Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever as soon as once more got here very near getting their first win of the WNBA season Wednesday night time, dropping to the Storm, 85-83, in entrance of a offered out crowd in Seattle.
Clark, the No. 1 decide in final month’s draft, had a team-high 21 factors. She additionally completed with seven rebounds and 7 assists in what may need been her finest sport as far as a professional.
After the sport, Clark spoke about how her group continues to battle for its first win and what they should do to get that elusive first victory of the season.
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She stated:
“It’s simply that shut. And there are such a lot of situations of going again and watching the movie and seeing little issues that you could simply repair and clear up they usually’d go a extremely great distance and probably it might come down to at least one possession. So I feel you need to discover confidence in that, particularly at this level being 0-5. When you simply get upset by it I don’t suppose it’s going to be too helpful for us. We clearly have two extra video games on this street journey and also you’ve acquired to discover a method to proceed to be optimistic and proceed to really feel motivated. What we did on the market tonight, I believed there was some actually great things. You’re by no means glad to lose, It’s not enjoyable. However on the identical time, I don’t know, I feel there are plenty of good issues to construct on. And that’s why I’m simply attempting to be as optimistic as doable, proceed to study, proceed to stack days and our first win will probably be proper across the nook.”
Clark and the Fever will subsequent tackle the Sparks on Friday night time in Los Angeles.