Indiana fever survived the absence of Cataline Clarke.
After handing over the first loss of the season to Defending WNBA Champion New York Liberty, 102-88, due to Clarke’s return in the return of Clarke in Indianapolis on Saturday, due to a left quad injury to Clarke’s return, fever (5-5) will try to make more pace on the struggling connecting sunrise on Tuesday night.
“Emotionally, this is a relief, it’s a lift,” Indiana coach Stephanie White said about Clarke’s return. “The biggest thing is that this team is flexible. It’s not easy, and it is not going to happen.
“It is difficult to win. You have to go through ups and downs, ebons and flows. This group, they live together. They draw strength from each other; I draw strength from them. Every one day we take one step forward together. We are building faith.”
From Tuesday, fever-who went 2-3 during the absence of Clarke-will play six games including four on the road in 11 days.
“My legs felt really strong. I felt in a good position.” “A lot of this is the credit of our medical team. They have kept me in shape. Now for me, it is just how I recover, especially with the schedule we are coming.”
Sun (2-8), who took advantage of Clarke’s absence to win 85–83 in Indiana on 30 May, has tied the franchise record for the worst 10-game starting the 78-66 domestic defeat in Chicago on Sunday.
Connecticut coach Rachid Mezian said, “I think we were very soft, defensive and aggressively.”
Sun bench was out of Sky Sky Bench 36-2. At the top of it, Connecticut created only 39.1 percent of his shots (25 -64) -Suraj became worse than 40 percent of the floor for the fifth time in this season.
“I think we slow down the crime when we take ourselves out of the game,” Marina Mabre said, who led the Connecticut with 22 points. “Every time we slow down our crime, we make more turnover for ourselves, our vacancy is not as good and then we are back in infection defense and this infection is really difficult for us in defense.
“I think this is a pattern. We need to move forward with speed, but also calm down. I think it’s something we really have a problem.”
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