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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rmontro" data-source="post: 1065591" data-attributes="member: 12340">Sophie Cunningham may be an enforcer of types, but she looks as graceful as a gazelle out there.  The WNBA seems to pride itself on allowing more physicality than is necessary.  Paige Bueckers was quoted as saying that in college she had to learn to defend without fouling.  But in the WNBA, she's had to learn to defend by fouiing, because the refs don't call it as often.  A lot of people have said that they intentionally allow Clark to be fouled more, because of the "controversy" around her.  Some people don't like that she is a straight white player getting all this attention, and she's single handedly increased attendance and viewership for the league significantly.  They seem to want to avoid the appearance that Clark gets "special whistles", because then they might get accused of racism or whatnot.  They bend over backwards to avoid the appearance of favoritism.There's new footage making the rounds on YouTube that shows that Jacy Sheldon may have kneed Clark in the groin at one point.  It's a very odd position if you've seen it.  Sheldon is almost behind Clark, but has her leg wrapped around Clark's leg with her knee up into her groin area.  Strange.</blockquote>

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