Caitlin Clark helped the Fever win their fourth consecutive recreation, main a balanced assault Friday evening in Indiana’s 91-79 highway win over the Atlanta Dream.
Clark, certainly one of 5 Fever gamers in double figures, scored 16 factors and added seven assists and 4 rebounds as Indiana led wire-to-wire. The No. 1 total decide within the 2024 draft hit 6-of-12 area targets and knocked down 4-of 8 3-pointers, and the Fever workforce as a complete shot 11-for-21 from past the arc.
Clark hit her first bucket of the sport three minutes into the primary quarter, a 3-pointer from the “A” on the Dream’s court docket, to set the tone for the Fever’s excellent capturing evening.
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NaLyssa Smith led Indiana with 21 factors and added 9 rebounds for the Fever (7-10), who’ve gained six of their final eight video games. Kelsey Mitchell added 18 factors, Aliyah Boston had a double-double with 10 factors and 10 rebounds, and Katie Lou Samuelson chipped in 10 factors off the bench.
“We’re simply taking part in collectively. We’re discovering our groove,” Smith stated. “Everyone’s swinging it. Everyone’s passing it to one another. We glance good.”
With Clark main the way in which, the Fever had 24 assists on 37 made area targets, whereas outrebounding the Dream 35-30. Clark, in her seventeenth recreation, surpassed 100 assists in her younger profession and tied legendary level guard Sue Fowl because the third-fastest participant to succeed in that milestone.
Tina Charles, the 2012 WNBA MVP, scored a game-high 24 factors and added seven rebounds for the Dream (6-8), who shattered their single-game dwelling attendance file with 17,575 followers packing a sold-out State Farm Area.
Allisha Grey added 19 factors, Haley Jones 12 and Aerial Powers 10 for an Atlanta workforce lacking main scorer Rhyne Howard, who’s nursing an injured left ankle.