INDIANAPOLIS (WRTV) — After a three-week break from WNBA motion because of the FIBA World Cup video games in Germany, Fever guard Caitlin Clark is again with the staff after successful the gold medal alongside Aliyah Boston and Stephanie White with Group USA.
After wrapping up the six-game slate capped off by Group USA’s 97-79 win over France within the gold medal sport, Clark mirrored on what she gained after spending the previous couple of weeks with a few of the greatest gamers in right this moment’s sport.
“I feel simply being round individuals which might be winners,” Clark stated. “You study the issues that make them tick and the best way they put together for video games. I feel for myself it was actually enjoyable being round Stewie [Breanna Stewart]. Any individual that’s gained at each single degree she’s ever performed at and gained Olympic Golds and World Cup titles. I feel her management and calming presence if you get within the moments which might be actually troublesome.”
With simply 4 common season video games left on the schedule and the playoffs approaching in underneath two weeks, Clark described how her FIBA World Cup expertise ready her for what’s to come back.
“The type and the physicality is slightly bit completely different however I feel on the similar time, you’re making an attempt to win,” Clark stated. “It’s a 40-minute basketball sport. That’s all the identical. You solely have one alternative to try this. Issues are going to go fallacious. It’s the way you alter. How do you alter issues on the fly? For instance, within the France sport, we have been down eleven, after which we have been capable of come again. I feel it simply reveals no sport is ever over. There’s going to be moments which might be actually good and moments which might be actually unhealthy. How do you make up for these? How do you alter these moments when issues aren’t nice?”
After representing Group USA in Europe, Clark described the expertise as a “pinch me” second, and one thing 16-year-old Clark could be without end grateful for.
“It meant so much,” Clark stated. “I’ve worn the USA jersey on the junior nationwide staff degree, however attending to do it on the senior nationwide staff degree. I keep in mind these conversations once we have been younger, once we have been 15 years previous, taking part in my first time at U-16 USA Basketball they usually speak about how solely a few us will make our senior nationwide staff debut and there’s 120 children standing within the room making an attempt out to make the U-16 staff. Now, to be a kind of, it’s a pinch-me second. It’s tremendous cool and attending to be round individuals who have already gained gold medals.”
After returning to the observe courtroom this week, Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever hit the street to tackle the Toronto Tempo on Friday evening, September 18th.
