Caitlin Clark played a crucial role in the WNBA All-Star team’s win over Team USA and head coach Cheryl Reeve on Saturday night. She and Angel Reese were out for revenge after being off the roster for the Olympics and look forward to their opportunity to play together for the United States in four years.
It is going to be impossible to deny their spots on the team for Los Angeles if they continue to dominate!
Team WNBA won the highly-competitive exhibition game by eight points, which Clark sees more as a testament to the talent of the league than vindication for her snub. The No. 1 overall pick wanted to play in Paris but looks forward to the time off for rest. Team USA is going to be just fine.
As Caitlin Clark (@CaitlinClark22) looks forward to taking time away from the hardwood court after nonstop basketball for nearly the past year, she's rooting on @TeamUSA's women's basketball team to go for the gold in Paris @Olympics.#WNBA | #FeverRising | #TeamUSABasketball pic.twitter.com/jxR3x5a2H1
— Rob Tiongson (@RobTiongson) July 21, 2024
Reeve, who has been consistently standoffish toward Clark over the last three months, lost to the Indiana Fever’s 22-year-old superstar for the second time in one week on Saturday. She continues to be short and sharp even though she has been humbled twice in seven days.
Reeve needs to undergo an attitude adjustment before the trip overseas because international reporters are not going to stop asking Reeve about the biggest star in women’s basketball. It’s a bad look to stay bitter. The decision to leave Clark off of the team was always going to be the biggest talking point, so deal with it.
To make optics even worse, it’s not like Team USA wasn’t focused on Clark throughout the entire game. Reeve elected to faceguard her all 26 minutes she was on the floor and still couldn’t stop her!
Caitlin Clark was cooking.
Kelsey Plum was up in Clark’s grill during the second half but she managed to break through the tight defense and deliver a dish to Aliyah Boston for the easy two. It was a big time sequence.
Caitlin Clark is fired up after battling through Kelsey Plum's aggressive defense 🔥 pic.twitter.com/fMLWJDxriz
— The Sporting News (@sportingnews) July 21, 2024
Clark finished with 10 assists but only four points and one rebound. Seemingly every single one of her three-point attempts rattled in and out, and she was dropping dimes as a distributor.
Angel Reese was on the receiving end of a few of Clark’s passes and finished with yet another double-double.
The moment we've all been waiting for 🤩
— WNBA (@WNBA) July 21, 2024
The arena goes wild after Caitlin Clark dimes Angel Reese for the bucket @ATT #WNBAAllStar | ABC pic.twitter.com/QSMuYOw3bP
Neither rookie was selected for Team USA in 2024. However, they both look forward to playing together in L.A. in 2028! We’ll see… Cheryl Reeve has to get off of her high horse and let them on the team first…