Auggie
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Just like Larry Bird, Clark talks some serious smack. Granted she didn't get the W but she was the best player on the court so she let it fly and it boomeranged back when it didn't work out in her favor. I also think she didn't have an issue with it, who did have an issue is the casual fans that came over to watch the game because they were being sold a bill of goods that the women's game is a more pure traditional version of basketball when all they saw was basically the same thing the men do but minus dunks.I don't follow women's college basketball at all, but the people I talk to who do tell me that the chick she did that to is a notorious chit talker (chick from Louisville). Against Texas, she had 1-2 opponents stop her in the handshake line and get in her face for acting like a d-head.
No issue at all with trash talking, but it's hilarious to me all of the folks running around playing the race card to excuse Reese acting like a d-head and being blatantly unsportsmanlike for 10-15 seconds while the clock is running out. Her action was many levels beyond the Clark one that's supposedly comparable. They aren't. She walked away from the Louisville chick and didn't chase her around the floor like the chick from LSU did to her.
24 hours later a bigger deal to me still seems the way the game was called and the over sized impact that Kim Mulkey had on the game. The refs were clearly intimidated by her and you can see she has that swagger that gets a certain type of player to come to LSU. If it was LSU v South Carolina and the game was reffed that way there would have been a big time brawl afterwards with Mulkey v Staley as the main attraction.