The story of the WNBA offseason was the intense negotiations surrounding the new collective bargaining agreement, which has been described as \u201ctransformational.\u201d However, just as important were negotiations on how games would be called by game officials, as a committee worked to address the league\u2019s infamous physicality, which was determined as detrimental to the product on the floor.<\/p>\n
The difference on the floor has been night and day, as touch fouls have been regularly called in the game\u2019s opening weekend. In fact, some of the game\u2019s biggest stars,\u00a0 such as New York Liberty<\/a> forward and former MVP Breanna Stewart<\/a>, feel the pace of the game has been compromised.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cIt disrupts everyone\u2019s flow<\/a>, not just my team, both sides of the game. This game was 2 hours and 41 minutes long. That\u2019s insane,\u201d Stewart\u00a0told the media after a win agianst the Washington Mystics<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n \u201cWe said it last game too. I know it\u2019s going to take time figuring out the standard of what\u2019s going to be called, but there are calls being made that are unnecessary on both sides, and then there\u2019s no flow. So, I still don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s worth noting that the game went into overtime, adding to the length of the contest. Still, it\u2019s clear there\u2019s a feeling that the game officials haven\u2019t quite figured out how to call the games. Indiana Fever sharpshooter felt that given the league\u2019s new whistle, she should\u2019ve been able to draw more fouls.<\/p>\n \u201cI think especially if they\u2019re going to call it the way they\u2019re going to call it this year, I think I honestly could have probably got a couple more calls<\/a> on a few of them, but that\u2019s okay,\u201d Clark said to reporters after a 107-104 loss to the Dallas Wings in Indiana<\/a>\u2019s season opener.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The officials are clearly still getting used to the league\u2019s new whistle, same as the players. It may take a couple of weeks, but alls sides should be on the same page in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n The post WNBA stars not happy with new officiating, Caitlin Clark wanted \u2018a couple more calls\u2019<\/a> appeared first on The Comeback: Today\u2019s Top Sports Stories & Reactions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The story of the WNBA offseason was the intense negotiations surrounding the new collective bargaining agreement, which has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4657,49,735,48,9963,3459,148197,5904,2803,3844,3457,82,183,737,630],"class_list":["post-663539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-collective-bargaining-agreement","tag-dallas-wings","tag-game-officials","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-fever","tag-indianapolis","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-usa","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}