Indiana Fever Triumphs Over Phoenix Mercury on the Road
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00:00Indiana gets the better of Phoenix on the road as the Fever continue to win basketball
00:08games after that adjustment period in the W. 88-82 outright on the road in Phoenix,
00:14knocking off the Mercury.
00:17What was your reaction, J-Y, to what you saw yesterday in the desert?
00:20Well, to me, you know, neither one of the two shot the ball well.
00:25You know, Kaitlin Clark or Dinah Tarazi combined, I think 9 of 28 from the floor, 4 of 20, I
00:32do believe, from 3.
00:33So neither one of them played particularly well.
00:35But to me, it was just a team in Indiana, Ben, you said it best, they're just getting
00:40better.
00:41They're getting better.
00:42They're finding themselves ways to win, and they're competitive.
00:45But it's also the fact that when they don't have Kaitlin Clark go off, they're finding
00:51ways to beat you other ways.
00:53Obviously, you look at the way Melissa Smith going with a 12-15 double-double.
00:58Aaliyah Boston, who I've talked about, as she starts to play better, the team elevates
01:0317-8.
01:04Kelsey Mitchell with a big 3-pointer, I think inside of 40 seconds, 30 seconds to give them
01:09the lead.
01:10They're playing well.
01:11And a team that I was looking at saying that they have to go on this West Coast trip or
01:16this broad game road trip, and they had to win at least two of them, well, now they got
01:20their second.
01:21So to me, now they're looking at playing at Las Vegas tomorrow, be a big match, but
01:27Las Vegas team is playing better, but still are up and down at times, and then home New
01:31York.
01:32Then their schedule lightens up a little bit before they get ready for the Olympic break
01:35on the 17th.
01:36They're playing better, but it's more team cohesive basketball that they don't have to
01:41rely on Kaitlin Clark, Ben, to score, rebound, and get assists.
01:45If she doesn't score, other players can pick up the slack.