St. John's Red Storm coach Rick Pitino shares interesting message on Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark | Sporting News

Caitlin Clark is still in the early stages of her takeover as the queen of American sports.

The Iowa product's recent quad strain, which sidelined her for a few weeks and tanked WNBA ratings, highlighted her unequivocal impact on the league and the entire media landscape.

Clark struggled with her shot in her subsequent return, but the Indiana Fever are still treading water and are fringe title contenders.

When she emerges from this slump and the Fever starts to string together some key victories, there's a chance the 23-year-old's star power reaches supernova status by the end of the summer.

One prominent college basketball coach even compared her game to an NBA legend.

While appearing on "The Herd," St.

John's Red Storm head coach Rick Pitino heaped praise upon Clark, noting striking similarities to a young Stephen Curry.

"She's a great passershe reminds me of Steph Curry when he came into the league," Pitino said.

"She has unbelievable rangeshe has great visionshe's physically a little weak, but she'll get stronger as time goes on.

She really understands how to play." Pitino has been around basketball across the globe for over five decadeshis opinion carries weight.

The Clark and Curry comparisons aren't new, but hearing the insight from a Hall of Fame coach shows how drastically Clark has captured the nation.

If Clark can turn it on in the next few months and catapult herself back into the MVP discussion, who knows what her future trajectory could be like? It took a while for Curry to adapt to a more physical pro game, and although Clark is ahead of schedule, she's experiencing some of those growing pains right now.

Let's just hope Clark and Curry can have some sort of exhibition shooting showdown in the near future before the latter hangs up his shoes..

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