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Defending Teammates: Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, and WNBA Stardom
Sophie Cunningham's defense of Caitlin Clark as the "face of the WNBA" raises questions about what truly defines league leadership. We explore the tension between popularity and performance in determining league stars while examining the complexity of teammate defense in professional basketball.
• Examining Sophie Cunningham's claim that Caitlin Clark is the face of the WNBA
• Debating whether popularity or on-court performance should determine a league's face
• Comparing Clark to established stars like A'ja Wilson, Napheesa Collier, and Breanna Stewart
• Questioning if Cunningham's defense is genuine or financially motivated
• Discussing the "welcome to the league" moments rookies experience
• Analyzing how rookie criticism differs from second-year player evaluation
• Exploring whether Clark's turnover issues and shooting inefficiency deserve more scrutiny now
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What's up everybody? It's your favorite show's favorite show Get a Bucket. I'm your host, trey, and as usual, I hope you're all having a wonderful, wonderful day. Now. Today we're going to talk about defending teammates, okay, but before we do that, please make sure to hit that like and subscribe button. Comment, tell anyone who's anyone about the show, trying to get the ratings up a little bit. You know, just a little bit.
Speaker 1:But like I said, ladies and gentlemen, we're have some subtopics, like the face of the WNBA, because this topic actually came up because of, well, caitlin Clark. So with that, we have Caitlin Clark here, right, and her teammate, sophie Cunningham. She makes a wonderful statement as follows it literally pisses me off when people are like she's not the face of the league. What, and that's my question what? Like she's not the face of the league? I'm sorry, sophie, that can piss you off all you want to, but she's not, now, the face of the league. When we're talking about sports, you got to talk about the best players, right, and I hear you if you think Kaitlyn Clark is the best player. I disagree with you. They are better players. She's not in my top 10. Kaitlyn Clark is not in my top 10 for the WNBA. But people are putting her on that high of a pedestal. So I understand why you think she is. Now.
Speaker 1:The main reason why they put Kaitlin Clark as the face of the league is popularity. I do get that. Popularity does factor in, ladies and gentlemen. It does matter. It's not the end-all be-all. So because of that, again, she's not the face of the league. My face of the league Asia Wilson, nafisa Collier, breanna Stewart those players, the best of the best and again quite popular. Okay, so again for me, better players. Yes, caitlyn's popularity might be higher, but if we're going on popularity, then Angel Reese like, don't she have more followers on Instagram or something like that. Like, popularity is quite subjective. So I promise you, if I start saying Angel Reese is the face of the league, now y'all Caitlyn stans are going to be like that's not right. It's not right for Caitlyn either.
Speaker 1:So I get it though Sophie trying to defend her teammate. That's where we are Now. If we scroll down a little further, she says Sophie says I know the talks Phoenix had in their locker room. They were like going to show her what the W really is. And she's referring to Kelsey. I mean, she's referring to Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 1:Now a couple of things to note here. Right, I appreciate that she's speaking on her time with Phoenix. You gotta I'm sorry, but you kind of have to blame Caitlin Clark's fans and fans for the way Caitlin was quote unquote attacked, because that's how people try to act like she was attacked when she hit the W, right. Everybody who's saying she was the best, everyone who's saying the WNBA as a whole is trash because of what Caitlyn is doing yeah, that might be the reason why Caitlyn gets zeroed in on. That might be the reason why Caitlyn gets targeted a little bit more. Look at LeVar Ball and how he was talking. Lonzo ain't saying nothing, and that might be the problem. Lonzo ain't saying nothing. So because of that, lonzo gets targeted a little bit more. Oh, are we hating out on Lonzo? No, it's a welcome to the league moment.
Speaker 1:So we're talking about showing her what the W is really like. I get it, and Sophie does too to a degree. She gets it as well to a degree. I'm curious how Sophie was in those locker rooms, because it's not like Sophie. Cunningham, as a player, isn't energetic. Not that she doesn't ride for her team, right, she's even defended Kaitlyn Clark year one on the court. So I'm curious what Sophie was saying in those Mercury locker rooms, because we're snitching on the Mercury right now, but what was she saying? That bit?
Speaker 1:Now the rationale because Sophie also says who cares when it comes to the face of the league and make money off of them, like that's kind of tough, like, and if you're smart, you're making money off of them. But again we're talking about her teammate. She's going to the defense of her teammate but then in the same breath saying if you're smart, you make money off of Caitlin Clark, which is a true statement. You definitely can. But again it begs me to wonder, wonder. Well, is sophie being fake in this moment? Because again her agenda is to make money, if, if you're smart, off them. So is she being smart and making money right now? That's my question mark for sophie cunningham, because again she's talking about the Mercury, but she ain't talking about herself and what she said back then. And keep in mind she's an energetic player, like she's a little rowdy, not negatively, but I'm assuming she might have had some words for old girl.
Speaker 1:That's just me, though. Maybe I'm tripping, maybe I'm tripping, but that does take me now to the rookie slander, ladies and gentlemen, because, again, I think if we're talking about last year, last season, when Caleb Clark was a rookie, it's fair to slander well, it's not fair to slander Caitlin. That's not a good time because, again, rookies have no expectation. I talked about this in another show. You have basketball expectationies have no expectation. I talked about this in another show. You have basketball expectation, you have analyst expectation and then you have the casual fan expectation. Right, that's the social media where people just go up and say whatever they want to Based on real basketball expectations.
Speaker 1:Kaitlyn Clark did nothing in the WNBA to deserve any sort of expectations like, oh, she's the best player in the WNBA or she should be WNBA. No, and even this season there have still been players playing better than her, even if she were playing healthy, even if she were healthy. So again, rookie slander. It's got to chill out. You can judge rookies, you can critique rookies. They don't really have expectations. So For me, if you, gentlemen, when it comes to Aylan Clark, face of the league, slander all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Sophie, I understand you coming to the defense of your teammate and I'm so happy that she is no longer a rookie because we can critique her and slander her right how she's still leading the WNBA in turnovers, and we're talking about year two. That's now a trend. Or the inefficiency from three-point shooting, that's a trend. Yeah, it's cool, she can shoot it from deep Inefficient. But again, though y'all want to harp on, oh, she got eight assists, six turnovers, just saying selfie. The criticism is fair. The statements she's not the face of the league is fair.
Speaker 1:I'm questioning where's your angle personally, but glad to see that you draw some entertainment for your show, as we all are doing so again. Ladies and gentlemen, I mean, that does conclude the end of the episode. But I'm curious what your thoughts are about this here topic. Defending your teammates is there, is there, is there a real, genuine defense going on? Or do you think sophie just being smart and making money off of her teammates? I don't know.
Speaker 1:And then, what's your definition of face of a professional league? Should it be based solely off popularity? How much production matters? Is production more important than popularity? That's what I'm curious about now, but I want to hear y'all thoughts, like I said. So, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, that does end the show, like I said. So I want to hear y'all thoughts. So please continue to like the WNBA, but also make sure to continue to watch and support my show. So please like, subscribe, comment, tell anyone who's anyone about the show. My name is Trey. I'm the host of Get a Bucket. Hope you all are having a good one, take care.