Deciding Caitlin Clark’s call “Great Picture”, they say fever

Indianapolis – Indiana fever Coach Stephanie White said Friday to hope the star Caitlin ClarkThe injury to another season will be a blip on the radar career and that Clark will learn to experience trouble as early as pro.

“There is a hunger and a ride that comes with not playing and unwilling to repeat,” White Friday said, after Clark officially turned off for the season. “So what does it look like a training perspective, as it looks from the perspective of the mentality, from the perspective of preparation, (is) as much (impact) as you learn about play and teammates.”

Clark, 2024 Br. 1 Pick, was limited to 13 games this year and did not play from 15. July, when she suffered the real hurdle injury in the last minute of the fever victory Connecticut Sun. On the side, even earlier in the year with the left four-way and left the injury in the hurdle, and in August, he suffered a bone bruise in his right ankle that she had to rehab at the same time with his groin.

White said that on Friday that the team had a “preliminary conversation” about which Clark’s continuous rehab would look through the end of the season, but will be seated and discussed the execute plan in detail after the fever.

Clark was “radio butt to return,” White said, a recent team of teams in the west coast was a crucial chance that she was a crush that she could bring her to the floor in contact and build her endurance in consecutive days in one level.

But with the regular season of Indiana ending Tuesday and playoffs away from guaranteed, fever felt it ran out of time.

“We just didn’t just succeed where we thought we needed to be able to participate at this level,” White said. “Some of them are physical, in terms of rehabilitation and all of them, and also endurance and can play at the level that needed, to build that endurance enough to play, because all these games are like playoffs right now.” There is a feeling of urgency and level. “

Before this season, Clark never missed the game during his college in Iowa or her Rookie campaign in VNBA, which ended with his earning all-VNBA team and finished fourth in the MVP voting. But the second season started with so many promises, Video Clark does not appear in more than five consecutive games, aside for Indianapolis VNBA all-star festivities and finally miss the last eight weeks of the season.

“Just all the injuries she had, and the amount of work she put himself to play and then could eventually bring this decision, there’s a disappointment,” Bela said. “There is an obvious frustration that was not healthy, in fact, for the whole season. But in the end, I think that there were talks. And the message was still her long-term health and wellness and it was 100%.”

Clark is the fifth player of fever that will turn off for the season due to injury, joining Aari McDonald (foot), Sydney Colson (knee), Sophie Cunningham (knee) and Chloe Bibbi (knee). But Indiana (21-20) is still within the reach of another consecutive playoffs and competes together with Seattle Storm and Los Angeles Sparks for one of the two remaining places.

Fever is hosted Chicago Ski On Friday before taking Washington Mistics On the road on Sunday and Minnesota Link at home in their regular season on Tuesday.