SEATtle-Indiana fever survived a late race by the Seattle storm on Sunday to keep a 78-74 victory, extending his five-time victories sequence to match the longest fever since August 2015, during the previous race of the coach Stephanie White as the team of the team.
The fever also won five consecutive games last August and September, but this race was led by the goalkeeper Caitlin Clark, who has an average of 24.2 points, 9.2 assists and 6.0 rebounds in the five victories, making 21 totals of 3 points. This sequence occurred entirely without Clark, which went around the last seven games due to a right -off injury.
At the top of 12 to half the fourth quarter on Sunday, Indiana was able to resist a 11-0 race by Seattle which reduced the margin to a point on a game of three points of Skylar Diggins with 2:14 to play.
“I also think that it shows the growth we had as a team because at the start of the season, we were so incoherent, and if the teams had to do it, we would normally lose these matches,” said striker Sophie Cunningham, whose 17 points out of 4 on 5 shots at 3 points were a high since he joined the fever. “Show that we get closer, we trust ourselves – I think it is most that is to trust and know that we can win these games even if they take place.”
Said White: “I was proud of our group for the way we stayed – not only together, because we are still together – but how we even stayed and we went down and we went to the next game. We made big games in the key moments that allowed us to win the ball game.”
The storm had several opportunities to link the scoring. During the last 1:07 of the fourth quarter, Seattle missed five points of 3 points which could have equalized the score, culminating with the attempted Gabby Williams going out in the last five seconds. Aliyah Boston, who had a sixth consecutive double-double (16 points, 12 rebounds) obtained the Miss to end the threat.
“My stomach was making Flips there,” said White. “I had the impression that they had done a very good job to do. We did not do a job as well to anticipate the action and communicate screens. You know, we were lucky that they did not fall.”
For the storm, Sunday was a second defeat this weekend decided in the last seconds. On Friday, Seattle lost against the sparks of Los Angeles at home in double extension when Diggins missed the buzzer. The results dropped the storm in sixth in the WNBA ranking, a match behind Indiana.
“I am super proud of our group, having had a difficult match on Friday and returning to put us in the position to win the match,” said Seattle Noelle Quinn coach. “I thought we had very well executed by finding the looks we wanted. For us, we want not only to have moral victories around these particular things.
“We are improving in these areas and we know that these deposits will pay dividends to come, but yes, I think that this group must feel a victory, be rewarded for all their hard work, efforts to put us in this position.”
