Caitlin Clark Technical Foul ...

[BillyMac]

Early in Friday's Indiana Fever and Las Vegas Aces contest, (Caitlin Clark) got called for a standard foul, and then she whacked another stanchion.

https://x.com/i/status/1834739498841694587

Now this one is different.

Earlier situation, no foul called: After missing a shot on the other end of the court in the third quarter, the ball went out of play with Clark defending. Clark wasn't happy with herself and slapped the stanchion in frustration.

This time she physically assaulted the stanchion after being charged with a foul, leaving the official to decide is she was upset at the official for calling the foul, or frustrated at herself for fouling?

I think that the foul was pretty obvious, leaving me to believe that she was frustrated at herself for fouling.

Nevertheless, is the first situation she was 100% "disrespecting" the stanchion, while in this most recent situation there was a possibility, slight, but still a possibility, that she may have been disrespecting the official.

In my high school game, if I called the technical foul, or if I didn't call the technical foul, I would still have a short conversation with the player about me having to "read minds" about a player's intention. I'm not a "mind reader".

But this isn't a high school game, this is the WNBA where it appears that they have a zero tolerance policy on "stanchion abuse".