Caitlin Clark refuses to go easy on a young boy as WNBA rookie brutally blocks him during charity event

Caitlin Clark is always at the top of her game, no matter who she's up against. 

The No 1 Draft pick was seen brutally blocking a young boy while shooting hoops at a charity event in Indiana on Tuesday. 

'Counted about 5 total blocks in this 1-1 matchup today from @CaitlinClark22,' photographer Bri Lewerke captioned a video on X.

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 boy said, to which Clark replied with a laugh, 'That's not fair?' 

'No mercy,' one fan joked in response to the clip

Another chimed in, 'I love how the kid tried his damndest to size her on his tip toes!!!'

It came one day after Clark's team suffered a 72-89 loss to the Connecticut Sun, and the superstar rookie was benched midway through the third quarter.

She finished with her fourth-fewest points of the season, going three of eight from the field for 10 points - all in the first half. She picked up her fourth foul with 4:41 left in the third quarter and did not play in the final period.   

The Iowa admitted she thought they 'could have played with a lot better energy.' 

'This is a team you can't come out and be lackadaisical against, they're just that good," she told reporters Monday night.

'They're going to punch you in the mouth, and I don't think we had it from the jump and obviously that's a little disappointing,' she went on. 

'I thought we let little things on the offensive end frustrate us and we didn't play good defense ... it's not a recipe to win many games.'

Meanwhile, her coach Christie Sides defended the decision to pull her starters from the floor just over halfway through the game.

'We were down 28 and I wanted to put a group in there that would get out and play some defense,' she explained.

'I'm really proud of that group that went out there ... they played hard,' Sides added, before publicly blasting the team over a perceived lack of effort.

'I'm gonna start with how you can't, at this level, coach effort,' she 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 coach effort. It's just too hard.'