Indianapolis – When Caitlin Clark was invited before the season what a successful campaign of 2025 would look like for Indiana fever, she did not hesitate: “a championship”.
On Saturday, the fever saw in the first hand what a title team looks like with the defending champion New York Liberty by visiting Gainbridge Fieldhouse. After shooting a fever rally in the second half to win 90-88, La Liberty (3-0) will leave the city with its unexpected record still intact, putting Indiana (2-2) her second consecutive defeat at home.
Before the match, Clark described the match as a “good gauge” to know how his team accumulates against the upper level of the league, and the Liberty showed their championship experience by making all the games.
Ass at a tie of 88 with 7.1 seconds to play, the New York Sabrina Ionescu star went to the basket and was dirty by the fever goalkeeper Lexie Hull. Ionescu struck the two free throws to give his team a two -point lead with 2.2 seconds to play. With the fever having a chance to win or bond after a dead time, Clark had his attempted 3 points stripped by the Guard of Liberty Natasha Cloud while the chronometer was exhausted.
Clark and her teammates were exasperated by non-appeal, and she let the referees hear about it after the buzzer.
Freedom remains undefeated!
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“I thought that (Clark) had been at fault.” One free difference in less than 31 (in the last three games). I could perhaps understand it if we were just 3 years old, but we are not.
“We are attacking the edge, and the lack of respect at the moment for our team is quite incredible.”
For the Liberty, which used a 14-2 race in the fourth quarter to win the late victory, Jonquel Jones scored a 26-point summit with 12 rebounds, Ionescu scored 23 points and Breanna Stewart and Cloud each scored 16 points.
Throughout the game, Clark’s body language said a lot. After failing to make a 3 -point for the first time in his career in Thursday’s victory in Atlanta, Clark missed his first seven attempts on Saturday. After seriously missing a 3 at the beginning of the third quarter, Clark dropped the disgust head as she recommended in defense.
But as the proverb says, the shooters shoot, and that is what Clark continued to do until she finally crossed the end of the third quarter.
With the goalkeeper Rebekah Gardner draped on her, Clark used one step back to free herself for a moment before nailing a deep 3 points while Gardner closed and closed it. The four-point game gave Indiana an advance of 73-68 with just over a minute in the frame, and Clark has a shot by drilling a buzzer of 33 feet in the third quarter to give the fever an eight-point lead before the fourth quarter.
However, the fever could not hang on the section. Indiana was outclassed 22-12 in the fourth quarter, and Clark only scored two points in the last framework.
She finished with 18 points, 10 assists and five rebounds, but only drew 6 out of 19 on the field and succeeded 10 reversals. Aliyah Boston, often at the reception of Clark’s passes, added 27 points and 13 rebounds.
(Photo of Natasha Cloud and Caitlin Clark: Trevor Ruszkowski / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
