and you didn't see it here but Kelsey Mitchell has been playing lights out since the Olympic break 18 points Lista Smith also with 13 points had some huge shots down the stretch Odyssey Sims we know what she's going to do one of the best point guards when she gets the moment 20 points but Clark with 2410 and 10 and also three Steals and Kelsey Casper caught up with her after the victory you got to love about kayin has she's always paying respect to her teammates cuzz she knows they have been overshadowed by her in some ways uh but she understands their true value as you look at multiple triple doubles in a season in WNBA history Alyssa Thomas had six last year when she was one of the MVP candidates in which Brianna Stewart won look at Caitlyn with two in a rookie year first triple doubles y'all by a rookie in WNBA history and I'm sure they're going to be a lot more triple doubles to come in her long and great career and for more on Caitlyn and the fever here's our Erica Ayala it was another triple double for Caitlyn Clark now if you know anything about Caitlyn Clark you know that that was basically every night in college but for her to be able to do this now in the WNBA this bodess very well for an Indiana Fever team who has made the postseason and knew coming into this year that that was their goal so so that they can now build consistency and with the back court of Caitlyn Clark alongside veteran Kelsey Mitchell they look primed to be able to do that and let's not forget of course their number one pick from last year Aaliyah Boston who also had 24 points Clark 2410 and 10 in her triple double but for me the key for Clark and the Indiana Fever in their win against the Los Angeles Sparks was their composure they went into halftime with 11 turnovers to the Sparks 3 was at the helm able to direct the offense and the leadership that you're seeing from some of the other veterans the the points that we're getting from the bench the minutes that you're getting from the bench all look really good for Indiana as they head to the postseason thanks so much Erica and here's a look at the current standings right now the fever to at six 18 and 16 clinched the playoff birth the SC and dream they're testing it out for the final a spot and listen the fever they could still potentially move up might not be likely but it's possible especially with how hot they've been playing since the Olympic break and everybody chasing the liberty for the number one team right now 27 and 16 and of course you can never count out the aces who are the back-to-back Champs and of course the links have been one of the best teams teams all year on Pace for their first winning season since 2015 and on Tuesday night clinch the first playoff birth Paris since 2016 like I said currently sixth in WMA standings they was in the gym yeah so there's been a lot of discussion about fever were in the gym the Rookie of the Year race and all that stuff but did Kaylin Clark lock up the Rookie of the Year with her performance and the fever's win over the sky I mean I think she had locked it up before that game but yeah did that put the exclam well people are putting her in MVP comos now so it's like you can't really backpedal from that yeah and given her recent stretch of play and obviously the fever performing at the love at 61 since the Olympic break would you agree with people obviously we think Asia is going to win it but do you agree with people putting Kaylin Clark in that race and do you think she has the opportunity or potential to make a all WNBA team this season oh for sure she can what she's done with that team I mean she was like the missing piece I mean I try to tell you fever are not they were not a bad team they were like a piece away a lot of teams are like a piece away and that's when a player goes down like a Chelsea Gray for example that's a very important piece you're a piece away from being a really excellent team so I knew Kelsey Mitchell was going to have a great season playing with someone like Caitlyn she didn't start the season healthy so Kaylin KH of was out there doing it on her own and she was figuring it out and then you throw Kelsey in the mix and like those two are just dangerous in the back court like rad see you over there uh had tilted down a little bit been very active on social media in the running to be leader of the kayin Clark fan club leader is it obvious shamas is it obvious I've been fighting my whole life in this [ __ ] fighting for what my moment moment for what [ __ ] you know what I'm saying like what moment she's my Forest Gump that's what moment what does that run forest run she's running from y'all out there she trying to get loose she loose she's loose cuz she had to go back home and her and her dad had to let's look at this [ __ ] just look at this footage just figure out what these girls is doing is pissing you off so much when you ain't focused Focus she went back refocused that's why I love their whole family dynamic they really locked in on some other [ __ ] on some Kyrie and his dad [ __ ] on some jayen Brunson and his dad [ __ ] they really go in there and they lock in and she the biggest thing for me is her not even responding to all the [ __ ] that's going on she not responding that's a true professional as a rookie she's being mentioned in all of these different names and these conversations and she ain't said a [ __ ] thing but biged up the whole league and everybody she's admired and I think that's commendable I think she's a unicorn she's doing everything I thought she was going to do and more like win the MVP you think K that's not going to happen this year but it could happen very soon it's great for the conversation I mean for the W itself I mean put her in the conversation is absolutely it doesn't hurt that's a not matter put on Olympic team and then she have got in the game and helped them win some games see what kind of [ __ ] they took away from they took away from a part of the Legacy could never be mimicked again she never going to be a here my question for you though shot if they did put her on the Olympic team she went over there would the the fever still be playing as they are now yes more abely I think she would have more respect around her peers respect no but they did no she you know she she was one of the only ones that didn't show up to the Olympics right her and her team was practicing in the gym so you remember they got the practice they got the train and really like dial it in you know because you know when you're playing there your season is short yeah right and you know it's like training camp then we you're going you don't really know each other you don't really know any plays so this little week they this little week two weeks that they had together they it's it was like a second training camp for them [ __ ] I remember the year we won we was locked in that damn gym during Olympic Break It Made A Difference that's cool though don't they don't take away from the fact that I'm supposed to be on the Olympic team why are you still even talk and that's supposed to be a credit for me that's supposed to be my name on that on that roster and then I'm supposed to continue that run historic from beginning to the middle now we're going into this I'm averaging 20 what 28 a game The Last G she probably would have been burnt out man hell no her team would I mean her team would have meshed like they got to we got to sit here for 2 weeks learning these plays learning this is what I like to do this is what you like to do they came out they they they came out they look different well then we we should blame Asia going and playing in the Olympics and Kelsey and and and the other uh no they're two time Champs but they they should they now been losing since they came back right they should have took the time off right what I'm saying two times champ who's been losing we know each other I think they're was so why would y'all be losing what's the what's the what's what's the problem y'all all went to the Olympic and now y'all losing now y'all burnt out y'all should have let this young girl go over there and play I just don't think but she would cuz she's a rookie she's a rookie let these young [ __ ] play K Clark is a superhero there is no [ __ ] tired she [ __ ] Jean gra I hear you now they not listening though they they don't be [ __ ] listening they watching this [ __ ] in real time we watching greaters in real time just like they be saying about Bri oh you just appreciate Brian we watching in real time watching Caitlyn in real time what the [ __ ] is so hard to appreciate you ain't never seen nothing like this is Steph Curry and Steve Nash mixed together doing crazy [ __ ] hell yeah what I mean I think there are a lot of people appreciating there is obviously you get a stand in evision on on the road crazy they was hating on there though still on there it's not it's not about people in the WNBA was hating on there when she first got in not people players right women in the WNBA yeah they was hating on her they was throwing some shots I was like damn I mean they're going to keep I mean you're going to throw shot people throw shots at LeBron today yeah what are we [ __ ] talking me know I mean it it is what it is it's competition players that are playing that are doing it today still yeah what do you mean can't name refs coaches not going to name a player in the league that was talking crazy about LeBron except for what Dylan one Dylan Brook you said okay but you y over there never said anything bad it happens in the NBA all the time he never he never said anything bad about him we outside of the the sport we talk crazy about them [ __ ] but [ __ ] is playing we ain't never seen the [ __ ] that that b going on in the middle of press conference just talking crazy about a [ __ ] listen I mean everybody's a I think as of right now from how it started how the WNBA season started to now they've adjusted better than I I thought they were I to be honest I thought a lot of [ __ ] I thought a lot of analysts would have been fired why because how we talk about the men's game and then use that same energy and sound bite it towards the women's game and then get hit with all kind of crazy it sounds crazier and I thought a lot of people would have got fired I mean you got Pat MCA where he's not allowed to talk about it anymore see that wa what do you mean you a see what he said no what do you mean talking about how y'all talk about like how we talk about the game like the energy we don't have any we don't have any Blurred Lines when we talk about the G men's sport like but give me like I don't I'm not understanding like give me an example like what do y'all say about a like the men's game like you don't have to say we can call him we can call you can call a dude out of his name yeah just watching the game or whatever but just how we how we critique the man's game trying to critique the women's game it it it it seems put on it's hard to be we have to put on filter it's hard to be respectful yes okay 100% that's y'all's problem got [ __ ] to do with us no but that's I said anal oh it does cuz you want to be you want it to be equal but we still have to tow the line you can still be equal but be respectful can't talk about basketball but it's not equality if we what I'm just trying to think we can I can be disrespectful to him in in whatever manner MH and he's going to be like yeah whatever I got be disrespectful back I can't be disrespectful to you without crossing the line completely no here's an example and it just happened in real time right one of our own cherl you you know how you read something right when you're reading it whatever we just sitting here she did the same thing they use that silence against her right all of the people that's complaining do the same thing to the players they don't like we're not saying she don't like you know uh Kaitlin right that was part of the you're talking I'm sitting boom but if skip Bess if they're talking biging up LeBron and he don't say nothing no one says nothing no one cares right most of those guys they hate a player they get to be silent they get to say whatever the [ __ ] they want to say about these players and there's no problem but now on the other side but I feel like the women covering women sports get it worse than when y'all pretty much say whatever y'all want and it's fine but if a woman analyst covering women's basketball says something it's immediately hate from men or from wom no that's today that's now right and that's why I said a lot I thought a lot of analysts would be fired because a new entity came into the league and new OP came into the league and it's not the same right and unless you're sitting there watching the train that train could have ran you over you have to treat Caitlyn's fan base like Beyonce to beehive and and the N yeah you have to really treat them like that because it's its own entity and if you not strong enough to fight with to fight with it you going to get R the [ __ ] alone yes right so end up what ends up happening now you're stuck in between this two sword like Cheryl even though that wasn't intentional and that that thing is you don't want to say nothing wrong right so you just shut the [ __ ] up oh they filmed that oh yeah you didn't and even and then if you say good [ __ ] and then you did something like oh youjust it too hard like it's it's an entity you have to worry about same thing with with ree she has a fan base it's it's just a whole whole different ball game now and it is a tiptoeing MH because it's it's your feel like you can up you can cover the game and uplift both players it's hard because your game was done by females right now you have ignorance coming in you have ignorance coming in and we can say we're ignorant right we we don't we don't know how to blend the difference between this the other ignorance and that's all it is it's just ignorant it's just and that's fine but like it doesn't like him watching the game on hold on if we watch what what are y'all y'all having conversation right now first of all if there was a microphone on YouTube all of us during the game during the the Sparks fever game during The Spar to us that's regular Ass Fan conversation and talking and we're that's that's cancelled how we talking and who no no no yeah that's what and we not crossing the line remember the again we not crossing the line we not crossing the line we saying [ __ ] they not used to hearing again I feel like that's how we should be talking about women's basketball talk talk who like why is that so problematic talk well because the the y'all entity is under the corporate what we're doing now is we're freestyling amongst how we actually look but I still feel like you could talk and be respectful yeah but you're still under uh your your organization still on the y'all can't even talk hoop outside of your Instagram facts right so think about it y'all can't really do what y'all want to do it cuz y'all are still familyfriendly and that becomes the thing we're the the the NBA and other sports are not family familyfriendly you guys are so when you have all these other personalities coming in we don't understand your rules yet right and that becomes a problem so we have to dial back our convers until you guys meeting in the midddle is the and that's the thing like for the and that's what I said for the most part I think they I'm I'm happy with how the W has I think they has approach because it could have been a lot of victims to how we've approached the sport I mean it's got out of hand in certain instances Alex you talk about being respectful but certain instances but I'm not on Twitter anymore so I don't talk about being respectful but the NBA discourse is toxic as hell like I'm just being you know what I mean like oh yeah but it's it's it only exists on one place yeah we were going shket and people are not people are not making real decisions based on Twitter discourse yeah and I think that's where the league needs to grow players organizations like what whatever they're talking about now should not affect how we conduct ourselves as professionals like we've surpassed like we shouldn't have been doing that anyway but I think the league has reached another level finally where you you got to leave that [ __ ] where it is and it's it's just forther SE with the increased fandom obviously it's going to come conversations about dumb [ __ ] like but I mean go every time LeBron tweets hey I you know my school did something good just look at the comments every time KD says look NY you know you know where I was like okay the real ring when I seen when I seen when I seen the W really like okay they've adjusted to social media was it was it Olympics when someone was I think it was was it Wilson who said she's that [ __ ] y on TV who said that Asia about Kalia in the Olympics yep on TV on TV and no one said nothing I was like okay okay okay we're allowed to say that I'm not I know we're not but it's it's you're you're opening up the the line you're moving the line a little bit more you're giving people more yeah you're you're you're finally stepping out of the box because that's a real re action and I was like I I hope you don't find it because that's real emotions you can't she won she did that you can't try to reel that in reel that in I think those days are over Alex a question for you do you feel like there was a level of resentment for Caitlin Clark when she came in as an unproven rookie which is kind of the hype and Hyster around her and has that shifted or changed it all now that she's proved herself same with Angel as wellan I don't I don't think resentment is the word I think we had never been like just asked about somebody I mean that's where the most of the conversations came from people were asking [Music] cloudy for foreign speech foreign fore 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