Fever's Caitlin Clark is crushed, but gets a technical foul when no foul is called

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It’s hard in live motion to decide whether it was a legal screen or not by the New York Liberty‘s Jonquel Jones against the Indiana Fever‘s Caitlin Clark.

But regardless of the accuracy of the call, one thing is clear: That must’ve hurt.

Clark was trailing the player she was guarding and crashed into Jones.

The Fever star went down to the ground, hard, and quickly hopped up and screamed at the ref.

“Call it!” Clark appeared to say multiple times.

That earned her a technical foul:

Caitlin Clark was called for a technical foul after opposing a no-call on this screen pic.twitter.com/r3fbhvoIZT

— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) July 19, 2026

It’s ironic after an earlier-in-the-week tirade in which Clark pretty much lost her whole mind.

This, by comparison, was pretty tame.

Some refs have a different tolerance level than others, though, and so Clark got the tech here.

She was coming off a 45-point, 10-assist night on Friday, but in the back-to-back on Saturday, her shots weren’t falling nearly as often. That might’ve contributed to the frustrations.

Really, though, Clark knows that she has had different injury troubles already. She’s clearly sensitive to the idea of contact that could hurt her again.

And when a player hits the ground that hard, they’re going to be upset no matter what. That’s what happened to Clark here.

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