Ruling out Caitlin Clark’s return a ‘big picture’ call, Fever say

Indianapolis – Indiana fever Coach Stephanie White said on Friday that she expects the star Cetleen ClarkeThe second season in the second season will be a blip on the radar for his career and Clarke will learn from experiencing adverseness so quickly as a supporter.

“There is a hunger and drive that is not played and does not want to do so again,” Clarke officially said Clarke officially dismissed Clarke officially for the season. “So what it looks from the perspective of a training, it looks from a mentality point of view, from a preparation point of view, [is] Just as much [impactful] As you learn about sports and your peers. ,

Clarke, 2024 number 1 pick, was limited to 13 games this year and did not play from July 15, when he faced the right waist injury in the last minute of the fever win. Connecticut sunHe was sidelined in the year with injuries to left quad and left groin in the first year, and in the August exercise, he suffered a bone injury in his right ankle that had to recurrently with his waist.

White said on Friday that the team had a “initial conversation” what a continuous rehabilitation of Clarke would look through the end of the season, but would talk more well about the offsen scheme once once of the fever season.

White said Clarke “was working” to be able to get his butt back “, and the team’s recent road travel for the West Coast was an important opportunity for the fever of whether they could take her to the floor with contact and build their endurance at a higher level over a high level in consecutive days, white said.

But Indiana ended on Tuesday with a regular season and a playoff berth, away from the guarantee, feel that they had run out of time.

White said, “We were not just able to reach the location where we thought we needed to be able to participate at this level.” “Something is physical, rehabilitation and all of them, and some of them are patient and capable of playing at the level that takes it enough to play the endurance back, because all these sports are like the playoff game right now. There is urgency and a level of feeling that they are playing.”

Prior to this season, Clarke did not remember a game during his college career or his crook campaign in WNBA during his college career, which ended with the earnings of All-WNBA first-team honors and finished fourth in MVP voting. But a second season that began with such a promise saw that Clarke failed to appear in more than five consecutive sports, bypassing for the WNBA All-Star festival of Indianapolis and finally recalled the last eight weeks of the season.

White said, “Just all injuries that she had, and she keeps herself in a position to play in the quantity of work and then eventually, to be able to make this decision, is disappointed.” “There is a clear frustration that comes with not being healthy, in fact, for an entire season. But finally, I think the big picture is the most important thing, and they are the conversation that we have. And the message continues that his long -term health and well -being, and when he is ready to leave, he is 100%, the most important thing.”

Clarke is the fifth fever player to go out for the season due to injury Saw mcdonald (Feet), Sydney Kolson (Knee), Sophie Cunningham (Knee) and Chloe Bibbi (Knee). But Indiana (22-20) is still within the reach of the second consecutive playoff berths and is competing together. Seattle Storm And Los angeles sparks For one of the two remaining places.

Fever defeated Chicago sky 97-77 on Friday. They will take Washington Mistics On the road on Sunday and Minnesota Links At home at the conclusion of his regular session on Tuesday.