Christie Sides EXPLAINS how Caitlin Clark ENERGIZES the Fever after WIN at Sky [POSTGAME]

Kaitlyn's hyping up the crowd and po it doing all that does that give you energy as a coach at all what does that do for the team when she's doing that even on the road yeah I mean Kaylin Clark just gives you energy right just who she is regardless I mean she's just she keeps it light but she knows when to turn it on you know she's a competitor just a fierce her shooting and everything else that she was doing I pleased are you with Al her games for us yeah I mean she did an excellent job taking care the ball she did an excellent job late in the game when if we didn't have the advantage in transition she was pulling the ball out um that's just that's just the growth that's things we weren't doing earlier and now she's recognizing those things um she's making some some play calls you know we we try to get her to you know understand like what our advantages will be with certain play calls for certain teams and and so she made some of those calls during the game and which is great great calls ended up with buckets a lot of times um you know our team ended up with only 11 turnovers tonight and that is huge for us but and was only for Five Points all those turnovers um so huge stab for us Christie what's got this team just loose there just there is there is talked about Joy Wednesday night after that win we see it in pregame we're just seeing it here in the postgame it just seems to be all throughout this group right now yeah I you know that was kind of my pregame speech you got this young team and they are just I mean they like to have a good time and there's a fun line and there's a balance and I just wasn't sure if their head was ready tonight so we had a good talk right before the game um you know they're so talented and I think the more we just keep it as light as possible but focused on what we have to do each night to get uh to be successful as long as they stay light and they keep buying into what we're doing you know it just it's just made for a fun environment um the joy is out there in the game it's after the game it's on the bench I don't know if you guys see our bench it's incredible it's incredible that's what shoot around is like um you know but win winen makes everything really really really fun how pleased are you with this team's ability to you know not let up and you know you guys built that big lead and we're able to kind of keep the sky at Bay how is that a sign of a mature team maybe too well before that we we got down 13 so down 1 and then to come back and go up 27 for us you know and then we if we could just correct a few things like Chicago started out hot they hit three threes um got out and transition on us and then we adjusted we changed some schemes up a little bit made it harder for them to get those shots and then we we just kind of settled in and locked in and then our transition just really got as SCH this's third quarter stretch after AB got felt will mean to you guys and stabilizing in that moment yeah I you know I just went right right after the game she was solid I mean she battled Angel she battled she had some great baskets she had some great defensive um possessions far as got some huge rebounds um she's just a solid player I mean once we kind of got ahead I thought you know let's you know make sure that we have her legs for Dallas same with Kelsey record even was there ever a part of you when you were you know one 18 2 and8 that was like just get to 500 and what does it feel like now to be there man I back in one and eight I don't even know what I was thinking H but I had had faith in these guys um the you know the talent is there the character of these people um it's there they never gave in they kept fighting they kept getting better um and I just keep telling them their hard work is paying off you know you fall to the level of your preparation and your work and they just keep doing that every night how did this group get so comfortable offensively at running at such a frantic Pace what looks frantic from a casual you know we just have talked from the beginning like if you get out and run the wings wide right and you bring the you get to the corners sometimes people want to stop on the wings but when you get to the corners you bring the whole defense down to that level so it just opens up your floor so that's you know one thing that we weren't doing early we're doing that now um and with that when Caitlin's getting drags in the middle of the floor with that kind of spacing with Kelsey on one side Lexi and how she's shooting the basketball on the other you know DD's been able to stretch it fars you just got options and it's just you have to figure out how you want to guard us how do you keep this going obviously it's going great for you guys right now but T Dallas just beat Minnesota yeah um how do you how what do you do as a coach to keep this going we just keep talking about the next one what is the next one the next one is Dallas at Dallas and they got us right before the break in a game that we should have won so we just keep you know we'll go back and we'll show them clips of that we're just keeping it that I mean we're you know it feels good to be sitting at 500 right now it's been a really long time since the fever's side at 500 so just really proud of that and where we are are from where we started but I never had any doubts that this is where we could be you've talked a lot you talked a lot at the beginning of season about telling them to you know keep showing up how much of this is just a culmination of having that mindset having like positivity even when you were struggling at the beginning yeah I think it's everything I mean it could have gone sideways real quick at one and eight real quick and I keep saying it over and over the the character people that we have in that locker room they just weren't they weren't going to let that happen and they just you know frustrated yes you know needed some confidence yes and we just kept working on that and building on that and you know and that's kind of why I think we are where we are today just kept showing up kept getting better kept showing them where they were getting better the winds weren't in the column early but we were getting wins on the court and off the court as well down by 13 points five minutes into this game and then you eventually win by 20 what did you see from your players um you know whether it was talking amongst themselves in the huddles all the reviews that maybe gave you that you know certain the confidence that they were GNA get this yeah I think in moments like this before we would Panic we just would kind of lose our composure and Our poise and um it would kind of snowball on us and then we would finally get it figured out but by that time it was you know too late I think we're doing a much better job of getting it figured out early we we always talk about stopping the bleeding you got to find a way to stop the bleeding and I think we're doing that and just so many people are stepping up you know Timmy and Dantes are really really huge for us Lexi as well Erica wheeler comes in and gets Caitlyn get off the ball a little bit she can give Kelsey a blow um just some good minutes for these Kaitlyn's hyping up the crowd and appointment doing all that does that give you energy as a coach at all what does that do for the team when she's doing that even on the road yeah I mean kitlin Clark just gives you energy right just who she is regardless I mean she's just she keeps it light but she knows when to turn it on you know she's a competitor just a fierce competitor it's like just trickling off to the player but yeah you're talking about talk like they're just doing a lot more talking than we were earlier like that communication piece is huge you know they if you're not talking you're not playing defense I think that's improved our defense and also just them giving confidence in each other when they're talking on the bench and on the floor you see it more it's just a just a great sight to see that and to hear them you hear them all right thanks