It looks like real changes might finally be coming to this league. Let me find out. The WNBA is about to start actually being a professional league. This is crazy, but this is good news. Okay, finally. Finally, the refereeing problems are being addressed after a seasonl long debacle of jailard prison ball, rugby, uh, NFL football.
They’re like, it looked like offensive line verse defensive line. It looked like you was doing the Oklahoma drill in football practice in these WNBA games. And if you know anything about that Oklahoma drill that turned a lot of us into permanent basketball players, MYSELF INCLUDED. WELCOME to Keep the Vision.
Make sure you like, comment, subscribe, share the channel, hit that bell notification, and hype the video. We got to get into it. Boy, boy, boy. Finally. We keep hearing these players talk about we want this thing to be treated like a professional league. We want our travel codified. We want our housing. We want new facilities.
Satu says she only work out for 45 minutes a day, but whatever. Yep. New facilities. Okay. You work out 45 minutes a day, Sat. Okay, cool, cool, cool. New facilities for everybody on the way. You’ll get a new facility. You get a new facility. You get one, too. Okay. But one of the major major issues is what the hell is going on with these referees, man? This was this was prison last year.
Caitlyn Clark looked like she was out there on the yard going against a bunch of goons. I’m just being honest with you. I’M JUST BEING HONEST WITH YOU. THE Connecticut Sun, Marina Mabry, and them. Listen, man. Listen, it was ridiculous the injuries. Think about all of the players we saw stepping up to the podium.
We watched Gabby Williams pretty much in tears at the podium about because of the refereeing and no foul calls being called. We watched Kelsey Plum at the podium pretty much in tears about the referees, Caitlyn Clark and Stephanie White. We saw what happened to Nefisa Caller and and I pray to God y’all start calling some damn charging fouls on Alyssa Thomas for a change.
Okay, this is not the NFL. You are not Dererick Henry. You’re not running up the middle lowering your head and shoulder. Get some skill. Change these refs. We got a lot to get into, man. This is a big deal here. Here it says the 10 the WNBA CBA 10 biggest wins from the new W from the new CBA agreement. Okay, and we’re going to start here right where it matters.
We going to get right to the meat and potatoes. Number eight, more officiating dialogue and transparency. Okay, here it says every sport has officiating complaints. None like this though. None like this. This is ridiculous. This looked like it wasn’t even safe. People might not even want their kids playing because of how rough this damn game was in this league the last year or Caitlyn Clark’s rookie year especially being butchered in the most flagrantly fouled player in the league. Absolutely ridiculous.
Okay, here it says in the postseason last year, the WNBA’s officiating came under scrutiny when Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reev was ejected in game three of the semifinals against the Phoenix Mercury. She then excoriated the league’s officiating in her postgame news conference, drawing a suspension for game four and a $15,000 fine.
Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammond and Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White both got thousand fines for essentially agreeing with some of Reeves statements. Now, we’re going to get to the rest of what they got to say, but Cheryl Reeves was absolutely right with what happened. It just sucks that y’all watched Caitlyn Clark get the living hell beat out of her and y’all said nothing.
Y’all sat back, y’all said nothing until it happened to your player, until it happened to your star. That’s when you wanted to talk about it. You should have been saying this from for the last two years. We’ve been watching this nonsense. We’ve been watching this straight up nonsense. Okay. Nafisa Collier Alyssa Thomas ran through her knee.
Damn near exploded her foot from the ankle. Damn near separated them. Okay. Okay. And it was a nasty looking injury. And Afisa Collier still trying to recover from it. still trying to recover from that situation. Okay, here it says this CBA doesn’t bring any groundbreaking changes in officiating, but it does include that the union will be given access to anyformational, educational, and point of emphasis videos regarding officiating.
And it requires three meetings per season between the league and the union specifically to review flagrant fouls and technical fouls. If nothing else, it should give the players more of a sense that their input on officiating is being heard. Okay. So, there’s we don’t have any specific rules in black and white that are changing, but they are clearly in discussions with the players about the physicality of the league. Hey, this is okay.
You guys have complained about this and this. We’re going to make these two things a point of emphasis. Okay. Uh, no no no handchecking when somebody’s driving to the basket. Um, giving people space to land. Um, you know, whatever the points of emphasis are from the players, it sounds like the league is taking that information, emphasizing it to the referees, putting video together so that everybody’s on the same page.
So, while no specific rules technically are being changed, they are working more with the players to make the game better and a more free flowing game. Cuz every look, it’s too much money being spent now for the stars to be hurt. It’s too much money put in this league for Caitlyn Clark to be sitting out because y’all out there playing prison ball.
It’s too much money in this league for Nafisa Collier to be out because Alyssa Thomas thinks she’s Derrick Henry from the Baltimore Ravens. It’s too much money in this league for Kelsey Plum to be at the podium in tears and not being able to play because the opposing team is being allowed to do UFC fighting moves.
DJ Jane Carrington snatching people off the air by ponytails and all types of nonsense. It seems as though the league is trying to move away from these things and that starts with this dialogue from the players. Hey, what do you guys want? Do you where do y’all want where do you guys want physicality to be allowed? In the post um on is it around the basket, beyond the half court line? Like where what we got to figure this out.
But it looks like that there are being changes made um to the way these games are officiated and that may include new referees. That may include new refs all around. They definitely are putting more of an emphasis on more qualified referees as well. So that’s a good thing because at the day KTV was about to be uh refereeing a fever game this year because you didn’t need nothing to do it.
You all you need to go get your own shirt and you could have refed the game. So, it seems like the league is taking a step in the right direction in terms of getting proper referees, working with the players to make sure the game is officiated in a professional matter. Okay? We do not want to watch football unless there are helmets.
That’s why we love to watch the NFL. Okay? We want to see the skill in these players. Okay? Kaylin Clark shouldn’t be getting a crap beaten out of her, but she’s only shooting three and four free throws a game. It’s absolutely ridiculous. So, it appears that Kathy Ingleberg has heard some of the complaints of these players and Cheryl Ree absolutely eviscerated her in the league for the way the refs the games have been officiated.
Now, although it is disappointing that it took it happening to her own player for it to happen, it’s good that it actually happened in terms of her going off and saying what she had to say. Um, because I think that lit a fire under everybody. And at the end of the day, this is what this league needed.
We needed new referees since yesterday. Okay? It’s as simple as that. I think this is a great step in the right direction. I want you to get down in the comments.
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