Sophie Cunningham continued the fever’s tendency to call out officials – continued and stopped at Star Caitlin Clark.

After the exercise of Indiana Saturday, Cunningham, which was shot out of a match where Clark was hurled on the groundtold reporters that she was going up from what happened against the sun on Tuesday, but admitted that referees should do a better job to ‘protect the star player of the WNBA’.

“I’m not focused on extracurricular activities,” Cunningham said, “and you know what? During that it was just a part of the game. I think the referees had a lot to do with it, it was a build-up of a few years of them who just didn’t protect the star player of the WNBA. At the end of the day I’m going to protect my teammates, that’s what I do. ‘ ‘

Caitlin Clark responds after being beaten to court during the fever on June 17. Getty Images
Sophie Cunningham pushes July Sheldon during the Fever-Sun match on June 17. Ap

Cunningham, who was purchased in the off -season of the Mercury, committed a hard mistake on Jeep Sheldon – who stabbed Clark earlier in the match near the eye – with less than a minute in fourth place and dragging her to the ground as she approached the basket.

This led him to thrown between Cunningham, Sheldon and others on the fever and the sun, and it ended that Cunningham was shot and later fined by the league.

That tension stems from Sheldon’s mistake on Clark earlier in the match, when Sun star Marina Mbrey Clark hurled on the ground when a short scramble broke out and was not shot.

Clark average 19.9 points, 8.7 assists and 5.7 rebounds per game in her second WNBA campaign and the fever stumbled up to a start of 6-6, and after a loss of 90-88 for the Liberty last month, head coach Stephanie White, Stephanie White, officials blown For a ‘nice ominous’ difference in free throw.

Sophie Cunningham Fouls July Sheldon during the Fever’s June 17 match against the Sun. Scregrab via x/@HeavensFX

She criticized the chaos of Tuesday, saying, “You can say it’s going to happen.”

“If the officials do not gain control of the ball game if they allow the stuff to happen, and it happens all season … do you have competitive women who are the best in the world on what they do, and if you allow them to play physically, and you allow these things to happen, they will compete on Tuesday and they said their teammates,” said White Tuesday. “That’s exactly what you expect from a fierce competition. I started talking to the officials in the first quarter, and we knew it was going to happen. You can say it’s going to happen. So they have to gain control of it. They should be better. ‘

And then Cunningham, who collected 6.4 points and 4.3 rebounds through her first seven games with the fever, became the youngest to address the league’s official.

Indiana stands against Las Vegas on Sunday before continuing the trip to the storm on Tuesday.