Iowa Legend Lisa Bluder
WNBA Wants Rule Adjustments
… Amid Caitlin Clark Remedy
Revealed
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Caitlin Clark has taken fairly a beating from opponents to begin 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 not too long ago retired Iowa Hawkeyes girls’s hoops legend on Thursday … and requested her all concerning the therapy her former famous person guard has acquired to this point within the professionals.
Whereas Bluder does not imagine Caitlin is deliberately being “focused,” she does suppose gamers are giving her their “finest shot” evening after evening — as a result of “they suppose that is the way in which that they will 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 alter, I believe we’ve got to alter the way in which the sport is named,” Bluder mentioned.
So … what ought to the W do??
“I believe there must be extra freedom of motion in our sport,” she mentioned. “Which suggests, sure, calling extra fouls, which individuals don’t love, however individuals will regulate. The gamers will regulate.”
“If we begin calling extra fouls and emphasize the foundations, the gamers will regulate, ‘trigger they wish to be on the ground.”
Bluder mentioned if a extra egregious act is dedicated by a participant, they must be ejected from the sport and slapped with a advantageous — and she or he’s not speaking a couple of bucks. She needs it to harm their wallets.
“I believe that is the one option to change the habits,” Bluder mentioned. “And I believe what’s gonna occur is extra persons are gonna benefit from the sport.”
Whereas calling extra fouls might not be the preferred repair … retaining the perfect gamers wholesome looks like a purpose everybody ought 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.
