W fans who lived through her career, was Diana Taurasi a dirty player, or was that homage video meant to be tongue-in-cheek?

Being a semi-CC bandwagoner, I'm only familiar with late-career DT, though I know her reputation was obviously huge in terms of impact on the game (earning the White Mamba nickname from Kobe himself).

But I've also seen several pieces of footage which suggests she played unnecessarily rough -- the homage video was full of jokey references to these, but there were others like the Kelsey Plum gut punch & Sylvia Fowles groin kick.

My question is, is she like a CP3 or John Stockton figure where she was incredibly talented but did dirty plays, or is it this over-looking on my part?