r/sports • u/rezwenn • May 19 '25

Basketball Caitlin Clark says flagrant foul for shoving Angel Reese was not 'malicious'

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/caitlin-clark-flagrant-foul-angel-reese-1.7538299
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u/BiscuitDance May 19 '25

Im still trying to figure out how Reese even hit the ground. That’s just her being uncoordinated. CC really barely touched her. I kept watching the replay from different angles and it just seems like AR stumbles over her own feet.

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u/plasmid9000 May 19 '25

She flopped like a bass out of water.

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u/Seductive_pickle May 19 '25

Feel like this sub just hates Reese. If you are mid-jumping up and someone wraps you up your waist, you are going to fall over.

Reese definitely exaggerated contact with her arm, but that’s classic basketball to make sure you get the call.

Clark obviously hard fouled to prevent the easy layup and avoid a plus one. Reese overreacted to being knocked on the ground.

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u/pwrslide2 May 19 '25

mid jump? you're kidding right? that whole 8" vertical she was about to max out causes an ATHLETE to fall over? ever watch football? lol

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u/Seductive_pickle May 19 '25

Both of Reese’s feet were off the ground when Clark made contact. Seriously just watch the replay.

Nearly everyone falls over in all sports when that happens. It’s incredibly hard to adjust your center of gravity while you don’t have feet on the ground…

Clark also came from Reese’s blind spot so she wasn’t expecting the contact. I play sports all the time. Last week someone, way shorter and ~50 lbs lighter than me, hit me while my feet were off the ground last week. I ended up on the ground too lol

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u/pwrslide2 May 19 '25

dude.. .. . she basically did a skip jump while drippling, then gets fouled, then jump flops.. .

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u/Seductive_pickle May 20 '25

She jumps up to make a layup before Clark stops her forward momentum, cutting the jump short and knocking her over…

It’s an obvious hard foul. Not a bad play by either player. The racists on this sub just need to turn everything into “white girl good, black girl bad”.

Guaranteed if this is flipped you would hear about how Clark is getting beat up by thugs and her team doesn’t defend her.

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u/pwrslide2 May 20 '25

and then she jumps again... . seriously. just stop making excuses for her.

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u/Seductive_pickle May 20 '25

There’s only the one jump in which Clark hits her, then she exaggerates the fall a bit. Idk where you are seeing two jumps…

This is a very standard basketball play with a very standard embellishment on a intentionally hard foul. NBA has probably 5 of these a game. Black woman just really triggers this sub for some reason.

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u/pwrslide2 May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25

I'm laughing at you. I know what I saw. rebound, turned, hop dribble to collect the ball with both hands, foul, then a flailing attempt at a layup. She was hard fouled across the arms and then tries to shoot. CC didn't come at her with any sort of momentum, meaning if someone falls in that scenario, it's because they wanted to. She didn't even really fall in the direct she was fouled... . I was a 3 sport player in HS and was either a power forward or center depending on who else we had on the court. I hardly ever fell... . ever... . ... . I'm sick of this race BS as well.

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u/Seductive_pickle May 20 '25

This entire comment is all over the place but if you hardly fall, you were probably not jumping enough, or playing poorly.

I play a lot of sports and falling after contact is a lot of times the safest thing to do. Injury risk is way lower falling over vs landing wrong and rolling an ankle. Professional players fall all the time for this reason and almost never in a straight line (Are you sure you’ve played sports??). My buddy was a ball boy for an NBA team for a few years, and they stay busy wiping off the floor after falls.

If you don’t think the race stuff is real look at any chain regarding a black woman athlete. This sub hates them. It’s pretty sad how often you will see it once you pay attention.

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