Caitlin Clark is always on top of her game, no matter who she’s up against.
The No. 1 draft pick was seen brutally blocking a child while shooting hoops at a charity event in Indiana on Tuesday.
“I counted about 5 blocks total in this 1-1 matchup today from @CaitlinClark22,” photographer Bri Lewerke captioned an X-video.
In the clip, the Fever star playfully blocked the youngster during Gainbridge Sports’ community event with Habitat for Humanity.
“That wasn’t fair,” the young man said, to which Clark responded, laughing, “That’s not fair?”
Caitlin Clark Was Spotted Brutally Blocking Boy While Shooting Hoops At Charity Event
The Fever star playfully blocked the youngster during the Gainbridge Sports community event.
‘No mercy,’ one fan joked in response to the clip.
Another chimed in: ‘I love how the little boy tried his best to measure her on his tiptoes!!!’
It came a day after Clark’s team suffered a 72-89 loss to the Connecticut Sun, and the rookie superstar was benched midway through the third quarter.
He finished with his fourth-fewest points of the season, going 3 of 8 from the field for 10 points, all in the first half. He committed his fourth foul with 4:41 left in the third quarter and did not play in the fourth quarter.
Iowa admitted that they thought they “could have played with a lot better energy.”
“That wasn’t fair,” the young man said, to which Clark responded, laughing, “That’s not fair?”
It came a day after Clark had a low-scoring game during a loss to the Connecticut Sun.
“This is a team you can’t go out there and be indifferent against, they’re just that good,” he told reporters on Monday night.
“You’re going to get punched in the mouth, and I don’t think we knew that from the beginning, and obviously that’s a little disappointing,” he continued.
“I thought we let little things on the offensive end frustrate us and we didn’t play well on defense… it’s not a recipe for winning a lot of games.”
Meanwhile, their coach Christie Sides defended the decision to remove her starters from the court just over halfway through the game.
Coach Christine Sides pulled her starters off the court midway through the third quarter.
Clark admitted that he thought the Fever “could have played with a lot better energy”.
“We were losing 28 players and I wanted to put a group in there that would come out and play a little defensively,” he explained.
“I’m very proud of that group that went out there…they played hard,” Sides added, before publicly criticizing the team for what they perceived as a lack of effort.
“I’m going to start by saying that at this level you can’t train effort,” he said.
“I felt like we were just trying to ask them to keep playing hard, play hard.” You can’t start there. You can’t play in this league if you have to train hard. It’s too difficult.’