Caitlin Clark has rare shooting woes as Fever fall to Valkyries following fiery Sun matchup

The Indiana Fever did not person to travel to Caitlin Clark’s defence this time, but the Golden State Valkyries did not marque it casual connected her connected Thursday night. 

Clark, coming disconnected a crippled that progressive a batch of extracurricular enactment aft the whistle betwixt herself and the Connecticut Sun, was not her accustomed sharp-shooting aforesaid successful the Fever’s 88-77 nonaccomplishment to the Valkyries connected the road. 

Clark shot conscionable 3-of-14 from the field, including her 7 failed three-point attempts going done the hoop, arsenic the Fever ended up blowing a 13-point pb successful this crippled to autumn to 6-6 connected the year. 

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Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana Fever, dribbles against Laeticia Amihere, #3 of the Golden State Valkyries, successful the archetypal 4th astatine Chase Center connected June 19, 2025 successful San Francisco. (Eakin Howard/Getty Images)

Clark tallied 11 points, 9 assists and 7 rebounds, portion turning the shot implicit six times to Golden State. 

While Clark struggled from beyond the arc, her teammates did not fare that overmuch better. As a team, the Fever changeable conscionable 8-of-29 from three-point land, with Sophie Cunningham, who had been dubbed Clark’s "bodyguard" connected the tribunal aft the erstwhile crippled against the Sun, being the lone 1 to deed much than 1 of her attempts. 

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Meanwhile, the Valkyries, led by Kayla Thornton’s 16-point nighttime with 5 three-pointers, present ain the aforesaid 6-6 record.  

Golden State besides saw large contributions disconnected the bench, with Tiffany Hayes (14 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds), Chloe Bibby (12 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist) and Laeticia Amihere (10 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists) each helping their squad flooded a double-digit shortage successful the end. 

For Indiana, Aliyah Boston led the squad with 17 points, portion Kelsey Mitchell (16 points) and Natasha Howard (13 points) each landed successful treble digits successful that category. However, turnovers played a ample origin successful the Fever losing their lead, arsenic the Valkyries forced 17 full portion committing conscionable seven. 

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark, #22, handles the shot against Golden State Valkyries guardant Kayla Thornton, #5, during the archetypal 4th astatine Chase Center. (Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images)

This uncharacteristic show from Clark specifically comes aft getting poked successful the oculus and being shoved to the crushed successful a precise carnal WNBA Commissioner’s Cup crippled against the Sun connected Tuesday night. 

Clark was being guarded by Jacy Sheldon erstwhile the Sun defender poked her successful the eye, and the Fever superstar retaliated by pushing her away. 

That led to the Sun’s Marina Mabrey moving implicit and shoving Clark to the crushed portion her backmost was turned. A skirmish broke out, but it would not beryllium the extremity for some teams. 

Later successful the game, Cunningham wrapped up Sheldon portion she was trying to people a handbasket successful the 4th quarter, and it escalated to the constituent erstwhile some players got ejected aft their carnal altercation underneath the hoop. 

Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana Fever, prepares to sprout a escaped propulsion during the crippled against the Golden State Valkyries connected June 19, 2025 astatine Chase Center successful San Francisco. (Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images)

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Indiana ended up winning the game, 88-71, with Clark totaling 20 points and six assists. It was conscionable her 2nd crippled since returning from injury. 

However, this surely is not the mode Clark oregon the Fever wanted to respond aft that chippy crippled against the Sun. Their adjacent accidental to get backmost successful the triumph file volition beryllium Sunday against the Las Vegas Aces. 

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