Colin Cowherd believes it’s good for the WNBA that Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese committed a flagrant foul on Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark.
The foul occurred in the third quarter of their game Sunday afternoon. Both players have since dismissed the foul as nothing more than a “basketball play,” but it hasn’t stopped some in the media from using it to continue the ongoing discourse surrounding Clark.
Cowherd said Thursday the response to the foul went exactly as he expected.
“She’s a very good basketball player,” Cowherd said of Clark on Monday’s episode of The Herd. “She’s getting better… She’s fantastic. She sees the floor. She’s a brilliant passer.
It’s all working out; but this is predictable that the media doesn’t quite know what to do with it, yet the women — Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark — do.
“This is a win for women’s basketball. These flagrant fouls are a win. I defended Draymond Green forever, so I’m gonna be outraged by this? It’s a flagrant foul. She got up and played.
Cowherd then claimed that the ones angry over the foul are simply new to the WNBA and its physicality.
“The women are figuring out how to handle it,” he said. “It’s the people who parachute into this sport that never watched it that don’t understand the ‘chippy-ness’ that you get in the WNBA.
“When I was a local sports anchor and let’s say my local team — the Portland Trail Blazers or somebody — did very, very well. Then, the news anchors who didn’t know sports would suddenly start talking sports and try to cover it.”
“And I’m like, ‘No, you don’t understand. That’s just sports.’ I’m feeling a lot of that here, where people who don’t watch the WNBA — I’m one of them — parachute in and are outrage. Spare me on your outrage when like six months ago, you didn’t know the league existed.”
