30:33 thank you Elle for saying that it’s cool for new folks to come in but they do rehash and say incorrect points. Been watching the WNBA for a long time and the new folks coming in and being ahistorical and also ignoring the other storylines in the W is frustrating. “This is not specific to Caitlin Clark-you’re just new in this space. So while you’re new…get the lay of the land before you try to fan flames” THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ELLE
@chicotata as Elle said, if it wasn't for those stories the WNBA wouldn't be where it's at now. Some of us has been here since Cynthia Cooper and Sheryl Swoopes
@@sheba19The truth is that nobody cared because the WNBA didn’t have a majority of women who looked like Angel or Brink. You can say anything you want to say and we can argue if it’s right or wrong but once men start finding the women in the WNBA attractive, that’s when they’ll watch.
@TA-ht4jo it kills me on the internet how people conflate opinions and facts. I was just responding to his "we" statement. Most people do not watch sports based on what men look like. how infantile to base watching a sport on what men think of women's looks. A woman's value is not determined by what men think of them or their looks
@@sheba19 First off, there are plenty of women and I mean plenty of women who watch the NFL and the NBA because they love the way the men look in their tights and shorts. Let's cut the bs. We all know these women can play but we don't want to see a bunch of masculine women running around on the court. They have to be attractive and this cuts across all sports: track and field, volleyball, soccer, etc. You can deny it all you want but the facts are the facts.
Elle, Caitlin doesnt always step up when the lights are bright, she lost two national championships. maybe she just is coming along at the right time, but Swoops and many others deserved this and never got it. it seems like she just getting it cause shes the white one that is good. i am bias tho i feel like angel reese was the star of the draft
I think Elle is right about this. They shouldn't have to bend the knee to Caitlin Clark. They are competitive and they will want to beat the Fever down every time they see them.
@@Cwe-35 Jealousy just has the wrong connotation though. It's competitiveness. It's not that different than when a star gets drafted #1 in the NBA or NFL or any other sport. All the other current stars in the league want to give them that "welcome to the league" moment. Also I don't think she's the richest either even with her advertising deals.
@@Cwe-35 everyone isn't bringing up race and sexuality that play against her. Players are going to test her she's a rookie. the fact that she's the most popular rookie to ever come in means they're going to test her that much more. She's fine. Its you unreasonable fans who are all about to have a stroke. oh, make no mistake...I hate you fans. I love Caitlin. She' balling under a ton of pressure and on a team that isn't very good.
This should be fun. Elle spoke Truth to Power on who’s actually too critical of their players (and it wasn’t the other players) on her show. Really it’s just another season for most of their players, the new media and fans are the only ones throwing gas’s on the fire.
Love the fact that the beautiful Elle Duncan, is defending WNBA players against Caitlin Clark's delusional Fan Base.. and Charles Barkley's very stupid comments..
Yes she just wants to play BUT you can't tell me that players aren't targeting her. It's up to the officials and the owners to control these excessive and dangerous fouls. We are talking about serious professional ending injuries. That collaring put on the floor foul against Angel was brutal and unnecessary.
They are supposed to target rookies, especially if they are highly touted. That's what established vets do. That's part of any sport. The vets want to see if the hype is for real. Nothing new. I got targeted as a high school freshman on the varsity basketball team. Upperclassmen would lick their chops when I guarded them in practice, Give me the business. Same thing happened as a college freshman on the football team. I had to earn their respect. It comes with time and maturity. Now, I do agree with you about the excessive and dangerous fouls, but the rookies being targeted is to be expected.
Thank you for talking about Cam and Alyssa. There are other great players in the W and they deserve coverage. There are also more entertaining storylines, besides Clark. The Vets are the ones who are dominating but you wouldn't know it because mainstream media refuses to cover it.
Its not so much the ENBA players hating CC, its the fans. Who arent even really fans, just people who have an opinion on everything. They voice their opinions as fact and you cant telk them they're wrong. The discourse around her skin color has actually made me sick. And please stop saying its men. Ive seen way more women in threads and comments everywhere on social media hating CC and think its about her skin color.
(38:42) No one is asking Elle to "Give You This" No one is asking anyone to "let her win" Clark will take wins when she can and lose when she can't win. Try a little honesty Elle, Clark has the attention and the others want it. A story as old as time.
@@Blaster216 Clark is a rookie with the resentment of the league on her shoulders, rather like Larry Bird in the 1979-80 NBA season. Clark can only hope to play like Larry Bird.
If Caitlin coming into the league was hush, hush by the veterans, then nobody would be saying anything about the vets in a negative way. But, everybody has to be honest, even Elle, that it was the vets that started the fight. Now, they realize that they are in over their head, now it's "I'm Black, I'm Brown and that's why they don't choose me." See below a comment that I pasted on another video about Aja Wilson coming at Caitlin, wrongly. "Aja Wilson better be cool! She is now on Team Nike. She joins the ranks of Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and (drum roll) Caitlin Clark. Nike is putting millions of dollars out there to advertise and promote its products. Nike's owners, the shareholders, expect profits from its investments. All Nike-related athletes, whether in basketball, football, soccer, tennis, golf, etc., are to promote Nike's bottom line. All Nike-related players are NIke multimillon dollar investments. Imagine how the Nike shareholders will feel about Aja Wilson if Aja continues to tarnish one of their newest investments (Caitlin Clark) - a multiMillion dollar investment to predominantly sell shoe products to not only national but to international girls around the globe. That's a vast market left untapped even by the likes of Michael Jordan and LeBron James. How long will the shareholders allow Aja to keep her less anticipated profit generating Nike shoe deal? My guess is that it will not be for long, that being, not likely to renew Aja's shoe deal when the contract is up. And, seeing that kind of behavior when with Nike - a lack of loyalty to the brand, what other brands are likely to pick her up in the future? Nobody is teaching our people (Black people) how money works in the entertainment business. You make money for YOU until YOU no longer make money for THEM, whereby "THEM" means whoever controls the purse strings. Athletes are the least informed about the entertainment BUSINESS. Many think that just because he or she has performed well, even better than another in the field, that he or she is deserving of the GREATEST money rewards. What he or she doesn't understand is that YOU don't get to decide what the PEOPLE WANT regardless of how good YOU or your COHORTS think that YOU are compared to ANOTHER in the field. Caitlin PRESENTLY deserves more attention, more accolades, THUS more MONEY than any other WNBA player BECAUSE CAITLIN IS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT TO SEE, CAITLIN IS WHAT THEY WANT. PERIOD!!!! Unless YOU are buying up all or a substantial amount of the tickets and all or a substantial amount of the merchandise, NOBODY should give a d*mn about what YOU think your performance entitles YOU to. When there is someone else at the time who contributes MORE to those sells, REGARDLESS OF THE REASON, than YOU do, YOUR opinion really only matters to YOU. True story, back a few decades ago my youngest brother and I were attending a "Black Expo" event in a major USA city. Although older, but obvously not wiser, I commented to my youngest brother that it made no sense to me that the majority of the Black patrons present were buying their Tee shirts from the Asian kiosk rather than from one of the Black-owned kiosks. My youngest brother turned to me and said, "They Got What They Want." I almost got mad at him until it dawned on me that, d*mn, he was the one making sense, not me. The take home message is that in business, it doesn't matter that YOU think YOU deserve more, it matters most which of you GOT WHAT "THEY" WANT. At this moment in time it is CAITLIN CLARK who's GOT WHAT THEY WANT!"
Absolutely correct. The players in the WNBA many times lose sight of the fact they are entertainment. This is a business with a product to offer. You wanna let your freak flag fly, fine, but you hurt your product. You don't wanna play hard every game, fine, but you hurt your product. You wanna act in a messy way, fine, but you hurt your product. This is NOT college. No Title IX here.
It's interesting to contrast Caitlin's early struggles with Alyssa Thomas's rising stardom. Alyssa is averaging 14 points and 7 assists, with 4 turnovers per game. Caitlin is averaging 19 points, and 6 assists with 5 turnovers per game. Caitlin is already close to MVP numbers apparently. But the Sun is a really good team, the Fever are a mess.
@justinclark4235 The difference is Alyssa Thomas plays great DEFENSE and Caitlyn Clark does not play any defense. Clark averaging 19 points and every guard she plays against is taking her to school. So that's where they differ.
@@petjunction411 That was last night, what about the other 7 games? Go back and check the tapes, her defense is horrible. Thomas plays hard nose defense every game.
The problem is, let’s use Aja Wilson as an example. She’s great, true. People don’t care to watch her score 30 making lay ups and 5 foot shots. People get excited and watch for full court length passes and 30+ 3s and the potential of seeing something spectacular.
I kinda wish they would've aired this before the game, since it appears it was recorded today. When this airs tomorrow we're going to want Bo and Elle's thoughts on game 4, not what he and elle think will happen in game 4
@@EssAhrBee i literally just said "I kinda wish". Like the most lukewarm shit ever it wasn't even that serious🤣 I did not mean to speak for anybody else, and I apologize for that. Imagine getting all worked up about a random comment and then telling that person to grow up. Its just incredible. I hope you have the day you deserve lil bro
I don’t watch the WNBA, but I do pay attention to Clarks games. No one else. Clark is the reason and only reason for the WNBAs sudden popularity. The, as it’s been seen in the recent days with their comments, the rest of the WNBA is extremely jealous of her.
I'm sure there are some that are jealous but doing this to rookies with hype is NOT new smh they used to slam jordon out of the air on his back Lol it's been part of the game the only reason it's a big issue now it because she is a small white girl and it's nauseating
Catling Clarke ain't struggling for a rookie in their first season, and she's already posting unbelievable stats. She is in a weak team that is up when she is on the court and then can't score when she isn't. This girl has had criticism for being white, hetro, and Christian and from many different directions from the wemon on the View to the free thinkers in the WNBA. Why is she so disliked by the others what could it possibly be. Why is it that someone who is only in the league 5 minutes can generate such hate what makes her so different. 🤔
Elle comes off like a man hater. Aja went after CC for being white and all the woke media followed suit and she wonders why CC’s fans come to her defense. And btw, CC’s fans come in all stripes, not just white people. smh
Agree, she's not struggling. Just want to point out it was one person on the View that had issues with her. Whoopi pretty much countered all the points this one person, I think her name is Sunny, made.
@benjaminsmith2287 You are right it was only Sonny from the View, but my point still is why ? Why her? CC isn't the first exciting prospect to turn up, and her ability is clear to see, but she is definitely getting more abuse than any other player. Jealousy will drive most men on to get better, but with some females, it takes a very different form. Some ladies compartmentalise their anger and rage, so it will manifest in different ways from men. They will look for alliances and form cliks for protection. It looks like shit like that is happening, and it's far from professional behaviour. Behaviour that flew by last year won't work anymore as the levels of attention on the league are up ten, maybe twenty fold. So best behaviour time. Sorry, I got carried away here.
In Caitlin Clark's last game, her stats were 30 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals, 3 blocks. In the history of the WNBA only 3 other players have ever done that. Also, Clark has reached 100 points and 50 assists faster than any other player in WNBA history.
@@play030it is a A TEAM GAME you win as a TEAM and lose as a TEAM **AND** what CCs individual stats shows is that she is doing her part on that team and BALLING THE FUCK OUT as a rookie and that's even while getting face guarded at 96 ft or double n triple teamed but yet media and jealous players old and new wanna downplay her accomplishments bc she gets more attention then they did or ever will so they hate on her and say she's struggling whens SHES not but her team Is and they can't even anticipate and catch her beautiful DIME PASSES and putting on her as TOs when theyre technically not but y'all can keep being mad and jealous that a 22year WHITE girl is the face of all of WBB now and for the last few years AS SHE SHOULD BE bc she's broken every college record known to man, mens or women's, and is inspiring ALL KINDS OF AGES, RACES AND GENDERS to watch her and wbb and instead of everyone who plays college pro or any level being happy shes brought this attention to the game and league and in turn to other wnba players, y'all got to be jealous and whiny and hating that it won't a black or brown player getting this attention before BUT THEY WOULD HAVE GOT THIS SAME ATTENTION IF THEYIR GAME HAD THE UNUSUAL AND EXCITING STYLE OF PLAY WITH DRAINING LOGO 3S LIKE NOTHING AND KILLER ON A DIME PASSING THEN WE WOULD HAVE BEEN DOING THE SAME OVER A BLACK PLAYER like we alllll did with um Michael Jordan or Steph curry and they are black and im white and a woman.. GENERATIONAL great play is great play REGARDLESS OF RACE but that's all ELLE AND THESE RACE OBSESSED WOKE ACTIVISTS SAD VETS WANA FOCUS ON IS RACE 24/7 and how "black n brown players black and brown players dont get their due and they make up more of the league and they this and boohoo that bullshit gimme a break..... If CC Had been a black female doing all that she's doing the last several years y'all would celebrating her all day everyday with YAS QUEEN SLAY GIRL SLAY and if someone had said oh she's only getting all this hype bc shes black y'all would be mad and calling ppl racists as u should bc race has Nothing to do with how good someone is... And if CC were black y'all would be wanting her on the dollar bill and on mt Rushmore and y'all would be naming your babies after her BUT BC SHES WHITE AND FROM MIDDLE AMERICA AND SEEEMINGLY STRAIGHT THEN YALL GOTTA IMMEDIATELY TEAR HER DOWN AND BC SHE DON'T FIT YOUR WOKE ALPHABET MAFIA DEI AGENDA BULLSHIT THEN YOU RESENT HER AND GO ON MAD RANTS IN TV BC Your BIASED AGAINST HER... REMEMBER HOW YALL SAID IMPLICIT AND Complicit AND ALL THEM BIAS TERMS FROM 2020 ARE BAD AND WHITES NEEDED TO LEARN WELL NOW YALL ARE DOING IT AGAINST A WHITE A WHITE GIRL BUT THATS OKAY BC SOMEHOW ITS OKAY IN 2024 TO BE BIASED N HATEFUL TOWARDS WHITE FOLKS... well it's NOT and u need to check your racism cause u look stupid n hypocritical n it's gonna ruin all this newfound attention on the wnba which was almost dead and had to be propped up by the NBA MENS money that y'all hate so bad.... Y'all wanted ppl to watch women's basketball n sports and now that almost exclusively Caitlyn has brought that attention and fandom and record setting attendance and sales BUT SHES NOT BLACK SO HATE ON HER N DIMINISH HER ITS RACIST AND ITS BULLSHIT FOR U TO DO IT AND NOT SEE IT AND KEEP DEFENDING IT... I AM NO LONGER A FAN IF URS, THANK U FOR FINALLY SHOWING ME THE RACE OBSESSED RACIST THAT U REALLY ARE!!!! AND UR DELUSIONAL NOT TO SEE N ACKNOWLEDGE THE HATE FROM PLAYERS MEDIA ETC THAT CC IS GETTING AND DOES NOT DESRVE ANY OF IT... ALL SHE DOES IS BE MATURE MIND HER BUSINESS AND BALL THE FUCK OUT AND U PPL ARE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY ALL OF HER LEGIMATE ACCOMPLISHMENTS BC OF UR JEALOUS RACIAL HATE N DELUSION
The woman is a super player but needs some other players to step up every time they are on the floor. She has shown that she is an all around player. This team is a mess and needs to be recast, please.
It's a Martin episode where his grade school teacher was hitting on him. The reaction Martin gave when he touched her thigh neat is how I feel about Elle!
Yes 👏🏽 Elle !!! As a fan of Caitlin she just wants to play ball! Yes the fans and others are adding fuel to the fire. CC is tough!! She is fine!! Elle was spot on!!!
Xena's warrior princesses. The Las Vegas aces look like a continuation of Xena. Becky looks like an older queen version of the warrior princess whose no longer physically going into the battle. Kelsey plumb has the crazy jokes and smile. But aja Wilson. With the one arm and one leg covered is straight out of a swords and sandles movie. Don't know who Xena's warrior princesses are fighting. But we need that show.
(35:02) Who said they should take it easy on Clark? Some random fan says take it easy on Clark and you stand up and say how dare anyone say take it easy on Clark because we are here to put the rookie in her place? Who asked the vets in the league to worship Clark? What has been pointed out by the fans is that unprecedented defensive attention has been brought to Clark, as it should have, because none of the teams in the league want to be the one having Clark dropping forty plus points on their home courts. No rookie has received full court presses along with double teaming the way Clark has and it's obvious the refs do not want to upset the veterans with the way they ignore the fouls they commit when Clark has the ball. All that said, Clark will be fine if she's as good as I think.
The WNBA isnt facing abymore criticism that all men sports get. This isnt about racism. This is about one exciting player CC, and a bunch of other women who have been around for years that weren't exciting enough to watch for years
To say that none of the narrative exists is pretty naive there is some of it going on, it’s impossible for it not to in this day and age! Sorry but facts
I saw a stat where The Phoenix team played a game and no one scored 10 points. The WNBA has had a total of 40 games like that. The game play in the WNBA isnt good or exciting. Thank God for Caitlin Clark. Without her there wouldnt be muvh else to watch in this league
@RushBig0786 In my SpongeBob voice, "three days later" Caitlyn Clark against the New York Liberty has a stat line of 3 points 4 rebounds 3 assists and 3 turnovers. I guess you had a great time watching go 1-7 from behind the 3 points line. So how did you like your girl Caitlyn Clark's stat line since you want to criticize other team's stat lines.
@@realtalk423 obviously you missed the point being made. The WNBA had 40 games where NO ONE on the team scored over 10 points. You won't find a post of me saying she's the best player in the WNBA. What I always said is she's the ONLY exciting player and the one player that's drawing all the attention
