***Official Caitlin/Fever/Kate/Meg Games Mega Thread***
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This is a pretty good article chronicling her firsts and records set so far, and there are still a lot of games left. The opening of Dan Patrick this morning also had a lot of great things said about her - link also below.
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'Incredible': Clark's 19 assists break WNBA record
Rookie Caitlin Clark broke the WNBA record for assists in a game, finishing with 19 in the Fever's 101-93 loss to the Wings.
Clark 'put on a show' in historic performance
Dan Patrick shares his thoughts on Caitlin Clark's record-breaking performance for the Indiana Fever, recording a new-WNBA game assists record with 19 in a loss to the Dallas Wings.
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One final thing to keep an eye on is the single season assist record of 316. She has 202. So with 14 games left, to break the record in the regular season, she needs to average 8.2 a game. She is currently averaging 8.2 a game, and as we know is trending up. She could actually smash the record if she finishes the season out like she has played the past 5 games.
She currently has 213 assists, leaving her 104 away from beating the record. That's less than 7.5 assists per game the rest of the way.
Of note, she's averaged 11.4 over her last 10 games. Even pulling out last night's performance she's still at 10.4 over the previous 9 games.
If she stays healthy, that record is falling.
Caitlin Clark Career Stats - WNBA - ESPN
Complete career WNBA stats for the Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark on ESPN. Includes points, rebounds, and assists.
My bad. I pulled the stat from an article I read this morning - garbage in garbage out. Unless she gets injured, she is going to obliterate the record.She currently has 213 assists, leaving her 104 away from beating the record. That's less than 7.5 assists per game the rest of the way.
Of note, she's averaged 11.4 over her last 10 games. Even pulling out last night's performance she's still at 10.4 over the previous 9 games.
If she stays healthy, that record is falling.
Caitlin Clark Career Stats - WNBA - ESPN
Complete career WNBA stats for the Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark on ESPN. Includes points, rebounds, and assists.
She's literally playing the entire game. Unlike at Iowa, where Lisa hid her deep in a zone, she's actually having to stay in front of the offensive player. She openly admitted that she was tired. She doesn't have her legs at all. Just wait until after this break.
Been saying this, The fact that all these rookies, including Jacy Sheldon, even play meaningful minutes is unusual and few of them are even polished until year, 3, 4, 5… keep in mind Sabrina is now in her fifth year.
In the NBA, they attract the best talent in the world, Leonie Fiebich of the New York liberty who is starting to play quite a few meaningful Minutes got drafted in 2020 and didn’t show up to play until this year. There were three foreigners drafted in the first 10 picks this year that elected to stay home and prepare for the Olympics, they don’t get the best talent overseas Because they don’t pay for it like the NBA does .
100% this. And teams are trying to make her go through a fair amount of pick and rolls which is pretty taxing defensively. Which makes what she's doing even more impressive right now. She's playing real/true defense for honestly the first time in her life and she's getting way better. All the while pushing the pace the entire 40 minutes on the other end because Sides has realized even playing Wheeler 5 minutes a game kills them.
You more than ask Sabrina & Caitlin to be in the 3 point contest. If you have to, you pay the winner (example: $100,000).
Do what you gotta do. Hell, you'd sell TV ads to at least partially pay the $100,000 (or whatever the amount is).
Wanna grow the game? Get Sabrina & Caitlin to partake in the 3 point shooting contest.
Shit; have Caitlin play a game of horse with an NBA player, while you're at it. She shoots a logo 3; see if the NBA player can make it.
Think outside the box, WNBA.
Yep. I’m going conservative with 350. Breaks record by 34 (over 10%). That’s with her averaging 9 apg here on out. Imagine if Aliyah (not dogging on her) had been ready to go right out of the gate. Next year, 400+ is almost expected.
Sue Bird holds the WNBA career assists record at 3,234. That was over a 19-year career. Caitlin could conceivably break it in under 10 years, possibly as few as 8? If she stays healthy, of course.
Vandersloot will most likely break it first. But she won’t hold it for long.
