Indianapolis – Life Without Caitlin Clark I was already going to be challenging For fever during the next two weeks, as showed Wednesday’s defeat against sleep.
But the difficulty was amplified by several degrees on Friday.
Sydney Colson, the only other shipowner on the list, left the game in the first quarter with a left leg injury and did not return. After being forced to emphasize on the fly, the fever lost Sophie Cunningham, who had the de facto shipowner in the absence of Clark and Colson, at the end of the fourth quarter when she replaced the ankle sprain of the presason.
While Dewanna Bonner directed an energetic rally, Sun without victories contained the fever not only to collect her first victory of the season, but to deliver the fever her fourth defeat in the first six games.
“It’s hard when you keep people loose,” Bonner said after the game. “Just as you try to assemble it and enter with a game plan and then lose your other shipowner, so you have to pivot on the fly and we are a new team in that.
“We were still trying to find out when we had [Clark] and [Colson]. Then you lose those two pieces … how do you lose [Clark]We regroup. Then you lose [Colson]Then you have to regroup yourself. So just try to stay together, stay positive and overcome the storm right now. “
That storm is creating rough waters for fever at the beginning of the year. After quickly starting offensively against the sun, Indiana was Dalt his first blow. At the end of the first period, Colson gave the duration of a fight for a loose ball and had to be helped to leave the court and enter the locker room.
“I think that at the end of the first quarter in the second, it was like a bowel blow and then we really had to reconfigure what we were doing in the offensive wing,” said Chief coach Stephanie White after the game. “It affected us in the second quarter, without a doubt, not having another primary ball handling.”
While the fever had to adopt a committee committee approach to the handling of the ball, Cunningham was the one that took the most out of the position. It was a fight since the fever observed the sun growing up to 15.
However, while Colson’s injury was an intestine, White said Cunningham’s injury demonstrated a spark until the end. Bonner was in the center of it, knocking down a trio or trio to give Indiana an advantage of 78-76 with 2:46 remaining.
The sun, he thought, responded with 3 consecutive points to restore an advantage that they would not give up. Indiana had a final shooting to win the game late, but Kelsey Mitchell’s triple was lost in par, giving the fever a third consecutive loss.
“We join as a team,” Bonner said about his career in the fourth quarter, “and Steph said:” Stay together. We are being tested at this time and we have to depend on each one to obtain energy at this time. “The sausage you can do is crumble and go on separate roads at that time … but I think more than anything, better than a victory, we still show that we will fight continuous at this time.”
Fever must continue fighting, because the perspective is bleak. While White did not have an update on Colson or Cunningham Postjame, both players had to receive aid from the floor, which is a great sign for the immediate future.
There is the possibility that an exemption from emergency difficulties can all Colson, Cunningham and Clark, since it would take the fever below the 10 avoidable players, although that would start eating in which the team has.
Only in that scenario, the team also welcomes a guard who is probably not familiar with the offensive or team. They will be the only shipowner in the list, so how much they can trust that player for large minutes would also be in the air too.
And that is the best scenario.
“We can be creative,” White said. “We have to find out who can give us an Intoto offensive. We have to discover what actions we can execute and we will have to do the same to the defensively, honestly and from a rotation position. Both ends the floor.”
This also comes at a time when the fever expected to accumulate victories. Facing a stretch of four games against the mystics, the sun and the sky, the teams that had two victories combined in the week, it was supposed to be the opportunity for fever to be hit in a new offensive.
Now, after the losses against Washington and Connecticut to begin that section, it has become more a challenge to survive and adapt.
“I mean it’s basketball,” Bonner said. “Those things happen. Unfortunately, it is happening to us. [to the drawing board] To keep starting every day. “
As Bonner pointed out, the positive side is that all this will come in May and not in September. Identally, this will be an early challenge that fever can learn and grow, which will pay dividends later in the season. At least, it will Give a team with title aspirations An early test of its resolution.
“There is no doubt that we are hitting adversity at this time,” White said. “As if it were a challenge and is still a great opportunity for us, it will not be perfect. It is early enough in the season that we have a chans to reason, I think, find a moment of checking of checks and who we are going through adversity.”
