Caitlin Clark injury after the Ohio State game… pic.twitter.com/uLwtBmxF99

— DadsDontPlay (@Dadsdontplay) January 21, 2024

She said she's fine post game. Just got the wind knocked out of her

Still it's bull shxt. It was an accident . But security needs to protect players in that scenario. Imagine if she had a career ending injury from a storming the field incident from the opponent's fans.

That's an academy award winning flop.


Guess she didn't know the game was over....and still looking for free throws.

Person who ran into her was running holding their phone up, didn't even check to see if she was OK, just ran into the crowd . Glad that Clark is all right.

Moronic take.

Alternate angle of the Caitlin Clark incident.

Looks like Caitlin may have extended her arms a little 🤔
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— NBA Nation (@_NBANation) January 21, 2024

Different angle.

Look at this flop job by Caitlin Clark to get sympathy pic.twitter.com/jylcHFtmDo

— JayMo (@crassiux) January 21, 2024

Up close angle of the "accidental" collision.

She is the drama queen of all drama queens on general principles, and wow that sure looks like she did 95% of the contact, and yes, nice flop.

FFA0329 said:

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She is the drama queen of all drama queens on general principles, and wow that sure looks like she did 95% of the contact, and yes, nice flop.

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Totally agree. She saw the girl coming and could have easily avoided her. Total fake flop. I'll be glad when Iowa gets knocked out of the tournament.

If you watch it in real-time speed it's clearly not a flop. Clark is looking away and doesn't see the fan until she gets hit

Clark is without a doubt one of the most talented womens basketball players to come along, at least at the college level, we will see how her game converts to the WNBA. I would imagine well, from what I see.

She is also very high strung, and has shown a lot of drama in the past, including pushing, taunting and just generally being an ass on the court at times.

I'm not sure why so many people try to deitize her behavior as if she were a saint. Bird was a great player and could be a total ass, fought, talked more crap than anybody, and could be cold blooded jerk.

To give someone an intentional shove is not outside the character she has shown over and over. She is human, she is an exception womans player, she plays with a lot of intensity drama and emotion.

Looked to me she was pissed about a close loss, looked like she was pissed the fans from the other team was flowing onto the floor. She has displayed temper tantrums in the past, appears she clearly saw this girl and decided to give her a body check, then spiraled around and collapsed to the floor with a major LeBronesque flop.

Isn't this raw emotion and unbridled intensity what has been missing from the WNBA.

Aren't there a large number of Old Head NBA fans not wanting to have much to do with the new sanitized NBA because it lacks the general intensity and intense heated rivalries it used to have.

Clark brings an intensity, a swagger, a level of drama, you just don't see from the women very often. She will be a hoot at the next level. Maybe, just maybe she will make the current drab, slow, monotonous WNBA game, something worth watching.

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If you watch it in real-time speed it's clearly not a flop. Clark is looking away and doesn't see the fan until she gets hit

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It looks a little dramatic but I just don't think she could have thought up this "scheme" so quickly after the buzzer

I don't see a flop, or anything to suggest it was intentional. Both were running/jogging pretty fast, and not really "at" the other. Their paths just happened to intersect perfectly. And two people running at that speed and colliding would absolutely knock anyone down.

Pausing the You Tube video frame by frame, Clark is clearly looking sideways as she crosses the three point line. When she is finally looking forward, she and fan a just a few feet away from each other. Too late, Clark realizes what is about to happen and starts to brace herself, but not in time to do much to stop it. They collide and both go opposite directions from the impact. All of this happens in 1 second of real time.

I actually copied frames of this that illustrate what happened really well, but the forum wouldn't let me upload them. But you can do it yourself on that video just pausing it or watching it at .25x speed.

Every school should have a plan in place already. Basketball courts should have a line of security guards for the opposing team to exit and away from fans storming the court.

I love Caitlin Clark but this is the softest, sore-loser reaction ever. Iowa lost in OT and she turned herself into a martyr. She sounds like LeBron all of a sudden. pic.twitter.com/M7d8LywL5q

— Ken Larimer (@Kengoallnight) January 22, 2024

This is the correct take. I'm flabbergasted by how many people think it was intentional by Clark

It looks like a flop.

She was looking at her. Why did her arms fly up into the air? Your arms do not do that when you run into someone (with your arms in front of you, pushing off of them).

She then dramatically flops to the ground.

Where was the rest of her team? There was already a huge crowd at midcourt, there are no other players on her team heading to the locker room. Why was she so slow to get off the court?

Lady lebron.

cowboycwr said:

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She was looking at her.

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I suggest watching this video at .25 speed:

At the 2 second point in the video, Clark is behind the 3 point line and the fan is at the baseline, just barely off camera. No one is standing where the impact is about to occur, but if you draw imaginary lines forward from each of them, those lines will intersect. Clark is looking sideways and not in the direction she is running. The collision occurs at the 3 second mark, which means the entire thing plays out in only one second. If you watch closely, Clark turns her head and sees the fan a fraction of a second before impact, and at that point they are already close enough that they could shake hands.

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Why did her arms fly up into the air? Your arms do not do that when you run into someone (with your arms in front of you, pushing off of them).

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Her arms were already halfway raised in what looks to me like bracing herself in that short moment where she sees what's coming. They hit each other at an angle at high speed. The impact causes Clark to spin, which means Clark is off balance. And yes, when losing your balance and falling, people instinctively flail their arms to be the first impact with the ground, as opposed to their skull.

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Where was the rest of her team? There was already a huge crowd at midcourt, there are no other players on her team heading to the locker room.

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Keep watching the video. Moments later, several Iowa players come up to where Clark is on the ground. They are approaching her from the exact same direction Clark had just come from heading into the impact.



In my view, neither person was looking where they were going, so both are equally at fault, but it happened very quickly, and was clearly an accident. The fact that they both fell down as a result is about the most natural consequence I can think of.

IowaBear said:

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Moronic take.

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Scoreboard don't lie........6 7 Stars

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cowboycwr said:

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She was looking at her.

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I suggest watching this video at .25 speed:

At the 2 second point in the video, Clark is behind the 3 point line and the fan is at the baseline, just barely off camera. No one is standing where the impact is about to occur, but if you draw imaginary lines forward from each of them, those lines will intersect. Clark is looking sideways and not in the direction she is running. The collision occurs at the 3 second mark, which means the entire thing plays out in only one second. If you watch closely, Clark turns her head and sees the fan a fraction of a second before impact, and at that point they are already close enough that they could shake hands.

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Why did her arms fly up into the air? Your arms do not do that when you run into someone (with your arms in front of you, pushing off of them).

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Her arms were already halfway raised in what looks to me like bracing herself in that short moment where she sees what's coming. They hit each other at an angle at high speed. The impact causes Clark to spin, which means Clark is off balance. And yes, when losing your balance and falling, people instinctively flail their arms to be the first impact with the ground, as opposed to their skull.

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Where was the rest of her team? There was already a huge crowd at midcourt, there are no other players on her team heading to the locker room.

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Keep watching the video. Moments later, several Iowa players come up to where Clark is on the ground. They are approaching her from the exact same direction Clark had just come from heading into the impact.



In my view, neither person was looking where they were going, so both are equally at fault, but it happened very quickly, and was clearly an accident. The fact that they both fell down as a result is about the most natural consequence I can think of.

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So she was looking at her. Thanks for proving that right.

Her arms were raised to brace for the impact and then flew way above her head after the fact (drama). Yes people flail their arms or try to put them down first to impact the ground. But that would mean her arms would go DOWN towards the ground. Not fly up above her head while she is falling.

I see an OSU player run towards her and then change directions. Then I see several of her teammates walking with her after she gets up. As in walking not running. So my questions still stands.

The point still stands. There was already a crowd at center court and she was still on the court. She looked at the person. If she wasn't looking where she was running before that then that is also 100% ON HER. Everyone above the age of about 6 knows to look where you walk/run.

Yes it was an accident but she overplayed it for attention like she does on the court.

BS. Overplayed, probably. But one person had business on the court, one dufus late to the party, videoing something she'll look at once, had none. And couldn't be bothered to check on the person she plowed.

But sure, blame the player. Serious accident avoided, but not even a "my bad".

This! I'm not even a Clark fan but the takes on here are strange. Court storming is and always will be dumb

So ****ing dramatic lol, she gets away with a lot of bs that most people would have an issue with if it were Angel Reese

The fall itself looks legit in full speed. The flop/fake part is how she stays down afterwards and acts like she's hurt and says she got the wind knocked out of her. How do you get the wind knocked out of you if you're not hit in the mid section? Also, she's got 6 inches on the girl she hit and is a professional athlete…the other girl fell down as well and just got up right away and continued celebrating.

BaylorBears_254 said:

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So ****ing dramatic lol, she gets away with a lot of bs that most people would have an issue with if it were Angel Reese

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Oh my, if this were Reese and the exact same thing happened all the Clark worshipers would say Reese had a fit of anger and tried to level a fan, then faked like the breath was knocked out of her. Then many would say she had no class and was a thug.

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BaylorBears_254 said:

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So ****ing dramatic lol, she gets away with a lot of bs that most people would have an issue with if it were Angel Reese

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Oh my, if this were Reese and the exact same thing happened all the Clark worshipers would say Reese had a fit of anger and tried to level a fan, then faked like the breath was knocked out of her. Then many would say she had no class and was a thug.

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EXACTLY.

Clear as day the little girl flopped her ass off. All the needing to be helped back to the locker room bs is crazy

I don't think Clark or Reese are good role models for young players.

blackie said:

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I don't think Clark or Reese are good role models for young players.

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Flop or not, Clark won't get the benefit of a doubt based on her past behavior. Reese is in the same boat.