Exploring French Women's Basketball Competitiveness

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00:00When it comes to the women, I looked at these French girls and I went, do they have like

00:07a professional league or something in France that they're competitive?

00:10Where are they getting this experience?

00:12Right.

00:13That's what I kept thinking.

00:14I'm like, did they all go to UConn?

00:15Did they go to Tennessee?

00:17Like where did all these girls from France, how did they become so competitive against

00:22the very best of the best of the best?

00:25By the way, is anybody complaining about Diana Taurasi's playing time?

00:28That's what I was going to bring up.

00:29You couldn't throw in Kaitlyn Clark in that roster if you're not even going to play Diana

00:32Taurasi?

00:33What was the point of that?

00:34Right.

00:35You got Kaitlyn Clark at the Yankee Stadium meeting Aaron Judge, she should be playing

00:38for the gold medal.

00:40They openly admitted that that was a mistake now.

00:43Who did?

00:44All the people, the U.S. Olympic Committee that selected the team.

00:48On Staley, right?

00:50She was the one that was like, when they made it, she was kind of still struggling when

00:54they announced the roster.

00:56But she totally turned her season around the last few weeks of the season.

01:00And Staley came out during an Olympic broadcast saying, we made a mistake.

01:05We should have brought her.

01:06Because I saw, I saw a guy who's a basketball analyst, not men's or women's, just a basketball

01:11analyst who I know and respect his opinion.

01:14And he kept making this point during the women's game.

01:17You know what they could use?

01:18A guard who could create her own shot and knock down threes.

01:21And I thought, okay, you know, he wasn't, he wasn't saying her name, but we all knew

01:25who he was talking about.

01:26That's okay.

01:27Let me, let me just, because I watched it and I watched multiple games that they played.

01:31That's a person speaking with a, with an agenda.

01:33Kelsey Plum is a fantastic point guard who can create her own shot and can make threes.

01:39And they had another girl from the New York Liberty.

01:42Same kind of player.

01:43Can we just say something that's just like not even controversial at all?

01:46Like, why not just have her there just for fun?