Stephanie White Should Challenge Questionable Caitlin Clark Foul Calls
Robin explains why he'd like to see Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White use challenges in defense of Caitlin Clark.
Video Transcript
Number 13 fouls on Clark before the half is a big deal versus 2 before the half.
That's your star player having, you know, being able to play completely free in the second half versus being strapped with foul trouble, which has been an issue that has plagued the fever.
Then, there's just the act of standing up for your star player.
In general, as a coach, making it known, I'm gonna stand up for her, and making it known to the refs, hey, if you're gonna call stuff like that on this end, call stuff like that on that end, and she'll be, she'll have her zip code will be the free throw line.
Her, she'll have her mail delivered there.
You know, so, that's another aspect of it.
Then, there's the way that teams are attacking the fever sometimes defensively, and Clark specifically defensively.
That was a big story after the Portland Fire game, because they kept going at Caitlin, kept going at Caitlin, kept going at Caitlin, and it blew up into this whole thing.
And since then, I think Clark has actually played pretty good defense, uh, and the fever as a whole has played pretty good defense.
She did not play good defense in this game.
Uh, she had a bad defensive game in this game.
Part of that's the opponent, you know, Alicia Gray, Jordan Canada, Ryan Howard can all go downhill, can all attack, can all put pressure.
The fever have no rim protection either, so that's leaving some of their players out on an island when the rotations aren't, aren't smooth, and can then lead to foul trouble and can lead to that consistently being exploited and Clark consistently being picked on.
But what's a way to combat that?
When there is a questionable call.
In those instances, challenge it.
