Does Caitlin Clark Deserve The Ncaa Scoring Title

It's just crazy that whenever somebody in the women's space and in women's sports and specifically

in women's basketball does something that's so impressive, there are still people that are going

to be like, oh, she doesn't deserve this because Pistol Pete did it in three years without a

three-point line. Big news in the world of college basketball. It is official. Kaitlyn Clark has

broken the all-time leading scoring record in NCAA history. She officially passed up Pistol

Pete. On senior day at Carver Hawkeye Arena, Clark entered the game against Big Ten regular season

champion Ohio State, needing 18 points to pass Maravich, who scored 3,667 points in his three

seasons at LSU from 1967 to 1970. And of course, she finished the game with 35.

9 assists and 6 rebounds in their victory against Ohio State. I'm loving the fact that,

first of all, it seems like most of the comments and reaction to Kaitlyn Clark breaking this record

are all positive. And you have a lot of celebrities chiming in. LeBron tweeted out,

Travis Scott showed up to that game in Iowa. Also, Jake from State Farm was there. Also,

he seems to literally be everywhere. He was there. It seems like it's just such a

monumental moment. Maya Moore was there also, who is somebody who Kaitlyn has looked up to for

many, many years. So it seems like overall, it's just such a positive impact. And like I've been

talking about on the show, I feel like she is such a great example for what the future could

look like for women's basketball, not only alone in college and in youth, but also for the WNBA,

because my entire point about why or how I think the

NBA can improve and get more eyeballs and have more interest in it is if we're focusing on these

individual players. And Kaitlyn Clark just continues to break records and just change

the game in a way that we saw when Steph Curry came into the NBA. And I feel like she is doing

that for the women's game. She doesn't need to dunk to change the game. She doesn't need to be

able to poster somebody to get eyeballs on her, which is what so many people were saying is what

the women's game needed. She is shooting these long,

range shots. She has great handles. She's creating for herself. And she also is elevating

her team because Iowa is successful for the most part because of her. I couldn't help but notice,

however, that there were some comments that were saying things like, here's one, for example,

I like her, but this achievement is nowhere near as impressive as Pete's dominance.

And when you add in the three-point line, which he didn't have,

his numbers, whenever there's an accomplishment from any women and specifically in the basketball

space, I don't know what it is about the fans of this sport, but there always seems to be

something negative. Like we can't just give the praise and move on. There has to be some sort of

comparison. And for that reason alone, and for there was, there's quite a bit of comments like

this on Twitter and on Instagram, just saying like, you know, impressive,

but it's not impressive. And I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think

that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's

nothing like pistol Pete. I decided to dive into the archives and actually pull up the stats from

both of these players and do a little side-by-side comparison. So back in the sixties and seventies

for men's basketball, there was still like a kind of like JV and varsity squad.

So if you were a freshman in the NCAA, your stats didn't count because you weren't officially on

the varsity team yet. It's, it's kind of weird, but so he played 19 games and his freshman

season, but none of those stats counted toward the final number points per game. He averaged 44.2

points per game. His field goal percentage was 43.8%. His free throw percentage, which actually

kind of surprised me was 77.5%, which I is not very good. And he averaged 5.1 assists per games.

So another thing to know, um, in college basketball, back in the day, there was no

three-point line. And so every, every shot was just worth two points. So it had also been reported

that LSU coach Dale Brown charted every shot Maravich scored and concluded that if his shots

from three-point range had been counted as three points, Maravich average would have totaled 57

points per game and 12 three-pointers per game. Now, I don't know if we can take all of this as

factual because it wasn't clearly

documented. And I don't think we can find the shot chart of pistol Pete from every single game

and 12 three-pointers per game just seems absolutely insane. But he was also putting

up like 40 shots per game as well. Also, the last thing to know is that in back in the day,

they also didn't have a shot clock pistol Pete's for example, very impressive 44.2 points per game.

Clearly it seems like the discrepancy between his skill level and his teammates and the people he

was competing against were he was up here and everybody else was down here. So Kaylin Clark

total games played 129 as compared to Pete's 83 points per game. She's averaging 28.3 points per

game, which is also very, very, very impressive field goal percentage, 46.6%, which is a solid

3% more than pistol Pete's field goal percentage. And mind you, if you look at the score,

I would guarantee that her, she is shooting from a lot longer range than pistol Pete ever did

her free throw percentage, very impressive 85.6%. And she averages 8.1 assists per game.

She's almost averaging you guys a double double per game, which is three assists more than pistol

Pete is averaging. So taking all of this in tickets,

consideration. Yes. Pete racked up all these, all these points in three seasons. However,

the competition level that he was facing in that time compared to what Kaylin Clark is facing. And

this time, and also we, we also are not taking into consideration how different just the landscape

of college basketball was and how LSU wasn't playing the powerhouse teams. They weren't

playing everybody around the country as NCAA and college does now. So it's very hard between

these two eras. I think we can give props and flowers to both of these two people, but to take

anything away from what Caitlin has done, it's just crazy that whenever somebody in the women's

space and in women's sports and specifically in women's basketball does something that's so

impressive, there are still people that are going to be like, Oh, she doesn't deserve this because

pistol Pete did it in three years without a three point line. So overall my takeaway, even when I

put these two stats next to each other, they are still in Caitlin's favor because she has proven

to not only be the best scorer in college basketball history, but also someone who

helps our team win as a well-rounded player and is nearly averaging a triple double in her stats.

When you look at how she's helped her team helped her team,

she got to this milestone, not by chasing numbers, not by chasing. And I'm not saying

that Pete did either, but not chasing the numbers and saying, I need to hit that scoring record. No,

she, she hit this milestone by winning games with her team. And I think with that, it shows the

complete well-rounded player that Caitlin Clark is. And I'm very excited to see her future.

So as I was looking at this all-time leaderboard, this name kept coming up Pearl Moore. So Pearl,

more is technically, if you go to all divisions in college basketball, the leading scorer

in all of college basketball with 4,061 points that she ended her career in 1979. So this is

also a time when there was no three point line. However, Pearl Moore, the only information I

could find about her was on the women's basketball hall of fame website. So she was a four-time

all-American and she's the all-time career scoring leader for women's college.

With 4,061 points. However, she went to a college named

Francis Marion, which is a division two school. Pearl Moore averaged 30.6 points per game over

her four seasons, 127 games at Francis Marion college during the era that did not have the

three point field goal. She was named the 1979 South Carolina amateur athlete of the year.

And she was a first round draft choice in the

WBL and participated in the 1981 WBL all-star game. She was inducted into the Francis Marion

hall of fame, the South Carolina athletic hall of fame, and was part of the inaugural class for the

Florence area athletic hall of fame in 2006. She also played professionally for one season in

Venezuela. I had never heard of Pearl Moore and I just thought this was interesting because I was

now seeing her name pop up here and there, but also super impressive 30.6 points per game in a

division two school, but still going to give Caitlin Clark the crown. She has 3,685 career

points and counting, and it will be very interesting to see how she ends up. We talked about it a

couple of weeks ago with the NBA all-star game, obviously team scoring nearly 400 points total

in that game, but the NBA is now officially reviewing if the game has tilted too far in the

favor of the team. So we're going to see if that's going to happen. So we're going to see if that's

going to happen. So in January of 2024, four players scored 60 plus points in a span of four

days, a feat only done by 36 players and NBA history. If you guys remember Luca had 73 points

in a game, Joellen beat had 70 Carl Anthony towns at 62 and Devin Booker also had 62. And that was

in less than a week that that happened. So that started raising people's eyebrows of like,

where is the defense?

How was it so easy for these guys to put up numbers like this? So the team average points

per game in 2013 and 14 was 101 points per game, but the team average in 2023 to 2024

is 115 points per average. So it's 15 more points in the last 10 years. The NBA is officially

reviewing whether the game has tilted too far in the favor of offense. So thinking of this,

I wanted to look at some of the rules that have been changed

over the years, because this is something that I have brought up multiple times. And I feel like

I'm noticing it a lot in this season of basketball. It does seem like the defensive end of things has

gotten very lackadaisical in the NBA. And it's just not cherished as much as used to be. The

quote used to be offense wins games, defense wins championships, but I'm starting to think that

offense wins games and championships in today's NBA. And you look at obviously players,

like Steph Curry, who have expanded the game and made three point shooting and that outside shot

become so much more popular. And we're seeing things like there, there isn't true fives anymore

in the NBA. All big guys have to be able to shoot from the outside. It's such a stretch

offense for all of these teams. So we're seeing a lot of that, but we're also seeing that trickle

down into the youth game and into the college game. So in a sense, it is very exciting for fans

because some fans do want to see players,

drop 60, 70 points a night, but has it tilted too far to where the integrity of the game is

being lost. And it is getting to the point where we saw in the NBA all-star game. It was so far

that it was boring and almost like disrespectful to the original game of basketball. But I wanted

to go over with you guys, some rules that have changed the game over the years. So in 1954,

that was when they first,

implemented the shot clock. So in 1979, I feel like this was one of the biggest things that

people bring up when you talk about hand checking and just like how the game is so

skewed for the offensive player. In 1979, they banned hand checking to lessen physicality and

allow offensive superstars, more freedom to score at higher efficiencies. So the league average

points per game in 1978 was 108 points per game.

The average in 1979 was 110 points per game. In 1980 is when we brought in the three-point line.

In 1991 is when the NBA implemented a flagrant foul rule. And the point of flagrant fouls was

to focus more on maintaining player safety and punishing excess physicality in favor of

offensive players. In 1995, we brought the three-point line closer, which I actually did not

know that the three-point line was further away than it is now. Very interesting. In 2002,

they legalized the zone defense. The original aim was to improve passing and ball movement,

but the underlying aim was to slow down the physical dominance of Shaquille O'Neal,

which I think is so interesting because in 2002, there was so much more of a post presence in the

NBA game than there is now in the NBA.

NBA game. And a player like Shaq just thrived in that. And I don't, we don't have name one player

that is like Shaq in today's NBA game. There isn't. In 2005, hand checking was strictly forbidden.

And then the last rule change that kind of changed the NBA was in 2022 when they removed

flopping from the game. Relaxed rules began encouraging flopping for cheap fouls. So

fouls will not be called as much heading into the 2022 NBA season, which I actually,

really love removing the flop from the game because it was just looking too much like soccer

and nobody wants that. There's another clip I wanted to look at where Luca was talking to

JJ Redick and he said that it's easier to score in the NBA than it is in Europe. So let's check

this out. Scoring is easier in NBA just because of the amount of the different rules, the less

space, the time. So that's why I said it.

It's harder to score 30 points in a, in a Euroleague game than it is in an NBA game.

Yeah. A hundred percent.

But there's better players over here.

Oh, way better. Yeah. I'm just saying because of the rules. Cause the guy can stay, if you

have a guy like let's say Rudy Gobert, he's going to, he can stay in the paint on defense

three seconds, however he wants. Like just because of that rule, you can have 10 more

points easily.

Makes sense.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it's, it's, it's kind of the same thing with De'Andre Drey. So De'Andre Drey is somebody

who is one of the leading scorers in the NBA today. And he's exploiting the rules that we have,

the lack of defense with this topic though. Obviously, Dre, my, my boyfriend Dre was known

for his defense in the NBA. And that is a part of his game that he takes a lot of pride in.

And even being around Dre and watching NBA games, he, he can call out what a player is about to

do.

before he even crosses half court. Like for him, he took so much pride into his defense and that

was just something that helped his career in the NBA and was able to help his team win because of

that. I wanted to ask him, he's on his way to a workout right now, but I did want to ask him what

he thought about all of this. Cause he's also one who's like big on keeping the integrity of the

NBA and keeping, just keeping respect for the sport and for playing on both ends of the court.

So I'm going to see if he answers and we can ask him what he thinks. Hey, sweet. See, are you in

the back roads? Okay. You're freezing a little bit, but okay. So what was that? I said, oh,

you're serious. Yeah.

Yeah. So filming courtside club right now. And we're talking about how the NBA is officially

reviewing if the game has tilted too far in the favor of offense. So I wanted to know what you

thought, because obviously you take a lot of pride in your defense. It's something that you

have specialized in. And I know that you are a big proponent of like keeping the integrity

of basketball and making sure that we respect the game.

Yeah. Well, first of all, the game just went too far left. If you ask me,

well, like I said, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't

know. Like I said, I've talked on this point in subject many times before. One, obviously

with more money involved in the game slash basketball entertainment industry becomes

where you have to protect your assets. And that's kind of even been a thing back in my

day. But now it's getting to the point where obviously there's more money involved. And

obviously the whole realm of, you know, is the game too hard on the guys? We play too

many games, that whole topic. So it was like, how do we keep the guys on the floor?

Um, longevity wise, and obviously, you know, having to start players on the floor every night

where, you know, our revenue kind of stays on an open up. So it's a fine balance between that and,

you know, keeping the game of basketball, the game of basketball. Um, so for me, I mean,

from your initial question, how do we make it better?

Uh, obviously pay the players, play the guys that actually guys actually play defense.

One. And two, you know, you gotta, you gotta get better reps in there. But at the same time,

you also have to, you know, bring back the competitive spirit of the game. Like as of

right now, it's like, oh, the guys are happy. Obviously we're making big time money all around,

all across the board from the lowest guy to the top of the top. Um, and it's like,

it's like a common knowledge that all we're trying to help each other and protect each other in that

sense. Um, to where it was like, to a point of, you know, it was like, it was like, it was like,

it was like, it was like, it was like, it was like, it was like, it was like, it was like,

early in the season or was it late last year of him not working out with guys because he likes to

keep that competitive edge. I feel like the game of basketball is too friendly now, um, as well.

I mean, it's just becoming more of an AAU culture as opposed to, you know,

the physicality of the game, the defense of the game, and even the potential,

you know, fines that guys face just because of the competitive nature. And it may get pushed too far

when guys are in a heated a moment, um, the repercussions and,

um, keeping themselves from going into that mindset, I guess you could say. So

it's a fine line. Um, otherwise, you know, the game will be a little more physical or be more

like hockey to where you can have fights or even just little scuffles. So that's just, uh, that's

the, well, it's funny. Like it's funny when you look at clips from like the nineties,

cause they actually would fight and they wouldn't even get kicked out. Really?

Yeah. I mean, they get technical and that's it. Yeah. There was like a clip I saw.

Go ahead. No, there was a clip I saw where someone was actually choking somebody else. I was like,

dang, you look at the greats, you know, uh, Michael Jordan got in fights. Kobe Bryant got

in fights, like his fights. You know what I mean? It's like, have we ever seen LeBron get in a fight?

No, no. But to a degree, I mean, in this day and age, you're not, you know, you're going to protect

your asset, which is, he's the one asset, the league, it's the face of the league for the past

20 years. So, you know, particularly at all costs. Yeah.

We're not, we're not promoting, we're not promoting fights either.

But at the same time, you know, he does get soft, softer calls.

Yeah.

Um, they go, it follows into that realm. Like your star players do get the softer calls.

They try to protect them. So, um, every team has their guy and obviously that's just kind of

the nature of the beast. You know, you kind of want to have, what's the, what's the word I'm

looking for? Right. You know, you want all the teams to kind of have a competitive game. So

every team has their player that they market, that they,

they push out there. So, um, kind of just kind of protect them and want him to play at all the

games. So what did you, what did you think, um, of Lucas saying that it's easier to score in the

NBA than it is in your league? I mean, in the softer realm and for, for one, the rules are

different, you know, um, there's no three seconds in, in, in, uh,

defensive three seconds. So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It's, it's offense and defensive

three seconds. You can sit in the paint. Yeah. It's offensive in the NBA. Oh, no, no, no, no. And

in the NBA, obviously you can't on either. I believe it's defense. Yeah. Yeah. You back to

paint. So for him, it's obviously harder. So he's not going to be driving, you know,

it's not as many ducks and highlight players. So, um,

yeah, I mean, he had developed his outside shot and now that he's able to do both,

he kind of just opens up his all around game. So, but at the same time, he also came into a

different era where it's softer, there's more cadence and offensive guys. So of course he's

going to say that. So in gen, but in general, you all justify in general, you also think that

defensive players should be paid more and respected a bit more. The guys who do bring great defense.

The elite ones for sure. I mean, to me, I think going out there and playing defense is definitely

a skill, um, which a lot of guys don't necessarily cater. And then I wouldn't say cater, but respect

and I guess, uh, gravitate towards nowadays. So it's a difference between playing defense and

going out there and roughing up a player, you know, being able to do it without fouling is

definitely a skill. Yeah. So you have to understand the game.

You have to understand the player's tendencies, their moves. You have to do your deep dive

homework. So going out there, being at a disadvantage and trying to react to a player

is already hard enough. So, uh, I think guys should be rewarded that actually go out there

and study the game and actually put forth the effort to get better and be an elite defensive

player, just the same way they do offensive players. So, um, you know, I think it's not

enough highlighted on the defense, but it's like even guys saying Dennis Robin was, or is the

defense defender of all time. It was kind of a slap in the face of people that actually go out

there and study. Dennis Robin was just a reckless abandoned and went through his body around and,

you know, went out there and stopped guys just based on who he was. So yeah, it's more

intimidation. It's, it's, it's, it's, yeah, it's different. It's different playing defense in today's

game. Long story short. That's why I hate the whole defensive player award because it's catered

to big man and big man. All they do is sit in the paint and maybe switch one, two, five,

they switch one, two, five, get drug out to them.

Forever blown by or they're a weak link on the defensive end. So, um, the guys actually go out

there and play defense and play one, two, five, two, three, one, two, four, do it at a high level.

I think personally are in this day and age where it's five out, basically you are one of the

defensive stop because it should be recognized by persons. That's just my take on things. I feel

like I'm rambling, but, uh, no, it's a good take. You would know better than I would. So that's why

I wanted to ask you.

Do you, last question really quick. Do you still believe that defense wins championships, but do you think it

does in today's NBA or do you think it's offense?

Uh, yes, I definitely plays a part in today's NBA as well. Um, all the way down, you know, if you, like I

said, if you look at the analytics, I guess when I was in the league, well, everybody that made it to the

championship or either top three or top five.

And then, uh,

the defense percentage, uh, or defensive rankings. So, um, definitely think you can't just when you

could actually, then Tony, this, if he thinks winning the championship, our pure offense alone

is going to get you a championship. And you see this has the time. So, um, you gotta have a little

bit of both, but in order to make it, you gotta be able to stop players. So that's why I don't like

the culture that we live in now. It's just constantly outspoken guys.

Yeah. It's great in terms of making highlight plays, but you know, it gets boring after a while, too much of anything gets old. So, uh, I think that's where we're at now. We're trying to revamp it or just trying to find a way to go back to what we used to do. It's just, I think it's not hard to play a little, I guess, get back to older ways of basketball, bring back the integrity of the games.

Um, yeah, that's about it.

Sounds great. Well, thanks for your input, sweets. I'm going to finish out the shoot now.

Finish out the shoot. And I hope that, uh, good talking points for you.

Yes. Great talking points. Thank you. Don't FaceTime and drive folks. Or if you do keep your eyes on the road.

All right. Thanks. Have a good session. Bye. Love you too. Bye.

All right, you guys, you heard it there from a defensive specialist who did play in the NBA for

nearly,

eight seasons, um, or was part of the NBA for nearly eight seasons.

I thought it was a good talking point. Good talking points. You guys let me know in the

comments. If you think that the NBA has tilted a little bit too far to catering to the offense

and the star players of the league, or you think that it's fine. This is just a new generation of

NBA basketball. You guys let me know in the comments. We all know about Tom Brady,

and Giselle Bunchkin's infamous divorce that kind of rocked the world of sports and entertainment.

I feel like they were couple goals for so many people, obviously a beautiful couple,

both very successful. And over a year later, their divorce is getting a bit messier in the media. So

there's this tweet that went out from page six that has over 54 million views now. And it says,

Tom Brady has accepted that Giselle Bunchkin's divorce is getting a bit messier in the media.

Bunchkin's romance with jujitsu instructor began years ago. And there's a photo here of Giselle

next to her jujitsu trainer, seemingly looking like they are on vacation together. And of course,

when I saw this, I went straight to the comments and a lot of them had kind of the same undertone.

Someone said, not even the goat Tom Brady is safe from his wife cheating. LMAO. There's a lesson in

there.

The comment said, remember boys, even Tom Brady isn't enough to keep her loyal. Act accordingly.

Someone said the media owes Brady an apology, clowned him for choosing football over a cheater.

Somebody said, imagine letting your wife roll around with another dude a few times per week

for years. I think meaning like jujitsu. This was so predictable. Only Tom Brady couldn't see it

coming. Let me add, he was on training camp for days and weeks at a time. What could possibly go

wrong?

He also posted something on his Instagram that a lot of people thought he was alluding to

some sort of cheating going on. And it was this quote from Muhammad Ali. It's titled a man in his

heart. So the personality of a person, the ways of a person, his thoughts, his deeds, his actions

are all based around his heart. For what is a man? A man is his heart. A lying, cheating heart

means a lying, cheating man. A loving, merciful heart means a loving, merciful man. A living heart

means a living man. A living heart means a living man. A living heart means a living man. A living heart

means a living heart. A dead heart means a dead man. It goes on and on. But what a lot of people

were pulling out of this was a lying, cheating heart means a lying, cheating man. I personally

think that this means nothing, but I also think that celebrities need to be careful if they're

posting any sort of quote, music, anything in your stories, people are going to look into it

more than you probably even want to. They've even done that in my Instagram stories. I've had people

reach out to me when I like posted a certain song or something, which I've completely stopped doing.

I like posted a song that maybe I liked, but it had some sort of negative meaning to it. Or some,

there was something subliminal that people thought was subliminal that wasn't. So I've even gotten

myself in that sort of situation. And I'm not even an A-list celebrity as is Tom Brady. So

I would just put that out there, a little side note for any celebrity, like stop posting

subliminal quotes and things in your Instagram stories. It's just,

it never does anything. It doesn't do what you're wanting it to do.

There were rumors coming out about this a lot because after the divorce, Giselle was seen

out multiple times with this jujitsu coach, trainer, whoever it is on vacations and things.

And the PR people were very quick to shoot down these rumors and say like, no, that's just her

trainer. Celebrities do weird things. I know of a lot of celebrities that bring their personal

trainers with them.

They go on vacation. So maybe it wasn't so out of the ordinary, but the biggest thing that I take

from all of this was the general consensus of people saying, even if you're Tom Brady,

you're not safe from being cheated on. But my whole thing is no matter your status,

no matter how rich you are, no matter how beautiful you are, no matter how famous you are,

that will never save you from somebody else's poor character. I don't care if,

you are Beyonce, who's also allegedly been cheated on by Jay-Z and she's the queen of pop.

I don't care if you're Tom Brady, that's not going to save you from somebody else's

poor character. Cheating is a choice. Cheating. If you're in a monogamous relationship is a choice.

We also are never going to know the intricacies of what is happening behind the scenes

with Tom and Giselle. The speculation started when they originally announced that they were getting,

divorced was because he allegedly told her that he would be stepping away from football. He retired

and then he went back to the game. And the rumor was that she had given up a lot in her career

because if you guys aren't familiar, Giselle is one of the biggest supermodels to ever walk the

planet. And she also has a higher net worth than Tom Brady does, if that tells you anything.

So her giving up a lot in her career,

to wait for him and to support him and his career, that was allegedly the reason for the

divorce. Will that ever be confirmed or denied? I don't know. There's a Vanity Fair article where she

alluded to it a little bit that maybe that was the reasoning, but then also backtracked. Will

we ever know the truth? No, but that was what was alleged the main cause of their divorce in the

beginning. So a lot of people were also saying, okay, Tom, you're gone all the time. You're

playing football. Why wouldn't you?

If she wasn't feeling heard or seen. And I think there's really no excuse for any of this. And I

don't necessarily love that there's men and women. I don't like the argument that even if you're this

person, you could still be cheated on because I think that's true for anybody across the board.

The bottom line is if your morals don't line up with the person that you go into marriage with,

or that you're in a relationship with, there's always going to be a chance of somebody

getting cheated on.

Some sort of infidelity. I just wanted to throw out some other names of massive celebrities who

have also allegedly been cheated on. Talked about Beyonce. Halle Berry is another one who's one of

the most beautiful women on the planet and a very successful woman. Jennifer Lopez is another

Gabrielle union. We all know Gabrielle union and Dwayne Wade. And allegedly this was before

their marriage.

That was something that they decided to work through together and are still together and seem

happily married today. Princess Diana is another one. Justin Timberlake, when he was with Britney

Spears, his song, cry me a river. So these are all massive, massive celebrities with a lot of money,

with a lot of success, with a lot of power who all have allegedly been cheated on. So

no, they're not safe. No, you're not safe at home. You're not safe at home. You're not safe at home.

No, I'm not safe. Like no one is safe. If you're getting into a marriage with somebody who you guys

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I have been catching a ton of heat lately on my Tik TOK and on my Instagram.

Of some videos that I posted. So I wanted to go through and read some of your comments. Maybe

some of you made some good points or maybe you guys are just being haters. But the first one

that I wanted to address is a Tik TOK that I made, where I talked about my experience

interviewing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. And I, I shared with you guys that it just wasn't the greatest

interview. Um, it was disappointing to me because

I was really looking forward to interviewing Kareem, but let's look at some of these comments.

I will say maybe a vindicating comment, which is the first comment with 13,000 likes said,

I've never met somebody with a good story about Kareem, which is like, isn't a good thing to say,

but maybe makes me feel like I'm not the only one that he wasn't so excited to speak to.

Somebody said, so now you chose to bad mouth him rather than move on. I definitely was not

trying to bad mouth him. I was just sharing an experience with you guys in an episode where I

talked about some of my worst interviews and worst moments on television ever. And this was one of

them. It was a really tough moment for me. Kareem has never been fake for likes. He is who he is

and a hundred percent doesn't know who you are or give the interview a second thought or make a

video about it. Moving on. I posted my video to my reaction to Michael Porter jr. Saying that in

order for the WNBA,

to improve, we needed to lower the rims and boy, oh boy, with nearly 5,000 comments on these videos,

you guys were pretty upset about it. I understand and respect your perspective,

but I hold a different view. Highlight dunks are much more common in the men's game at every level.

Hoops can easily be adjusted, support a change in height for the women's game.

And maybe it's only changes at the pro level for women. It's important to recognize that the

profitability and entertainment value of women's basketball could be enhanced and adjusting the

rim height.

Might be a practical approach to achieve this. I'm going to stop there because you can't say,

and maybe it only changes at the pro level for women because as a shooter

myself and ask any women's basketball player who are shooters, which right now we are celebrating

shooters and women's basketball. When we talk about Stefan, Sabrina, we talk about Caitlin

Clark shooting on a nine foot rim is different than shooting on a 10 foot rim. You cannot have

a girl shoot.

At a 10 foot rim her entire career, and then be like, we could just change it for the pro game.

It doesn't work that way. You're going to get a diminished basketball skill level in the game.

If you do that. So I'm going to stop you right there. I'm going to stand true to my point that

I don't think that lowering the rim is something that makes sense just at a practical level

because of how often women need to practice and how,

all of the gyms in America are most of them. And I think a lot of you guys are really privileged.

If you think that every hoop in America is adjustable, that's just not true would need

to be changed. So the women had access to a nine foot rim. Somebody said Michael Porter

junior is right. It would be more entertaining, but she's more right. It would be the best move

for the sport. Keep it at 10. People are evolving in high school. Females can dunk. Now I just want

to ask you guys this one question because I feel like this lowering the rim discussion comes up so

often.

Um, and there are so many men specifically, it's only men who are hell bent on the fact

that the rims need to be changed so that women can dunk. Are you really watching an NBA basketball

game on the edge of your seat waiting for that next dunk? Is that why you're really watching

college men's basketball and professional men's basketball? Is that the moment you're waiting for

is the dunk. Just let me know. Firstly in the comp, let me know in the comments,

how much of that means something to you? Because if I asked a lot of you guys,

if I went on the street and ask people their favorite basketball players, not a lot of people

are saying basketball players who are just dunking every time they get the ball. This is also not

the Shaq era where he was dunking the ball a lot. There are a lot of people who would say Luca.

There would be a lot of people who would say Shea Gildress Alexander. There would be a lot

of people who would say Steph Curry. There would be a lot of people who would say,

the Joker. He's even a tall guy who doesn't dunk like that. There would be a lot of people who say

LeBron James. And I will say, yes, LeBron James, his dunking ability is part of his game and a big

facet of his game. But any of the other guys I named before, there'd be a lot of people who say

Kyrie Irving. Those aren't guys who are dunking the ball all the time. I also wanted to say one

more thing. Lowering the rim to nine feet, and I'm saying this as a woman, is not going to make

some crazy dunks for women. It would have to be lower than that. It would have to be lower than

that for you guys to get the opportunity to dunk. It would have to be lower than that for you guys to

of the dunks that you want to see happen. And at the same time, the cool thing about a dunk

is that you see a feat that is really hard to accomplish. So when you see a shorter guy

dunking the ball or doing something acrobatic with his dunker, let's take it to the dunk

contest. We see Mac McClung, who is a six-foot white kid, dunking and soaring through the air

and jumping over Shaq and doing all these things. That's impressive.

It's very, very, very difficult to do. And 99.9% of the world cannot do it. We lower the rim

to eight feet where all of a sudden six, three women's basketball players are doing cool dunks.

It's like, well, it's not that impressive because now we just lowered the rim so much where they're

able to do it. And speaking of that, I actually saw an article recently that there is this whole

new league in Connecticut where men are lowering the rim to eight feet and guys are kind of living

out their dream because they were never able to dunk before. And now they're dunking. Here's the

headline. Want to dunk, but can't. These leagues just lower the rim. Lowering the rim by up to a

foot and a half can allow recreational basketball players to live out their dunking fantasies.

So you know what? After coming full circle on all of this,

it's maybe making me think that a lot of you guys that are commenting are just kind of,

you know, trying to live out your own dream through other people's because you also can't

talk. Somebody commented, literally adjustable baskets exist for a reason. Again, I feel like

this is a very privileged take and maybe times have changed. Maybe it's, maybe it's different

now, but I played at the park quite a bit growing up. I played with men quite a bit,

growing up. Caitlin Clark also played on a men's AU basketball team. Girls playing with guys to get

better also means that we'd be playing on a 10 foot rim. There's just this, it's like, it's not

a good argument. There's adjustable rims. Yeah, there is. If you live in a certain area where you

don't have to go play at your church, where they don't have the money to just make two courts and

have an adjustable basket, you want the same money with the same basket height, but you don't have

the same experience for the customer that is paying for the game. Something's not matching here. Cheap

that we have to finish the conversation because we cannot change the baskets. I also personally

think that a lot of people commenting this wouldn't watch women's basketball regardless.

And my last point on all of this, maybe we can talk about it again another day. Cause I have so

many thoughts is I'm never going to be that person who is demanding that the women make as much as

the men. I've actually, my advice to female basketball players is to try to make as much

money as you can in other ways, because there are so much,

there's just so much money in the brand space right now. And there's so much money with NIL.

That is, that has been my suggestion to women to make their money there because right now,

no, the WNBA isn't profiting and we can't make as much money there. The women's game may never

have the amount of eyeballs that the men do, but it's growing. And I think it will get there. And

I just don't think that lowering the rim will ever be the end all solution to that. And also

last thing on it, just from a practical standpoint,

all of you guys need to take a step out of your ego and just think more practically

lowering the rim is going to take, you're going to have to take like 10 years to see if it actually

works. Are we willing to risk 10 years of an eight and a half foot rim to see if it works for women's

basketball? Cause you're going to have to see it grow from the youth up. It's probably 10,

15 years to see if it works. It's just dumb. It's a dumb argument. And I'm going to end it there.

Last video, I wanted to read some comments on,

you guys were really, really frustrated about this one. And it actually made me sad

because when I made this video for you guys, I wanted it to more so be of a fun story,

like more lighthearted, but maybe I didn't articulate myself properly. But this was the

video where I talked about doing a shoot with Chris Mullen and talked about going into this

I didn't know much about Chris Mullen and you guys were very upset, very upset that I didn't

know much about him.

One of the first comments was not knowing Chris Mullen is pretty embarrassing. LOL,

homie was on the dream team. Someone said, how the F do you not know about Chris Mullen when

your whole effing career revolves around the NBA and basketball? I'm going to tell you guys this.

I'm not a basketball encyclopedia. I hope that none of you guys are on my channel or listening

to my videos or watching them because you think that I'm going to give you just endless basketball

knowledge. It's not me. It's never been me. If you want that, go to JJ Reddick's podcast,

go listen to him. I'm not a basketball encyclopedia. I'm not a basketball encyclopedia. I'm not a basketball

encyclopedia. I'm not a basketball encyclopedia. I'm not a basketball encyclopedia. I'm not a

basketball encyclopedia. I'm not a basketball encyclopedia. I'm not a basketball encyclopedia.

That man is actually the basketball encyclopedia man of the world. Go elsewhere. Wasn't me. Never

has been me. Chris Mullen played in the nineties. I was born in the nineties. I didn't start playing

basketball until 2001. And so a lot of my knowledge from previous days is only me seeing certain

highlights, reading about people. And one of the comments though, that was really kind of

hurting me to my core. And I'm normally really not that offended by anything that you guys say

was people saying that I didn't do my research or I'm only getting these jobs because my looks.

So I wanted to set the stage for you a little bit and give you a little bit more context about

my shoot with Chris Mullen. Firstly, it was not an interview. It wasn't for my podcast. If it were,

I would have dove much deeper than I did when I was researching before the shoot.

Did I research before the shoot? Yes. Did I know who he was? Did I know what teams he played for?

Did I know that he was an all-star? Yes. Knew all of those things. The point of this video

was to share with you guys how I was not expecting how good of a shooter he would be

at 60 years old because I have done shoots with multiple NBA players. I've been on courts with

multiple NBA players, played in NBA celebrity games with NBA players, and none have been as

good as Chris Mullen. None. Not even Steph Curry. That was the point of this. I wanted to share that

with you guys. And another thing that I wanted to know is that I'm always going to be honest and

real about my experiences with people. And I think that that's something that we lose a lot

with media nowadays. A lot of people just try to act like they know everything. I'm never going to

be someone who acts like they know everything. I don't. And I especially don't when it comes to

sports, when it comes about X's and O's, when it comes about

talking about every player from the past. I'm going to comment about the things that I do know

and that I have opinions on, but I'll be the first to admit when I don't know that much about

somebody. And this was a moment and this was a video that I meant to make to kind of share what

a great basketball player this man is and how impressed I was. So I didn't want you guys to

take it and that I was putting him down in any way or I was being disrespectful because that's

never how it was. And the shoot was great, but I didn't want you guys to take it and that I was

great. He was fantastic. There were fans there who were also interacting with him. It was more so

of like a commercial shoot than it was an interview. I actually didn't interview the

man at all. We were doing, the whole thing was us to do shooting games against one another.

It was for Caesar sports book. It was more of a commercial kind of betting shoot. So I wanted to

clear that up. Um, a lot of you guys clearly have a ton of respect for Chris Mullen and I'm glad that

you guys do, but I also wanted to let you know that I always do my research and that's one thing

I take a lot of pride in. So those kinds of comments kind of hurt my soul. Lastly, I love

when you guys comment good, bad, ugly, constructive criticism. I learned a lot actually from posting

that Chris Mullen video because I realized I do have to give a bit more context. You guys had a

lot of things to say. Please feel free to always comment your feedback. I read a lot of them. So

let me know in the comments below what you guys think with that. You guys, I love reading your

comments. Good, bad, constructive criticism. So please keep them coming.