WNBA (DR)
Visiting Chicago this Sunday with her Fever team, Caitlin Clark left with a new defeat, dominated by her great rival Angel Reese. Her performance also led Internet users to protest against her.
Just a week after welcoming the Sky to their home court, they were the ones traveling to the Wintrust Arena this Sunday.
Caitlin Clark and her Fever partners once again faced Chicago and a certain Angel Reese in recent hours.
A necessarily tense poster given the liabilities between the two rookie stars, even if the prodigious rear had preferred to calm things down on this subject .
Caitlin Clark weighed down by her supporting cast?
Wanting not to make things worse before finding herself confronted with Reese once again, Clark nevertheless submitted to her law.
The young Sky interior player compiled 25 points and 16 rebounds to give her team the victory (88-87).
For his part, the former Iowa star signed a franchise record with 13 cumulative assists… despite improbable sequences of this kind throughout the match:
No lie, Caitlin Clark probably has the worst teammates in the WNBA lol
Author of an interception to initiate this action, Clark should logically have recorded a decisive pass at the same time.
However, this was without counting on the clumsiness of Kelsey Mitchell, unable to correctly grasp her offering in transition.
A scenario which unfortunately repeated itself on two other occasions for Indiana, proof of the lack of help that the leader can sometimes deplore:
Despite a record total of 13 assists made against the Sky, Caitlin Clark should have exceeded the 15 mark if the clumsiness of her teammates had not prevented her. Enough to harbor regrets after the narrow defeat suffered in Chicago.