The Indiana Fever won their third straight game with an 88-81 victory over the Washington Mystics at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
Here are three observations:
We continue to improve. After a brutal start, the fever is back on track.
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Indiana fever is slowly heating up in the WNBA.
After starting the season 2-9 in 11 games in 20 days, the Heat have now won five of their last seven games, three in a row. Indiana is in the playoff race, sitting in eighth place with a 6-10 record.
And they’re getting close to something they haven’t done in nine years: four straight wins. Indiana won four straight in 2015, when the Tulsa Shock were still alive and Indiana legend Tamika Catchings was still playing. The Fever will win four in a row on Friday in Atlanta – the same team they beat earlier this week.
Yes, all of their wins so far have come against teams from the bottom half of the WNBA, including the Dream, Chicago Sky and Washington Mystics. But collecting wins is very important for a young team like the Fever, and they are doing it well.
Four consecutive fevers
For the second straight game, each of Indiana’s top four players finished the game in double figures: Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchel each had 22, Caitlin Clark had 18 and NaLyssa Smith had 11. Although this is the second game in a row this has happened, it is only twice that the Fever have managed to put all their stars – two 1st picks and two 2nd picks – together. .
Clark and Boston’s pick-and-roll and post-entry game continue to develop: Boston started the game 3-on-3 from the field while Clark started with three assists. Clark also flirted with a triple-ouble on Wednesday for the second long game, finished with 16 points, 12 rebounds and six assists.
With 11 games in 20 days, the Fever had a strong start to the offseason and a short program period. Now, with four games in 16 days, Indiana has had time to develop a new offensive plan and learn how to work together with the game experience to support it.
