Indiana Fever Game 29 Recap: Lynx top Fever, 90-80, as Caitlin Clark has 23 pts, 5 reb, 9 ast, 7 to

hello everybody and welcome to our Channel I'm Mark and I'm Rob and today we're going to recap Game 29 of the Indian fever a lost to the Minnesota links 90 to [Music] 80 and hey if you haven't subscribed to our Channel yet please do so and hit the notification Bell when you do don't get upset he wants more subscribers we hit we're over 3500 now we're going for 4,000 please as usual Christy sides did the wrong thing is I predicted in our preview I said she needs to start hall because Tam's still coming back from an injury to cover klier because klier is red hot and also one of the top five players in the league maybe MVP run her up right now what did she do started samelson and Smith and then put Smith on her who's not a good Defender Bo Defender and it was a disaster it was a disaster in the first quarter and it was a disaster in the beginning of the third quarter which it doesn't take much to figure this out especially after hall went on a three-point barrage last game she deserved to be starting Rob yeah I yeah I mean I I I agree I mean I don't know why she didn't start Hall uh she can know shut down at least not let the that one player that always plays against the fever come in and hit the first 10 points off of him so you know well Samson hasn't been H three so just don't start samelson and you know Smith doesn't play well you pull her out but I that way you're not messing with starting because Smith has pretty much been starting all year except for a couple games you're not messing with the starting lineup too much but I Hall's H's been getting lots of minutes anyways she's used to playing with the starters so I don't see the reasoning for not starting Hall she's exact same height as ker she can guard both a guard or a small forward because she's 61 and she's quick and agile so kie was perfect for her to cover so I didn't understand why she didn't start her it was a disaster that she didn't they still caught up they were only down one at halftime and then the third quarter she goes back to the starting lineup knowing that it wasn't working and it was a disaster again and the momentum just kind of they never got the momentum back after that also that again that little Bugaboo half court offense that she you can't even call it that it's just a half court bring the ball up and people stand around and pass the ball around there's no movement or anything it was night and day if you watch Minnesota Lynx I no one likes coach Reeves and but she's a very good coach you can tell by how her team plays their half CT offense is very good there's movement there's Cuts all sorts of things that gives a flow to their half guard offense doesn't exist with the fever still even with Caitlyn Clark at the helm she can't make the other four players move and cut properly right and and they had a problem with her being double team again they went back to the old way where okay she's being double team and they just okay pass me the ball I can't pass you the ball unless you as my coaches used to say come to the ball come to the ball yeah she got double team once in the second half and it was part her fault she didn't recognize it soona but part because the other four players none of a moved when the double team was happening so she ended up forcing it I think it was to Tami but it didn't get there it got stolen uh so that was a turnover but that wasn't all Caitlyn Clark's fault it was the players didn't move but Caitlin Clark didn't play good first quarter and she started out like one for eight then she was four for five she had a really good second quarter and then second half was okay and we discussed this even other videos her defense is really poor she has poor defense she has poor defensive skills just bending your knees is not defense she doesn't slide her feet and there's and there's different ways that you can kind of cheat on defense if the person is right-handed and you know they're going to go right you don't keep your feet together or they're going to drive by you that's that was what that what was happening you drop your left foot backs so then you can slide and beat that person or guide them from away from the basket while they're going to the right she has no concept on that now Rob but her stand still is incorrect she's bending her knees more than she was in game one but she's still not bending him enough so that's why she struggles because they were just abusing her when they drove to the basket CA Clark's on ball defense is inconsistent some games she looks okay her player doesn't get by her so easily but yesterday when she had some quicker more talented guards McBride and Williams were just dribbling right past her and so she's got to improve on that if she wants to be the best player in the league you can't have be allow on ball Defender and be called the best player in the league up to at least average and if the person's faster than you like it' be like if I was gonna guard you Mark I'm not gonna I'm not gonna guard you close because I'm I can't move and you're gonna be you're gonna be faster than me you're gonna drive right by me so what I do I would play off of you you know so I at least okay I know I'm not as fast as he is but I'm away from him so at least I can kind of cut him off a little so right it didn't matter who she was covering even even when Hyman she was covering Hyman Hyman dribbled right past her too so doesn't matter what she was covering but it wasn't just her the defense was poor because they only have two good Defenders they have Boston in the post and they have Hall and the perimeter Tam's capable of good playing good defense but she you know she hasn't played enough games she's all rusty and everything so she probably doesn't have the timing and the energy but she can play pretty good defense and Clark can play very good off the- ball defense but other than that Nam a good defender on the team Rob no that's H it's the only one so that's what you do as a coach so I mean since they're not playing that well on defense okay go to a Zone Zone's more like like you said off the ball so Parker's good off the ball most of them are good off the ball they're not good on pressuring the ball go to a Zone and if they beat you if they beat you on the Zone yeah but at least the zone you can at least cut the person off they driving by you there's help already there not going to drive away a basket so go to a zone I'm not sure why she's so hesitant to not use the Zone more other than the fact that she probably doesn't understand it and doesn't hard to teach it well Jim beheim is retired hire him for a week and have him teach his own he taught it and used it for like 50 years yeah effectively so that's all I can say if her the assistant coach is n them know how to teach his own properly it can't be all on the players you know not doing it right they're teachable so that's the problem I don't think she she knows what she's doing with the I agree with you if you've got non-talented on the- ball Defenders The Zone can cover up for some of that weak right I mean I mean you get that's what other teams do to them that when they start getting hot they go okay we'll go to a Zone and then the fever's like what what is this a Zone okay right and they're not good against the Zone offensively no they need more than Caitlyn Clark to do that so that's unfortun forunate that she is clueless but she's terrible at substitutions I mean she brought in Wheeler who didn't play poorly but then Mitchell was hot and she sat Mitchell for like the rest of the second half while she was hot which made no sense you know wheeler and Clark don't belong in the court at the same time although yesterday it was okay because wheeler got out of Clark's way and let her run the offense but it was ridiculous that Mitchell was sitting when she was hot and Clark never got a rush she only she only she played 38 minutes she has to play 34 minutes so she's fresher she can play better defense her legs are there so she can hit a three-point shot and you know so what they did Rob Minnesota lyns decided to not go after offensive rebounds and get back on defense so Clark couldn't have the team run and push the pace before the game apparently uh coach reev changed her tune on Clark and said uh she's a exceptional player and that's because of the pace and her passing ability so she noticed that about her abilities and decided to make sure she didn't by having four people get back on defense and only one person get the offens rebound now they lost an offensive rebounding because the offensive rebounding Advantage was a clear Advantage for the fever who had 15 offensive rebounds while eight only by Minnesota links so they were so afraid of the fast break pass paced offense by Clark they gave up on offensive rebound no I don't know if they're afraid that was smart coaching they're like okay Not Afraid in a bad way afraid like in a good way like yeah yeah I mean they get get back on defense it's really hard if you if you got that's the hardest thing to do is get back on defense I I had drills like that you I just get the rebound and throw the ball down the court and hopefully somebody will be back there but they got to get back on defense and that cuts off the pace that was that that was good coaching and Clark's offense um you know passes were a little bit off on her full length of Court passes she had I think she had like two to haul that were just off by a little bit but I'm that's not a big deal because she normally hits that almost all the time but she did have seven turnovers and a couple because her passes were off and once she got trapped there was a travel call too that was iffy but seven turnovers is too many she's got to cut down on that obviously but the problem is is she started the wrong five they got off the poror start she reacted too slowly to that and then she put in Timmy she didn't put in Hall first she put in Timmy first Hall needed to start and I think Nelissa Smith is seems to have checked out on the team and I'm changing my tune how how good a player she is I I I think she's not as good as player as I thought she was I thought she was a pretty good player she only seems to have good games against weaker teams with teams weaker front lines anytime there's a good front line she seems to have a poor game she gets the ball inside and she doesn't know what to do she's like uh what do I do you know I got the ball got the ball and drove into three people Rob three people she just all just she sees it instead of like maybe taking a pullup jumper or doing something else she drove in even though there was three people there of course she got her shot got blocked what did she expect you mark even you could have blocked a shot you know I don't know R her and Samson Samson if she doesn't hit three she's she's not a good enough Defender to start she shouldn't be starting she's not a I don't think she's a starter caliber wise in terms of overall talent I think she's a fine player for like sixth seventh eighth player Off the Bench she's not a starter for a good team and she shouldn't be starting and Lissa Smith I don't know what to say I thought she was a starter at least you know caliber wise but now I'm wondering Rob yeah yesterday Smith played 10 minutes and got two points she was one for four and did have three rebounds which isn't bad for 10 minutes Samson was 0 for four 0 for two for threes and they were wide open threes and she missed them and she had zero points 24 minutes between the two of them two points and those were starters go ahead go about dantos coming you didn't talk about dantos and herries about dantos and herries I mean she she's they got her outside right well dantis has a mixed bag she's slow but she has a nice turnaround Jumper in the post which very few players in the WNBA have and it's not a hard shot when you're doing it from 12 feet away but she was shooting 33% career-wise and 33% this year coming into this game from three so it's not bad but she took five and missed all five and she forced one with two two Enders right in front of her I have no idea it wasn't like she was hot it wasn't like a heat check like Steph Curry and then she bricked two open wide open ones in the fourth quarter so they they just don't have a lot of depth right now until F benley plays better and and Smith checks back in she's not there mentally Rob and in Boston she she didn't have a great game she she usually has a lot of assists at least like four or five assists she only had one well she rebounded well but she just she was she was 5 for 11 but it seemed worse than that she missed some easy shots and hands right yeah I don't know she she has to strengthen up their hand because when she's in the post sometimes the ball gets knocked out of her hands too easily now sometimes it's a fou doesn't get C but she needs to strengthen up so same thing with Hall they need to do strength exercises for their hands right right but the one thing is Mark the fever is a young team you know they played against a really good team you know and and just like unlike the other teams when they interviewed about how the other players are Caitlyn Clark you know was gave R gave Raves to the U and props to the links teams they were a great team they were good well coached you know so that's all that's just her but Mitchell what I like is that Mitchell is really kind of bonded with her too hopefully I I I don't think she'll leave I think she really does like uh Caitlyn Clark now she really does yeah let's go over it Mitchell was two for 10 from threes but has some really nice two-point baskets and dri to the basket she made like two really nice drives to the basket and she was eight for 17 and hadit 21 points but she had one great assist uh in to the in the post like a pocket pass and she actually passed it to Clark passed it back to Clark a couple times so it's like she didn't play poorly but her three-point shot was off um Clark was eight for8 three for eight from threes four for four in the line she had five rebounds eight assists and a steal and had 23 points but she was a minus 13 and they lost by 10 so but Mitchell was a minus 17 because the second quarter is when they went on a run there but I don't think it was because wheeler was in there I just think it's because she had Hall in there and um also tamy played some in the second quarter and so tamy was off she seemed a little lost out there because she just came back from an injury so I'm not going to jump on her case but she got five rebounds in 16 minutes so and she scored Four Points she was two for four so but she's um she's gonna be valuable when she gets back into practice Rob right right I don't think Wallace is such a bad player that she shouldn't play I don't know how you go from getting you know 25 too many 25 minutes a game which is way too many to zero she wasn't playing that poorly she thought she was a lock down Defender and now she now she's not even worth getting minutes or to give a spell to say I don't know to give a spell to Mitchell or something like that right you know and again I don't know wheeler should be playing six minutes and Clark should be playing 34 and that's it very simple concept he plays six minutes when Clark's not in there and then you can rotate Hall and Mitchell and you can get some playing time to Wallace because if they're going to run they have to have depth and I don't know Burger because she hasn't played her all year I don't know how good she is right I have no idea she played more minutes last year because well Clark wasn't there because she was like back of point guard last year so I have no idea but if they have to have depth you know Unfortunately they don't have a lot of depth so they have to play dantis but she's not good when Clark wants to run because she's too slow klier was great she was 12 for 18 only one for four for threes but she also had five rebounds and she's been 31 points and this is how stupid it is for her not to have started Hall over samon or Melissa Smith the last since the break since they came back from the Olympics klier has scored 17 points 30 23 27 and 31 and she shot 66% 73% 60% 81% and 46% in those five games so she's been on fire like like no one else in the league what does she do she puts the worst big Court defender on her in the beginning of the game and wonders why they were getting blown out in the beginning of the first quarter it's mind Bing this is this is not complicated stuff Rob I have to really question her IQ and not just her coaching ability but her I put your best defender on the best offensive player well she put their worst defender on so you know it's so silly yeah I think she she got she got back maybe she's dyslexic I don't know but um she did it wrong right so I I think Clark had an okay game and she had a great second quarter she shot she shot okay she just started out cold but she needs to be in the second half she only took five shots and one was like with less than a minute left so she really only took like four shots she needs to shoot she was passing too much in the second half she needs to be more assertive there was times where she like did a step back she did a fake out the the defender and then she didn't shoot she drove to the basket or passed or something like that so I don't know why she was hesitant in the second half to shoot be a little more selfish I mean be a little more selfish if you're the best shooter on a team you got to shoot it I mean but that's part of coaching too you you take him aside you know you say hey you're the you're the best shooter on a team shoot the ball you know don't p i mean passing is fine yeah you're good passer but if you're open you get you know shoot the ball so anybody who's saying on the internet I've heard dur some like rumors about that people actually saying that's the internet that Christy side should be coach of the year you're delusion is still clueless the only reason this team has been winning is because they're playing K and Clark's offense and they have some Talent that's the only reason they're winning they're winning despite Christy sides all right he did do some good team chemistry stuff in the break we'll give her that they won the two games against two good teams on the way back but not because of her I'm not giving her any credit until she shows me that she knows how to do just basic substitutions she did call a good timeout in the third quarter like she didn't wait till they scored 20 straight points in the third quarter she called a good timeout and what did she do she left the starters in though she left the starters in that were got blown out in the beginning of the first quarter and the beginning of the third quarter why didn't she start Hall in the second half why did she feel obligated to have the same starting lineup in the second half she she is terrible at in-game adjustments she is not a good coach like I said again Mark I give you props you've never coached a basketball game in your life and you've already figured out what she should be doing you're you're saying exactly what I should be saying and most other people what do you why don't you why don't you start Hall start her or and also why why you why you have her on the bench and have somebody else in there to try to guard the best offensive player it's like what what are you thinking I I I have no confidence that they're going to pull an upset in the playoffs with her as coach it could happen because it's best of three Kon Clark could have a couple great games or whatever Mitchell could go off or whatever Boston go off but I don't have a lot of confidence that she's a good enough coach to lead them to an upset I don't know if they're playing if they play the sun of Liberty they're in big trouble they're in big trouble well right now it looks like they're going to play the lyns or the Sun and those AR those aren't teams they're gonna two out of three real lucky you know it could happen like I said it's a short series it's the first round if you don't know it's best of three and then it's best of five for the semis in the finals but unfortunately like I said Mark they their problem is that they are a young team and they've never been there before and that's what that's what happens along with the coaching is not that great because they're a young team they haven't been in those situations before yeah well she's gonna she's in running for coach of the year so you know I gotta kind of build her up a little um as far as I can see she's the worst coach in the league but I I don't know for sure but from what I observed she does too many dumb things she's totally clueless and tell me what tell me what she does well I don't know not not you're asking me nothing coach of the year yeah they had won 10 of 15 and four or five but again it's not because of her oh no she got a talented young team and citn Clark that's why they're winning exactly and because they're a unique team because of Caitlyn Clark that can run and do the uptempo fast-pace offense which is very difficult for teams to deal with right you know they have three All Stars so that's that's why they're winning so all right you're insane yeah the camera work there was this one pass from Clark to Lexi and it was a great pass although we didn't really see it because the camera was so slow it didn't get to underneath the camera so camera work wasn't very good NBA TV I know there're smaller network but that's no excuse really so they're going to be doing our next there's been complains people are complaining people are complaining about that Mark with NBA TV uh because they should have they said this should have been a Nally National broadcaster game of course but they put on NBA TV because of stream ging rights they want to make money so a lot of people could not see this game 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