Caitlin Clark averaged a career-best 22.3 points per game in the regular season for the Indiana Fever but struggled to score in the team’s season finale against the Minnesota Lynx on Thursday.
The Fever hope her next game doesn’t look like her last. “If we sit and sulk about what happened … Yeah, it . It is what it is. We came out and got punched in the mouth.”
“I feel like at this point everybody’s record is 0-0.
They are going into the playoffs,” Clark said.
The Aces enter the postseason on a seven-game winning streak, scoring more than 90 points five times, including a 100-82 win at Phoenix on Thursday to close out the regular season. Las Vegas is averaging 91.5 points per contest, ranking it second in that category, but it faces an Indiana team that is putting up a league-leading 96 points per outing. 1, is slowing them up a little bit. A’ja Wilson leads the Aces in scoring at 26.2 points per outing, to go along with a team-best 9.4 rebounds per game. Kelsey Mitchell scored a franchise- record 24.7 points per game for the Fever.
“Obviously they have a high-powered offense, so that’s job No. “The great thing is, you look at one to eight in this league right now, it’s anybody’s to take. We have to take the mentality into the playoffs of let’s go steal the first one. Aces head coach Becky Hammon knows her team has its hands full. “It’s going to be a tall task for us, but coming in we know defense is a game changer, and we are going to need a lot of it against them.
“If you can’t get up for the playoffs, then you probably shouldn’t be on this team,” Clark said. Easier said than done,” Hammon said.
