Stephanie White didn’t hold back on the officiating in Sun-Fever

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00:00I'll take the official questions. There wasn't an explanation for the tech that she got.

00:05You know, I think it was pretty obvious that stuff was brewing, right? When the officials

00:09don't get control of the ball game, when they allow that stuff to happen, and it's been

00:13happening all season long, all season long. It's not just this game. It's been happening

00:16all season long. This is what happens, right? This is what happens. You've got competitive

00:22women who are the best in the world at what they do, right? And when you allow them to

00:25play physical, and you allow these things to happen, they're going to compete, and they're

00:30going to have their teammates' backs. It's exactly what you expect, right, out of fierce

00:34competition. So, I started talking to the officials in the first quarter, and we knew

00:41this was going to happen. You could tell it was going to happen. So, they've got to get

00:45control of it. They've got to be better. They've got to be better.

00:48Can you specifically detail what you mean by get control of the game, just to be, in your

00:52words?

00:53Get control of the game is called the fouls that are actually happening.

00:55On the floor. Right? And consistently call the fouls that are actually happening on

00:59the floor. Okay? Not just if somebody swings and misses, right? Like, consistently call

01:05the fouls.

01:07Coach, do you think it's something pertaining to your team, or do you think this is a league-wide

01:10issue?

01:11Well, I've seen quite a few dust-ups in the league so far, so I think it's a league-wide

01:14issue. I mean, bad officiating is bad officiating.

01:18And what did you make of Southern Cunningham's flag or foul on JC towards the end?

01:23It was a flag or foul.

01:24Do you think it's, like, defending Katelyn or defending the team, or how do you view just

01:29how it all goes?

01:29I view it as a flag or foul.

01:30Well...

01:30I view it as a flag.