Iowa Legend Lisa Bluder
WNBA Wants Rule Adjustments
… Amid Caitlin Clark Therapy
Revealed
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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 a number of concepts on how the league can put an finish to it.
TMZ Sports activities spoke with the not too long ago retired Iowa Hawkeyes ladies’s hoops legend on Thursday … and requested her all concerning the remedy her former famous person guard has obtained to date within the execs.
Whereas Bluder would not consider Caitlin is deliberately being “targeted,” she does assume gamers are giving her their “best shot” night time after night time — 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 stated.
So … what ought to the W do??
“I think there needs to be more freedom of movement in our game,” she stated. “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 stated if a extra egregious act is dedicated by a participant, they must be ejected from the sport and slapped with a fantastic — and she or he’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 stated. “And I think what’s gonna happen is more people are gonna enjoy the game.”
Whereas calling extra fouls might not be the preferred repair … holding the perfect gamers wholesome looks like a objective everybody must be rooting for … particularly after Clark was concerned in fairly the scuffle earlier this week.
Caitlin Clark, Tina Charles and Marina Mabrey have 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 making an attempt their damnedest to cease her, Clark is taking part in properly this season — averaging 21.3 factors, 8.7 rebounds and 5.5 rebounds a recreation.
