Angel Reese or Caitlin Clark?! Stephen A. DEBATES WNBA Rookie of the Year front-runner! | First Take

Angel Reese putting on a show at duel Caitlyn Clark with 25 points 16 rebounds and the sky win over the fever Reese scored a career high to help Chicago beat Indiana 8897 despite 17 points and a franchise record 13 assists from Clark on Sunday Reese is the first rookie since AIA Wilson with 25 plus points and 15 plus rebounds in a single game I'm a dog you can't teach that I'mma go out and do whatever it takes to win and every single night my teammates rely on my energy so being able to continue the energy even if we're down even if we're up that's what I that's what I do I'm sure there was an opportunity or two for me to probably attempt another shot there quite at the end but I trust my teammates obviously 13 assists that means my teammates scored off of 13 of my passes like it's a really great number um so I'm going to give them the ball every time and give them an opportunity to score I believe in them all right Angel Reese put the sky on her back on Sunday leading them back from 15 points down to her first pro win over Caitlyn Clark re now has eight straight double doubles Monica mcnut after having only won the first month of the Season as you can see my girl in the building looking like she came straight from the Hampton I was trying to I can't be in C can con I feel like me you're you're fancy and you're pulling it off all right Shay coming to you first based on what they've done on the court who do you think's the front runner for rookie of the year right now is it angel or Caitlyn man they going to end up being a Jason kid in Grant Hill situation ation because Angel Reese was Sensational yesterday her desire not to lose was greater than the fever desire to win and sometimes look sometimes a team can want it more than the other team Angel Reed says we're not losing today I know you have two victories over me Caitlin Clark but not today not today she would not be denied she dominated the board 16 rebounds 25 points see she was sensationally in the fourth quarter 10 points five rebounds they dominated in the paint but we can't n Caitlyn Clark yes she's she's not as efficient as she was she's never been an efficient because she's taken uh threes from 30 feet away but she had what 17 points 13 assist she's doing a great job of Distributing the basketball and neither team is not lighting it up Monica you know what I'm saying it'd be a lot easier to Define one or the other if uh if I'm not mistake I think Chicago is the eighth seed and I think the ne the ninth seed uh is uh the fever and so right now just based on it's just a small small sample size for me it's a toss up but you know that's not what we do here Stephen and you got to pick one of the other so with that being said I think I'm going to take Angel Reese right now because those double doubles when you do something that a historically great WNBA player like a Candis Parker done or you done something like MVP Asia Wilson or MVP uh uh uh uh Tina Charles now we talking because eight consecutive double doubles yeah right now I'm gonna give a slight nod to Angel Ree I'm proud of you an I really wanted I really want to hear 's take so that I could come into the middle and allow my expertise to be the judge of both of your cases I say may we do that or would you like me to respond to sh I'd like you to respond to it because I don't really disagree with what Shay Shay said okay great I think first of all I think it's imperative that we point out exactly what you said this race is not a far gone conclusion and I think coming into this season Caitlin Clark had the best odds per Vegas to win the award right my whole thing coming into this was which one of these rookies or any rookie should the race be opened up to dark horse contenders is going to have the greatest impact on winning yesterday in our terrific countdown show produced by Demetrius Harris hosted by Lina Robinson with my girl Carolyn we love Demetrius yesterday I'm gonna be honest with y'all my answer was Caitlyn because at the time Indiana held that eighth seed now we got a there's a little bit of detail here Indiana has played 18 games Chicago has played 15 games after last night's contest or yesterday afternoon contest it flips you would have the sky in the playoffs right now which means that angel Reese in theory has impacted winning in a greater way but I think the double double streak that she's on the eight um consecutive double doubles for Caitlyn she's leading rookies in points minutes and assists there was terrific stats put out over the weekend by our colleague Michael Vel about the percentage about her being the the player that has seen the most blitzes in the league and so she's navigating a different level of defensive uh intensity and rightfully so because she's playing a point guard Road for this Fe for this fever Squad so I think today today looking at the standings you probably tend to lean Angel just a little bit but Kayla's numbers are fantastic and I just think this thing is going to be a lot tighter than most folks thought it might have been well a couple of things number one Caitlyn Clark is on the verge of becoming the first WNBA rookie ever to average 155 and five so certainly she deserves to be in a run and you know the eye of the storm is on her sometimes you have to take the level of pressure into consideration what you're exposed to what level of adversity are is being thrown in your face and how you respond to that so the worthy consideration that's been thrown in her direction is in all probability because of that let's get that out of the way but like we like like Shannon said Angel Reese with eight straight double doubles she was absolutely absolutely Sensational yesterday she was Big Time make no mistake about it she showed up and showed out and being down by 15 and sparking her team back I just can't say enough about it when I think about it it's a neck and neck race it's not a Fargo conclusion the fact that angel Reese is in the mix is a beautiful beautiful thing with all the notoriety that's been thrown in the direction Eminem for for Caitlyn Clark but that's where I want to go with this I want to this is is the biggest thing we have to applaud about angel Reese she goes out in the midst of all of this Pub and notoriety being thrown in the direction of a Caitlyn Clark and everybody is talking about yeah but it's Caitlyn Clark and everybody else well Angel re say nah it ain't a Caitlyn Clark and everybody else it's me to and then showed up on National televis showed up last night and down 15 having already lost two games to Caitlyn Clark Caitlyn Clark already this year brings her team back puts it on her shoulders and absolutely positively took over and was talking did you see what she did the Steph Curry shimmy sitting on sitting on her backside on when she went to the floor after scoring left I mean damn this is what I'm talking about and so what I want to say sh Shay what I want to say Eminem is this I want to thank Angel ree for basically doing what I've been begging folks to do yeah Caitlyn Clark is getting that notoriety let me go out there and use that to take advantage of it myself and show you what the hell I bring to the table you can roll your eyes all you want to I'm giving you facts I'm giving you facts I'm giving you facts Eminem that's what I said you sat up there and Angel Reese put the female basketball World on notice excuse me I'mma go at her I'mma take it to their team I'mma I'm beat him and I'mma show you I'm just as worthy that's how you do it she did exactly that yesterday afternoon and now we're sitting up here talking about her as a rookie of the year candidate and damn it if you got it as your favorite I don't even mind because they winning some basketball games she's doing her own damn thing as a rookie I'm very very pleased with Angel Reese who just doing her thing you go ahead girl keep on doing it that's what I'm talking about and the world is benefiting because we GNA watch them when they play again in late August we gonna watch and by the way when Caitlyn Clark goes up against Diana terasi just like Diana terasi was talking before the season started oh you think we gonna miss that game this weekend when they roll up roll up against Phoenix oh we gonna be watching that too that's right chir chirp chirp talk talk talk and then go out there and back it up and bust her living you know what if that's what you got to do that's what it's all about listen I just need a promise from you two men that I respect and admire should either of those games that you just highlighted that are coming down the pipe include a flagrant foul that is a basketball play We Still G to talk about the basketball of it all and not fouls because my favorite part of this outcome was that we have a chance to talk about the basketball you saw two young teams that frankly y'all are going to be fighting for the eighth spot which is the bottom of the postseason but that's okay they're building but you saw two young teams put their best foot forward in a competitive ball game that the whole country could get behind that's right there when you get in trouble that's right there when you get in trouble now now this is where you get in trouble Eminem all right your big your big bro trying to look out for you now this is where you get in trouble I understand everybody in their mother knows five five people got to be on the court at the time to play the game but who we think about we we think about two people sh sh I mean Eminem that's all we're we're not thinking about anybody else on the sky we ain't thinking about anybody else on the fever all we're thinking about right now you know it's two great T whatever they they're good teams they ain't great they they ain't the aces they ain't the Liberty let's put it in perspective you were trying to act like this wasn't a rivalry arguing that with me the other day these two where are you going where you going no no no what I'm saying to you is that it's about angel Reese and Caitlyn and and and and Molly you're absolutely right I did say that and I told you it was Stephen A start listening will you will you listen will you listen you ask me to listen to you nobody listening list to you yo actually that's not true cuz we was talking hockey don't tell me I talking minutes a damn liar okay all I'm saying is this you're talking about angel Reese Angel Reese with that talking that's what makes it what it is in the game to back it up is that talking we had a debate are is this like the greatest new Sports rivalry and he was saying no based on position that kind of thing and I was like no this is a rivalry to me so we had to debate about that got it but he's saying she's making it because the trash talking listen we actually so we actually had a chance to ask both of them pregame about the Rivalry and they both have very um different of opinions of art no no no not differing sh sh they were they both agreed that it's great for the sport like they haven't made it a personal thing but they know that the eyeballs show up when they're about to play well here's the thing this just like M just like magic and bir it started in college in the national championship game and it just so happens magic got drafted to the Lakers bird went to the Celtics which was the most contested rival in the NBA and so now you got a situation where Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese they've already played on numerous occasions one time for the national championship the next time if I'm not mistaken I think Caitlyn Clark might have knocked them out of the playoffs so with with that being said yes you come to the WNBA Angel Rees This Is How We Know Joe burough has a lot of wins but they there's more to the wins in which he beat Patrick Mahomes than any other quarterback Caitlyn Clark has all the shine when I played against somebody that was getting shine I'm trying to show you up because if I show you up guess who y'all gonna be talking about y'all gonna be talking about your boy and how I put something on you so that's what Angel re Monica I will say this I thought both young ladies young ladies could have success because they could Caitlyn Clark could score and she could assist the basketball yeah Angel Reese could score and she'll so she could and she could rebound the basketball so if you take one of those options away they could do the other and still impact the ball game what people are trying to make you do that if you like Caitlyn Clark you've got to hate Angel Reese if you like Angel Reese you gotta hate Caitlyn Clark and I'm not GNA let y'all do that y'all not going to get on Shannon that I agree with you Shannon that's a good point it's the truth it's the truth Shannon okay he [Music]

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Length: 12min 38sec (758 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 24 2024