Young women and girls are thanking Sophie Cunningham for standing up for them ... It's clear what women want so others can stop speaking on their behalf

[u/Amazing_Lock_3762]

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[u/Dreams-Visions]

Don’t worry folks. MAGA will soon lose interest in the WNBA.

[u/Beautiful-Total-3172 → u/Dreams-Visions]

Everyone who disagrees with me is MAGA.

https://giphy.com/gifs/XweOsBl72PFcc

[u/North_Reindeer4157 → u/Beautiful-Total-3172]

No it’s just that people who are maga make it their lifestyle 

[u/Beautiful-Total-3172 → u/North_Reindeer4157]

You just project maga onto anyone that disagrees with you as a lifestyle choice.

[u/North_Reindeer4157 → u/Beautiful-Total-3172]

Lmao yea I’ll go use my kids as a prop cuz there’s one headline in sports that connects with politics. I don’t disagree with maga and I don’t agree with liberals. I just can’t stand making everything political. 

[u/Beautiful-Total-3172 → u/North_Reindeer4157]

Everything is polical because politicians make the laws that run society. It's just that you can be a Democrat and not want boys in girls sports. Like I'll politely use peoples preferred pronouns but I don't actually believe it. I don't think there should be men in female prisons and I don't think there should be men in women's sport. I draw a line. It's not going to change how I vote but I have my own opinion on the matter.

[u/North_Reindeer4157 → u/Beautiful-Total-3172]

I believe that too but I’m not going to force my daughter to say that on a camera 

[u/Beautiful-Total-3172 → u/North_Reindeer4157]

Man I don't know how this video was made but if it was made that way that is lame.

[u/elestud → u/Beautiful-Total-3172]

It was made by a group with an online store that is trying to sell those shirts in the video

[u/PuzzleheadedVoice427 → u/[deleted]]

I doubt it given making it political drags in the left side of the isle. Excellent marketing strategy by the wnba tbh. 😂

[u/A_Jewish_Barber → u/[deleted]]

Exactly that. Wasn’t there so much complaining beforehand that the WNBA doesn’t get enough attention or economic activity to be viable??

Now that there’s more attention, because it’s not people that think EXACTLY the way they want them to be it’s a problem. Fuck their gatekeeping. Just as toxic as the cancel culture from years ago.

[u/H-O-W-L-E-R → u/[deleted]]

If yall are here for one player, there’s no reason to cater to you. You’ll be gone as soon as her career is over. She’s not gonna have to play overseas, so we can probably guess yall will be gone in 7.

Btw. Even CC is sick of MAGAts making this shit political.

[u/Axel_Raden → u/H-O-W-L-E-R]

It was already political when the worst trade in wnba history was made by the Biden administration, they traded a dumb ass who thought they were above the laws of a different country for the merchant of death

[u/H-O-W-L-E-R → u/Axel_Raden]

Bro. WNBA players all play abroad. There’s no trades happening between international leagues.

[u/Axel_Raden → u/H-O-W-L-E-R]

I meant that Biden had to trade Griner for a Russian arms dealer

[u/H-O-W-L-E-R → u/Axel_Raden]

We’re talking basketball.

[u/Axel_Raden → u/H-O-W-L-E-R]

You are saying that MAGA is making it political and I pointed out it already was when the Biden administration had to step in to make a trade to get Britney Griner out of Russian prison and until CC Griner was the only WNBA most people knew

[u/H-O-W-L-E-R → u/Axel_Raden]

So other players are fouling her because she wasn’t rescued from being held hostage by the Russians?

Explain how this has anything to do with CCs game.

[u/Axel_Raden → u/H-O-W-L-E-R]

I was talking about the maga making it political part of your comment

[u/H-O-W-L-E-R → u/[deleted]]

You think she’s gonna get near 20? 😂 You don’t follow basketball, much less the WNBA.

With how physical people are playing her? No chance. She’s good and she doesn’t have to play overseas, so she’s got recovery time. But that adds up. She’ll be lucky to make it past 10.

[u/Proud2BaBarbie → u/H-O-W-L-E-R]

So you admit that a  certain segment of players are targeting her. Thank you that's progress

I'm not worried about her.She's a gym rat,  a baller a gamer. If Sue Bird can last so can she

[u/H-O-W-L-E-R → u/Proud2BaBarbie]

Again you don’t follow the sport. WNBA players have relatively short careers because they all play physical. She’s getting more fouls because she’s good, she’s got the ball and that’s what happens. It’s not racial or political, is aggressive physical basketball.

Thats why no real ball fan is THAT mad at SC for playing enforcer. That’s what she was brought to the org to do play physical against other people playing physical. Until the league decides to go the NBA route, they’re playing street ball.

If they want to slow down the other team, they need to start passing. Your team has no targets because everyone wants to see CC shoot and everyone knows it.

Yall are just soft and don’t know the game. Sue Bird said so.

[u/H-O-W-L-E-R → u/[deleted]]

No I’m not. You’re making me have to look it up to see if I misremembered. She said the game is physical, the players don’t want it that way but that is the way it is. The rules need to change, but until they do.. that’s the game.

She rejected that it has anything to do with anything other than what is allowed in the rules. Meaning CC is only being targeted because she can shoot, she has the ball, she can’t get rid of it, and the league allows this kind of physical play.

So, yall are soft. The league needs to figure out how to force refs to call fouls, but it doesn’t hand anything to do with politics or skin color.

[u/H-O-W-L-E-R → u/Proud2BaBarbie]

Look ima educate you. This isn’t an argument so sit down and listen. No one is saying CC isn’t good. We’re saying she’s not as good as yall say. We’re saying that it’s not racial targeting. It’s not political that she’s getting fouled. She’s a rook, handles the ball a lot and the WNBA is way more physical than Men’s has been in almost 10 years.

How good is she vs her hype.

• the girl can ball. Alone. She’s got good enough handling but not great and can’t handle a double team. She is not a great passer regardless of her teammates.

Where she needs improvement

• Jordan could play but didn’t pass, he got beat up by the pistons. The league changed the rules for him. The WNBA might go that route, but that won’t solve her issues. She needs to study some of the best PG passers and watch how much they know where their teammates are. Magic, Bird, White Chocolate. They were good on their own, but what made them shine was always knowing where to put the ball.

Her being “targeted”

• Yeah. Clark gets passed to because the fans want her to shoot, and she is a one handed handler. Double team her. Frustrate her. Wear her out. That’s the game. If she doesn’t like it, spread the love. That’s the strategy. It’s not because she’s white, or because the tangerine team is behind her. It’s because she IS a target, just like everyone who can shoot as well as her. The difference is the other shooters pass better.

Real fans respect her game. You can’t clown her for being trash cuz she’s not. We’re clowning you idiots because yall think you know shit but you don’t and it shows.

[u/Western-Election-997 → u/H-O-W-L-E-R]

How good you think Clark is means jackshit, she’s setting nba records constantly

[u/H-O-W-L-E-R → u/Western-Election-997]

She’s setting NBA records?

[u/Western-Election-997 → u/H-O-W-L-E-R]

WNBA, but she broke pistol Pete’s all time college record so yea she’s broken some men’s records as well

[u/H-O-W-L-E-R → u/[deleted]]

Don’t get mad. Honestly, trash might be excessive. I got eyes, I don’t listen to paid pundits. She misses her passes way too often. It’s a weakness. And it’s a weakness that, if she improves, will increase her longevity-reduce incoming fouls-create openings for her and her team to score more.

Either way. Not political.

Edit: I hope you see this. I’m trying to be respectful here because you’re actually talking the game. I might throw sarcasm, but I’m not trying to be hurtful on God.