Is it time for Caitlin Clark to fight back when her WNBA opponents hit her with flagrant fouls? Especially when she’s lacking an ‘enforcer’ on her own team?
One prominent athlete certainly thinks so.
In a recent interview, former World Series champion pitcher David Wells offered some advice for the Indiana Fever star. The topic: how to deal with the aggressive targeting she’s been subject to since entering the league.
“That’s my advice to Caitlin: get thick skin and push back,” he told Fox News Digital.
Wells, a three-time All-Star with the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees, notes that the referees on the court can only do so much. But he admired Clark’s ability to stay above the fray.
“Nobody wants to be pushed around, but they’re flagrant, you can’t really do anything about it. That’s the discrepancy of the referee to do that. But it looks bad on the other person,” he added. “She’s always taking the high road, which is tip your cap.”
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Suggests Caitlin Clark Makes Opponents Angrier By NOT Pushing Back
While advising her to “push back”, Wells also admitted that her current tactic of letting her opponents look bad on their own is rather effective.
It’s infuriating those same people delivering the flagrant fouls and the clotheslines.
“She’s taking the high road, killing them with kindness. And that to me, you see when people do that, it really p—es the other person off because they want a reaction out of them,” said Wells.
At some point, though, he warned, it’s going to come to a head.
“It’s going to happen eventually; someone’s going to cheap-shot her, and she’s going to turn around and deck them,” he predicted.
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Where Is Her Enforcer?
You have to love David Wells’ no-nonsense approach. As far as I’m aware, he’s the first to suggest Caitlin Clark should “push back” and the first to assert she’ll eventually – and rightly so – “turn around and deck them.”
This is, after all, the same guy who once claimed to have thrown a perfect game for the Yankees while being “half-drunk” and having a “raging, skull-rattling hangover”.
Most fans have said Clark needs an enforcer on her team to take care of the dirty work on her behalf.
Comedian Michael Rapaport even suggested she needs a “goon” on her team.
“When she’s getting the s— kicked out of her every single game and none of her teammates are at least running to say something to the other person,” Rapaport said. “Like, ‘Yo, what the f— are you doing to our cash cow?’”
It’s all fun and games until that ‘cash cow’ takes Wells’ advice and decks them on her own.
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