Caitlin Clark says that the flagrant foul, angel Reese was not “malignant”

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese agreed on Saturday: their small dust price during the season opener was exactly the result of a basketball game.

Apart from that, Clark has had the most conversation.

She played the fracas down on the pitch, which took place with 4:38 in the third quarter, which Indiana was playing a 93-58 victory over the sky of Chicago. It started with Reese to grab an offensive rebound and hit Clark Reeses arm hard enough to easily remove the ball and hit Reese on the floor.

As a Reese uprising, she tried to confront Clark before the Indiana Center Aliyah Boston stepped between the two players. Clark’s third personal foul was improved on a flagrant 1, while Boston and Reese took technical fouls after a repeat check -up by the referees.

“Let’s not do something that it is not,” said Clark, after publishing the third triple double of her career. “It was just a good game on basketball. I am not sure what the referee saw to improve it, and that is up to your discretion. It is a foul to rely on the free -wire line. I saw a lot of basketball in my life, that was exactly what it was. I didn’t try to do something malignant.

Latest chapter in rivalry

Nevertheless, it is difficult to ignore the obvious – that the struggle of rivalry that fascinated the basketball of women has added another chapter. It comes from her college days as Reese to lead LSU to a 102-85 victory over Clarks Iowa Hawkeyes for the National Championship 2022-23. Clark won the remaining in the spring of 2024, a game that pulled 12.3 million television viewers.

Less than eight weeks later, they descended in the first of four matchups in the WNBA. The fever lasted three of these competitions, many with hard fouls. In the end, Clark Indiana helped to make the playoffs, and the sky was neglected when Reese missed the last two weeks of the games with an injury to the wrist.

Now that.

Reeses analysis of what happened?

“A basketball game,” she said without working out after scoring 12 points and achieving 17 rebounds.

When a follow-up question was later asked in the interview, a team spokesman switched off her and said that Reese had already answered the question. And when the new coach Tyler Marsh was asked about his thoughts, he took a break before repeating Reese’s answer.

Indiana had a little more to say after Clark had completed 10 rebounds, 10 assists and four blocks with 20 points.

“Nobody will easily get anything against us,” said the new fever coach Stephanie White. “We will be a hard defensive team. I thought it was also a clear game on the ball. One of the focus of the focus is that we cannot give up. But I thought it was a clear game on the ball.”

Crew Chief Roy Gulbeyan disagreed.

“The foul on Clark fulfilled the criteria for the open foul 1, for the appearance, the effects and the successor of the left hand on Reese’s back, which is considered no legitimate basketball game and is therefore regarded as unnecessary contact as unnecessary contact,” he said. “After the foul, there is physical mockery and verbal technical mockery on Boston.”

Boston was perhaps the most surprising and didn’t even notice that she had been called for the technical round until after the game. She reacted by putting her hands on her face, looking surprised and asked if she really had the technical one.

But the calls have changed the game significantly.

After Reese missed the first of two litters, Gainbridge Fieldhouse broke out. Reese made the second and Chicago added a layup to almost 56-45 via the following possession.

Then the fever closed the third quarter with nine consecutive points to extend the lead by 20, and never had Chicago closer than 18 years old when they corresponded to the second largest victory span in franchise history.

“I went for the ball, of course how the day in the repeat,” said Clark. “You look at it, you know that it should not be upgraded. This is also the discretion of the referees, but I guess that has from my back.”