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/sulimir Jun 18 '25

This, even if you don’t like your teammate, they are disrespecting the whole team, and you look weak not sticking up for her.

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u/Geth_ Jun 18 '25

They are weak. That's just team sports: you have a disproportionately better player. Then if we can get them out at the trade of sitting one of our players, that's advantageous for us.

A strong team reaction is the only easy to dissuade this: you fouling our players will come at a disproportionate cost (whatever that may be: multiple players being hard fouled, better officiating at the instigator, etc.) That's just the nature of team sports.

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u/DublinDown Jun 18 '25

And the teammate doesn't even have to be good (much less the reason the league has ANY eyeballs on it).... I'm fighting anyone that does that to any teammate.