Safe to say that Paige Bueckers is fed up with one rule in the WNBA.

WNBA fans and players spent half the year complaining about the officiating, and honestly, you can’t blame them. One night the refs let players get away with things, and the next night they’re whistling if a defender so much as breathes on someone holding their ground in the post.

To make matters worse, the league office kept dodging hard conversations off the floor, drawing tons of flak for staying vague on its trans player eligibility rules instead of giving everyone straight answers.

When nobody knows what the standard is on or off the court, people get fed up.

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Paige Bueckers wants the WNBA to change post-up rule

Talking to Azzi Fudd on her podcast, it’s clear that Paige Bueckers is still disappointed in some of the calls she’s experiencing in the WNBA. In particular, holding your ground in the post.

She said: “I’m going to talk about one specific time where she (Angel Reese) was trying to post me up and I was holding my ground. That’s like the fourth time that I’ve held my ground and I got punished for it. Like I’m supposed to just let her go. Let her go. Let her go. No, I’m going to stand and I’m going to have my base. I’m standing my ground and it’s a foul on me. That’s my speech. That’s a rule I would change. Like let people stay in their ground.”

Under official basketball rules (both NCAA and WNBA/FIBA), a defender is technically entitled to establish a spot on the floor and maintain their vertical cylinder.

However, when offensive post players aggressively back down defenders, refs often whistle the defender for a defensive blocking foul if they absorb the impact with a wide base, use a forearm/arm bar to resist, or brace against the hit without flopping backward to draw a charge.