Something sure seems odd right now and something to shake it up might be a positive but to see the clip of Stephanie WHITE getting mad and then subbing CAITLIN Clark out is bizarrebizarre

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@Realrclark25 Will watch for your tweets the next time an athlete comes out for a Democrat politician and then gets criticized, for you to then say those are good conversations that need to happen as well. Don’t think that’ll happen by you but we’ll be looking for it.

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@JMV1070 think you should discuss this further. I agree seems like we have a LeBron and are treating her like she’s Rodman.

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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

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@EnergyCredit1 Get a life.

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@DezBryant Amen!

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@HolderStephen Your partisan politics comes out again. Yes Trump can be an ass. But your & Carter’s take is essentially “he shouldn’t openly support someone that I disagree with & I find offensive.” You only call others out (basically by shaming them) from one side of the aisle. Free speech?

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@FarmGirlCarrie And endorse Hilton, why not

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@esidery @nflnetwork Ridiculous to have to apologize. Free country, personal time, off-season, why apologize.

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@jamestalarico Clearly he went full on woke master during that 20-21 timeframe, but one has to be able to show discernment not follow the peer pressure wave.

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@rolandsmartin @TonyDungy @Michele_Tafoya You are such a partisan hack. Why do you care what he does?

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@janninereid1 He is calling out REAL issues in the city. I worry if he can’t get smart people around him fast, he could be over his head. But seriously- is Karen Bass truly competent at running things either?? How did Caruso not win last time??

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@mitchellvii You are a super dreamer my man. Trump does not walk on water and not sure GOP candidates are so clear either. Worry your boy Donald is letting his ego get the best of him.

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@FoxNews Was he talking about Bernie? 3 houses and how long has he been in DC? Amazing the hypocrisy here.

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@RollingStone But Karen Bass has been excellent for LA?

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@EmmanuelAcho Stop cancel culture thinking! Anyone can support anyone in a free country. I do t even love Trump but way dislike peer pressure by left like this. You’d never say this for supporting a Dem. But who cares who people want to support. Enough!