Natasha Cloud's late foul upgraded to FLAGRANT 1 for excessive contact | WNBA on ESPN 

WNBA, the new roller derby.

Why do they allow this thuggish behavior, clean it up. Let them sit for 30 days, no pay

Is 42 a man?!?! Looks like one 😮

They wanna make this league so physical, it's like they do dumb fouls on purpose and then say well it's a physical league.

But, but I was going for the ball. Sure Jan, her head looked like a ball.

GRINER IS THE REASON WHY IM DONE WITH THIS LEAGUE

Can’t claim you were going for the ball if you make no contact with it. You give someone mini whiplash and mad at the call lol.

Even Bill Laimbeer said the Mercury were playing like a bunch of thugs.

Thuggish play doesn’t attract fans.

Number 42 for the Mercurys looks like Tyga 😂😂

Thugalicious behavior in any venue needs to be called out.

Natasha Cloud was very upset about the hard foul,then upgraded to a Flagrant Foul penalty 1, but she should be lucky that it wasn't a Flagrant Foul penalty 2,because Cloud would've been ejected from the game.

Prison Ball

I'm so grateful that Indiana Fever beat the Mercury on their own Court in front of all their fans go Indiana

They lost the game because of this

a similar foul by Cunningham to Clark should be flagrant too

Referees tried so hard to give the game to Phoenix...

Under skilled players only way to compete is to injure the better skilled.

How many men are on the Phoenix team?

doesn't anyone know how to coach the"hard foul" in the W, jeez we used to run drills on it, we put mats down for this, the plan was to go to the hole with the ball and the defender had to foul without letting the ball get above the shoulders without impacting the head. this was in the early 80s in high school. does anyone teach basics any more? you trap the arms, not the head...

She slides her left forearm and hand to the back of the neck and pulls! That's flagrant!

Number 0 is A Man 🤣🤣

Memo to Sides, Clark has the ball and draws two defenders, memo to Sides this means that there is a player open, memo to Sides, Clark gets the ball to them and guess what PTS are on the board Memo to Sides, pulling your number two rebounder Clark with 9 rebounds as a defensive move is almost as bad as dumping your number one defender.

Until these flagrant fouls result in ejection, they will continue. They are as effective as fining companies for crimes committed by their management.

Bwahahahahaha… mercury sucks!!!!

"There's levels to this thing.” ~Diana Taurasi~ 😂😂😂😂 Caitlin Clark is just too good!!

The WNBA needs to clean up the physical fouls or they will be known as a thug league, a tag the NBA once had. And to their credit, the NBA did clean it up. And if Clark is injured from a cheap shot. It would be devastating to the league and the t v market. The WNBA cannot have this.

FUNNY ..........They Have it on TAPE and they Still Say they Didn't DO IT !!!

She will go to prison thinking she's innocent

the league should change their name to LGBTQIAWNBA

There has been too much dirty play in this league as compared to the men’s game since I started watching which admittedly has been pretty recently. Similarly in women’s college basketball same thing too many dirty plays and especially too much smack talk and hand gestures. That said.. I don’t regard this particular foul as necessarily dirty but I would have called it a flagrant also as it was restricting/making sure the body couldn’t rise to score as opposed to going after the ball.

Physical means competing. Not having a tizzy fit like a baby hitting and pulling hair. First Reese now this Cloud. Very unprofessional.

Thugs be Thuggen

What is this - just attack white players time?

Cloud doesn't walk,,, it lumbers 😂😂😂😂

Yo let’s go fever

Who knew?

Ladies, please... don't ever get tattoos.

Nate tried to land on Caitlin's feet after she made a logo three. I can also tell you Nate has practiced the move more than once. Pretty sick, really.

Notice its only CC being Flagrantly fouled? I also remember when Turasi started in the WNBA, they all treated her like a queen. NO ROOKIE HAS EVER ENDURED WHAT CC HAS ENDURED ON THE COURT.

They still lost

Yea, I would say a reaching elbow is flagrant. WNBA has been quite violent lately.

Thugn thugs

too much testosterones Natasha

How is Nate Cloud able to be playing in Women's Basketball?, i thought it was a Women's only competition???

What happened to the quiet sport of woman's basketball/ like lil kids the more attention you give to this violence the more you'll see it

That’s a bad called compared to Brittney Griner turning and forearming Boston in the face but not flagrant call there?

Apparently baseball isn’t the only sport where it matters which way you swing

nasty, this is wnba not fraternity hazing, come on ladies play good ball. It is a foul even if you didn't mean to do it, you did it.

That clown seriously going to try and argue with the refs that she was going for the ball after trying a hangman on Samuelson.

She went for the ball she jus got faked out n didn’t want to give up the layup

Cloud had to go ghetto to defend Samuelson. She is a clouded conscience.

Soft * Kobe Meme *

The prettiest, sexiest women in the world.....😍

Brittney griner why is he still playing?

yeah... that's not a basketball play...

Caitlin Clark

Natasha Cloud = Drama Queen

OK, at least she didn't get shanked.

What? It looked like a clean tackle to me.

Is this the WNBA or the NHL??

Thug life

Let the NAACP ref the games

It shouldnt be one at all

The mercury team is way too aggressive. It's not humorous. Kids watch and look up to the WNBA teams/players, and unsportsman like conduct on a regular basis from this team isn't ok. I don't like this team period 😒

Samuelson has good form on her shot .... some of these WNBA shooters look like they're launching a bowling ball.🙂

She didn’t mean anything bad. it’s still flagrant1 cause you need to discourage players from not playing at the ball

Ghetto street ball

Without the flagrant foul calls, there isn't anything in place to keep the players safe.

Looks like she could’ve gotten a piece of the ball had she been going for it instead of giving up on the play

clark aliya boston and michelle let’s go 😊❤

Just call the travel and no need for review ...

Her neck grabbed my hand not a foul

Take it easy female Jimmy Butler...

Actually she did not grab the neck her left hand slid off the back her right hand grabbed the forearm area

Headlock

Great

Zzzzzzzzz

Wanna be men league

Yall see Brian out there?

🐔

Somebody tell me what actress Natasha Cloud looks like. I’m racking my brain and can’t think of the actress.

This is the way black players play...

Lesbian prison rules

This why young players play off of 2 feet here. Great point. WHAT?

Women can't control their emotions

Referee 16 does not belong in WNBA!

WNBA needs to have these owners to start paying these women some MONEY!!!

Natasha done good !

How is that a foul. go play a real sport

Get some refs that can actually follow the game and not just rely on replay usage. Replay should be used as backup if questionable behavior but not primary source of calls.

Idk bout this one, it was bad defense for sure you can tell she over committed and bit hard on the fake but I think she went up with the intent of going for ball, you can see her grab for it but because of the pump and the player shielding the ball it looks bad

Is this basketball or monkies at the circus

Bogus call....

When CC wins she gets all the credit but when they lose they blame her coach and teammates.😂😂

Lmao this is a joke wow. Those people are so soft!!😅

What lagrant lol, there was barely any contact. What am i missing?

Lame call. The actual hand that touched her first was to hold her so she wouldn't get an easy basket.

Goon

I don’t see a flagrant. I do see a common foul though. As Cloud was going for the ball, Samuelson appears to stop her upward motion, duck down, tuck the ball in her left arm, instead of going up with the shot as Cloud anticipated. Cloud’s momentum took her pass Samuelson as she was still trying to get to the ball, but was more and more out position. In other words, Samuelson’s body was in between Cloud and the ball and Cloud couldn’t get to it. So her arms inadvertently were around her neck and shoulders(not choking her). I didn’t see any harm done or her hands actually touching her neck. It seems like Samuelson was unharmed in the process. I didn’t see her fall or pulled away with Cloud’s momentum. In the words of Clark, It is what it is. 😁 Glad nobody was hurt.