Lexie Hull's Career Night Helps Fever Outlast Storm..

the Indiana Fever were winless in three games against Seattle entering the fourth and final matchup with the storm on Sunday this one was different fighting for playoff positioning Indiana sought a high-profile win and Seattle sat at fourth in the overall ranking looking to elevate above the seventh position fever swaggered onto the court prepared to rign on Seattle's parade they did just that one three-point basket at a time as they took the fourth game in the season series against Seattle in a thrilling display of shooting Lexi Hall stamped the first half with a timely 10 points as she navigated herself to space around the rim and Beyond the three-point line and played her role to Perfection as she connected on four of her first six shots to bring her within two points of her 2024 season High 12 her sense for spacing created the opportunity that became Caitlyn Clark's 225th assist of the Season WNBA rookie assist record setting dump off pass as both players ran to the rim in transition more importantly Hall was a vital piece in the fever's offensive surge to flip the score by the halftime buzzer a slow start sought Indiana score just 13 points on 33% shooting and finished the first quarter without a three-point basket Hall made two in the second quarter as the fever overcame a seven-point deficit to lead at the break 35-34 Kelsey Mitchell followed suit and knocked down two more in the third quarter on her way to a 10-point frame and 27 points overall Indiana and Seattle remained separated by just a single point through three frames the fever leading 59 to 58 we felt like we could have just played with a little bit of a faster Tempo Clark said really good at transition but even in the half court we were just kind of moving a step slow like we wanted a little more energy in the ball and I think once we got that in the second half their rotations once they got tired just weren't as good and then we were able to get you know not as many contested shots and we were able to knock them down and I don't know what we shot there in the fourth quarter but I felt like we made just about every shot fourth quarter Swagger for from the Indiana sideline was contagious Hull took an offensive foul on the first possession of the quarter knocked down two more three-pointers and then took another charge on defense the crowd was amped and the players on the court Drew from that energy extending the lead to 10 points with 551 left to play confidence is everything bark said confidence is good for the group and it's also contagious so the more we've had of that the better we've been but like Christy said obviously playoffs is our goal that's my goal for this team but it has to be one game at a time can't get too ahead of yourself that's how good every single team in this league is Indiana would ride that wave of confidence to a 33.4 quarter outscoring the storm by 16 on their way to a victory over one of the League's top five teams they dropped in eight three-pointers in the fourth quarter shooting a scorching 80% from Deep range h made four total three-point baskets in the pivotal fourth quarter offensive effort from Indiana ensuring their 9275 win over Seattle and a new career high of 22 points she made six of her seven deep tries overall an 85% success rate from the three-point line Hull got to enjoy her moment with family as her grandma and sister traveled to Indiana to sit Courtside for her career night to get a win in front of anyone is great said to win in front of my grandma who came all the way from Spokane and my sister who came from Austin it's amazing and to have them Courtside was super cool too so really good really good feeling to Hall's family enjoyed the game with 17,2 72 other fans as gamebridge Fieldhouse recorded yet another sellout for a fever home game they've performed in front of sellout crowds for all but three regular season games they're using that momentum to earn an opportunity to play in the w NBA's postseason sometimes when there's shots that are made or something big happens I've coached in this league a long time and the way the crowd sounds and what that feels like it's like you're playing in the championship Coach chrisy side said and that for our players to experience this every night that we're putting on our shoes coming out and playing these minutes it's incredible it's incredible great time for women's basketball great time for the fever for