UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever struggled of their return to Connecticut, falling to the Sun, 89-72. Indiana opened the season with a 21-point loss in Connecticut and later fell to the Sun in Indiana, 88-84, which makes them 0-3 this season towards one of many WNBA’s finest groups.
Clark wasn’t capable of replicate her manufacturing from Friday towards the Washington Mystics, when she scored 30 factors in a Fever victory.
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Dan Hurley of the Connecticut Huskies addresses the media after the National College Basketball Championship sport towards the Purdue Boilermakers at State Farm Stadium on April 08, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
The Sun held May’s WNBA Rookie of the Month to only 10 factors, and he or she solely performed 22 minutes within the sport – she left halfway via the third quarter after selecting up her fourth foul and didn’t see the ground once more.
After the sport, Clark was clearly disenchanted with the efficiency, however she did crack a smile once I requested her about UConn males’s basketball head coach Dan Hurley electing to show down the Los Angeles Lakers head teaching gig to stay with the Huskies.
“I noticed that,” Clark stated with a smile once I began my query about Hurley’s resolution.
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Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever takes a shot throughout warmups earlier than a sport towards the Connecticut Sun on the Mohegan Sun Arena on June 10, 2024 in Uncasville, Connecticut. (Brian Fluharty/Getty Images)
“I imply, shoot, two actually good choices,” Clark replied with amusing. “I actually admire [Hurley]. I really like his depth. I feel the best way he coaches the sport is superb. The method he coaches his gamers is superb and holds them accountable. He actually will get probably the most out of them.”
It’s fascinating to listen to Clark instantly discuss holding his gamers accountable as one of many traits she admires most concerning the UConn head coach. Players do not usually love that in a coach, at the least not for the time being, although many notice later that it was of their finest curiosity.
“I’ve actually cherished watching them over the course the final couple of years, and I feel it is cool he is staying in faculty basketball,” she continued. “I feel he actually loves it and I feel he loves being round these younger males and, clearly, he makes them nice. I’ve been an enormous fan of his and large fan of his program, and so they’ve been enjoyable to observe.”
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Dan Hurley of the Connecticut Huskies reacts within the first half towards the Purdue Boilermakers through the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament National Championship sport at State Farm Stadium on April 08, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Clark is not alone in that sentiment, definitely, and after profitable back-to-back National Championships, Hurley has determined to run it again and go for a three-peat slightly than take a look at the NBA waters with the Los Angeles Lakers. That’s nice information for school basketball, one thing Caitlin Clark is aware of just a bit bit about.
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