The WNCAA finals finished a couple of hours ago. I’ve been very casually following Paige for the last few years mainly due to some tiktok videos I saw of her playing horse.
Her team, UCONN, just won the championship and she’s projected to go number 1 in the draft.
A lot of the criticism on CC is that she’s overhyped because she’s a “pretty white girl.”
Bueckers is also a pretty white girl, and a top ranked player, and I’ve got to say, in terms of exciting basketball, there’s just no comparison. Bueckers is, for lack of a better description, just another very good player. She can dribble, pass, rebound, shoot, get the stats, and win games. The difference between Clark and players like Bueckers and, frankly, every other player today, is lots of points, lots of assists, super exciting passes, and the combination of logo threes and drives to the basket, all while having the opposing team focus all of their attention on her.
Much like Jordan had super charisma, I’m sure her looks and personality have something to do with it, but there’s a whole more than that.
Side note: never really cared about women’s basketball before, but these days it seems to be more exciting than NBA game.