As the WNBA’s regular season comes to a close, the 22-year-old Fever guard is closing out an influential and impressive rookie campaign unlike any other.
Start with a full-court pass. Start with something almost no one else could see. Start with her feet just past the logo, finding her way out of a trap, sinking a signature bucket. Start with her scrambling past a defender, catching and shooting from the corner, her body falling away in a shot that is miraculously good enough to make up for all of the mechanical rules it breaks.
But underneath all of that conversation, of course, Clark was hooping. And on the other side of some early growing pains——she has become simply too good to ignore. Put aside everything off the court for a moment. Clark has started to grow into the player that was promised. The core of that is still what made her so effective in college at Iowa. It’s her shooting range, yes, but it’s more so her vision and her ability to facilitate. She’s no longer as vexed by professional defenses as she was in her first weeks in the league. The same traps and blitzes that stymied her in the early going no longer prove quite so effective. Clark returned after the Olympic break notably stronger and smarter on the floor.
A Fever squad that originally looked stiff and disjointed has found its identity over the last few weeks. They’ve picked up the pace and ditched much of their reliance on forced set plays. Kelsey Mitchell is playing some of the best basketball of her career. Aliyah Boston, the 2023 Rookie of the Year, has grown more assertive in the paint and found her chemistry with Clark.
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