Jay Williams Believes Caitlin Clark is Not in G.O.A.T. Conversation

ESPN's Jay Williams has doubled down on his belief that Iowa's Caitlin Clark is not in the GOAT conversation because she hasn't won a championship.

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00:00 Jay Williams says Caitlin Clark can't be the GOAT without championships.

00:03 Robin Lundberg, Dakota London.

00:05 Dakota, to me this is a little bit silly and it almost feels like just a response to people praising Caitlin Clark.

00:11 I say that because I don't remember ever having the GOAT debate in either men's or women's college basketball.

00:17 And when it comes to the women's side specifically,

00:20 there are so many programs that, or there are a few programs that have dominated so many years

00:26 that what she did elevating Iowa I think should count as much as say a championship for UConn.

00:32 Yeah, I thought this was weird.

00:36 You're not talking about the pros.

00:40 Like his point holds true in the NBA in a sense of like,

00:44 like Mellow is a prolific scorer.

00:48 Nobody, there wasn't many times where I thought Mellow was the best player in the league

00:53 because he was just a prolific scorer but there wasn't a championship behind it.

00:58 But in this situation in college, it just doesn't apply.

01:03 Like more than anything else, it's taken away from what she's doing.

01:06 To your point, nobody's having the GOAT debate about collegiate sports.

01:11 It's just not a common conversation.

01:13 They're there max four years with such a small window.

01:17 So it doesn't even really apply.

01:19 So it's like I didn't get the point of it.

01:22 And the fact that he doubled down on it, it seems like you're really going out your way

01:25 to take a shot at her. That's unnecessary.

01:28 And you know, there have been plenty of greats in the sport,

01:31 obviously Tarazi and Sue Bird and Maya Moore and so on and so forth.

01:35 But again, certain programs have dominated.

01:37 She went with Iowa and beat a dominant South Carolina team last year.

01:41 And then if you were to apply this to the men's side, did anyone ever say,

01:45 Steph Curry didn't win a championship at Davidson?

01:49 Right, right, right, right.

01:51 Matter of fact, it's funny because when UConn was in the midst of their run,

01:55 they were winning championships every year.

01:58 I remember the conversation of whoever was on that team being the GOAT player

02:02 when they were winning titles year after year.

02:04 It just seems odd.

02:06 What she's doing is special.

02:08 I think what she's doing is elevating women's basketball both at the collegiate level

02:12 and when she enters the pros, it'll be even kicked up a higher notch.

02:15 So I just feel like giving her flowers and letting her rock.

02:18 Yeah, all you need is eyes, not rings, to know what Kaitlin Clark's about.