I'm not even joking. I think women's basketball is multiple steps behind men's to begin with, but when we were rolling and I was watching more games, it did not seem this bad. Watch these highlights from today's WNBA All Star Game
Is the top of women's college basketball better than the WNBA?
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No, the top women’s college team might have two players good enough to play in the wnba
Shlt yes. The WNBA doubled down on the Cunningham stuff because they know they can’t make money. NBA is just using it to get more NBA fans and pretend like they care.
The reason college works is because people care about the teams. When you don’t have the best athletes on the planet, pro sports don’t work. This is why women’s basketball doesn’t work and never will.
The reason college works is because people care about the teams. When you don’t have the best athletes on the planet, pro sports don’t work. This is why women’s basketball doesn’t work and never will.
I'm really not so sure. Something is different about the WNBA.
I think Geno or Staley's teams could win the WNBA, right now. Vic and a few others could make a playoff run.
Well, like most things on this board, I don’t really know much about what I’m opining on, I’m just going off the fact that very few college players are able to make a pro team. And I’ll dog the wnba as much as anyone, the product is boring, but that clip above is the selected worst from their game. No, I did not watch any of it or know it was on, but I think both teams scored over 120 points, so they did some things correctly.
The worst WNBA team would beat the dog shlt out of the best college team, don’t be dumb.
The issue is, nobody cares. Ever notice that the only reason the WNBA is getting pub is due to race stupidity?
After having watched that video, you could’ve told me that it was from the special Olympics instead of the WNBA, and I wouldn’t have disputed it.
The best boys high school team would beat the WNBA champions.
The WNBA’s best shot at making money is Caitlin Clark. Sophie Cunningham has gained attention too, but largely because of her connection to Clark. The problem is that too many players keep fighting the league’s biggest draw. The NBA has paid the bills for years, and Bill Burr’s joke still fits: plenty of women criticize men for not supporting the WNBA, but all of them do not watch or buy tickets either.
They aren’t about making money. Until we all realize that, we won’t understand the league. It’s there to create more NBA fans……women.
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If you want to honestly opine on this you should actually force yourself to watch a real game or two between the better WNBA teams. This was a silly exhibition and they were playing around. Taking crazy long shots, trying to play as little D as possible and generally just 17ing around ensuring nobody got hurt.
A WNBA team would destroy the best college teams, just like any NBA team would in the men’s game.
A WNBA team would destroy the best college teams, just like any NBA team would in the men’s game.
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Eerily similar to the little league world series announcers.
I might believe the best college team could beat the worst WNBA team. I don’t know how big the disparity is between teams in that league.
I don’t believe there’s any chance they’re beating the best though.
I don’t believe there’s any chance they’re beating the best though.
No chance. Even the worst WNBA team would smoke the best college team.
Watching an all star game where they’re just screwing around is different than watching an actual team play.
Easily.
The worst WNBA team would beat the national champions by 40 points if it wanted to.
It was the WNBA All Star game in Chicago this past weekend. Just under 20k in attendance.
Someone once told me they thought Alabama football could beat a bad pro team.
No. Just no. The Browns could have spotted Alabama 21 points and still beaten them. Sure, Alabama was a great college team at that time, but they would have at most half their team that could even make the pros, and that's being very, very generous. By default, everyone on the Browns is in the pros.
It's just not even close. When you go up a level like that, the upper level is going to win. The teams in the WNBA would beat any college team.
No. Just no. The Browns could have spotted Alabama 21 points and still beaten them. Sure, Alabama was a great college team at that time, but they would have at most half their team that could even make the pros, and that's being very, very generous. By default, everyone on the Browns is in the pros.
It's just not even close. When you go up a level like that, the upper level is going to win. The teams in the WNBA would beat any college team.
Apparently if you watch 2 or 3 of these Thunderstruck short videos featuring Sophie, it’ll get in your algorithm and you’ll constantly get new ones. They’re kinda fun…
Even at their peak, Alabama had maybe 6 or 7 all americans and maybe 10-15 future NFL players on it. And every one of those players was not as good at Alabama as they would be with more experience in the NFL. Alabama would have had a few players who could compete vs the worst NFL team. But would have zero quality depth and would have several holes even in the starters that real NFL players could exploit over and over. This would be like sending Gulfport to play Mississippi State. A mismatch.
Horribly bad take. Not even that big of a WNBA fan but the Aces or Liberty would wax them by 20
I agree with you, but they are doing a poor job. Men make up a higher percentage of WNBA viewers than women. It does a poor job at creating more fans. For example, my wife has never watched an WNBA game, but will watch the NBA with me.
If you look at an NFL roster in most cases each of those players was either the best player on their college team or in the top 5. There are exceptions of course but you could say every NFL roster is a college all star team.
I’ve watched a few Fever games this season and mostly enjoyed them. At least when CC, Kelsey Mitchell and Boston are in together they look like a competent pretty talented unit.
I’ll never quite understand why even some of the best women players struggle mightily to make shots right around the hoop.
No it’s not. A good high school boys team would beat WNBA players.
I think you’re seriously underestimating the athleticism difference between a top HS male athlete and any woman.
So the top teams in the women's college game is better than the WNBA.
So the top teams in the women's college game are all worse than the worst WNBA team.
It would be the other way around. A good HS boys team is going to have huge size, strength and speed advantages that just can't be overcome.
Ok, but...so what? The thread question wasnt about if boys could beat a WNBA team. It was about women vs women.
Can we sticky an SPS fact at the top of the main page? "SPS collectively knows a top 100 men's college team, and even the best HS boys team, would beat any women's college basketball team or any WNBA team."
That sticky might then keep such a non-sequitur from being forced into conversations like this.
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Yes, it's soccer as opposed to basketball, but women simply cannot compete with men in a physical contest. Don't forget that the chick-with-a-dick swimmer was dominating women's swimming a few years back.
Its kinda DS’s job to extend thread engagement. Non-sequiters are thread lifeblood.
My point was that they had freshman who would did not have the talent to be in the pros at that very moment, but ended up making the pros.
I think you are right about a snapshot in time, but even then, most of those guys won't stay in the pros but just a couple of years or so. There are actually only a very few that have been able to stay around for a significant amount of time.
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