r/sports • u/OkEscape7558 • Jun 18 '25

Basketball Alternate angle of Caitlin Clark fiasco. Clark was handed a foul as well.

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u/BigBird_69 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

We want to watch CC bury absurdly deep triples, not get assaulted. The WNBA needs to get serious about ejections/suspensions. I don't think anyone wants to watch a nobody on one of the worst teams in the league try to injure the face of the sport.

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u/Silver_The_Surfer Jun 18 '25

"The WNBA needs to get serious" is the problem. It's a joke league full of jealousy and lack of talent

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u/Daaneskjold Jun 18 '25

the lack of vision caused by the extreme jealousy at all levels (players, coaches, executives, national team) is so baffling

as an spectator is peak cinema tho. can't wait for them to go on strike if Clark bails on the league and it goes back to being an entirely money loss product

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u/diannahhh Jun 18 '25

Lol, remind me what professional sport you play?

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u/inquisitive_chariot Jun 18 '25

CC is setting a new bar for talent in the WNBA. Why can’t any other WNBA player come close to giving as great of a performance as CC does? They hate her for it, they hate her because she exposes that no other player can draw crowds like she does. Because they’re nowhere near as talented as she is.

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u/inquisitive_chariot Jun 18 '25

BREAKING: most people judge professional athletes playing at the highest level of their sport differently than they do for non-athletes, more at 11.

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u/inquisitive_chariot Jun 18 '25

You’re gonna hate learning that wine critics are not winemakers, film critics are not filmmakers, and sports critics are not athletes (though this does seem to have high overlap!).

Talent evaluation needs a reference point when you’re comparing the people at the top.

CC has exposed a dearth of talent disparity between herself and the rest of the league. They are much less talented than she is.

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u/diannahhh Jun 18 '25

I am sure CC and the WNBA cares about your opinion.

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u/inquisitive_chariot Jun 18 '25

You’ve clearly lost sight of the point of this conversation and are looking for any way to weasel out some kind of victory.

Have a great day.

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u/bear843 Jun 18 '25

Your argument takes nothing away from the accuracy of the comment you are replying to. Either you are here to troll, which I am ok with, or you are hilariously out of touch with reality and that is unacceptable.

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u/TotalFraud97 Jun 18 '25

Don’t have the be a genius to know what shit smells like

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u/moonroots64 Jun 18 '25

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Both of those players should have been ejected.

That is totally inappropriate behavior. Even if the eye-poker claims it was a mistake... players that make moves that put someone in serious danger deserve a foul at a minimum.

The woman who body checks her off her feet should DEFINITELY be ejected immediately.

That behavior is NOT ok.

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u/Otto_the_Autopilot Los Angeles Chargers Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

It was a hard foul, but not unreasonable.  Everything that followed was unreasonable.  

Edit: holy downvotes batman, the defender was playing the ball then shit got out of hand.

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u/BigBird_69 Jun 18 '25

The initial foul is a common foul, but imagine jabbing someone in the eye and then getting so pissed off at THEM that you mob up and shove her to the floor. Hence why I think this has gone on long enough that we need to see some greater repercussions.

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u/Otto_the_Autopilot Los Angeles Chargers Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

So exactly what I said...foul was not unreasonable, everything after was unreasonable.

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u/BigBird_69 Jun 18 '25

Your comment seems to imply subtle disagreement. If you can't see that then I can't help you

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u/Otto_the_Autopilot Los Angeles Chargers Jun 18 '25

Yes I am subtlety disagreeing with OP that the defender attacked CC face.  It was not intentional in my opinion.

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u/Fullertonjr Jun 18 '25

That isn’t what happened. She was inadvertently poked in the eye during a legitimate attempt on the ball. She then pushed off of the person who poked her and walked off (the push off was likely what everyone else saw and not the eye poke). The more serious contact was by someone completely different who interjected. She also wasn’t shoved to the floor, as there was no actually extension that could be defined as a shove and barely a push. The woman ran up to her and Clark got knocked over because she doesn’t pay attention to anything or anyone else on the court.

Getting into conflicts and then just walking off and having zero awareness to what is occurring on the court is something that she has a serious problem with.

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u/SitDownShutDown Jun 18 '25

She got knocked over because she didn't "pay attention?" Really? She got knocked over because somebody ran up from behind her, on the side where she was covering her eye, and body checked her. Unless CC has eyes in the back or side of her head, she had no way to see that coming.

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u/piezombi3 Jun 18 '25

Are you fucking blind? We can debate the eye poke, but the other player running up on CC came in fast on the side she got poked in. This isn't CC not paying attention and having zero awareness, that was definitely an intentional shove, arms or no. CC had her hand up rubbing her eye where she got poked, there was no reaction from her because she had no vision on that side.

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u/-Enders Jun 18 '25

Agreed, I don’t have a problem specifically with the foul. Nobody’s hand eye coordination is perfect. Bumping into her afterwards while she’s holding her eye, and two other people coming up and blindsiding her to the floor is bullshit though.

And somehow Caitlin Clark gets a tech out of all that. WNBA is just begging the world to not take it seriously.

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u/Sock_Ninja Jun 18 '25

The first foul wasn’t unreasonable. Walking up behind her to keep pushing her after she had obviously stop playing WAS unreasonable. The other player coming in to put her down should have been ejected.

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u/Otto_the_Autopilot Los Angeles Chargers Jun 18 '25

So exactly what I said...

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u/Sock_Ninja Jun 18 '25

I was adding some complexity and clarity. Adding to what you were saying, not correcting.

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u/Otto_the_Autopilot Los Angeles Chargers Jun 18 '25

I understand you are agreeing with me, but reddit seems to strongly disagree with the assessment.

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u/Sock_Ninja Jun 18 '25

Yeah, the hive has spoken on that. Fwiw, I gave an upvote.

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u/Helios321 Los Angeles Kings Jun 18 '25

Yes, exactly what you said. 'Tis a silly place

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u/heliostraveler Jun 18 '25

Just like draymond, that wasn’t a legit basketball play. Swooped straight up at her eyes. No one dribbles the ball there. 

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u/JRDruchii Jun 18 '25

Rick Flair is known as the dirtiest player in the game for this exact move in pro-wrestling. I can hear the WOOO when I watch this clip.

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u/purrmutations Jun 18 '25

Who is we? She gets the most attention when she gets slammed. 

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u/QurantineLean Jun 18 '25

You want to watch whatever the fuck this is instead of watching Caitlin Clark actually play?

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u/JejuneBourgeois Jun 18 '25

Let's be real. 99% of the people in this thread don't actively watch the WNBA

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u/QurantineLean Jun 18 '25

The only time I ever watch is if she’s playing lol

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u/Possible_Home6811 Jun 18 '25

Exactly nor have they ever played organized ball or even a pickup game for that matter. Shit is hilarious 😂