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00:00On Saturday in Indianapolis late in the third quarter Chicago's Kennedy Carter a
00:07cheap shot and a foul on Kaitlyn Clark that was just called a regular foul
00:12during game regulation upgraded to a flagrant one in the overnight hours by
00:17the WNBA that report coming out on Sunday from a coach's perspective what
00:23would you have done in that moment if you witnessed what happened on Saturday
00:28in Indianapolis and what would your reaction have been following the game
00:33coming to a close well you know my reaction is is there's so much that went
00:39wrong in the whole sequence and I'm not putting Kayla Corker there let the girl
00:45talk her trash I'm okay with that this cheap shot the fact that the referees
00:51did not call it correctly you know that should have been a flame if Eliza Thomas
00:55gets thrown up for what you did to Angel Reese then a cheap shot hitting a
00:58girl from behind by calling her to be word before that to me is warranted of a
01:03flagrant two and an automatic ejection that was not a basketball play that bad
01:08that was intent to injure that is the letter of the law that should have been
01:12a flagrant two and an automatic injection now if I'm the Indiana Fever
01:16coach number one I have a real problem with the fact that none of my her
01:22teammates defended her nobody came in like I listen sometimes you gotta do
01:27what you gotta do I'm not saying you come and throw a punch but go in a
01:31checker Chuck Kennedy Carter or if you don't see it very simply put if you're
01:36at least a Leah Boston if you're Kelsey Mitchell put a fist up that's a C for a
01:41side for a high screen roll and then just kind of slide that hip in slide
01:47that shoulder in or slide that elbow in to let Kayla Cork know that we got your
01:52back now the problem that also happens is this is a relatively young team so
01:58maybe they don't understand that so this is where the coach comes into play man
02:03if they're not gonna call it a flagrant two or flagrant one off the jump you
02:08gotta get a tech you got you have to do something to defend your player and
02:14sometimes you need to do that ready folks to earn the respect of Caitlin
02:21Cork and of her teammates to say I am going to put it out on the line for you
02:28as I've asked of my players remember Ben this is the same coach that two games
02:34ago when Caitlin Cork got another technical said you don't deal with the
02:38officials I will deal with them well coach here was your opportunity and your
02:44fail and you failed your team miserably