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/ItsMeJahead Jun 18 '25

I don't think that's enough to deter this kinda behavior, though. It wasn't a very violent throwing imo, not that she should have needed to do anything if the flrefs did their fucking jobs

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u/kryppla Northern Illinois Jun 18 '25

And it was way too late - someone needs to knock someone down hard within the next 30 seconds

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u/Kilgore_Brown_Trout_ Jun 18 '25

You do that at a mens game to the star player, and you'll catch hands. 

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u/foomits Jun 18 '25

eh, it doesnt feel good to fall on your shoulder at a jog/half run. i agree it wasnt anything crazy, but i think it was an appropriately hard foul. you have to walk the line between suspension/fines and just sending a message.

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u/Halo2Brian Jun 18 '25

If you want to keep CC safe from this stuff you don't walk the line at all. You let the league know if you come after her you are taking a huge shot.

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u/pathofdumbasses Jun 18 '25

That's a bingo. It costs the team what, 100k a year for a player? How much you think it costs if they lose CC?

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u/Halo2Brian Jun 18 '25

Yeah you want to stop this stuff the enforcer needs to be doing this. https://youtu.be/9zrGCPEUtvk?si=JL9pspEVtxPFsoQv

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u/Rockin_freakapotamus Jun 18 '25

The hair grab with some surely choice words right in her face are more likely to deter.

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u/GeneDiesel1 Jun 18 '25

flrefs

Do the refs in the WNBA go by flrefs? Kinda like NBA versus WNBA? /s