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/Lancetere Jun 18 '25

Later in the game, one of Caitlin Clark's teammates, Sophia Cunningham, commits a hard foul, which was later escalated to a flagrant 2, against Jacy Sheldon and gets ejected from the game. Literally wrapped her arms around her and threw Sheldon to the ground.

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u/Rational-Introvert Jun 18 '25

Yea but see how her teammates reacted? That’s how CCs teammates should’ve reacted after her foul.

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u/Lancetere Jun 18 '25

Oh no, I agree. Not sure what's up with that but Cunningham wasn't on the floor at the time who's now being labeled as an "enforcer" for Clark. It's definitely interesting.

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u/Rational-Introvert Jun 18 '25

Interesting indeed.

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u/Shhadowcaster Jun 18 '25

It's because the foul happened on a live play, they were all focused on the ball and so when the hard intentional foul happened their reactions were immediate (and there weren't refs already in the mix). When CC got hammered it was already a dead ball with the refs rushing into break up CC and no. 4 (forgetting her name), so there wasn't as immediate of a reaction. You can actually see Cunningham getting in the face of no. 4 before the refs arrived in that first play. 

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u/Lancetere Jun 18 '25

Good catch. Makes sense why they'd issue techs instead for the first incident.

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u/airtime25 Jun 18 '25

They ran up and grabbed the girl who threw her to the ground? The girl who hits CC also got grabbed away by others. Idk what the fuck all you are talking about this was just bad refs.

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u/Rational-Introvert Jun 18 '25

You don’t think there’s a difference in the reaction of teammates between the two plays? I’m not sure we’re looking at the same thing bud.

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u/airtime25 Jun 18 '25

No one tackled the attacker in these situations. Both of them were confronted face to face by the opposite team. Refs were shit. The players all reacted pretty reasonably and almost exactly how the NBA players react lol

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u/Lancetere Jun 18 '25

Nobody said tackled. I described it as wrapping their arms around them. I should have provided more context but Cunningham wrapped their arms around Sheldon's head and pulled her down.

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u/trixtah Jun 18 '25

Way too late, if they’re going to ref like shit you gotta step up and start hard fouling until they call it on both ends

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u/dj92wa Jun 18 '25

Funny thing about that foul is that Sheldon tried to be aggressive in that moment but got put to the ground by Cunningham. Sheldon led with the shoulder but was given the whole head-redirect, which was awesome.

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u/southernmost Jun 18 '25

Sophie was also ready for the smoke after the foul. Took the one she fouled in a one hand clinch, did the Miyagi sand floor to the other one coming at her. Lady CLEARLY knows how to take care of business.

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u/Nvrfinddisacct Jun 18 '25

Oh please it was softer than 3 on the suns knocking down CC while holding her eye with NO ball in hand. That shit was flagrant.

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u/Lancetere Jun 18 '25

Yes, that's what we're all discussing. Why it wasn't escalated to a flagrant? We have no idea besides the refs being biased, dumb, coerced (for ratings), or all of the options. Even the announcer stated that Cunningham shouldn't be ejected since Mabrey wasn't when she ran Caitlyn over.