South Carolina head coach Daybreak Staley (left) is a part of the Olympic group choice committee, which left Caitlin Clark (proper) off the roster. Morry Gash/Related Press
Now that the Olympics are right here, Daybreak Staley has some ideas on Caitlin Clark being snubbed from the US Olympic girls’s basketball group’s roster.
Talking with Mike Tirico on the NBC set throughout the US males’s 110-84 win of their opener over Serbia on Sunday, The South Carolina girls’s basketball coach supplied a candid evaluation when prompted about Clark’s current play.
“If we needed to do it once more, the best way that [Clark]’s taking part in, she can be in actually excessive consideration of constructing the group as a result of she is taking part in head and shoulders above lots of people,” stated Staley, a part of the group’s choice committee, on Sunday.
The US girls’s roster was introduced on June 11. Previous to the alternatives, Clark averaged 16.3 factors, 4.9 rebounds, and 6.0 assists in 13 video games. Since June 13, Clark’s manufacturing has elevated throughout the board, recording per-game marks of 17.9 factors, 6.7 rebounds, and 10.4 assists in 13 contests.
Clark, a two-time participant of the yr at Iowa, has taken the league by storm and serving as a catalyst within the inflow of public curiosity across the WNBA.
Staley guided the Gamecocks to a 87-75 victory over Clark and the Hawkeyes in April’s NCAA nationwide championship recreation. Clark completed with 30 factors, eight rebounds, and 5 assists within the contest.
The US girls start their quest for an eighth consecutive gold medal towards Japan at 3 p.m. on USA and Peacock.
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