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The Freedom of New York visited Caitlin Clark and Indiana Fever on Saturday. The WNBA champions won 90-88 to keep their record without problems.
But much of the talk after the game focused on the game officers, particularly the last 10 seconds of the closed contest. While there were at least three notable calls that favored freedom, the final possession of fever seemed to attract the part of the lion of attention.
Clark had possession with Indiana for two with the opportunity to tie. But New York’s guard, Natasha Cloud, moved Clark’s ball away. The referees did not blow the whistle due to a foul despite the pleas of the current WNBA year of last year.
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Indiana’s fever guard, Caitlin Clark, reacts to arbitration during a game against New York freedom in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on May 24, 2025. (Grace Smith/Indiestar/USA Today Network through IMAGN images)
The decision of the referees in the final seconds, and Clark’s reaction, caused mixed reactions worldwide. The presenter and reporter of CBS News New York, Steve Overmyer, added its two cents during a recent transmission.
“In the final play, Natasha Cloud occurs to him the winning theft of the game. Was it a foul? Eche a look more closely,” said Overmyer when a repetition of the moment was shown in the transmission.
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“She got the entire ball. Clark tried to sell it as if she were beaten by a sniper, but there was no need, or called,” he concluded.
Caitlin Clark (22) by Indiana Fover and Natasha Cloud of the New York Liberty are shown during their game on Saturday. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE through Getty Images)
Cloud also blocked a shot of Dewanna Bonner. Some observers argued that Cloud made contact with Bonner, not only with the ball, in the play. However, officials did not call a foul in the play.
Indiana chief coach Stephanie White agreed with the Saturday’s trade. He described Bonner’s shot “atrocious.”
“I thought it was atrocious, honestly. I thought it was obvious,” White said.
Chief coach Stephanie White and Caitlin Clark (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
On the other hand, the fever guard, Lexie Hull, was whistled by a foul against Sabrina Ionescu in New York. Indiana could not use one of his challenges for the work in question because they had already exhausted their waiting times.
White offered his work evaluation.
“He was an offensive player who deviated on the path of the defensive player. We have to be able to play through him. But at the same time, I feel that it is really disrespectful,” said the coach.
“There is a system to make sure we can send [concerns about officiating] In and communicate our complaints, so to speak. I don’t know if I feel the system works. We are not looking for a change, we are only looking for consistency. “
