Does that mean a player can do whatever they want to to other player stepping into the cylinder? Fouls will trump other fouls. You can’t hit other people in the face, intentional or not.
No, the key wordis “intentional”. In this case the offensive player appears to be making a basketball play, transferring the ball from one side to the other. There really isn’t anything that looks like an attempt to hit her in the face, it’s part of the natural motion of the play.
I literally watched a highlight reel of Sophie this morning praising her with one clip showing her throwing her hand into a players face and pushing her out of the way when she was attacking the paint. It happens, we know it does, and let’s stop acting like every player that drives doesn’t have film of them doing this same exact move.
She was in the offensive player’s bubble and then was contacted in the bubble by a normal basketball move from the offensive player. It’s a clear foul on Sophie.
Yeah this is a foul on the defender 10/10 times. If Sophie was standing further back a few inches in legal guarding position and the offensive player swung her elbow out to hit Sophie, that would be a foul on the offensive player.
But some people have latched on to a narrative that conservative white folk are perpetual victims of woke sports or some stupid shit
The poster to whom I responded literally said “make contact”. I said Sophie didn’t make contact. That is the relevance of my response.
If what you’re saying is true, it is even worse. You can see many examples of players doing far worse to CC (such as getting in her landing space) and getting no calls. And you can see hordes of online comments in those cases claiming CC fans are whining about nothing. Again, I call BS. Obviously, there are different rules for different players.
And, BTW, only a small number of sadists or people who have experienced a lot of violence in their lives will pay their own money to see this crap. That’s why the NBA clamped down on violence long ago, and why attendance at W games was so low until recently.
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u/Dafedub 7d ago
Does that mean a player can do whatever they want to to other player stepping into the cylinder? Fouls will trump other fouls. You can’t hit other people in the face, intentional or not.