USC head coach Lindsay Gottlieb was “blown away” by the WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark’s poise.
Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark, left, and USC star JuJu Watkins, right, are different kinds of players, but they’re “similarly magnetic,” as USC women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb put it. Both have helped elevate the audience around women’s basketball to never-before-seen-levels. LOS ANGELES — In late April, Lindsay Gottlieb met Caitlin Clark for the first time, the next face of the WNBA humbly passing her collegiate crown to Gottlieb’s 18-year-old USC freshman.
But Clark’s poise in speaking with Watkins stayed with Gottlieb long after that meeting, a star weightless despite carrying a movement on her shoulders, as USC’s head coach reflects on how to best mentor a player who could soon reach the celebrity Clark has tapped. Clark and Watkins, by nature, are wholly different players, as Gottlieb noted. But they’re “similarly magnetic,” as Gottlieb put it. Both continued to elevate the audience around women’s basketball to never-before-seen-levels in 2023-24, Watkins just slightly further behind Clark, arguably the two most captivating scorers in college basketball.
Gottlieb is often labeled a basketball junkie, a veteran of both the women’s college ranks and the NBA who once spent a rare off day during her time at Cal heading to a Golden State Warriors practice to try to soak in some insight. As much as watching film, though, she’s placing a major emphasis on trying to surround herself with voices who can help advise her in best advising Watkins, through future years rising to a level in the college game that few have attained.
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