But this was the first time we saw Paige     really get guarded.     This is where we saw     what is going to happen in year two.     This is the scout report that needs to     be out there on Paige Beckers once the     Dallas Wings get good because Dallas     Wings are going to get good at some     stage in her career. This was the game     where I’m like,     okay, we can shut up that we can shut up     the comparisons right now.     The masquerade is over.

The false     prophets have been revealed. The WNBA’s     desperate attempt to manufacture the     next superstar just got dismantled on     national television.     Paige Beckers, the so-called next     Caitlyn Clark, the media darling, the     chosen one who was supposed to carry the     torch, just got her reality check     delivered express shipping courtesy of     the Seattle Storm. And folks, it wasn’t     just a wakeup call. It was a full-blown     demolition     of one Paige Beckers.     Oh, she’s better than Caitlyn Clark.     I mean, stab me in the eye with a spoon     for Christ’s sakes. Um, wow. So, that’s     a thing right now. Last night, Paige     Beckers dropped 44 points.     And we’re going to look at a video that     just dissects     and exposes     a lot of that Let me tell you, it     exposes a lot of a lot of stuff     involving Paige Beckers getting special     treatment on the court.

For months, we’ve been force-fed the     narrative that Paige Beckers was the air     parent to Caitlyn Clark’s throne. The     media painted her as the savior of     women’s basketball, breaking Clark     records faster than a teenager breaks     iPhone screens. Diva Abdump Divas Cat     Engel is breathing a sigh of relief. Her     pretend friends in the mainstream media,     they are trying to crown a new star. If     the media has it their way, this could     potentially be the new face of pretend     basketball. And it’s not just the woke     media. There are even some     inconservative media who are voluntarily     biting into the sandwich headline     at Outkick. No, Caitlyn, no problem.

Paige Beckers can save the WNBA season.     She became the fastest player to reach     200 points and 50 assists in just 11     games, one game quicker than Clark. The     headline screamed about her efficiency,     her poise, her cerebral approach to the     game. ESPN had her ranked 13th in their     mid-season rankings.     The hype train was rolling at full steam     and everyone was buying tickets to the     Paige Becker’s experience.     But here’s the thing about hype. It’s     just hot air until it meets cold hard     reality. And reality has a name, Seattle     Storm Defense.     It’s a little bit different, huh? It’s a     little bit different out here when you     get Caitlyn Clark treatment. It ain’t so     easy peasy getting to play oneon-one,     getting to just do your thing how you     want to do it, when you want to do it.

Paige Beckers got the Caitlyn Clark     treatment for one game and it got     August 22nd, 2025. Mark it down as the     night that Paige Becker’s myth     officially died. Coming off her historic     44-point explosion against the Los     Angeles Sparks, Beckers walked into     Seattle expecting to continue her     coronation ceremony.     Instead, she walked into a buzzsaw that     exposed every crack in her supposedly     flawless game year. She went off in a     game against the Los Angeles Sparks,     scoring 44 points. But the craziest part     about that was her shooting percentage.     She shot over 80% from the field. And I     tweeted about that and I was like that’s     that’s actually insane. Give props where     they are due. Shooting over 80% scoring     44 points is actually in but with this     game like Paige Becker’s just she put on     a masterclass in scoring and and I think     with that these are some big numbers and     those are some props that need 11     points. That’s what the next Caitlyn     Clark managed against actual NBA level     defense.     Not 11 in the first quarter. Not 11 in     the first half, 11 for the entire game     on two of 11 shooting from the field,     zero assists,     two rebounds.     The stat sheet looked like a     participation trophy at a youth league     game. The Storm’s defensive coordinator,     Noel Quinn, said it perfectly before the     game.     After scoring 44 the other night, it was     in a variety of different ways. And for     us to be able to contain that, we have     to be physical.

Translation: Time to see if this     princess can handle the Caitlyn Clark     treatment. Spoiler alert, she couldn’t.     Before the the game, you said it’s going     to be important to be physical with like     Paige Beckers. Um, can you talk about     the defensive game plan for Dallas and     and like how your team was able to hold     them to what their fewest points of the     season?     Yeah, you know, it started, you know,     with our attention to detail with Paige.     I thought, you know, Slim     um was very physical, stayed in her     space, and um the the actions that we     guarded her in. Uh we we were very     aggressive. Um showed multiple bodies     and um kind of, you know, made her     hesitant to use the ball screen a little     bit. I thought we rotated well. Um and     everyone who ended up being on page from     E um on down, I thought we were very     If you are enjoying, please subscribe.     This is where the story gets really     interesting, folks. Because while Paige     Beckers was getting her reality check in     Seattle, let’s talk about what the real     next level superstar has been dealing     with all season. Caitlyn Clark, you     know, the player who actually changed     the entire landscape of women’s     basketball has been taking hits that     would make NFL linebackers wse.

The     numbers don’t lie. 17% of all flagrant     fouls in the 2024 WNBA season were     committed against Caitlyn Clark. That’s     not basketball, that’s target practice.     Paige Beckers got Caitlyn Clark     treatment for the first time in her     career and it looked bad. It looked real     bad. Everybody was running around. Yeah,     she was cooking. 44 points versus the     Sparks. They didn’t play a lick of     defense, letting this girl play     one-on-one basketball in every area of     the floor, letting her post up in the     mid-range area. One-on-one. Now, I’m     giving credit. She’s a bucket in     one-on-one, especially from that     mid-range uh uh from the free throw line     down area.     But this is the first time we watch     teams actively     be persistent about taking away her     spots and what she wants to do.     The Chicago Sky alone accounted for 80%     of the flagrant fouls against Clark.

Meanwhile, Paige Beckers has been     getting the kid gloves treatment,     floating through games like she’s     playing in a college scrimmage. When     Beckers finally faced the kind of     physical, aggressive defense that Clark     deals with every single night, she     folded faster than a lawn chair in a     hurricane. The storm made it their     mission to be physical with her, to     contest every shot, to make her work for     every possession. And what happened? She     disappeared completely     because she got blitzed. She got     doubled.     And do you want to know what she did as     soon as she got blitz and doubles? She     passed.     Paige Beckers, like look, she played     decent amount early in the game. The     game was kind of over and she got subbed     out. Paige Becker shot seven times.     Paige shot the ball seven.     The media loved to crow about Becker’s     shooting efficiency, 47.4% 4% from the     field compared to Clark’s rookie season,     41.7%.     They painted this as evidence that     Beckers was more polished, more ready     for the professional level. But here’s     what they conveniently ignored. Clark     was taking the hardest shots in the     league while being defended like she had     a target on her back.

Becker’s pretty shooting percentages     were built on a foundation of soft     defense and easy looks. The moment     Seattle decided to guard her like the     superstar she supposedly was, those     percentages crumbled like a house of     cards in a tornado. Two made field goals     out of 11 attempts.     That’s not efficiency, that’s exposure.     Meanwhile, Clark has been shooting over     defenders who are literally trying to     hurt her. She’s been called for flagrant     fouls that weren’t even basketball     plays. She’s been dealing with physical     dominance as a defensive strategy and     she’s still putting up numbers that make     Becker’s stat sheet look like a rough     draft.     Paige Bucus, let me ask you this. How     did it feel to be blitzed and played 94     ft before you even get a chance to bring     the ball up court like your name was     Caitlyn Clark aka my precious Cece? You     didn’t like that, huh? You hear me? you     out there was looking like you was about     to cry.     Yeah. So, what do your fans have to say     now? Um, excuse me. Where are you Paige     Buer fans at? Um, that was y’all that’s     y’all MVP and face of the league, right?     She’s boring.     She’s not good enough. She gets special     treatment, but understand she kept     getting blitz after blitz after blitz     after     Let’s be brutally honest about what we     witnessed on August 22nd.     Paige Beckers got a tiny taste of what     Caitlyn Clark faces every single night     and she crumbled.     One game of actual defensive pressure,     one game where the opposing team decided     to make her work for her shots and     suddenly the next Caitlyn Clark looked     more like the next player heading to the     bench.

This is the same player who the     media has been propping up as superior     to Clark in every measurable way. The     same player who was supposedly more     cerebral, more fundamentally sound. The     same player who broke Clark’s records     with such ease that analysts were ready     to crown her the better player after     half a season. But when push came to     shove, literally, Becker showed she’s     not built for the spotlight that Clark     has been carrying since day one. She’s     not ready for the physical chess match     that happens when teams game plan     specifically to stop you. She’s     certainly not ready for the kind of     punishment that Clark absorbs while     still delivering historic performances.     Want to look up how the WNBA played     against Caitlyn Clark in terms of the     defensive strategy, in terms of the um     the other basketball teams around the     WNBA. Um what they did against Caitlyn     Clark versus how they’ve handled Paige     this year. Everybody wants to act like     Paige is so much better than Caitlyn.     They’re certainly not playing defense on     Paige the way they played on Caitlyn.     They’re certainly not attacking her with     unnecessary fouls the way they attacked     Caitlyn with unnecessary fouls last     year.

So in the 2024 season, there were     35 flagrant fouls called. Caitlin Clark     received 17% of the seasons. The entire     season’s flagrant fouls. 17%. I mean,     we’ve seen all the injuries. We’ve seen     all the fights, the MMA fights that the     WBA players have have gotten into this     year. There haven’t been 30 There     haven’t been 35 flavor fouls called.     While we’re talking about manufactured     narratives, let’s look at some real     numbers that put this whole debate to     rest.     Caitlyn Clark’s rookie season, 19.2     points, 8.4 assists, 5.7 rebounds per     game while being the most targeted     player in the league. Paige Becker’s     rookie season, 19.7 points, 5.3 assists,     4.1 rebounds per game while getting the     softest defensive treatment in the WNBA.     Clark did it while facing flagrant fouls     at twice the rate of any other player.

Clark did it while coaches literally     told their players to be physical with     her as a primary defensive strategy.     Clark did it while dealing with plays     that her own coach called unacceptable.     Beckers did it against teams that were     treating her like she was ma

de of glass.     And the moment one team decided to flip     the script and guard her like the     superstar she supposedly was, she     completely vanished from the game.     She was minus 17 on the floor. She had     zero assists and 11 points.     Zero assists.     Zero.     Zero assists. I don’t like     that’s mental. That’s mental for a     player that they were trying to say was     better than Caitlyn Clark. And I’m not     even going to say, oh yeah, you know,     the points are everything. Points aren’t     everything at the end of the day. Um     assists aren’t everything.     Like all of these individual stats     aren’t everything. It was just the fact     that she literally     how like how many blitzes did the     Indiana did or how many open shots did     the Indiana Fever get off a Caitlyn     Clark blitz? And albeit it’s very     different when you have a short roller     in the Storm didn’t just beat Paige     Beckers. They created a blueprint that     every team should be studying. Britney     Sykes took on primary defensive duties     with help from Skyler Diggins, Gabby     Williams, and Erica Wheeler. They made     Becker’s work for every possession,     contested every shot, and refused to     give her the easy look she’d been     feasting on all season.     “It’s going to take not only the primary     defender on her, but our second and     third layers of defense to really be     locked into the actions that she     receives,” Storm coach Noel Quinn     explained. “They treated her like a     superstar, and she couldn’t handle it.”

Meanwhile, Caitlyn Clark has been     dealing with this level of defensive     attention since her first day in the     league. Teams have been putting multiple     defenders on her, hitting her with hard     fouls and doing everything short of     actual assault to stop her. And she’s     still rewriting the record books. Now,     Becker’s defenders will point to her     injury history as some kind of excuse     for her performance. They’ll talk about     her torn ACL, her time away from the     game, and how she’s still finding her     rhythm.     But that’s exactly the point. Clark     never got the luxury of excuses.     Clark came into the WNBA and immediately     became public enemy number one.     She faced the hardest defensive schemes,     the most physical play, and the most     scrutiny from day one. She didn’t get a     grace period. She didn’t get easy games     to build her confidence.     She got thrown into the fire and came     out looking like a Hall of Famer.     Beckers got the red carpet treatment for     most of her rookie season. And the     moment she faced actual adversity, she     folded. That’s not the mark of a     superstar. That’s the mark of a player     who was built up by a hype machine that     ignored reality. And when you guard a     player like Paige, it’s not just relying     on, you know, your guards, who whoever     is has the main matchup, but it becomes     a team picture. Um, and understanding,     you know, rotations on the ball, off the     ball. And I think the other thing that     we did um you know early on we rebounded     decently out of it. We didn’t give up     too many u I think it was 12 second     chance points at the half but not a lot     of not a lot of um you know deflating     possessions after having uh a lot of     deflections and things like that.

The     most telling part about the Page     Becker’s experiment,     even with all the media hype, even with     the manufactured records, even with the     softball treatment from opposing     defenses, the Dallas Wings are still a     disaster.     They’re 9 to28 on the season, eliminated     from playoff contention, and looking     like they wasted the number one pick on     Fool’s Gold. Compare that to what     Caitlyn Clark did for the Indiana Fever.     She took a team that was one of the     worst in the league and turned them into     must-sea television.     She filled arenas, broke viewership     records, and made the WNBA relevant to     casual sports fans for the first time in     years. She didn’t just improve her     team’s record. She improved the entire     league’s profile. Beckers can’t even win     games in a season where everyone was     supposedly giving her the benefit of the     doubt. What happens when teams start     giving her the Caitlyn Clark treatment     every night?     If August 22nd was any indication, it’s     going to be a long, painful education in     what real superstardom looks like.     I bet she would have had at least nine     to 10 assists. You hear me? Cuz she’s     more than just a scorer. You hear me?     Unlike Paige Bucher, she’s only a     scorer. She’s not dynamic. She’s boring.     You hear me? Clearly, she fits the     narrative, but she can’t handle being     double team or triple team.     She was out there looking like a regular     deck.

You hear me? Paige, who? Huh? What     page are y’all talking about? The Paige     who can’t even sell out their own     arena unless they playing again. The     most frustrating part of this entire     charade has been watching the media     desperately try to manufacture a rivalry     that doesn’t exist. They spent months     trying to convince us that Paige Beckers     was not just comparable to Caitlyn     Clark, but actually superior.     They pointed to shooting percentages     while ignoring the context. They     highlighted efficiency numbers while     overlooking the level of defensive     attention each player faced.     ESPN ranked Becker’s 13th in their     mid-season rankings, while Clark sits at     a higher position despite dealing with     exponentially more physical pressure.     Here’s the harsh reality that the WNBA     and its media partners need to accept.

There is no next Caitlyn Clark. Clark     isn’t just a great player. She’s a     generational talent who changed the     entire sport. She’s the Tiger Woods of     women’s basketball, the player who     transcended the game and brought it to     mainstream audiences.     Did you just say Paige Buckner will save     the WNBA season this season?     The same Paige Beckers that’s dating     Elmer Fud. The same Paige that plays in     front of empty civic centers for the     Dallas Wankers.     You expect me to believe she is going to     save the WNBA season?     She can’t even sell out home games.     Matter of fact, she doesn’t come     anywhere close to selling out games.

The     Wankers rank near the bottom of the     league in attendance.     Paige Beckers isn’t the next Caitlyn     Clark. She’s just another talented     player who got caught up in a hype     machine that was desperate to     manufacture the next big thing. When she     finally faced the same challenges that     Clark overcomes on a nightly basis, she     wilted under the pressure. The WNBA can     keep trying to prop up pretenders, but     August 22nd, 2025 will be remembered as     the night reality came crashing down on     their manufactured narrative.     Caitlyn Clark remains the gold standard,     the player who not only elevated her own     game, but elevated the entire sport.     Everyone else is just playing for second     place. And based on what we saw in     Seattle, some aren’t even qualified for     that. The agenda has been exposed.     The manufactured hype has been deflated.     And the real question now isn’t who the     next Caitlyn Clark will be. It’s whether     anyone will ever reach her level again.