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🧔🏼‍♂️"Well, pro basketball is about dunks! Very few women can dunk! If we lowered the rims, more people would watch women's basketball!"

🤦🏿‍♂️No. We just covered that more people are watching women's basketball anyway.

And the highest paid NBA player, who also just signed the biggest NBA player endorsement deal in history, is Steph Curry. Steph rarely dunks.🤷🏿‍♂️

Just watch the South Carolina vs Iowa highlights. Caitlin Clark is a generational talent. NBA players are fans.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tfh_CFs4

1 Apr 2023 at 14:12 | Open on hachyderm.io
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Josh :dancing_bear_pink:
✅Joe Stalin 1917 🇰🇵🇮🇷🇵🇸 🇨🇺🇨🇳

@mekkaokereke Was listening to local Chicago Sports radio and (about the modern NBA) it appears 3 point efficiency is the most important stat. They were comparing good teams with the Bulls who suck in 3 point shots and efficiency.

So this is just a bunch of Misogynist myths.

1 Apr 2023 at 14:28 | Open on monads.online
New Haven Computer Club

@mekkaokereke

That was the best game highlight clip I have ever watched.

Good game thank you to both teams, that was something special.

1 Apr 2023 at 14:33 | Open on hachyderm.io
Dana Fried

@Jimmy_Jim_James_NHCC @mekkaokereke ☝🏻 this. Holy crap. Big Ten men's ball didn't look this good back when I was in college.

1 Apr 2023 at 15:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Steven Johnson

@tess @Jimmy_Jim_James_NHCC @mekkaokereke I continue to be baffled as to why the Bay Area doesn't (yet) have a WNBA team.

1 Apr 2023 at 16:23 | Open on sfba.social
Chris Adams

@mekkaokereke those stories always annoy me because there are both obvious counter-examples (e.g. most soccer fans I know prefer women’s because there’s less diving) and it’s also like … you mean to tell me you get the highest level of sport when it pays well enough to be the best choice for highly-skilled and motivated people? If only there was an obvious explanation…

1 Apr 2023 at 14:40 | Open on code4lib.social
Zack Stern

@acdha @mekkaokereke I can’t stand the men’s diving. Plus USWNT plays so well.

1 Apr 2023 at 18:13 | Open on hachyderm.io
Chris Adams

@zackstern @mekkaokereke This is probably reflecting some successful AYSO coaching at a young age but I really appreciate playing soccer as a team sport – don't try to be the best guy on the field, be part of the best-playing team.

Putting it that way, someone with an actual athletic career could probably make a fair amount of money selling that book as career advice for developers. We sure could use periodic reminders.

1 Apr 2023 at 18:20 | Open on code4lib.social
wakejagr

@acdha @mekkaokereke I also think that diving seems to be more prevalent in men's soccer. It absolutely takes away from the game.

I only watch casually, so whether I watch men or women play tends to be based on availability. Any live games I see are women because I have a cousin who coaches a women's team. Most international professional games I see are men because there are more on TV. Most USNT games I see are women because the WNT is in tournaments longer.

1 Apr 2023 at 18:57 | Open on hachyderm.io
Jennifer Smith

@mekkaokereke she is the most complete player I can remember seeing in my adult life - a beast!

1 Apr 2023 at 15:18 | Open on mastodon.online
Nigel Chiwaya

@mekkaokereke I watched her smoke Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game and should've picked Iowa in my office bracket then and there. Instead I picked South Carolina and she trashed my bracket 🤦

1 Apr 2023 at 15:24 | Open on fashionviz.xyz
mekka okereke :verified:

@seenigel I'm a South Carolina fan. They were a better team. But Caitlin Clark is incredible.

I wish the refs wouldn't have ticky tack fouled Aliyah Boston in the 1st half, but even if they hadn't, I still think Iowa would have won. Clark is just too good, and too competitive.

1 Apr 2023 at 15:59 | Open on hachyderm.io
Mark Downie

@mekkaokereke The frustrating thing is the urge to be sexist appears to be overriding their love of money. The last TV coverage contract the NCAA signed for Women's basketball was by every metric way undervalued.

They only allowed the Women's tournament to be marketed with "March madness" as of 2022.

They seemed to prefer to be sexist than to make money!

1 Apr 2023 at 16:34 | Open on dotnet.social
M.S. Bellows, Jr.

@mekkaokereke If they start messing with the purity of basketball the way they have with baseball, I'mma start watching curling.

1 Apr 2023 at 18:32 | Open on c.im
GulfEngr

@mekkaokereke she shoots the 3 on the move as well as anyone I’ve seen outside of Steph Curry. She runs some beautiful PnR as well.

1 Apr 2023 at 23:10 | Open on sfba.social
Tonydunc

@mekkaokereke amazing. I saw the highlights from the win over LSU and YouTube’s of previous games

2 Apr 2023 at 3:14 | Open on c.im
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