Dan Patrick: “Caitlin Clark now has the rookie record in the history of the WNBA. She's now gonna try to set the all-time record. This is happening exactly how I scripted it. They loaded up on the front-end of their schedule, and Caitlin Clark -- on a bad team coming off playing an entire college basketball season -- didn’t play well. I said at the time she didn't deserve to be on the Olympic team. At the time I felt that, but she got rest, the schedule is not as demanding, and now you're seeing Caitlin Clark.
For everybody who talked about ‘oh, YOu KnOw, SHE’S juST A SHooteR!’... She's already set the all-time rookie assist record for somebody who's the greatest scorer in college basketball history. I think that was lost on a lot of people -- her ability to be able to find the open person. It's something that you're born with. I said at the time that she will try to ingratiate herself as a teammate by passing first instead of shooting first, and that's exactly what's happened. She's played incredibly well and they've played incredibly well.
And I know we want to make this a Rookie of the Year debate... Angel Reese is a wonderful player. She just had 20 rebounds, she's a double-double guaranteed, but anybody who tries to sell you on this is selling you on something to get clicks. This is a phenomenon. Caitlin Clark is a phenomenon. If I said to any of these people who think Caitlin Clark is not the Rookie of the Year, I'd say ‘Who would you want to start your franchise with?’ I’m not putting A’ja Wilson in there, I'm just saying between these two. Angel Reese is a wonderful player but she does not compare to WHAT and WHO Caitlin Clark is when she's on the basketball floor, plain and simple. But we want to make it a debate and I think that that's just to get clicks.
Look, Angel Reese, there's nothing that she does where you go ‘DID YOU SEE HER??’ other than she plays really, really hard and I liken her game to Moses Malone. Moses Malone was relentless. It's not that I don't appreciate who she is, or how she plays, but there is no one like Caitlin Clark in the history of the WNBA.
You had somebody who was the all-time leading scorer in college basketball history who plays for Las Vegas [Kelsey Plum] and nobody talked about her. Caitlin Clark is just different, and you saw that yesterday. Her ability to get her teammates involved is what's going to stand out with her rookie season, to remind you of just how great she is seeing the floor.”
Listen to Dan Patrick of Fox Sports Radio’s The Dan Patrick Show explain why he thinks the debate between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese for the WNBA’s Rookie of the Year Award has just become a pointless conversation for trolls at this point, as Dan says Reese doesn’t compare to the ‘phenomenon’ of Caitlin Clark.
Check out the segment above as Dan details how he thinks Clark is already establishing herself as one of the greatest players in WNBA history.
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