The Tigers and Hawkeyes taught America in last year’s epic championship that women’s basketball is worth the hype — and just like men’s in the trash-talking department.
LSU guard Last-Tear Poa and forward Angel Reese react with teammates during the third quarter of a Sweet Sixteen round college basketball game against UCLA during the NCAA Tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2024, in Albany, N.Y. ALBANY – What you can print in a newspaper and what you can say on a basketball court are drastically different, so with all due respect, I’m going to need you to use your imagination a little.
This is me asking my hardworking and typically well-meaning colleagues: Would you tee up a press conference question for Patrick Beverley or Russell Westbrook like what Reese got Sunday morning: “I’m wondering, do you use as part of your strategy or to try to get opponents off their game?”Imagine that Reese was Luka Doncic.
Now, listen. Maybe you, like Doncic and LSU coach Kim Mulkey, were a trash talker in your day? Or maybe you, like Boban or Iowa’s Lisa Bluder, were not?now and then, or maybe there’d be no amount of time between the childish taunt and that kid finding his butt on the bench.
“I mean,” Mulkey added, “have you ever thought watching games in the NCAA playoffs how much you could write about a lot of players and the stuff that’s come out of their mouths, not just Angel and not just Clark?”“For me, my competitive passion is just all about the game,” said Clark, the college game’s all-time leading scorer with 3,830 points and counting, when she was inevitably asked about trash talk Sunday.
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