If there’s one piece of good news for the 0-5 Indiana Fever, it’s that Caitlin Clark has arrived as advertised.
She’s the on-floor leader, calling plays, setting up teammates and scoring. The Fever are simply better when she has the ball in her hands. She’s still committing too many turnovers and currently leads the league with seven per game, but, to be honest, they’re not all on her:
Here is another perfect Caitlin Clark pass that her teammate can’t handle and the WNBA stat recorder said it was a turnover on CC.
What is going on with these stat recordings? pic.twitter.com/y4RbamR4cF
— Jordan Stocks (@StockTalks21) May 18, 2024
Just looking at the record suggests that the Fever are very bad, but in their last two games against the Sun and the Storm, they were really close to getting their first wins of the season. Clark said it best in Seattle:
We’re, what, six points away from being 2-3 instead of 0-5. It’s that close. There’s so many instances of going back and watching the film of like little things that you can easily fix and clean up that would go a really long way, and possibly it wouldn’t even come down to one possession. So I think you have to find confidence in that, especially at this point, being 0-5.
That last loss was particularly…
