***CC22 and the Fever mega thread***

[Hawksfor3]

AR nice layup. Kept her eyes on the rim and under control.

 

[Hawksfor3]

These challenges are criminal. No way it should take this long.

 

[Hawksfor3]

Yikes. AR 31/14/4 stls.

 

[Anon1750875978]

Boston...played 30 minutes and grabbed 3 rebounds.

 

[Hawksfor3]

SW pulls Clark out at 4:33 in the 3rd. Comes back in for Timpson at 1:42. Periods of playing Clark off ball instead of bringing it up as usual.

 

[Hawksfor3]

Boston...played 30 minutes and grabbed 3 rebounds.

Don't understand why she hasn't been setting many screens for Clark lately. Players with little to no off-ball movement lately.

 

[Hawksfor3]

Fever have a decent league-wise point differential at 5.2 but they give up 96/game.

 

[Ludd]

It’s not coaching.

This is a mug you defensive league. And the Fever have no one willing or capable of playing that way. They individually are the worst 1-1 defenders.

They can’t play that way, everyone on the Fever would foul out by half.

 

[Ludd]

I’ve advocated for this for awhile now - specifically, sub-in Raven when an opponent is hot. For example vs. Las Vegas recently when Jackie Young was in the process of scoring something like 12 straight points to single-handily erase a double digit Fever lead in about 2? Minutes

Raven is not good on defense…all she would do is put that person at the free throw line multiple times.

 

[Legend12]

SW pulls Clark out at 4:33 in the 3rd. Comes back in for Timpson at 1:42. Periods of playing Clark off ball instead of bringing it up as usual.

Clark plays 35 mins, more than any other Fever player.
Clark takes more shots than any other Fever player.
Clark has one of her more efficient nights of the season.

 

[The Big Z]

Clark plays 35 mins, more than any other Fever player.
Clark takes more shots than any other Fever player.
Clark has one of her more efficient nights of the season.

Stop it. The refs hate the Fever, White hates Clark and she gets fouled on every possession. Anything else?

 

[Hawk48]

Not only that, but Stephanie "Einstein" White had her play off the ball in the first.

white is an idiot/hates CC or both IMO

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Clark plays 35 mins, more than any other Fever player.
Clark takes more shots than any other Fever player.
Clark has one of her more efficient nights of the season.

Yeah, and?.......

 

[Amahawk]

The Fever remind me of an all star team. Some great parts but no cohesion.

 

[Hawksfor3]

Clark plays 35 mins, more than any other Fever player.
Clark takes more shots than any other Fever player.
Clark has one of her more efficient nights of the season.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Let me rephrase......

Clark plays 35 mins, more than any other Fever player.

Yeah, and? Those are the kind of things you point out when you're arguing for the sake of being contrarian to someone complaining about things working against CC or to be contrarian when someone is praising CC.

Clark takes more shots than any other Fever player.

In this game she did. In total, she does not.

Clark has one of her more efficient nights of the season.

This was tied for her 10th best FG shooting percentage of the season. So sure, we can go with that..................

 

[Denmar]

True, but if they also play a decent defense they also win.

And win a bunch of other games that ended up as a loss.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

A few notes on Caitlin's 2026 stats vs her first two seasons (obviously with 2025 being an abbreviated one):

- she IS on pace for career bests in pts, FG%, 3pt%, and FTs made/att, and is also surprisingly on track for her lowest TOs/gm count as well, despite the narratives

- her rebounding is down quite a bit though, which is something I've noticed from game to game. She is not NEARLY as active on the boards as she was her rookie year or at Iowa (5.7 rpg in 2024, 5.0 in 2025 and down to 3.9 in 2026)

- her assists total is also slightly below her first two years (8.2 currently vs 8.4 in 2024 and 8.8 in 2025), as is her steals/gm (1.3 in 2024, 1.6 in 2025, 0.9 in 2026)

I'm sure we can speculate on the different reasons for some of these changes, and obviously some of her stats were affected by her injuries over the first 1/3 of the season, but I figured it was something worth noting (mainly because I was curious to see where her rebounding totals were because they had just seemed way lower than usual, and in the games Ive been able to watch, she just seems less active in that area this year).

 

[ottumwan in tx]

Don't understand why she hasn't been setting many screens for Clark lately. Players with little to no off-ball movement lately.

All the YouTube conspiracy theorists think it’s sabotage, intentional

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

All the YouTube conspiracy theorists think it’s sabotage, intentional

Well it is intentional......just not sabotage. Incompetent, sure.........but not deliberately sabotage.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

Well it is intentional......just not sabotage. Incompetent, sure.........but not deliberately sabotage.

that is some kind of incompetence … if true. I have trouble believing it, seems like coach sides was better than this why go with SW?

 

[Phat Stax]

The Fever give up 90+ a night but I agree, the offense is the issue. Also, the problem with the Hindenerg is that they were serving watercress sandwiches instead of crudites.

 

[Hawksfor3]

The Fever give up 90+ a night but I agree, the offense is the issue. Also, the problem with the Hindenerg is that they were serving watercress sandwiches instead of crudites.

 

[SoonerBeAHawk]

A few notes on Caitlin's 2026 stats vs her first two seasons (obviously with 2025 being an abbreviated one):

- she IS on pace for career bests in pts, FG%, 3pt%, and FTs made/att, and is also surprisingly on track for her lowest TOs/gm count as well, despite the narratives

- her rebounding is down quite a bit though, which is something I've noticed from game to game. She is not NEARLY as active on the boards as she was her rookie year or at Iowa (5.7 rpg in 2024, 5.0 in 2025 and down to 3.9 in 2026)

- her assists total is also slightly below her first two years (8.2 currently vs 8.4 in 2024 and 8.8 in 2025), as is her steals/gm (1.3 in 2024, 1.6 in 2025, 0.9 in 2026)

I'm sure we can speculate on the different reasons for some of these changes, and obviously some of her stats were affected by her injuries over the first 1/3 of the season, but I figured it was something worth noting (mainly because I was curious to see where her rebounding totals were because they had just seemed way lower than usual, and in the games Ive been able to watch, she just seems less active in that area this year).

I think Caitlin has even admitted once or twice that she is sometimes guilty of saving herself on the defensive end for when she is on offense. This goes back to her Iowa days too, ofc.

But lately it just seems like Caitlin has to work extra hard in this offense, especially given some of her teammates (eg KM) and the way she is often mugged. Part of me thinks she could find some easier pickin's on the defensive end getting more boards and even a few more blocks and steals which she has shown she is capable of.

OTOH, I don't want her to capitulate on the offensive end either! She's getting hacked and held disproportionately and she has a coach who won't go to the mat for her, a la a Becky Hammons, so it seems Caitlin has no choice but to try and just battle through it. I dunno, if Caitlin's star shines brightly enough and long enough maybe she'll start to get a better whistle. Maybe .

 

[The Big Z]

Real bad end to a pretty good game for CC
Gives up 2 offensive rebounds
A layup
Misses a shot then fouls unnecessarily when Fever could have played straight up
Then goes 0/2 at the free throw line

Agree with this. She was really good most of the night but the end was brutal. Fell asleep on 2 defensive possessions in a row allowing offensive rebounds along with the other stuff. She just really struggles off the ball at times defensively.

 

[Hawksfor3]

I think Caitlin has even admitted once or twice that she is sometimes guilty of saving herself on the defensive end for when she is offense. This goes back to her Iowa days too, ofc.

But lately it just seems like Caitlin has to work extra hard in this offense, especially given some of her teammates (eg KM) and the way she is often mugged. Part of me thinks she could find some easier pickin's on the defensive end getting more boards and even a few more blocks and steals which she has shown she is capable of.

OTOH, I don't want her to capitulate on the offensive end either! She's getting hacked and held disproportionately and she has a coach who won't go to the mat for her, a la a Becky Hammons, so it seems Caitlin has no choice but to try and just battle through it. I dunno, if Caitlin's star shines brightly enough and long enough maybe she'll start to get a better whistle. Maybe .

White continues to alter the structure of the offense. One time it's Pick and Roll, another is moving Clark off ball, another is denying Clark the pass off a missed basket on the defensive end, and so on. Clark is most effective with AB in the P&R and in transition. Simple.