first came back after the Olympic break for Clark in the fever facing the Mercury Good Vibes before the game began and Clark got off to a good start rocking the suburbs just like Quiet Riot did she's a 33% three-point shooter in her rookie year lately taking the ball to the rim and one she averages 35 minutes A Night in the 40-minute WNBA games how about another Anne one she was N9 of 10 from the line she shoots 89% from the line fever great start they're up by 11 remember they began the year 1 and8 in
their first nine they're 10- seven since coming into this one Clark first player W history 450 points 200 apples and a 27 game span uh MVP discussion will start to Bubble here squish top eight in this 12 Team league make the playoffs Indiana is seventh they have 13 games left after tonight she averages 8.2 assists should reach double figures again in this one Alissa Smith with a real strong finish and again how about a first half of 15 and5 tyres halberton tweeted about Clark's insane performance while he was at the arena watching yeah he won
a gold medal there's still people upset that Caitlyn Clark wasn't on the US Olympic team in the third 28-point lead for the fever's been trimmed to 10 and then Lookout boot Natasha cloud and Mitchell getting into it you could understand the chippiness again one team was down by 28 and the team that was up 28 had it cut to 10 so you could sense the frustration boiling on both sides double technical now they're trying to cut this thing into single digits and they will Sophia Cunningham in the corner for three from 28 down to seven
for the Mercury who are rebuilt new coach new GM new roster Copper got it a clutch three and the Mercury are right back in this game uh-oh as they tweet it out again 28 point deficit the largest ever overcome in any WNBA game in the 28- year history of the league Caitlyn Clark's like the only person making history tonight is me fever up five and then Clark the ktie L Samuelson the former Yukon star and now it's comfortable fever back up by 8 after three but again it was shaved from 28 Phoenix actually took the
lead and now it's comfortably in control you would think for Clark it's double digits Caitlyn Clark John has been playing basketball uninterrupted since last November she needed that one month break right she went all the way through the season the final four the draft the season and now she can sort of feel it on her way two years ago the fever won five games five and then they drafted Aaliyah Boston first overall and they drafted her first overall good night Caitlyn Clark with another 25 five and 10 games fever hold on this taught this one
a lot about our team we didn't crumble we had we had a few few lapses that it didn't look very pretty for us but we always found a way to respond and honestly I thought we played a really good fourth quarter and came up in stops when we needed it it's huge I think it sets the tone of where we want to be the rest of the season so uh to grind this one out and get it done I think is just a step in the right direction but it's it's one at a time and
we have another big one Sunday you can't say enough about the num she broke the assist record in her last game remember what a big deal that was with 19 she's now scored or assisted on the most points in any two game Span in W history she passed Diana to Razzi only seems fitting she shared the court with Diana on this night over the last two games Clark has scored or assisted on a mindboggling 62% of her team's points it is a pleasure to be joined By Carolyn pek celebrating the 25th anniversary of our NCA
Championship coaching Purdue also a great coach in the W and it's great to have you here tonight all right so we just went through the swing of emotions in the game here coach up 28 down one rally to win you heard Caitlyn talk about it when a team rallies to win a game like that after facing the adversity that they did a blowing a lead like that what does that generally tell you about that group zeen the biggest thing it's telling me is that Indiana's growing up because we saw in the first half of the
Season there were opportunities Indiana had a chance to win but they crumbled when the game got tight so to be able to get off to such a great start really deliver the first punch and then when Phoenix punched back they were able to hold on and especially on the backs of Caitlyn Clark and Kelsey Mitchell I'd like leaving them both on the floor and putting the ball in the hands of Caitlyn Clark and trusting her to make the decisions down the stretch and when she did that you could see the team had confidence around her
and K and Kelsey Mitchell she wants the ball in those situations and I believe that's why it was Indiana that was able to hold on down the stretch and pull off the win all right so the WNBA regular season ends a month from this Monday and if you take a look at the schedule that they've got coming up here the fever they're saying analytics this is all in quotes because you never know what could happen they do have among the easiest schedules in the W you're looking at it here right over my shoulder what do
you expect to see let's just remember folks two years ago this team won five games then they added two number one overall picks and here they are but how do you see it here last half dozen games in a fight for the playoffs I don't know what these analytics are looking at because Seattle is number five and they just they just fell to Atlanta hey Ryan Howard's back she had 30 points tonight in the combination her and Ali and Alish sh gray so that's a tough game then the Minnesota links that's a tough team as
well the faisa Coler is back you got to play Minnesota um so you have Atlanta Minnesota then you gotta play Dallas and you know who's back for Dallas s to sa so I think Dallas don't look at the record because having her the link of what Dallas has and then in September you know who they've got to play Indiana has to play the Las Vegas Aces twice and now they have Chelsea Gray back right and so with Chelsea Gray back look Kelsey Plum Jackie young their percentages have gone up and we can't even say enough
about what Asia Wilson has already done this season she didn't let up in Paris and I expect nothing less from her in this second half of the Season what's [Music] he
