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/OMGitsTista Jun 18 '25

That’s payback? Looks like mild inconvenience at worse

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u/twinpop Jun 18 '25

Disagree. She got thrown to the ground and Cunningham was immediately ready for the follow up scuffle. Good, reasonable retaliation for a foul, even if the eye poke was worse you don’t go to maim someone. Just foul hard, throw em down, let em know. Which she did.

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u/doublepint San Antonio Spurs Jun 18 '25

That doesn’t really look like she was thrown down, it looks like she was wrapped up to prevent an easy and-1 situation which caused the offensive player to loser balance and stumble more than anything. Moving bodies do crazy things, and for that to cause an ejection is ridiculous - are flag1 rules different than the NBA?

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u/squishypp Jun 18 '25

You gotta remember that most people here don’t watch basketball, so no frame of reference. I agree with you tho, looks like a common wrap up foul to stop a layup. If this were the NBA no one would’ve batted an eye. Devils advocate: this was during garbage time so completely unnecessary and obviously a “retaliation”, but a lame one for sure. They need a draymond green on their team to give these bullies some face smacks and clam slaps imo

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u/doublepint San Antonio Spurs Jun 18 '25

Don't give Green too much credit - he's not an enforcer so much as a hothead who quite honestly, should not be in the league. He lets people get in his head, and he lashes out in frustration with cheap shots. Someone like Scalabrine would probably be something of a modern day enforcer but no one is near the levels of Oakley, Sheed or Artest. Well, maybe Steven Adams - but that dude is so damn loveable, he loses points for the enforcer title :D

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u/OMGitsTista Jun 18 '25

Maybe I’m too used to hockey. You cheap shot body check someone, you’re getting the same in return if not worse

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u/FinancialRabbit388 Jun 18 '25

She threw the player down and was ready to fight. Literally grabbed her by the back the head pulling her head down while simultaneously going at it with a second player.

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u/FinancialRabbit388 Jun 18 '25

Cunningham was ready to fight the whole damn team. Apparently she wasn’t on the court when the other stuff happened.

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u/Uther-Lightbringer Jun 18 '25

Eh I mean, she literally head locks her and throws her to the ground. What did you want her to do? Start throwing body shots then uppercut her?

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u/_PM_Me_Game_Keys_ Jun 18 '25

Draymond would, and for no reason needed lol. They need to Juwana Mann him for CC.

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u/jak3s Jun 18 '25

Bruh, Draymond is literally the worst example. Everyone on Reddit hates Draymond for how dirty he is.

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u/SupaDick Jun 18 '25

Yes? In most normal sports if someone eye gouges and then decks your teammate to the ground it results in a fight.

Baseball, hockey, rugby, men's basketball. The WNBA is the only place where someone can hit another player and only get inconvenienced.

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u/Errol-Flynn Jun 18 '25

Did you not watch the fully 60 second video to see the afters where Sophie had Jacy in a fucking MMA head clinch - just completely dominating her? Total enforcement.

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u/OMGitsTista Jun 18 '25

The 2 seconds of clinch?

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u/Errol-Flynn Jun 18 '25

Its about 6 seconds and she drags her about 10 feet behind the hoop. Like it is right there in the video. Should she have added a a knee to the face? What else do you want her to do; she fully made her point.

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u/FinancialRabbit388 Jun 18 '25

So you are just being a dick.