How Do You Guard a Player Who Just Made History Two Different Ways?

That is the only basketball question left, and nobody has a clean answer.
Give her space and she pulls from a ZIP code that is not on the scouting report. Run her off the line and she puts the ball on the floor into the gap you just opened. Load the paint and she throws the pass you see one second late. Get physical — Chicago tried the gesture, the bump, the extra forearm — and she still leaves with 37 and 10.
The adult version of the physicality debate is not bubble wrap. It is a consistent strike zone. Legal body-up lives. The reach that has nothing to do with the ball gets called. The standard should not stretch when the jersey is the one that sells the building out.
Indiana’s other problem is internal. Historic nights keep arriving with sideline lectures attached. A star can take a bark. A staff cannot keep competing with her for authorship and expect May to look like Friday.
The next opponent gets the full file: consecutive 30-and-10, a partner with 34, a player who says she has stopped thinking, and a league account that already used the biggest word it had.
Uncharted means the map is behind her.
The defense is still drawing on last week’s paper.