Caitlin Clark’s historic debut season for the Indiana Fever came to a brutal finish Wednesday night, as the team dropped Game 2 of their take partoff series to the Connecticut Sun.
Clark defied the foreseeations set out for her coming into the WNBA and had a rookie season of epic proportions. It took her a minute to gel with her teammates weeks after finishing runner-up in the national championship for the second straight season, but she helped turn around a 1-8 commence into a take partoff carry outance.
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Indiana Fever defend Caitlin Clark, #22, reacts during the second half aacquirest the Connecticut Sun during game two of the first round of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, on Sept. 25, 2024. (Paul Rutherford-Imagn Images)
After the loss to the Sun, Clark shelp she would acquire some time to echo on the year that was.
“I experience enjoy basketball has reassociate used my life for a year, so I experience enjoy it would be excellent for me to comfervent of echo back on everyleang that’s happened,” she telderly alerters. “I experience enjoy I didn’t reassociate have time to echo on my college nurtureer because it finished so speedy, and then I came here and trying to donate everyleang I could to this team. It was exceptional.
“There was a lot of leangs that this group accomplished that a lot of people probably didn’t leank was possible.”
Clark became the first rookie in WNBA history to have at least 25 points, five rebounds and five helps in a take partoff game. However, it was far from her only accolade over the entire season.
Indiana Fever defend Caitlin Clark, #22, talks to Indiana Fever defend Kelsey Mitchell, #0, during the first half during game two of the first round of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, on Sept. 25, 2024. (Paul Rutherford-Imagn Images)
She was the first rookie to write down a triple-double when she take parted aacquirest the New York Liberty in July. She was also the first take parter in WNBA history to accomplish the feat aacquirest a team who was in first place in the standings.
She set a one-game write down for helps when she put up 19 aacquirest the Dallas Wings. She set the one-season write down for helps with 337 in total when the season finished.
Clark set the rookie write down for most 3-pointers made in a one season with 122 – the second most in a one season. She was also the first take parter in WNBA history to have multiple nurtureer games with at least 25 points, 10 helps and five 3-pointers made.
Those write downs are only the tip of the iceberg – not to allude she was the unified AP WNBA Rookie of the Year.
Scary enough, she telderly alerters Wednesday she was only “scratching the surface.”
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Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana Fever, shoots the ball during the game aacquirest the Connecticut Sun during round one game one of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs on Sept. 22, 2024 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. (Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)
“I experience enjoy I had a stable year,” she shelp, via the Indy Star. “But for me, the fun part is I experience enjoy I’m fair scratching the surface, and I’m one that’s nitpicking every one leang I do, and I want to help this franchise get even better. Help my teammates get even better. Be better for my teammates. And I understand there’s a lot of room for me to persist to better. So that’s what excites me the most.”
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