This is not about the relationship between Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark, but about WNBA owners, management and sponsors involved in identity shaping, marketing and promotion. It is also about the conspiring pay-for-pride false narrative pushing and inaccurate loud mouth monopolizing media, and the fans.
To compare Angel Reese to Caitlin Clark is like comparing two things in two different categories. False Framework Comparison Examples:1. a truck to a car to an SUV to motor cycles to bicycles. Yes they're all motor vehicles, but that does not make for homogeneity. He that hath ears, let him hear. Yes Simple Simon they are all humans, but that does not make for homogeneity despite the bulk baseline starting point. Yes Simple Simone they represent diversity but that does not make it appropriate for them to share the same lanes or same continent-sized micro-ecosystem.
2. an ATV to a dirt motorcycle to a dirt bike.
3. Jesus to Peter (it should be Jesus to John the Baptist or Jesus to Enoch OR compare Peter to James and John)
4. Peter to Paul, as in robbing Peter to pay Paul, is another false framework comparison. This is false because these disciples are not the same as left and right hands OR left pocket and right pocket. The better comparison is robbing Peter to pay Judas, who helped himself to unfair enrichment (glorification) like all flashes in the pan must needs do. Also more appropriate is saying robbing Joseph of Arimathaea and Barnabas to pay Ananias and Sapphira. Lastly, robbing Africa to pay Europe and the USA. Robbing black citizens to pay for WPP. So now when it comes to the WNBA, valid comparisons are A'ja Wilson to Breanna Stewart or Jonquel Jones or Sylvia Fowles.
Caitlin Clark should be compared to guards such as Kelsey Plum, Kelsey Mitchell, Gabby Williams, Chelsea Gray, Jackie Young.
Angel Reese should be compared to Napheesa Collier, Nneka Ogwumike, Jessica Shepard, Aliyah Boston, Alyssa Thomas, Kiki Irafen.
General Non-Position Comparisons Can Be Made. These Are My Assessments That Might Not Match Yours, And That's Okay
Clark fans are fans based on race.Reese fans are fans based on basketball and merit.
Needless to say, Clark fans are irrational. There is nothing about the way she plays and what she produces that is head and shoulders above others at the same position. She is promoted as great in assists, but turnovers are left out. In fact, if Clark fans, were not irrational, they'd celebrate Kelsey Mitchell.
Conversely, Angel Reese fans just want to see all players treated fairly by the media, referees and the league. Reese fans don't have a problem acknowledging other great players. Caitlin lore is based on too much hype and favorably disparate treatment.
Clark fans love and justify her bad behavior and flopping fakery. When dribbling, she gets to push off with her off hand an awful lot. Be certain she is not the only one who pushes off without penalty and who specializes in flopping and drawing pretend fouls.
Reese fans love how she supports and uplifts her teammates and other players.
Reese fans love her salt of the earth nature.
Caitlin fades when teams cause her to face a 5mph headwind.
Angel leans into adversity and resistance, trudges along, gets stronger, wiser, better. In the long list of great players that entered the league before her, Angel Reese is succession planting.
Grassroots and griots support Angel. Established and impossible to eradicate, so attempts must be made to smother the roots of truth.
Paper mache and gaslighting supports Caitlin. Looks good in the early stages but doesn't hold up. There are multiple other guards who are good passers, and there are multiple more efficient three point shooters.
