Why Caitlin Clark should win WNBA Rookie of the Year over Angel Reese | Hoops Tonight

Why not review Angel's offensive rebounds to see how many came off her own misses? It's counter-intuitive that her offensive rebounds often exceed defensive boards. Stat padding should not be rewarded if the numbers bear it out.

Caitlin on her way to be the greatest wnba player already.

Reese roty

NO COMPARISONS AT ALL!! IF YOU REALLY UNDERSTANDS ABOUT BASKETBALL BRILLIANTLY.. THE ROTY IS CAITLIN CLARK, PERIOD!! THIS IS NOT EVEN A QUESTIONS NOR DEBATABLE WHO IS THE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR- ALL THESE TALKS ARE NONSENSE!!

Caitlin is the favorite because she was the favorite before the season

One of the things not talked about is the Fever first 11 games was in 20 days. Which means they could not have a single practice in that time. Just film days. After that when they have had time to practice, they have been getting a lot better.

Best analysis on this subject, hands down. How come no one else is seeing and explaining it this way?

Hope Jason continues to analyze the WNBA even if it’s only getting a fraction of views compared to the men’s. More basketball content the better. Keep up the strong work.

Wow who knew he would pick the white girl lol just for be wrong in the beginning of his video so ion wanna hear his argument

All he did was glazed CC he talked all about CC to make it seem like she valuable angel roty

And people act like race don’t have anything to do with it all the white people gon pick CC n we know y

You can spin it however you want . There's 3 All stars on that team, not one. Boston and Mitchell have taken turns with Clark as far as having impact games are concerned. Caitlin is averaging 15.5 points less per game than what she was averaging in college. Her assist count is good but it still doesn't make up for such a large slide in her points production. At the end of the day she's playing with 2 other All stars and has the same win % as Reese and her team with only one game in hand now.

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I hope Angel Reese wins ROTY. But they will give it to the white girl

Angel Reese doesn’t have a chance at winning rookie of the year, she not the right type of white and loved enough

These comments are hilarious, ridiculous, and kinda sad.

How has basketball analysis become a race war through statistical comparisons?

You are right about that. The Fever's offense is on C.C.'s shoulder. Without her, their offence will be in chaos. The success of the team is because of her play making ability. The opponent's defense on her also helps since her teammates will be open once they collapse on her.

Been waiting for you to weigh in on the cluster#### drama of a league.

Ok already subscribed because we all Caitlin Clark bandwagon 😂😂😂👍🙋

Dude Reese has 7 Blocks in 22 games wtf are you talking about LOL

CC has more blocks than reese

Reese doesn't have crazy blocks and steals stats. I believe CC has more blocks and steals.

go cc for roty

Hmmm. I'll make this brief and not go into the turnovers, or that assists are a stat that takes two, or the defense. I'll just take each of their most notable achievements.
Clark got a triple-double. The first rookie ever. Okay, that's pretty good. After all, triple-doubles are rarer then double-doubles and how rare an achievement is to get shouldn't be undervalued, right?
Reese(currently) has 13 consecutive double-doubles. The only one--rookie or vet--to achieve this. The only one. No one who has ever been in the W in its existence has accomplished this. That's pretty rare when one stands alone over an entire leagues history.

AR not as disruptive defensively as you said. She only has 7 blocks on the season, that’s low for a big in her position. For context, CC has 17 blocks as a guard. She’s a good player and a good contributor but not exactly a disruptive defender. I think teams are more worried about the other big rookie Cordoza when they play the Sky, from what I’ve seen when watching Sky games.

I think it should go to both of them

For as great as he is at talking about basketball, Jason has some god awful takes sometimes that make him unwatchable. Gets too caught up in the offensive side of the ball.

Reese fans don’t want to hear ur facts
They just box score watch

Excellent commentary, HT. BTW, an interesting SI / K. Kloster article, July 10, if I may (below).

On the phenomenal attention being garnered in the WNBA as a direct result of the CC Effect:

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Caitlin Clark Is Very Popular, Not Very Divisive, per Study

Caitlin Clark has a 66 percent positive impression, putting her on par with some other basketball stars.

The Caitlin Clark takes have cooled off in recent weeks as she's gone about the business of acclimating to the WNBA and getting the Indiana Fever in position to compete for a playoff spot. But for a while there, they were flying fast and furious and oftentimes had to include Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese as a Magic Johnson-Larry Bird type rivalry was being soft-launched. Along the way Clark earned the label of being controversial or polarizing even as she did everything she could to not take the bait or add much fuel to the fire.

So where do we stand 24 games into her rookie season, as she's risen to be one of the biggest storylines in all of sports? A new study from National Research Group canvassing over 1,000 self-described sports fans suggest that Clark is not, in fact, polarizing at all. Her numbers, crunched and translated by the Sports Business Journal, suggest she's bordering on being universally liked. And that the media's coverage of Clark has made her an even more sympathetic figure.

66% have an overall positive impression of Clark (just 4% negative). That is better than NBA players such as Kyrie Irving, LeBron James, Jayson Tatum and Kevin Durant (she’s tied with Nikola Jokic, and just below Steph Curry and Luka Doncic).

72% who follow Clark say that they sympathize with her because of the press attention she’s received (60% say the media treats her unfairly). Another 41% have seen coverage of Clark’s rivalry with Reese, or stories about jealousy toward her from other WNBA players.

This is merely one study. And there will be so many more to come in Clark's career. Yet it does feel a bit instructive that Clark is enjoying overwhelmingly positive attention. Because there are a significant amount of people operating in bad faith trying to convince the public that she's reviled or the mainstream media is either too hard too soft on her.

All that's happening, through all the noise, is a very popular player growing more popular with more exposure. It's what we've suspected has been going on but there's finally some hard data to back that feeling up."


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Princess Caitlin on her way to becoming Queen Caitlin. 🙂

There will be other players with triple doubles this season including Angel Reese
Realistically Caitlin’s performance is not upstaging Angel’s except in high percentage of turnovers and 3 of 10 of 3s made plus Caitlin controls the ball distribution with more opportunities to shoot and pass the ball, cause she’s a point shooting guard overall their performances are very close with neither being dominant

TIME OUT!! Reese is a "super disruptive player"??? She is 43rd in blocked shots. Clark is 16th. Reese jumps and moves like a gazelle. A gazelle that has a lion on it's back. How many of her offensive rebounds come off of the 40% of her lay ups she misses?

I agreed until I Saw CC TURNOVERS …. Oh gawd. Her assist almost don’t even matter with a ratio like that. She like 50 Over second place.

What I have learned from Jason is that Curry should win MVP every year. He didn't spend much time discussing the impact both players are having on their team. He didn't discuss the impact of turnovers and extra possessions on winning vs losing. Instead, he focused on how unique of a prospect Caitlin is.

Winning Rookie of the Year should be based on results for the entire season. Not since June, but since May 14, 2024. By that standard Angel is the runaway favorite. Caitlin has been too inconsistent to win rookie of the year. You can't give an award based on how much responsibility you think a player has, or how much of an engine you think that player is. What are the results??? Did they produce well in May? June? July? Who is turning the ball over? Which rookie was on the worst team? Which rookie is playing well on both ends of the floor? Being an offensive engine doesn't matter if the team's offense hasn't improved much since last year, or if the defense is worse because of you. Angel is ROTY based on results, not popularity.

CC's top-class performance in the Fever'a loss to the Mystics clearly demonstrates that she is the front runner.

You are telling the truth about CC, but she’s not black. That’s why she’s not gonna get rookie of the year.

Reese is averaging 1.6 steals and 0.4 blocks for a big. Clark is averaging 1.5 steals and 0.9 blocks

Every one is useing catlin clark and angel reese for there format .

your analysis seems really weird, because if you watch the games, clark get carried by her team until the 4th, where she can take over with her shooting. Reese is everything to the team, defense and offense, giving them second chance points with rebounds and now opening up her shooting.

More wnba please, great channel

On this track, she’s estimated to get 260 turnovers by the end of the that is double what the highest ever was

She’s got 380 points and she gave away 268 of them turnovers

I think everyone knows CC should win ROTY. I think everyone also knows why she won’t. It’s like giving Myles Garrett DPOY over TJ Watt. It doesn’t make sense, the numbers and impact don’t jive but we all know exactly why they’re doing it.

It should not matter if Caitlin is an offensive engine 🙄. Winning rookie of the year should be based on impact. If the Fever offense has greatly improved since 2023, give it to Caitlin. If she is impacting winning, give it to Caitlin. If Angel Reese is impacting winning the most and playing better defense, give it to Angel. The offensive engine stuff is very biased. Offensive engines don't always win MVPs or rookie of the year, efficient overall basketball does.

Caitlyn has literally had one of the worst rookie debuts and season. Angel Reese is already higher in her in status as a champion and in the WNBA

Your Bias is showing hard this video lol it’s okay tho

Great explanation. Everyone wants to talk, but nobody actually looks at the real numbers. Look at it like this, who would win a 3v3, three CCs or three Reeces?😂

Angel Reese streak is over. Liberty put a stop to it

The goat the turnover queen strikes again and is now the best to ever do it only took her 25 games to break the record for the most turnovers ever not just as a rookie with 15 games remaining I pretty sure this record will never be broke again 👏🏽

Angel Reese’s game is so ugly 🤢