Trending searches: chicago sky vs washington mystics match player stats
at this time one week ago we were gearing up for Caitlyn Clark to go against Angel Reese for the first time in their WNBA careers and by the time the fever Sky game was over conversation had changed to Kennedy Carter's foul on Clark a foul the WNBA would later upgrade to a flagrant foul one the very next day and it was a foul that launched a thousand takes why didn't Clark's teammates protect her Clark's coach should have gotten fined Clark's opponents are jealous of her that foul was too hard yesterday we heard from Clark herself who addressed that last part saying that foul was just basketball basketball's competitive I get it you know sometimes your emotions get the best of you happened to me multiple times throughout the course of my career people are competitive it is what it is um you know and she's having a tremendous season she's played great basketball in my eyes probably in first place for sixth Player of the Year and you know it's just basketball at the end of the day you know there's no grudges there's nothing like that it's a sport it's competitive it's not going to be nice all the time that's not what basketball is and I think people that play that at the highest level understand in that clarkk opting to take the high road as the fever or in the nation's capital taking on the mystics more than 20,000 fans were in attendance for this thing the largest WNBA crowd in 17 years that would include Kim mky Angel Reese's coach there at LSU during her title win under 5 minutes to go in the first it's Caitlyn Clark the ball's knocked loose doesn't matter 29 ft away holding up from Alexandria boom nophy is so I kind of grew up in the DMV I kind of rep it bit hard I kind of know what time it is hard emphasis on the kind of though right did he pull up from the Vienna in in Vienna Virginia on Route 123 where you can get the best chili dog known to man per chance and then Clark's going to get the steal in the post got to find Erica queler and then quer is out in transition oh the Inside Out dribble much okay Erica wheeler meanwhile for Clark six dimes and four steals Clark coming off the screen a three falling away you serious Clark hello from the outside for Caitlyn Clark and the three-point stroke was tremendous she only had three points total in her previous game but there's a 4- day layoff they' played 11 games in 20 days maybe fresh legs another three how about another three she's connecting Gary from long distance like it's 1010 321 oh I was 1010 220 guy in this case it's just Caitlin Clark for three you you what I didn't have the money to make long distance calls but I just remember the commercials I remember the calling Clarks Clark step back three again 30 points it's a 27 point increase game over game second largest in WNBA history for a rookie Clark another three that's seven of them it ties the WNBA rookie record set in 1999 by Crystal Robinson but we're still in a fight here the mystics 0 and 10 on the season but they're frisky they're down four Carly Samson in a game she played against her sister Katie Lou and she hits a three so she's three of nine from distance 11 points Caitlyn Clark only missed one free throw it was in a bad time right there she was seven or eight from the line Mystics grabbed the rebound they have a chance for the win they're down two Ariel Atkins Ariel who's it what's it Galore was it it to three oh no fever by two exhale kitlin Clark after her third WNBA win I felt good to shoot the ball well like I feel like even my misses were like right there I thought multiple were still going in and um it was nice to have a night like that certainly battled and now we feel like we're kind of through that hump and we had a couple days of of practice and you know time to kind of improve in ways that we thought we needed to improve and um you know I thought we came out here and the mystics are a great team it feels like they're in so many close games um all throughout the season so another close one tonight and you know we found a way to battle and get done Secrets out for years that Caitlyn Clark likes to pull up from long range it didn't change when she got to the W attempting 11 threes from 25 ft or farther on Friday it's the most by any player in a game this season and overall she accounts for eight of the nine games League wide with at least seven such attempts oh [Music]