Robin discusses Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark making a flopping motion toward Washington Mystics rookie Julie Vanloo. For more coverage from Robin check out Women's Fastbreak On SI! www.si.com/ons...
Vanloo just would not keep her hands off of CC. Referees were a no show. CC constantly pushed Vanloo off her. Pushed Vanloo to the floor and the referees ignored it. That was third game Vanloo played CC aggressively. Those are all fouls by Vanloo. Even CC pushing Vanloo to the ground is a foul. These referees were really bad today.
Yeah the refs put themselves in a box when they don’t call a foul on Vanloo when she’s fouling, Clark pushes off in response and they can’t really call that if you let the defense get away with all the physicality. Then randomly they’ll start making calls for a few minutes. Then stop. It’s gotta be bewildering as a player. At least let me know what you’re gonna call and keep it consistent.
So when CC pushes a player twice out of frustration, it is because of her competitiveness. She is the last person who should be mocking somebody for flopping. Plus, she shoved the shit out of a Mystic's player to create separation for a three.
You can't be serious. Caitlin said she doesn't see the racist and homophobic stuff her fans say to these ofher women around the league. After Dijonai called her out for being complicit by pretending she doesn't aee it, that's when she admonished it. I know you know this, you just want to play the role. SMH
@@quentelhill5074No. Caitlin was facing Van Loo and talking to her. Dijonai was a coward, she had her back to Caitlin. Then goes off mouthing on social media. Coward.😂😂😂
But I'm still confused. Didn't the Clark deniers say that the league was physical? Did they not want Clark to do this? Seems like I recall them saying she needed to learn about the physicality, and get stronger.
CC's season stat line is now: 384/136/175 Only 12 other player seasons have been there. w her 35 steals, only 9. w 20 blocks, only 2. w 65 3PM, no other player season has ever reached that stat line. She's a rook w 23 games played.
This team is no better offensively and worse defensively. Basketball is a team sport and all CC is doing is taking stats from others and putting them in her own box. The team should get better in time but until she plays like a team player and stops being a Primadonna.
Agreed. If you start Hull, you sit KLS. You don’t sit NaLyssa. NaLyssa is big enough she could have switched up with Boston at times to keep Boston out of foul trouble. KLS can’t make that switch.
she's clearly confronting the player in question about overcrowding herself into her own foul - that was a 'get off me' physically and verbally plain as daylight
I missed the first half, but what I saw of CC was quite incredible. She showed she could score at will by driving and getting fouled. The rest of the team is so so, especially with AB in foul trouble. They have to fix the terrible rebounding and TOs. If CC isn’t ROTY, it’s fixed. She’s so much more a complete player than AR!
She showed that against the Mystics, the worst defensive team with the worst defensive guards. Do you ppl not understand competition? Do you not see her struggling to get a damn shot off against players like Betnijah Laney-Hamilton, Jackie Young, Kahleah Copper, Rhyne Howard? God I wish people like you stayed away from the WNBA. It was the one sport where goofballs and orange president lovers didn't exist. SMH
She said "stop flopping".... it was funny when Vanloo was get ALLLL up on CC and CC was like "uhhh eww" and pushed her off. hahaha it was weird. like dude back off. You do NOT need to get that close. haha.
Caitlin may be competitive and a little “extra” on the court in the heat of the game but by all accounts, she’s a good person. That’s important to remember for all those hating on her for stuff like this. Her Fever teammates seem to have taken a liking to her much like the ones at Iowa did and that only happens if she’s easy to get a long with and a decent person.
If someone pushed Clark would you still say it was being “competitive” or “a little extra”? From what I’ve seen the majority of CC fans will brutally villainize and assassinate the character of others for this type of behavior.
@@Margo-vh5ypI would I’m not one of those that were trying to white knight for CC when the Carter foul happened. It wasn’t a basketball play, and was rightfully upgraded to a flagrant 1, but I don’t support the racists that came outta the woodwork to say that Carter is a “thug” and various other things. These women have been playing ball for how long? You don’t think they are used to physicality? I love the shit talking, we love it in the NBA why wouldn’t we love it in the W?
Hi Robin, I enjoy your channel because you give fair takes. However, I think you are missing the bigger picture. What we are seeing in the microcosm of basketball reflects our society. Even though you personally don’t have issue with what Carrington did, the media stoked the flames to view what she did as negative towards CC when it was just basketball. Then the majority of people came after her with such hatred. Even Skip Bayless said it was mean. The Sun won that game too and Carrrington played so well against CC but that’s all they reported on (ESPN for example). Now, CC does the same thing and barely a peep from big media. They only report on her positives. The double standard in the media is unreal and I think it’s a real problem. Black women are stereotyped as being overly aggressive and the media plays to that. I believe that is one reason why so many CC fans don’t like the WNBA. They are looking at it through the lens of stereotypes that are being sensationalized by the media. Caitlin also pushed Vanloo about 3 times today! She also pushed a girl in college to the ground which was almost comparable to what Chennedy Carter did to her. Not a basketball play. Caitlin has a temper and I’m not knocking her for it! But when it shows she’s said to be competitive, it’s praised or ignored. Going back to the original “You can’t see me” which brought Angel & Caitlin to mainstream America. The double standard was in full effect. As a journalist I would love for you to really dig into this topic. It’s very deep rooted and I understand why Carrington expressed herself on Twitter. If she doesn’t stand up and confront it in public who will? She studied African American studies as one of her majors at Stanford. She’s speaking to a larger societal issues that transcend basketball. It would be interesting if someone would actually interview her. She’s very intelligent. To add, when she called out Caitlin for not speaking out it was in response to the first interview where she said she doesn’t focus on it. After Carrington tweeted, her PR team had her run that back! So the second interview is when she said she didn’t support people using her name for ill agendas.
A lot of what u said is true I don’t have a problem with most of what u say except for the fact that Caitlin never did that to Reese research it her hand jester was to her strength coach which has been corroborated by Reese’s own teammate also Clark should have been called for a foul on that play but carters fouls was from behind which could have caused an injury the media is pitting both sides against each other one last point when Clark was shoved from behind they called it a regular foul I just want to say that the referees in the wnba r the worst that I have seen in pro sports and that effects all fans piece 😮
@@dalebarnard1007 Thanks for the reply. I also saw the video where Haley Van Lith straightened it out. However, that interview was about 3 months later. Everyone already showed their bias by then and Angel was the villain based off of the interaction. Also, I think what Chennedy Carter did was totally unnecessary and wrong. I was comparing that to what CC did in college to a player on the Purdue Fort Wayne team. She really pushed that girl hard! An intentional foul was called. My point is Caitlin is no saint and has a temper. But many of her fans see her as a victim like this delicate flower.
They just beat the best team in the league and you make changes????? What is that about, Christie Sides is a pathetic coach and doesn't have a clue what she is doing!!!! Caitlin made 5 - 3's and at the end of the game she gets the ball to Mitchel who made no 3's. Obviously Sides has never watched how Caitlin has made big shots at the end of several games under pressure. BAD COACHING AS ALWAYS, FIRE SIDES!!!!!!
I mean, I don’t care either way but nothing Kaitlyn do has any meaning to it to y’all let somebody else do it. It’s a big big thing that’s what people mean.
The problem is when Carrington engages CC to take political positions that aligns with hers. I think that steps into someone’s private life. If Miss Carrington wants to engage into political activism after “office hours” I have no problem with that. We all know by now that Caitlin Clark has no interest for that. I find it rather annoying to see Miss Carrington push the issue in an effort to get Caitlin Clark to take a stance on questions of interest for Miss Carrington.
Nothing to see here. Two women competing at a high level. Great game by the way. Washington started 0-12, they are 6-5 since. With the exception of Phx/Dal, the games were all competitive today.
Because she lied and said she wasn't aware of it. Maybe you believe she--and everyone close to her--live in a vacuum but I can assure you they don't. When Carrington called her out, she immediately did what she should have in the first place. Look at what Reese did for T-spoon this week. She basically said she didn't want to hear no talk about hating on her coach. Has CC ever done that for Sides or her teammates? No, and I'm not talking about the obligatory press conferences after the game. I mean when her fans attack her team. Of course, she probably isn't aware of it, right? When a player's fans attack a player's team like CC's do, that player needs to speak up because like it or not, they're doing it in her name. And as your video shows, CC isn't the perfect little angel anymore then the rest of the players.
CC doesn’t use social media the same way Angel does. CC doesn’t engage in any negativity. She posts about her family, friends, teammates and basketball. You will never see her arguing with random anonymous strangers on Twitter 😂
I wish podcast were more than bitch sessions. For sure the officiating of the game left not much to be desired but what is new. The officiating all year has been inconsistent and the league has done very little to address it and wont as long as the seats are full. The fever have no one to blame but themselves for the loss. Defense stunk. Support from the bench was nonexistent. Bench shoots 3-16(18%) from 3point. Wont win with that. None of this was because of CC- she had a very respectable effort. Sides cant blame this on CC nor should CC coach for her. Give them credit for last minute effort but too little and too late.
I don't think Clark should have retaliated, but I understand her frustration. IDK. Not much to say. Of course, people being racist to Dijonai is not okay. At the same time, I wish athletes would get off twitter more....🙄
Haha. There is more to it than nothing. It's a distraction. Anything they can use to take the focus off the padded, should be asterisked, double-double streak. Twice now, she has been given stats in garbage time. The first time it was a loss, so everyone kinda glassed over it. Today, though, just classless. Some people will, because of her past actions, suggest this should be expected from her. Reputations get made, and do follow. Not to mention the 9 rebound game that was credited as 10. Why won't any of you media journalist ask Parker how she feels about 'THE STREAK' in regard to the Lynx, Storm, and now the Dream. Perhaps Parker feels a bit like Lynette Woodard does about her scoring record. Do ya really own the record if the opponent is given up free points in garbage time? Do ya really own the record if you only had 9 rebounds, but the stat trackers make an error? I mean, at what point does this record become equivalent to a WWF championship run? (yes I spelled that right :)
Referring was god awful I can’t believe that almost every single highlight that they show of the fever is like a compilation of missed calls by the refs lol
I think the refs have pretty much sucked in every game I have watched this year, for both teams playing. I find it kind of off-putting and kind of funny at the same time, just how much all players bark at the refs and also do some very dramatic acting.
I was wondering when this side of Caitlin would come out in the WNBA. In college she definitely had a temper, pushed players, and trash talked. It was all celebrated and never affected how fans viewed her as a person. So interesting how those same fans call WNBA players thugs and I’m sure you know all of the other names for doing the same thing.
