“She’s always gonna make that effort. So even for some of these, she’s behind the offensive player coming over the top. So again, she was behind Sophie Cunningham,” she added. “She wasn’t able to get over the top. Had she got over the top and made that play, we wouldn’t have been talking about it. She was too far behind the play. The contact above the head was too much. But that’s what DiJonai Carrington does. Like, this wasn’t, to me, because it was Sophie Cunningham making the layup.”
Sports Illustrated had the worst take by far when it published the headline “Karma,” suggesting that Cunningham deserved the foul due to her past defense of women’s sports.
Perhaps even more puzzling was Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White defending Carrington instead of Cunningham.
“She’s going to play her butt off. She’s going to compete. Nobody’s going to go walking in for a layup, so I don’t oppose the hard foul, but I don’t think she intentionally went for the net,” said White.