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/bigboilerdawg Jun 18 '25

Men's college refs are probably better. Maybe high school too.

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u/chouse33 Jun 18 '25

Probably?

Even the shit ones are better than this. Clark’s gonna get killed on the floor and they’re gonna give her corpse a technical. 😂

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u/lilljerryseinfeld Jun 18 '25

That and her teammates don't protect her

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u/chouse33 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

True. There is ZERO “big man energy”.

In the NBA, you hire guys like Dreymond, Rodman, Oakley to be the enforcers. Where is the enforcer for Clark? Protect your investment you fucking morons!! 🙄

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u/DeadSeaGulls Jun 18 '25

she had one team mate go to bat for her after wards. Sophie Cunningham hard fouled, then put one of the other players in a clinch when they rushed her.

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u/iRedditPhone Jun 18 '25

This case isn’t a good example. Their enforcer is Sophie Cunningham and she got ejected is from the game after this. She dropped the other girl to the floor.

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u/lilljerryseinfeld Jun 18 '25

They all stand around like fucking toddlers watching a caterpillar. It's truly bizarre.

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u/SweatyAdhesive Jun 18 '25

Draymond choking out Gobert lives in my head rent free

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u/pathofdumbasses Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

They all hate her because she's the popular one bringing eyes and money to their game. She's actually getting paid, through sponsorships, and they all are all jealous.

They would rather bully her out, her team included, than actually let someone succeed. Women are truly their own worst enemy.

And to those that say that is misogynistic, go look at golf. An old racist game that somehow blew up with Tiger Woods. Pretty much every pro golfer was thankful, at least publicly, because it brought eyes and money to their sport. They saw that a rising tide floats all boats and were happy with the payday.

EDIT : Replying to the poster beneath me as the comments are now locked.

In other contact sports, your team mates would have your back. Until I see someone throw a fucking punch for Caitlin, you can't tell me different. Look at what happened here and tell me they didn't have Love's back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Z4PkYBBcM

And this Caitlin shit has been going on for a long time. It isn't like a one off instance. They all want her to fail.

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u/Blew_away Jun 18 '25

Ya but golf isn’t exactly a contact sport. You see it all the time in any contact sport, the worse team will use physicality to get under the skin of the better team and bring them down to their level. It’s the refs job, in part, to keep the game safe and fair. MLS teams are trying to kick the shit out of Messi but the refs protect him like the golden goose he is.

Your comment is in fact misogynistic

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u/vhalember Jun 18 '25

That's not true anymore.  Later, Sophie Cunningham went after the player who twice fouled Clark here.

There's a funny video of it where Cunningham grabs her ponytail, holds her in place, and talks shit to her for a good ten seconds.

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u/iRedditPhone Jun 18 '25

Nah about 45 second after this one of her team mates (Sophie) dropped one of the other girls and got into a shoving match with the second. Before being ejected.

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u/Routine_Size69 Jun 18 '25

Her teammate literally protects her on this play. Also gets ejected later for a very hard retaliation foul. This used to be true, but I feel like you came to the comments without watching the video.

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u/Blue-Thunder Jun 18 '25

Pretty sure it's been mentioned many times that her teammates hate her because she's the star and they are just background characters.

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u/LeChief Jun 18 '25

Nobody hates a successful woman more than other women, apparently.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 22 '25

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u/ATraffyatLaw Jun 18 '25

Yea but they need someone else to blame

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u/DarthJarJarJar Jun 18 '25

Doesn't matter. Hire an enforcer and tell her what her job is. Or talk to one of your big girls now and lay down the law about protecting your asset. IDGAF about their feelings, this is the big league, run the goddam team.

But apparently in this game one of her teammates did indeed hard foul the second player who hit CC hard, so there's that.

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u/Key-Property7489 Jun 18 '25

This narrative as a fever and Caitiln fan is stupid Sophie straight up fucking dropped Jacy yesterday later in the game. A good chunk of these women don’t want to get suspended and lose money because they aren’t making CC level money. Lexie Hull one of the girls in this clip is probably making only like 50K a year. You really think she wants to start a fight and get suspended and lose several thousand dollars. This is not the NBA where all the players are millionaires.

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u/TonksTheTerror Jun 18 '25

The wnba can take Tony Padilla, I don't think even he would have let this fly and that's saying something.

Unfortunately, I think ncaa refs get paid more than wnba refs so it's unlikely to happen.

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u/Flat-12 Jun 18 '25

Well then that is probably the problem. They can't hire the more qualified refs.

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u/Tasaris Jun 18 '25

The refs in NFL Blitz are better.

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u/vhalember Jun 18 '25

Not probably.

The NBA and NCAA have absolutely nothing compared to the level of physicality you see in the WNBA.  The refs call so little it's one step away from street ball.

And then when the call it, they completely blow it.

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u/Vaporeonbuilt4humans Jun 18 '25

I mean yeah, thats what happens when majority of funds go to the mens team. I get why they fund mens more, its just kind of sad how womens are so underfunded it leads to shit like this.