Caitlin Clark Is The Truth

It was a good interview. Geno is highly respected in most circles. He also said several things that some people would disagree with. Like he believes that CC is being unfairly targeted. More than one thing can be true. I would suggest watching the whole interview, for anyone looking to get the full context of what he was saying.

She was basically given the Lonzo Ball treatment. Remember how Pav Bev and players in the league went after Lonzo. Because of some of the stuff his pops was putting out there. It's something the rookies just have to play through.
There's a difference in what they media has been spewing and what Geno said (and by extension what you said with the Pat Bev reference).

You're absolutely right. All rookies experience it and have to play through it and grow. However, the media has no time for that. They have to push a narrative that she's being beaten up on the court because of jealousy and that aint true.
 
One things I do like of about the WBNA. Is that their players play unless they are really hurt. The NBA has become a joke with all the time management. The cut throat nature and limited spots encourages them to be on the court.
 
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It’s in her genes



WNBA star A’ja Wilson has a deep-rooted HBCU connection​

Steven J. GaitherJune 7, 2024
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Like many of her NBA counterparts, WNBA superstar A’Ja Wilson has HBCU roots.

While Wilson didn’t play at an HBCU, she definitely has close ties to one in particular. Her father, Roscoe Wilson Jr. was a dominant big man at Benedict College, located in Columbia, SC.

Playing at Benedict in the early 1970s, he was one of the best-known centers throughout the SIAC and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). He ranked eighth in the nation in rebounding as a sophomore, averaging an astounding 22.5 rebounds per game, and had a game-high 35 in one game. He was a three-time selection to the all-SIAC, all-NAIA teams, and was a Small College All-American after his sophomore season.

A’ja Wilson’s father also played for Big Wilt’s Smalls Paradise team in the famed Rucker Basketball League in New York, where he played with and against some of the biggest names in basketball – Nate “Tiny” Archibald, Julius “Dr. J” Erving, John Shumate, Connie Hawkins, Tommy Boswell, Charlie Criss, Henry Bibby, Swen Nader, Kevin Joyce, Alex English and many others.

Roscoe Wilson went on to have a stellar overseas career after a short stint with the New York Nets of the ABA, eventually settling into coaching. He later served as head coach at Morris College and Benedict College.

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Roscoe Wilson Jr. was a Hall of Fame big man at Benedict College.
It would have been great to see her at Benedict or any HBCU, but A’ja Wilson averaged 24.7 points, 13.9 rebounds, and 4.3 blocks a game throughout her high school career at Heathwood Hall Episcopal and committed to Dawn Staley and South Carolina. And the rest is history.

Fifty years after Roscoe Wilson tipped off his professional career, A’Ja Wilson has not only followed in her father’s footsteps — she’s more than made her own.

“He got me to where I am now. And he’s going to get me to where I would like to be as well,” Wilson said in a 2016 interview. “But without him putting that basketball in my hand, there would be no A’ja Wilson.”

The center for the Las Vegas Ace is putting up prime Shaq numbers: She’s averaging roughly 28 points, 12.5 rebounds and nearly three blocks per game through the first seven games of the WNBA season.

Wilson has been a star since she arrived in the WNBA back in 2018, and she’s apparently just hitting her stride.
 
Caitlin Clark going for 40 plus tonight. Book it!

I'm interested to see how she responds this game and the rest of the year. It will either break her or make her stronger. If she a true dawg and got that it factor. She'll find a way to turn it around and ball. That's the only way she gonna earn any respect.
 
Yep! Think she would've gave them some star power and easily a fan favorite. Edwards is nice, but Reese has a lot more charisma and can play.

Edwards is the better all around player and I understand why they drafted her. But the intangibles like popularity, presence and more exposure with her on the team are some of the reasons why they should've drafted her.
 
Edwards is the better all around player and I understand why they drafted her. But the intangibles like popularity, presence and more exposure with her on the team are some of the reasons why they should've drafted her.

And she from the Area... Baltimore... She going to have Mech for every City... lol

 
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