Caitlin Clark has taken fairly a beating from opponents to begin her WNBA profession … and her faculty coach, Lisa Bluder, has just a few concepts on how the league can put an finish to it.

TMZ Sports activities spoke with the lately retired Iowa Hawkeyes ladies’s hoops legend on Thursday … and requested her all in regards to the remedy her former celebrity guard has acquired to this point within the professionals.

Whereas Bluder would not imagine Caitlin is deliberately being “focused,” she does assume gamers are giving her their “finest shot” evening after evening — as a result of “they assume that is the best way that they will cease her, is by bodily dominance over her.”

“It is part of the WNBA. It is part of the foundations proper now, and if we wish that to vary, I believe we now have to vary the best way the sport is known as,” Bluder stated.

So … what ought to the W do??

“I believe there must be extra freedom of motion in our recreation,” she stated. “Which implies, sure, calling extra fouls, which individuals do not like, however individuals will modify. The gamers will modify.”

“If we begin calling extra fouls and emphasize the foundations, the gamers will modify, ‘trigger they wish to be on the ground.”

Bluder stated if a extra egregious act is dedicated by a participant, they should be ejected from the sport and slapped with a nice — and he or she’s not speaking a couple of dollars. She desires it to harm their wallets.

“I believe that is the one solution to change the conduct,” Bluder stated. “And I believe what’s gonna occur is extra individuals are gonna benefit from the recreation.”

Whereas calling extra fouls will not be the preferred repair … retaining the most effective gamers wholesome looks as if a objective everybody must be rooting for … particularly after Clark was concerned in fairly the scuffle earlier this week.