Iowa Legend Lisa Bluder
WNBA Wants Rule Adjustments
… Amid Caitlin Clark Therapy
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Caitlin Clark has taken fairly a beating from opponents to begin her WNBA profession … and her faculty coach, Lisa Bluder, has just a few concepts on how the league can put an finish to it.
TMZ Sports activities spoke with the not too long ago retired Iowa Hawkeyes girls’s hoops legend on Thursday … and requested her all in regards to the remedy her former celebrity guard has obtained up to now within the professionals.
Whereas Bluder would not consider Caitlin is deliberately being “targeted,” she does suppose gamers are giving her their “best shot” evening after evening — as a result of “they think that’s the way that they can stop her, is by physical dominance over her.”
“It’s a part of the WNBA. It’s a part of the rules right now, and if we want that to change, I think we have to change the way the game is called,” Bluder mentioned.
So … what ought to the W do??
“I think there needs to be more freedom of movement in our game,” she mentioned. “Which means, yes, calling more fouls, which people don’t like, but people will adjust. The players will adjust.”
“If we start calling more fouls and emphasize the rules, the players will adjust, ’cause they want to be on the floor.”
Bluder mentioned if a extra egregious act is dedicated by a participant, they should be ejected from the sport and slapped with a superb — and he or she’s not speaking a couple of bucks. She desires it to harm their wallets.
“I think that’s the only way to change the behavior,” Bluder mentioned. “And I think what’s gonna happen is more people are gonna enjoy the game.”
Whereas calling extra fouls is probably not the preferred repair … protecting one of the best gamers wholesome looks like a aim everybody needs to be rooting for … particularly after Clark was concerned in fairly the scuffle earlier this week.
Caitlin Clark, Tina Charles and Marina Mabrey had been all assessed technical fouls after this play.
Jacy Sheldon was assessed a Flagrant 1. pic.twitter.com/okfTpJjRS7
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Regardless of her opponents attempting their damnedest to cease her, Clark is enjoying effectively this season — averaging 21.3 factors, 8.7 rebounds and 5.5 rebounds a sport.
