Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White explained that, yes, it was her intention for superstar guard Caitlin Clark to take the final shot against the Washington Mystics on Monday night.
Clark’s thrilling logo 3-pointer to ice the game against hosting Washington is easily the moment of the season for Indiana so far, one where Cunningham made the perfect in-bound pass to Clark and Clark knocked down with ease.
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There has been some chatter about whether or not Clark and Cunningham went off-script to make it happen, the latter lightly trolling the discourse earlier this week with a funny meme. Did those two go off on their own?
On the Indianapolis radio program Query and Company, White answered the big question as to whether or not the big bucket went as they drew it up or if Clark and Cunningham freelanced outside the scheme to make it happen.
“It was the designed play to be able to get Caitlin a shot in that moment,” White explained. “I think the freedom to improvise comes on how the defense plays it. We didn’t anticipate two players going with Lexie [Hull] in that situation, and Caitlin getting the ball opposite midline. We thought she’d get a little bit closer to midline, a little bit closer to where Sophie was.
“She read it, and she read the fade, and Sophie was able to get it to [Clark] in that position. So, it’s a little bit of both: certainly, the opportunity to get C the ball in that position, and second, their ability on the floor to read how the defense is playing it. We can script it one way, and defense does some other things, and it’s up to players to make plays in those moments, and they did.”
Stephanie White on 1075 The Fan on Caitlin Clark’s game winning shot. pic.twitter.com/jYDNGQOuIO
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It’s all history now. The ball went through the hoop, and the Fever officially have a winning 6-5 record again.
When is the next Fever game?
Thursday night at home against the Chicago Sky.
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