{"id":4323,"date":"2025-06-07T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:19:10","slug":"rivals-face-again-without-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/2025\/06\/07\/rivals-face-again-without-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivals Face Again Without Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Indiana Fever have a problem, and it isn’t he current injury to their star in Caitlin Clark<\/strong> – whose aiming to be reevaluated over this weekend; The problem lies in Natasha Howard<\/strong>, whose archetype as a scorer has become problematic for the Indiana offense. Howard last season shot just 26% from non-Paint looks, and this season is 1\/13<\/strong> off those looks. The issue with this is when she shares the court with Aliyah Boston<\/strong>, as that allows the defense to swarm AB and keep the paint packed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Cunningham<\/strong> also joining today’s inactive list for Indiana, White can only turn to Dantas<\/strong> and Bonner<\/strong> to stretch the floor while maintaining enough size to guard Angel Reese<\/strong>. Would love to see a Dantas lineup especially, as Bonner<\/strong> has a team-low -3.6 +\/- on the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without Cunningham, it is Sydney Colson<\/strong> slated as the starting guard. However, Colson’s age has been showing in her repeated injuries and low gas tank. Welcome Aari McDonald<\/strong>, who just ran 27 minutes vs The Mystics and notched 5 assists along with 7 points and 3 steals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sky’s defense has ranked Bottom 3 against all things handling, including PnR Ball Handlers, Off Screen, Handoff and Isolation. This is screaming for another good game for Kelsey Mitchell<\/strong>, who loves to operate as an offball scorer so her speed can be best utilized downhill. She has opened each of her last 3 meetings with 8+ 1Q points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago’s offense has come together, with three games now at a -5 or better, compared to their average -24.3<\/strong> in their first three games. Two key things happened here:
– Angel Reese<\/strong> notched her season-low in potential assists last game (5), and in turn got to be a lot more aggressive in offball drives. She produced 13 FGA.
– Vandersloot<\/strong> finally gets to be what she has built her entire career to be: a passer. She has notched 9 APG across her last three games, with 19+ potentials in each of those three games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago’s change on how they are initiating their offense should remain true today, as Reese<\/strong> can thrive inside. Bigs have been dominated Indiana: Iriafen 18 PPG, Jonquel 26 Pts, Charles 18 Pts, Brionna 17 Pts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Indiana Fever have a problem, and it isn’t he current injury to their star in Caitlin Clark – whose aiming to be reevaluated over this weekend; The problem lies in Natasha Howard, whose archetype as a scorer has become problematic for the Indiana offense. Howard last season shot just 26% from non-Paint looks, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-betting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4330,"href":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions\/4330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themoneyballer.com\/access\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}