Chuck

Big brain ball knower 🧠 | Unapologetic Fighting Irish fan ☘️ | Sports analytics tinkerer 📊 | Loves baseball ⚾️ | Goat-identifying individual 🐐 | he/him/GOAT

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

Is Caitlin Clark the MVP?

A’ja Wilson carries the league’s heaviest scoring burden. Alyssa Thomas has carried the leagues playmaking burden.

Now Clark is carrying the scoring and playmaking burden at the same level as both of them for her team.

That’s her MVP case.

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

Caitlin Clark’s turnover numbers make a lot more sense when you account for the burden she carries.

She has a 32.0% usage rate while assisting on 44.5% of her teammates’ made field goals when she’s on the floor. And she’s doing it while maintaining a 60.3% true shooting percentage.

That combination matters.

Clark isn’t just a primary scorer. She isn’t just a primary facilitator. She’s being asked to be both at the same time.

Turnovers are part of the evaluation, but AST/TO without context misses the point. The question isn’t simply how often you turn it over. It’s how much offense you’re responsible for creating relative to the mistakes that come with that responsibility.

Efficiency matters. So does burden.

And very few players are carrying the offensive burden Caitlin Clark is.

[CathVSConf☘️ @CathVSConf]

Marcus Freeman's message to the great players at Notre Dame who might not start, that would be a starter anywhere else?

"The greatest things in life take time."

What a wonderful problem to have.

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

she gets it

[correlation @nosyone4]

“If you start to harness greatness, they start to second guess what you want them to do.”

whew Cheryl

[J5 Sports @J5_Sports1]

Never forget Notre Dame are the good guys in the modern college football landscape:
- Uphold traditions ✅
- Don’t tamper ✅
- Haven’t forgot the “college” part of “college football” ✅
- Don’t sell out to a conference ✅
- Still have self-respect ✅

[Mike Ott (Lover of beer and green bean casserole) @DustyBottoms04]

Dallas with the open field tackle

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

"The building that Notre Dame has now is the industry standard..

It is spectacular" ~ ~ @ReceDavis #PMSLive

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

@KinnickNorth23 🤣🤣

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

I was not on social media last night during Fever-Wings. Has anyone talked about how great Kelsey Mitchell was last night? One of the greatest two-way performances we've seen in The W. Shut down Paige. She's the second-best MVP candidate after A'ja Wilson.

[Mick @DBGyt_]

This is not a knock on Kelsey. She carried Indiana in those games...

But it's clear WHY teams don't care if she has 35+ against them as long as they stop CC...

She can drop 40 and if Caitlin has a bad game Indy will still lose...

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

INDIANA IS PLAYOFF BOUND 👏

The Fever are heading to the WNBA playoffs for the third straight season 🏀

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

i’m not just pre-smartphone, pre-cell phone, pre-laptop, pre-internet, and pre-cable tv. i’m also pre-remote control.

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

@DBGyt_ they need an Angel Reese w/o the mebounds

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

Kelsey Mitchell is ELITE 🪣🔥

21 games in a row is now the new WNBA record for most consecutive games scoring 20+ points.

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

@theblockspot one of the best pure shooters in the league

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

Kelsey for MVP

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

891 points and counting 💪

Kelsey Mitchell breaks her OWN Fever franchise single-season scoring record in just 37 games 🪣

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

no one on the league is guarded with the same intensity all game long

[HeHateMe @_HeHateMee_]

Typical tackle football played against Caitlin Clark every night.

What a joke of a league WNBA.

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

couldn’t tell you one thing about Canada’s politics, but a lot of Canadiens love to tell Americans about our politics. who’s your daddy?

[FeverStats @FeverStats]

Caitlin Clark is the fastest player ever to reach:

— 200 AST
— 300 AST
— 400 AST
— 500 AST
— 600 AST
— 700 AST

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

@Klouster certainly

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

Caitlin Clark’s turnover numbers make a lot more sense when you account for the burden she carries.

She has a 32.0% usage rate while assisting on 44.5% of her teammates’ made field goals when she’s on the floor. And she’s doing it while maintaining a 60.3% true shooting percentage.

That combination matters.

Clark isn’t just a primary scorer. She isn’t just a primary facilitator. She’s being asked to be both at the same time.

Turnovers are part of the evaluation, but AST/TO without context misses the point. The question isn’t simply how often you turn it over. It’s how much offense you’re responsible for creating relative to the mistakes that come with that responsibility.

Efficiency matters. So does burden.

And very few players are carrying the offensive burden Caitlin Clark is.

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

@JNapolitano_ yes; all if that matters too. but the stats on the season set the stage for that conversation.

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

Is Caitlin Clark the MVP?

A’ja Wilson carries the league’s heaviest scoring burden. Alyssa Thomas has carried the leagues playmaking burden.

Now Clark is carrying the scoring and playmaking burden at the same level as both of them for her team.

That’s her MVP case.

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

Caitlin Clark’s turnover numbers make a lot more sense when you account for the burden she carries.

She has a 32.0% usage rate while assisting on 44.5% of her teammates’ made field goals when she’s on the floor. And she’s doing it while maintaining a 60.3% true shooting percentage.

That combination matters.

Clark isn’t just a primary scorer. She isn’t just a primary facilitator. She’s being asked to be both at the same time.

Turnovers are part of the evaluation, but AST/TO without context misses the point. The question isn’t simply how often you turn it over. It’s how much offense you’re responsible for creating relative to the mistakes that come with that responsibility.

Efficiency matters. So does burden.

And very few players are carrying the offensive burden Caitlin Clark is.

[Chuck @OutlandishGoat]

@GDubTampa context matters.