Check out the segment below as Gottlieb details the three possible reasons why Clark has faced so much vitriol as a rookie and says the most obvious theory is sheer envy, as Clark has taken a largely irrelevant league and suddenly made it one of the most talked about sports in the United States.
Doug Gottlieb on the league-wide disdain for Caitlin Clark: “We have to open ourself up to three possibilities... Here’s the first one – these women are just jealous, catty, and they don’t know how to handle it. That to me is the most likely scenario.
Scenario two is the Fever just don’t have good culture, it hasn’t been discussed, and their coach does not know what she’s doing. A possibility but probably not likely because all of these women have played basketball for years and they know how it’s supposed to go.
Here’s the third possibility... It is possible that Caitlin Clark – and look, I know people around her, I haven't heard this from anyone around her, but it’s possible that she rubs people the wrong away; that she’s aloof. That all this attention makes her kind of separate from the team, and because she’s separate from the team, they’re like ‘Hey, you wanna be a superstar? Handle yourself, we don’t need it'... It’s possible.
I think the most likely scenario is just rampant jealousy. ‘Hey, we’ve been grinding away our whole lives, we’ve traveled all over the world to play basketball...’ I mean, Chennedy Carter has been in and out of the WNBA, played overseas, she’s played in Turkey, she’s been grinding, and only now are they paying attention because this girl that I don’t think is very good. I’m not saying ‘me’, I’m saying other women. Why does SHE get the shine?
Instead of embracing the shine and using it to propel everybody, there’s ‘Why HER??’... What’s so special about HER??’... My point has always been that it doesn’t matter, and if you’re jealous then beat her.
The biggest clown show of Chennedy Carter’s deal was that there was no mention of the fact they LOST THE GAME by one point and that foul gets you free throws, and the free throws end up being the deciding factor in the game.”
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