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Caitlin Clark has taken fairly a beating from opponents to start out her WNBA profession … and her school coach, Lisa Bluder, has just a few concepts on how the league can put an finish to it.
TMZ Sports activities spoke with the lately retired Iowa Hawkeyes ladies’s hoops legend on Thursday … and requested her all in regards to the therapy her former celebrity guard has obtained thus far within the execs.
Whereas Bluder would not consider Caitlin is deliberately being “focused,” she does assume gamers are giving her their “finest shot” night time after night time — as a result of “they assume that is the best way that they’ll cease her, is by bodily dominance over her.”
“It is part of the WNBA. It is part of the foundations proper now, and if we would like that to vary, I believe we now have to vary the best way the sport is named,” Bluder stated.
So … what ought to the W do??
“I believe there must be extra freedom of motion in our sport,” she stated. “Which implies, sure, calling extra fouls, which individuals don’t love, however individuals will alter. The gamers will alter.”
“If we begin calling extra fouls and emphasize the foundations, the gamers will alter, ‘trigger they wish to be on the ground.”
Bluder stated if a extra egregious act is dedicated by a participant, they have to be ejected from the sport and slapped with a tremendous — and he or she’s not speaking a couple of dollars. She needs it to harm their wallets.
“I believe that is the one technique to change the conduct,” Bluder stated. “And I believe what’s gonna occur is extra individuals are gonna benefit from the sport.”
Whereas calling extra fouls might not be the most well-liked repair … holding one of the best gamers wholesome looks like a purpose everybody must be rooting for … particularly after Clark was concerned in fairly the scuffle earlier this week.
Regardless of her opponents attempting their damnedest to cease her, Clark is enjoying nicely this season — averaging 21.3 factors, 8.7 rebounds and 5.5 rebounds a sport.
