Caitlin Clark and the WNBA rookies settle in, while Barbra Banda and Orlando take off in the NWSL

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week, Claire takes a look at the first weekend of WNBA preseason, as fans saw first glimpses of Caitlin Clark and the rest of her draft class against league competition. She also talks through some growing pains the league is still experiencing while trying to capitalize on fan interest. Then, she breaks down packed NWSL week, where winning and losing streaks only tell part of the story for each club as they navigate short rest, travel, and player availability. Orlando sits atop the table, but who else is separating themselves from the pack?

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0:12.6	I honestly thought Caitlin Clark looked like a natural in this game. It was a lot of high volume shooting, a lot of high volume shooting from three. I wonder if that was perhaps sort of the drill they were running. They didn't go inside quite as much. It was a lot of her getting looks from behind the arc but she looked really comfortable and it looked like Dallas actually had to do a
0:16.0	couple of rotations to figure out the white person to put on her which is also
0:19.6	what we saw in college so while I think Indiana still has some balance to figure out
0:24.0	sort of with how they want to move the ball with their starting five and also
0:27.0	how they want to rotate to their bench, I just don't think that Clark is
0:30.4	going to have perhaps as steep of growing pains in the WMBA as some people feared.
0:37.0	Hello and welcome everybody to this week's edition of The Late Sub I am your host Claire Watkins.
0:46.0	It is Monday, May 6th and we have a lot to discuss. We've got W MBA preseasonseason some first looks for some superstars in their
0:55.2	W MBA jerseys very exciting and then we also are going to talk through a packed week
1:00.8	of NWSL action where we learned some things about some teams that had to dig deep on short rest this week.
1:07.0	And then at the end we're trying something new.
1:09.0	We're going to do a quick news round-up, so if there's anything we missed in the prior two sections,
1:12.0	hopefully we'll have
1:13.2	clean up there at the end of the episode but that's enough to to start us out
1:17.6	here let's get into it all right so let's talk about some new stuff that happened this weekend. We will get to NWSL in the second block here, but I actually want to start with W MBA preseason.
1:30.5	So we got our first glimpses of some of these high-profile rookies playing for the
1:34.0	W MBA teams for the first time, kind of, unofficially, but we're getting some looks at some of
1:39.9	the roster construction coming together for the W MBABA and this is all going to happen
1:43.6	very fast. The WMBA starts next week. So we get a couple pre-season games, we get roster cuts
1:50.1	coming in real fast and furious, see these teams come together very, very quickly.
1:54.8	So it's worth it, I think, to take a second to talk about preseason because this is going to be actually our only chance to do so
1:59.4	before the season actually starts.
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