Caitlin Clark’s title has been featured in numerous sports activities headlines all through the primary few weeks of her first season within the WNBA.
A lot of the dialog about Clark has centered across the stage of physicality the rookie has confronted throughout her first handful {of professional} basketball video games.
“I believe all people is bodily with me. They get away with issues that in all probability different folks do not get away with,” Clark stated Might 28 after the Fever dropped a recreation to the Los Angeles Sparks.
After Clark was on the receiving finish of a tough foul June 1 throughout a recreation in opposition to the Chicago Sky, discussions about whether or not Clark’s teammates do sufficient to guard her resurfaced.
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Caitlin Clark (22) and Kelsey Mitchell (0) of the Indiana Fever throughout a recreation in opposition to the Connecticut Solar Might 20, 2024, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE through Getty Pictures)
Whereas Clark was in a position to break a formidable variety of information throughout her unprecedented faculty basketball profession, the highest choose of the 2024 WNBA Draft seems to be going via an adjustment interval.
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Clark leads rookies in a wide range of statistical classes. She is averaging 15.6 factors and 6.4 assists over her first 11 WNBA video games. Clark has been credited with being the catalyst for the spike in consideration ladies’s basketball now instructions, however some have argued the elevated consideration has additionally made Clark a goal.
Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever reacts through the second half in opposition to the Seattle Storm at Gainbridge Fieldhouse Might 30, 2024, in Indianapolis. (Andy Lyons/Getty Pictures)
Earlier this week, one among Clark’s teammates pushed again in opposition to the concept the group doesn’t have the star guard’s again.
“I believe she deserves to offer herself some grace, and I believe lots of people round this world ought to too,” Kelsey Mitchell stated. “On the finish of the day, not solely is she human, however she’s a 22-year-old child. … There are specific issues that she’s going to expertise that comes with time. I believe the world ought to give her some grace.”
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Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell (0) and teammate Caitlin Clark, proper, within the second half of a WNBA basketball recreation in opposition to the New York Liberty Might 16, 2024, in Indianapolis. (AP Picture/Michael Conroy)
Mitchell added that the group needed to ensure Clark can really feel her greatest from a psychological and bodily standpoint.
“I actually do. I believe that is our job as a group, to make it possible for she’s coated from a standpoint of feeling mentally and bodily protected, clearly. … We wish her to really feel at residence on a regular basis.”
The Fever return to motion Friday after they tackle the Washington Mystics.
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