Caitlin Clark

What was up with Reese getting in Clark’s face during time out in the last minute and after the game? Bad blood between them?
 
I so wanted to get into this game and instead it turned me off to the sport of women’s hoops. The stuff on social media is brutal too.
 
Zunardo said:
What was up with Reese getting in Clark’s face during time out in the last minute and after the game? Bad blood between them?
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Probably just being a jacka** like her coach. The team takes the personality of it's leader.

I'm not sure I've ever seen such an inorganic attempt at getting a piece of a losing player with a taunt.

Edit: Seeing a lot of trash commentary on this on social media. To me, there is a very big difference between having a moment like that on the fly in the heat of the game versus going out of the way to try to make sure somebody sees you do it when the game is ending. Trashy and classless.
 
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nwwarrior09 said:
Probably just being a jacka** like her coach. The team takes the personality of it's leader.

I'm not sure I've ever seen such an inorganic attempt at getting a piece of a losing player with a taunt.

Edit: Seeing a lot of trash commentary on this on social media. To me, there is a very big difference between having a moment like that on the fly in the heat of the game versus going out of the way to try to make sure somebody sees you do it when the game is ending. Trashy and classless.
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I agree. LSU players lack sportsmanship. Low class if you ask me.
 
yj_runfan said:
LSU was probably going to win but the ref that called the T on Clark was making sure they did.
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They probably would have won anyway, but that sequence was a backbreaking momentum killer for Iowa. Two best players picked up their fourth fouls with a ton of game to play, LSU gets several free throws and the ball.
 
Omar said:
Not at all. Let’s see her dunk or get a shot off over a 6 ft 5 Guard.
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Yes, she is. She is more fun to watch because she’s so much more skilled than anyone else on the court. She does things that no one else in her game can touch. There is no one in the men’s game that far above the rest.
 
nwwarrior09 said:
They probably would have won anyway, but that sequence was a backbreaking momentum killer for Iowa. Two best players picked up their fourth fouls with a ton of game to play, LSU gets several free throws and the ball.
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It wasn’t just that call either. She was biased the whole game. She ignored obvious fouls by LSU and made phantom calls against Iowa. To me, it was painfully obvious.
 
eastisbest said:
Anyone that looked at the front page of any major sports site or tv program would have seen Clark at least once, based on her shooting from near half-court. How much they paid attention? Well, not everyone sees the speed limit signs. Depends what registers as important I suppose.
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I guess I just instinctively ignore any women’s college basketball news. I have heard of those two blonde basketball twins who seem to be popular🤷🏻‍♂️
 
Sadly women's college bball flushed a big piece of goodwill by allowing their players and coaches to ack like fools and ESPN just fans the flames with their wokeness.
No one must be paying attention that NBA ratings are dropping like crazy because people are tired of wokeness, LeBron and load management.
Clark did the face thing to an opponent a few weeks ago and this gal on LSU decided to go Richard Sherman on her. Lost in the incredible moment of winning a national championship and celebrating with her teammates, Reese decided to hunt down Clark and do the same to her. Just a terrible look for all sports, and especially women's college hoops. And we'll see this at the AAU level now and the high school basketball level and we can go back to this moment.
It's touchdown celebrations, bat flips, we just have athletes now who have no idea how to win.
 
It's the whole " disrespect" thing that motivated the controversy. Just goes to show that women aren;t necessarily " kinder" and " gentler" than the men.

 
tom 48 said:
It's the whole " disrespect" thing that motivated the controversy. Just goes to show that women aren;t necessarily " kinder" and " gentler" than the men.

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Hilarious. At the end of the clip from the Iowa/South Carolina game it shows that "wave off" moment happened with 3-4 minutes left in the first quarter.

This doof for LSU spent the last 10-15 seconds of winning a national championship following around and flashing the "you can't see me" gesture at an opponent that had just dropped 30 and 8 on her.
 
No one really cares about the taunting besides the fake woke crowd. That’s sports. The only thing that should be talked about is the god awful officiating
 
If I were the coach of an all white team playing an all black team, and then three black refs appeared, I would take my team off the court. Three of Iowa's starters were fouled out; I don't believe any of the LSU's were. Then to top it off, the best player on the court was given a BS technical. I'm not saying that LSU would not have won as they were shooting the lights out. But it would have been a more interesting game if the refs hadn't put on a whistle show.
 
Raider6309 said:
No one really cares about the taunting besides the fake woke crowd. That’s sports. The only thing that should be talked about is the god awful officiating
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Horrendous. And the official's explanation for the most impactful call in the game was garbage. Unless I'm as clueless as the zebras were in this game, an assessed technical following a warning for what amounts to "delay of game" should be assessed in the scorebook to the team, and not to an individual counting as a common/personal foul. The official IMO either doesn't understand the rule they cite here, or they're lying to cover for their ignorant incompetency.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1642640572505522177

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Meanwhile Kim was out there bodying the officials and acting like a 🤡 the entire game standing two steps out on the playing floor and up to (if not beyond) the timeline every time the ball crossed halfcourt.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1642641216285159424
 
arizonawildcat said:
If I were the coach of an all white team playing an all black team, and then three black refs appeared, I would take my team off the court. Three of Iowa's starters were fouled out; I don't believe any of the LSU's were. Then to top it off, the best player on the court was given a BS technical. I'm not saying that LSU would not have won as they were shooting the lights out. But it would have been a more interesting game if the refs hadn't put on a whistle show.
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Are you Kari Lake?
 
arizonawildcat said:
If I were the coach of an all white team playing an all black team, and then three black refs appeared, I would take my team off the court. Three of Iowa's starters were fouled out; I don't believe any of the LSU's were. Then to top it off, the best player on the court was given a BS technical. I'm not saying that LSU would not have won as they were shooting the lights out. But it would have been a more interesting game if the refs hadn't put on a whistle show.
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First of all I think we're way beyond this. We're not in the 1950's And that was a legit T on Clark. You can't just fling the ball out of bounds to no one. There has to be some standards of control. Now Mulkey should had got a T for running into the official, but T-ing up coaches is taboo anymore for some reason.
I just want the arena to show the what the player did to get a T. A little humiliation goes a long way. Even Iowa's coach knew the T was coming when she saw it happen.
 
Clark did the same thing earlier in the tournament. If you’re going to dish it out, you’ve got to take it.
 
Omar said:
Clark did the same thing earlier in the tournament. If you’re going to dish it out, you’ve got to take it.
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I don't follow women's college basketball at all, but the people I talk to who do tell me that the chick she did that to is a notorious chit talker (chick from Louisville). Against Texas, she had 1-2 opponents stop her in the handshake line and get in her face for acting like a d-head.

No issue at all with trash talking, but it's hilarious to me all of the folks running around playing the race card to excuse Reese acting like a d-head and being blatantly unsportsmanlike for 10-15 seconds while the clock is running out. Her action was many levels beyond the Clark one that's supposedly comparable. They aren't. She walked away from the Louisville chick and didn't chase her around the floor like the chick from LSU did to her.
 
Saddest part to me is that LSU actually played extremely well, and a lot of focus has deterred from that to talking about chitty officiating and commentary about race.

Iowa packed the paint and beat South Carolina because they couldn't shoot. LSU made shots out their rear ends in the first half, and made a ridiculous number of off the dribble mid-range pull-ups off ball screens when Iowa had to get up and guard them. As @Spartacus1987 would say, "Iowa's unathletic white girls" playing in the post had to play drop coverage on those screens due to being too unathletic to hedge, trap, switch, etc. They had no answer for what LSU brought against them.
 
arizonawildcat said:
If I were the coach of an all white team playing an all black team, and then three black refs appeared, I would take my team off the court. Three of Iowa's starters were fouled out; I don't believe any of the LSU's were. Then to top it off, the best player on the court was given a BS technical. I'm not saying that LSU would not have won as they were shooting the lights out. But it would have been a more interesting game if the refs hadn't put on a whistle show.
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So if would be ok if all the refs were white?
 
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