Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark was the mistaken finish of a flagrant foul for the second time in as many video games in opposition to Angel Reese’s Chicago Sky.
Reese was assessed a flagrant with three minutes left within the third quarter of Sunday’s contest. Reese whacked Clark within the head because the rookie star drove into the lane and tried to tried a lay-up.
Clark was requested for her ideas on the play after Indiana claimed a 91-83 victory in opposition to Chicago at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
“What’s going via my thoughts is, ‘I bought to make these two free throws,’” Clark advised reporters, per Indy Star’s Chloe Peterson. “That’s all I’m desirous about.
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“It’s a part of basketball. It it what it’s. She (Reese) was attempting to make a play on the ball and get the block. However, yeah, it occurs. These free throws when it’s a must to shoot them with no person on the road are type of onerous. It’s somewhat completely different than having individuals on the line, so I used to be attempting to give attention to making these.”
It was the primary time the 2 groups met since Chicago guard Chennedy Carter hip-checked Clark on a non-basketball play final month. On the time, Reese was captured celebrating Carter’s play, which additionally was deemed a flagrant foul.
Clark and Reese proceed to be two of the most important rivals in girls’s basketball relationship again to their collegiate tenures at Iowa and LSU, respectively. Because it stands now, although, Clark and the Fever are 2-0 in opposition to Reese and the Sky this season.
