The Indiana Fever are beginning to play a few of their greatest basketball of the season, and are doing so whereas their high participant and largest star — Caitlin Clark — stays sidelined resulting from harm. They scored one other spectacular win on Thursday night time by dominating the Las Vegas Aces, 81-54, to win their third recreation in a row and fourth out of the previous 5.
It was additionally the second straight recreation the place they restricted an opponent to lower than 60 factors, changing into the first team in the WNBA this season to carry opponents underneath 60 factors in back-to-back video games.
What makes these two wins much more spectacular as that they’ve come towards two of the WNBA’s greatest groups in Las Vegas and the Minnesota Lynx.
The very fact Indiana has been doing this lately with Clark sidelined is a testomony to how deep the roster has develop into.
On Thursday all 5 of their starters topped not less than seven factors, together with 4 of them ending with double-digits. Aliyah Boston completed with 20 factors and 7 rebounds, whereas Kelsey Mitchell paced the Fever with 25 factors.
Natasha Howard additionally had an enormous recreation, ending with a double-double by recording 11 factors and 10 rebounds.
That depth was an enormous benefit on Thursday and a stark distinction to what Las Vegas was coping with. Whereas reigning league MVP A’ja Wilson had one other dominant night time offensively with a game-high 29 factors, the Aces didn’t have one different participant report greater than six factors (Jackie Younger).
Las Vegas had its star, and she or he largely shined. She simply did not have any assist round her.
Indiana did not have its star, however the remainder of the crew got here via in an enormous method. That was the distinction.
