Angel Reese VS Caitlin Clark Rivalry
With Angel Reese Anncoing this week that she will be out with a wrist for the rest of the year. Lets talk about the rivalry brewing and its closing of Chapter 1. I love it I love it !Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark is the greatest rivalry in sports thats brewing currently. Not to discredit it but Chicago sports are so pathetic that this is the greatest thing in sports we got going. I fully support woman sports too, I went to that Chicago Red Stars game at Wrigley a few weeks back. I applied for jobs at the sky back in the day. So I've been a sky guy since they use to play them on Channel 50 local Chicago on Saturday nights and use to watch them as as kid. I was into the WNBA before it was even cool and trendy to like it. I was their in the trenches of the WNBA war eventually my tour would be over. I only stopped watching, since we got cable and didn't have to watch the same 20 public tv channels. May have never gone to a game in person since no one would go with me but thats not the point.
I enjoy the battle of Reese vs Clark. Chicago Basketball vs Indiana basketball, blue collar vs gritty. 2 way game vs fundamentals, good vs bad. Wait what did I just say? Ones good while the other is bad?
Thats right in every story their is a villain and a heroine. Which is much needed in this next chapter of the WNBA. I don't see the issues with any thing that happens when these 2 ladies go head to head. It's a modern day Bird VS Magic. Its the Next iconic thing to happen in basketball dare I say all of Basketball? Clark is a "hero" but every hero needs a villain the WNBA needs Reese more they think. She can be loud, little bit of winning ugly player, Gets the job done. Everyones bitching and moaning oh thats now how the game is played its bad for the league but guess what its putting eye balls on the WNBA. Something this league desperately needs
Of course you want this rivalry to steam through wins but guess what both teams stink and Reese is the only one with a ring. So ones a winner the other is a scorer. They both should make each other better. They both should be striving for the WNBA championship. But right now Clark is on the elusive chase of getting over the hump of trying to win the big one. But also trying to over come Reese and get the last laugh of I'm the better WNBA player but also better basketball player. These two women are great competitors that can have a rivalry for years. And its great that Clark is in INDY I have theory of players succeed when they look like their city Brady looks like Boston/New England. That Eagles Coach looks like Philly. Dan Campell looks like Detroit. Clark looks like INDY then you have Reese on the Sky which is a big market city that will back its players when they are good and even when there not will still ride with them. You need your big markets t love their teams like NEW York loves the libiety and you need Chicago to love the sky more which only grows the game. So this was chapter 1 or can be argued chapter 2 with this being the WNBA being a new one that will hopefully grow and flourish over the years.
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