1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Thoughts on the Caitlin Clark Stuff - June 25th, 12:25pm

Episode Date: June 25, 2026

Thoughts on the Caitlin Clark Stuff Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Back to one-on-one with DP. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation on 93-7 the ticket. Tomorrow 11 to 6. Buffalo Wings and Rings, 68th and O Streets. You guys still have to tell me which jersey one. I mean, you can raffle off. You got to tell me. You have 28 minutes.

Actually, you have 26. 26 minutes. Would I fight Charles Oakley from the Knicks? I'm not preferred. He and Davis from the Pistons, probably not. Stay out of that. Out of that space. Who else comes to mind where you just got, really did?

Any of the Davis boys from the Pacers. Like, that was a full run of just, those were guys. Also, to go back, I mean, you know, Kermit Alexander, from it Washington the guy who broke Rudy Tom Janovich's jaw with one right hand that was a sucker punch though

wasn't it? Hey Bach either way there's power in on the throw but Kermit's still alive I'm not Kermit's still around man I just I just saw Kermit back in D.C.

He looked like he can still throw a hand you can say what you want about that man Bach that's send those cards and letters Jake Bockman Like, no, no, not doing that. Yeah, different eras, right? Different eras.

Carmelon. Caramelo would be in the space of people that you would ponder. Like, when you're person, sir, excuse me, sir, let's consider. some things before we yeah I mean basketball players aren't notoriously great fighters

but there are some that engage at a higher vibrancy than other some are more welcome to than more willing well and just every one of just about every one of them's got the reach on you or I so yeah that

that reach thing is a thing but most of them don't want to they don't want to mess their hands up like you're a basketball player You don't want, you know, you don't move your hands. Hizzlebeer checks in, says up, sub-DP. What are your thoughts on Caitlin, on the Caitlin Clark stuff? Okay. Remember that most things run in thirds, most conversational points, points of view.

If you're asking me about Caitlin Clark, that's one question. If you're asking me about the stuff, what stuff? All of her technical, her five technicals in a month? her sideline debates with her teammates and her coach, her disrespectful fans. What are we, what are we talking about the fists to the throat during the, the,

the TIF last night. What are we talking about? What are we talking about? Because the specifics behind it, first of all, the WMBA should protect the stars. They should protect all their players, quite frankly.

But, So you went there. Watch the video. Not slow motion, Bach, watch the video of the entire play and the sequence of plays.

Now, the player whose fist ended up started on her shoulder. So her fist balled up fist, and it wasn't a punch to the shoulder. Her fist was on her shoulder, ended up pressed against her throat. Now, Bach, you haven't watched a pro wrestling match in 30 years

where the punch was thrown harder than the fist that ended up at her throat. At full speed, Bach, it was a jobber's punch to the throat. I would still say to the young lady whose fist it was that as her coach, I'm going to sit her down just because it's not a part of what we do. It shouldn't be a part of what we do. It doesn't need to be a part of the basketball game, any basketball game, any level.

But it falls in line with folks earlier were talking about Rodman and the Pistons, right? That it was a part of the, it was part of the persona. Right? The bad boys, the part of. but so on tough files, hard files, we're going to play. And if you want star behavior, Jordan went through it. Every star in basketball goes through it. I was around for John Stockton. I can tell you the number of picks that he had to run through and some of the elbows and things

that were done. Isaiah Thomas will tell you about the physicality that was put on him. There's a bit of that. I don't think, quite frankly, I don't like it in basketball, but I would not get near calling that an assault. That's just irresponsible and quite frankly not true. They were playing basketball. It got physical. She pressed up because she shouldn't have done it. Like she shouldn't have done it,

but calling it assault, no. It's like almost using the fist, which was bold, but to get up. It wasn't like she cocked back and punch. Right. Like as I said, if it's my player, I'm going to ask you what you're doing. I'm going to come tell you, go sit down.

like show me what day in practice we we worked on that that's not a thing that i would allow or teach and so there's no validation or justification for it it's just not necessary it's just not necessary but we also know that that as much as people talk about flopping in the NBA those same people should talk about flopping in the WNBA if flopping is the issue then talk about it all the time about everybody, including in the Big Ten, including for Nebraska, including, including, like, you can't be partial to who you talk,

who you accept this thing from. I thought it was unacceptable what, her getting to the floor, I mean, they, you know, they're kicking at each other and, like, again, for all of them, grow up. Like, play the game,

be competitive in the game, you can be physical in the game. And whenever you talk about playing physical basketball, there are boundaries that you have to say in what you can allow and what you don't allow. But I would also say that Caitlin Clark, going back to her days at Iowa, was a profound flopper and an agitated. She agitated the Husker fan base at Pinnacle Bank Arena three years in a row. Bach, we can recall the instances where she yelled at Nebraska fans. She made faces and all the things that we do.

And again, I understand it. Go be who you are. If that's who you are, yeah. Claim it and own it. And then you have two ways of affecting it. One, responding negatively, two, you become Jordan and you just use it as juice for what you're going to do next. But to say that she was assaulted is just no.

No. Bach in live full-time. And again, you have to watch the whole game. Now, if you could tell me that you looked at the picture and got that, that's one thing. If you tell me that you looked at the video and that's what you thought, that's another, right? And I mean, the full-time video.

And then if you tell me that you watch the entire game leading up to that, I'll give you full credit and you can say what you can say. And crowbait, focus. Focus. The what aboutism, it's mentally lazy to always refer to another thing, to validate and justify the thing. You're fully capable of just talking about, we were asked about Caitlin Clark. Why would you bring somebody else into it? This is the whole Josh Hokie thing. Why would you bring somebody into the thing that wasn't included into it?

We were talking about Caitlin Clark. At what point we weren't even bringing in? We're talking about Caitlin Clark and the only other player. Why would you bring somebody else into it? I never understood that. Like your hate for a player doesn't mean you get to bring them into every conversation talking point. Like you're better than that. You're better than that.

So this is what probate says. You can't say she hasn't treated like crap by the other players in the WMBA since she got there. I never said that. I never said that. Again, you don't get to speak for me and you don't get to put. Here's the thing. That league has a responsibility to its players and to its fans to dictate what it is. Now, if you're watching the WMBA in full, right?

So if you're watching all Indiana fever games, or if you're watching all New York Liberty games, or all Washington Mystic games, your perspective on this, I will listen to it. But if you're only reacting to situational situations that only involve Caitlin Clark, you're not an expert. You can't, you're not, I'm not listening to you.

I go back, let me explain some. I go back to the WMBA, ready for this? I go back to the Charlotte Stink and going to the practices and games with Don Staley, Andrea Stenson, Heather and Heidi Burge. I go back that far in the WMBA. And so the progress of what happens to star players, guess what?

It happened to Shemika Holskla. It happened to Cheryl Miller when she was in the Olympics. Right? The star player gets it. They get it. That's just what happens. Nancy Lieberman back in the Old Dominion Day, she got the work. Ask Sue Byrd whether she got the treatment.

Ask Rebecca Lobo whether she got the treatment. Ask Cheryl Swobs if she got the treatment. Ask Lisa Thompson, who had to be the banger for Cynthia Cooper and Cheryl Swoops to protect the star players who were being physical. Because what do you do with star players in basketball? We watched it here with Price Sanford. We watched it with breaking up. We watched them get physically pushed around and then we complain about it

because we know that it happens. And that's a part of it. If you're the star player, if you're on the marquee, people come after you. I think it's terrible that they feel the need to do that. I don't agree with that either. Play the game. I don't think it's necessary for them to beat up on Caitlin Clark. why would I think that's okay?

But I also understand it. And if you only talking about it because it meets some narrative that Caitlin Clark, are you a Caitlin Clark fan? Tell me that. Tell me your thoughts on Caitlin Clark since we're talking about it. We have a text of 2086.

It says it's the only good thing about the WNBA is the almost wrestling and being physical part. How you feel about it is that's a you thing. but if you want to tell me that you you follow the WMBA and go back to the Lisa Leslie days, right? Because the pretty girl in Los Angeles, nah, she didn't take any shots. They didn't beat her up.

It's a part of what that is. If you tell me that it doesn't exist in the Big Ten, and if you tell me it didn't happen to Caitlin Clark in the Big Ten when she was at Iowa, let's have that conversation. Bach? Was Caitlin Clark, did people defend her physically in the Big Ten? Yeah. Did she flop around and educate?

She does. She's the same person she was when you all booed her at Pinnacle Bank Arena. And now, because it's the WMBA, you want to tell me some stuff like, now you care? Now you care about her? Tell me what happened the other 32 minutes of the game. I'll wait. I'll wait. Tell me about her five technicals.

Tell me about why she's in a full-on. debate argument with her coach on the bench during a timeout. Please tell me. For the sixth time in 14 games. Tell me. I'll wait. Listen, if they called a foul on the young lady for doing that, yes. Call the foul.

If they decide to tee her up, yes. You pushed off. You're endangered a player. There's no reason for you to go above the shoulder blade anyway. not even not even necessary what she did that's that's that's that's that's that's that's below the line call the file tear up i'm okay with that but you called it assault now be better than that be better than that really right the other players are jealous so now you're defending the fact that other players are jealous and we need to fight for katelyn clark because other players are jealous of her that's the

conversation you want to have okay We'll go to break. We'll come back. We'll close out with it.