Indiana Fever Clinches Stunning Road Victory Over Minnesota Lynx
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00:00And we start on Sunday in Minneapolis or was it Indianapolis, I'm not entirely sure based
00:09on the crowd yesterday inside the Target Center for the matchup between the Lynx and the Fever.
00:16I didn't hear what I think I just heard anyway actually about the game in front of a large
00:22crowd maybe slightly even skewing to Indy's side of things.
00:27The Fever pick up a huge road victory over the Minnesota Lynx 81-74, Indiana winning
00:33outright as a four and a half point underdog.
00:36Aaliyah Boston 17 points, 16 boards, Kelsey Mitchell the game's leading scorer finishing
00:41with 21 points for the Fever.
00:44Oftentimes, J-Y, things in the WNBA can be more than a basketball game and on the other
00:50side last night from Kaitlin Clark, Aaliyah Boston and Indiana was Minnesota's head coach
00:57Cheryl Reeve who was the head coach of the U.S. women's basketball team getting ready
01:01for the Paris Olympics at the end of this month.
01:05Do you think Indiana was out to make a statement yesterday?
01:10They certainly were and the biggest thing you want to talk about with a young team is
01:14when they get punched in the mouth, do they find a way then to make a run?
01:20Do they find a way to come back and show everyone what they're capable of?
01:26Christy Sides, let's be honest, you and I have both been critical of her at times, especially
01:31defensively and their adjustments or I could say lack thereof, but Ben, that fourth quarter
01:39was a thing of beauty, 28-14 in the fourth quarter, going into that game, down seven
01:45going into fourth and obviously flipping the game on its head after being outscored by
01:50seven in the third quarter and it was a little bit of everyone.
01:55Obviously she did not shoot the ball great in the first three quarters, but hey, knock
02:00down your free throws, knock down your shots, you get ten points obviously out of Kaitlyn
02:05Clark.
02:06Kelsey Mitchell who had to adjust her game like Melissa Smith, like others, also had
02:13to kind of adjust her head well and nine points, but Aliyah Boston, Ben, we've gone over this
02:18time and time again.
02:20This season turned when she turned.
02:23Her and Kaitlyn had to get on the same page, they had to figure out how to play with each
02:27other and now that you get Aliyah basically a double-double machine, I took it yesterday,
02:33I think it was a plus 110, a plus 115 to get a double-double, she has just galvanized this
02:39team and it's allowed Kaitlyn to look at her game and say, okay, I may not shoot the ball
02:43well for three quarters, but I can get my shots in the fourth quarter, I'll get everybody
02:47involved, I'll get the rebounds, I'll do all the other things, I'll facilitate and now
02:53that is making this team, let's be honest, dangerous.
02:57This is two weekends in a row, comeback wins, Minnesota, last weekend a big performance
03:03against the New York Liberty coming behind the last three minutes, Ben, this could be
03:07a team come playoff time, you may not want to see because they're so young and green,
03:12they just won't care.