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“Caitlin Clark & Lisa Bluder vs Dawn Staley & MiLaysia Fulwiley: Contrasting Philosophies & Results”
Apr 16, 2025
Caitlin Clark, Lisa Bluder, Dawn Staley & MiLaysia Fulwiley let’s explore a deeper dive into the contrasting basketball philosophies of Caitlin Clark & Lisa Bluder versus Dawn Staley & MiLaysia Fulwiley — how different styles of play and coaching produce different outcomes on the court.
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How we doing? How we doing? You got Caitlin Clark effect. You got Caitlin Clark, Lisa Bluter
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You got Don Staley, Malaysia, Fu Wiley. Man, oh man, you guys hang tight
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We gonna let this one rip and I'm gonna tell you how the Caitlin Clark effect
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has changed college basketball, revolutionized it, and put it in a different perspective
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And let's get right to the point. You know, the NCAA coaches think they matter
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They don't matter anymore. So I'm going to tell you this, the same way it happened with Nick Saban
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it's going to happen with Don, okay, because now the coaches don't matter, right
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And here's what you want to do, and here's the problem, all right
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Here's the problem. You got Lisa Bluter, Kaitlin Clark, revolutionized the game
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The Kaitlin Clark effect is exciting. I told you guys this deal about point guards, right
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You're going to see the national media pick up on this really quick, right
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Because point guards are the stars, right? And Malaysia Fu Wiley is a star
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And what has happened here is you've got a conflict of brands in NCAA women's basketball
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And you're going to start seeing it because the coaches that you know, right
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You've got Kim Mulkey. You've got Don Staley, right? two powerful coaches, but they don't matter anymore. The players are getting paid to play
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the game. They're getting paid to entertain the fans. And here's the problem I got with Don
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right? Because Lisa Bluter was smart enough. And why am I including Caitlin Clark in this
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Because Lisa Bluter was smart enough to run a transitional offense and execute. And here's
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what you got. And this is where it gets a little bit separated, right? We know what Bluter did
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you got Malaysia Foo Wiley. If she played in Lisa Bluter's system, she'd be rocking and rolling
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right now, right? She'd be rocking and rolling and man, she'd be playing basketball all day long
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because that's what Don saw when she recruited her. Now, the Foo Wiley family, that's not a small
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group, folks. Let me spell this out because this one here is going to hit, it's just starting to
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pick up and it's going to hit the ceiling, right? Because you got about a hundred people who are
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disappointed in Don. Don went over there. That's a hometown player. Don went in the hometown and
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sat with the family and told them everything they were going to do and they were going to allow her
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to do. Okay. This is a whole thing where the coaches see. Here's what a lot of people got
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to understand. Don is a brand. Don is a brand and the way Don looks at it, nobody's bigger than my
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brand right So that why Don is on their national TV complaining about the officials right But that the wrong time to do it Don You do it after you win your second national championship or after you do it your first You don lose and then come back and want to say well we didn get coverage No And so here the riff And I see it I mean
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I see it. It's glory road. This is a glory road. If you saw the movie Glory Road
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Malaysia Fowali, Malaysia Fowali is telling Don 100%, I can't play your game. They are better than
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me at your game, Don. What's Don game? I told you guys about the bigs, right? The bigs and
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been the MVP. That's all Don knows. Don doesn't know how to have a point guard that's going to
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lead a team and it's going to play like Caden Clark. Don doesn't know how to do that. Don has
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never done that, never seen it. And that's why you got players. I think I was looking at Raven
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And Josh May was a mistake averaging four points a game, right
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So here's the problem, folks. Don's game is not going to transition to the WNBA
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But at the same time, they're in a system that won't transit. And then you got Don talking about none of you guys are ready, right
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So this is the problem. And at the end of the day, folks, when you play for a national championship, can I tell you something
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You don't play for the title. You play for the McDonald's All-Americans, right
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And when you lose, those McDonald's All-Americans, the recruits you're going to get
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they're going to swing on over to the other side, right? And this is the deal
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Why do I say what I'm saying? Okay, and point guards. And Malaysia is a point guard, all right
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The Fawali family have trained her. Now, you didn't put up brakes on her
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Imagine if she was out there playing with Juju Watkins, right, in USC
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You'd see a whole different game. and Don had a lid on it, can't fix it
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And now you're trying to justify it. Now she's in the portal. Why? Because you don't matter, right
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And that's where college coaches are gonna really, really, really understand. Because folks in the SEC, it's wild, wild west, man
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That's like being from Tombstone. I mean, now the whole NCAA women's basketball
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the Kaitlin Clark effect, has gotten to the point that college coaches don't matter
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Folks, I told you this in football, NCAA football. I say, you got a problem because now the coaches who think they matter, they don't
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right? The players have a brand. They have a fan base. They are making a million plus dollars a
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year and they do not have to tolerate. Now, let's go back to Malaysia and why this concerns me
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because I'm watching her do an interview with tears in her eyes, tears in her eyes. It's like
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come on, man, that, that was wrong. That piece right there, I can tell you is wrong. And I know
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the family not happy right And it could be the best interest of Don to say this is what she needs and to Don to say when she said transfer for what Because you not allowing her to play her game and her game doesn fit you
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And that's why you've seen the coaches who played in the NBA
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Now, this is point guards who played in the NBA. They are big man dominant
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They were taught how to pass the ball to the big. They were never allowed to play like Caitlin Clark
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They never. That's why the game wasn't entertaining. And that's why the Caitlin Clark effect, big difference, right
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You take, you look at what Juju Watkins is allowed to do
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And you look at what the point guards on South Carolina. I mean, unless I'm missing it and I'm looking at all the top point guards in the WNBA
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how many of them are in South Carolina that's running that ship? They were never allowed to
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So now they'll never understand, folks. Hear me out on this one
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In the NBA, the point guards run the show. When he comes to the media, when you get Magic Johnson tunes in
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when you get Isaiah tunes in, you get Steve Nash gets on there
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you get John Stockton going to be a guest on the show, everybody's going to want to hear that because the point guards are the stars
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I mean, in the WNBA transition, this is a huge transition. Why
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If you look at ESPN, what do you see? A lot of bigs, right? You see Lobo. You got McNuggets
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You got nothing but bigs. You don't have no point guards, right? And then you get a Nescue where everybody likes the point guard
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who sells the most shoes the point guard does right folks this one here has gotten away from
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don right it's gotten away from don and don has a brand but don doesn't matter anymore right because
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now your your inner environment and this is where i was always said you have to open this up and let
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the players go pro that want to go pro because now you're creating a situation where i can't deal
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with you for four years. The family, as much as they love you, they can't deal with you anymore
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Don, because Don went in there and recruited this young lady and told them what she was allowed to
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do. This young lady got to the program and that disappeared. And that's why Malaysia
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Fu Wiley said, I got to do what's best for me, right? Because I'm watching this lady is running
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tears. She's trying to be mentally strong. And I looked at the family folks and you're talking
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South Carolina, man, you talking John Morant, right? You got to understand how this works
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And when you take a hometown player, Don, you have a duty and responsibility
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regardless if that player can't play or not. You said you'd put them on the floor
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They played 30 minutes a game. They got them there. Now she's playing 15. All right
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Now her system, the way her game is, doesn't fit your brand, right
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Because you're not a wide out player, right? You're not playing that open style of basketball
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What you have them do is transition, go, and have more strength inside
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And that's why Carolina, man, I mean, for Don, it's going to be harder, harder for her to win a national championship Folks let me tell you why It because Don transition defense is horrible It horrible Anybody could beat that right And if you don play the open transition
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offense, how are you ever going to get to the transition defense, right? So this is two different
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games. And with Don, I tell you, Caden Clark, in fact, it's changed the game. And the NCAA coaches
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who are coaching now, you don't really matter. And at the end of the day, that's why you're going
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to see a young coach. This is what you got now. Here's a new way to adapt to that young coach
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that just won a national championship at Florida, right? Coming out of my hometown, San Francisco
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Why? Because he's more adapted to the players, the way they play. This old school, you look at
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Mokey, man, she's going to have players going in and out because Mokey still thinks I matter, right
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You get the coaches who want to be the big brands are going to have the most problem, right? Mokey
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wants to be her own brand. That's why Mokey has problems, right? So Don, Don wants to be bigger
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than the player. And it shouldn't be that way. The player is bigger than the program. And that's why
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you recruited the player in this day and age with players having brand and social media. And folks
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at the end of the day, the WNBA is entertainment, right? And it's going to be entertained by the
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point guards and the wings. I mean, the bigs, you got to come on out and you'll follow up behind
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I mean, there's not going to be any more dominance of this game because it's too wide open
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It means you have to run the floor, right? You got to run the floor. You got to shoot it well, right
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All these things are there. And then you got Geno, right? Geno's school of business is the best of the best, right
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And that's why Geno told Don, give me a break, right? You got like three titles
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Come on, man. Compared to my 35 or 40 or how many other players Geno's had
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But Geno's always relevant to the game. That's why Paige Buchers comes out. Paige Beckers comes out
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plays the game where it wants to be played. Coaches got to adapt
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If you don't adapt, it is a perfect example, right? You got Duke
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Coach K said, I never do one and dones, right? After Kentucky spanked him around a couple of times
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you know what he did? He adjusted and went to one and dones, right? That's why I always will say with Lisa Bluter
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South Sandy coaching job, because a lot of coaches want to stick to what they know
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and they want to stick to their offense and that's what Lisa Bluter didn't do
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Okay, they made adjustments because I got a great player. Is Don willing to make those type of adjustments
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for the future players? No, okay, because nobody's bigger than the program
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Nobody's bigger than my brand. And that's the fact of life. But then again, Money Mike's gonna tell you
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right from the gut. I promise you, it's my opinion, but it's turning the truth, right
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And I'm giving you the facts before it happens. Coaches don't matter, not today
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Not when you're giving NILs of a million, two million, three million, $5 million NILs
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basketball players. Uh-uh, that's not going to fly anymore. And that's the problem Don has
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