{"id":446281,"date":"2024-02-22T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=446281"},"modified":"2024-02-22T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:22:07","slug":"watch-video-of-jay-williams-holding-his-ground-on-caitlin-clark-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/watch-video-of-jay-williams-holding-his-ground-on-caitlin-clark-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Video Of Jay Williams Holding His Ground On Caitlin Clark Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The all-time leading scorer in women\u2019s basketball is now Caitlin Clark. However, not everybody is a believer. ESPN\u2019s Jay Williams stated on Saturday\u2019s \u201cCollege GameDay\u201d program that he is not certain the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyesports.com\/sports\/wbball\/\">Iowa<\/a> player belongs among the all-time greats.<\/p>\n<h2>Watch Video Of Jay Williams Holding His Ground On Caitlin Clark Critique<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI think the way she plays, the pizzazz, is, she\u2019s probably the most prolific scorer the game of basketball has ever seen,\u201d Williams said, comparing her to Golden State Warriors champion Stephen Curry. \u201cI am unwilling \u2026 to say that she is great yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Clark surpassed Kelsey Plum with a trademark three-pointer that shattered the record. With 3,569 points now in hand, Clark has a chance to surpass Pete Maravich\u2019s NCAA record of 3,667 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jay Williams on Caitlin Clark (again):<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I hear people talking about GOATS. For me, I&#39;m like, &quot;OK, you wanna be a GOAT. Fine. There&#39;s level of greatness. You gotta win championships to be GOATS&#8230;Championships. That&#39;s how we measure greatness overall.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1inUByFmtc\">pic.twitter.com\/1inUByFmtc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1760522623652339973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When Williams asserted that the Iowa star was only a &#8220;prolific scorer&#8221; and that she couldn&#8217;t be considered the greatest ever until she won a championship, it caused quite a stir.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think she\u2019s the most prolific scorer the game has ever seen. I hold great, or the levels of immortality or the pantheon, to when you win championships. I\u2019m not saying that she\u2019s not at a high, high, high level, but for it to go to the state of immortality \u2014 in my opinion \u2014 it has to culminate with your team winning a championship,&#8221; said a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the backlash didn&#8217;t stop Williams from digging a trench and holding the line.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The range on these is plain stupid. <\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Clark \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EtGR4AW1Ma\">pic.twitter.com\/EtGR4AW1Ma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; HALL of GOATS (@GOATS_hall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOATS_hall\/status\/1758337421295362177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I hear people talking about GOATS, for me, I&#8217;m like, &#8220;OK, you wanna be a GOAT. Fine. There&#8217;s levels of greatness. You gotta win championships to be GOATS.&#8217; So, when people want to don her as the GOAT, I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Let&#8217;s slow down.&#8217;\u2026Championships. That&#8217;s how we measure greatness overall,&#8221; Williams said Wednesday night during the broadcast of the Kentucky\/LSU game.<\/p>\n<p>There has never been a player in women&#8217;s college basketball quite like Clark in terms of sheer skill. It wouldn&#8217;t even come close to describing her as a terrific scorer. She also has some of the greatest passing abilities in the nation. Her idea of a court is just ridiculous.<\/p>\n<h3>Why does Caitlin Clark wear 22?<\/h3>\n<p>She replaced former Iowa standout Kathleen Doyle, who was selected in the 2020 Indiana Fever draft. \u201cI didn\u2019t get to wear (22) in high school because Dowling always wore odd numbers,\u201d Clark said. \u201cMy birthday is January 22, so 22 is my number.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BROKE THE RECORD IN CAITLIN CLARK FASHION \ud83d\udc10<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigTenNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BigTenNetwork<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LHDWuurWrK\">pic.twitter.com\/LHDWuurWrK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1758297654042431767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>When did Caitlin Clark do the hand gesture?<\/h3>\n<p>I live in a ghetto too. All year long, you guys told me that. But you guys don\u2019t say anything when others do it,\u201d she continued, alluding to Clark\u2019s March 26 gesture against Louisville.<\/p>\n<h3>Whose record did Caitlin break?<\/h3>\n<p>In the game between Iowa and Michigan, Hawkeyes point guard Caitlin Clark broke the record established by current WNBA star Kelsey Plum in 2017 with a long three-pointer, securing her spot in history just over two minutes in. In 139 games, Plum scored 3,527 points in his career. At just 126, Clark has now scored 3,569.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Ya&#39;ll knew I was gonna shoot a logo 3 for the record, come on now&quot; \u2014 Caitlin Clark \ud83d\udc10\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/emNhwxLZ19\">pic.twitter.com\/emNhwxLZ19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CBS Sports (@CBSSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSports\/status\/1758350495939461248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mets\u2019 Kodia Senga On Injury List, Expected To Miss Opening Day\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/mets-kodia-senga-on-injury-list-expected-to-miss-opening-day\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mets\u2019 Kodia Senga On Injury List, Expected To Miss Opening Day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The all-time leading scorer in women\u2019s basketball is now Caitlin Clark. However, not everybody is a believer. ESPN\u2019s Jay Williams stated on Saturday\u2019s \u201cCollege GameDay\u201d program that he is not certain the Iowa player belongs among the all-time greats. Watch Video Of Jay Williams Holding His Ground On Caitlin Clark Critique \u201cI think the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":421674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[6373,22891,23243],"class_list":["post-446281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-jay-williams-caitlin-clark","tag-jay-williams-caitlin-clark-critique"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}