Impact of Caitlin Clark on Indiana Fever's Performance

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00:00Coach, I want to close out with this.

00:04I think it's an important conversation to have.

00:07And you're very educated on this, obviously, being a coach of women's basketball, and I

00:10am not.

00:11I'm on the outside looking in.

00:12I don't want to go back to Patrick Ewing, but I'm going to go back to like Yao Ming,

00:16Shaquille O'Neal, you know, Tim Duncan, first overall picks in the draft.

00:21They go into the NBA.

00:22I'm not saying they win the championship by any stretch, coach, but they immediately,

00:26as generational type players, make the team better.

00:29Why has Katelyn Clark not made the Indiana Fever better?

00:32It's unequivocal.

00:33They're 1-8.

00:34They are not a good team.

00:35What has happened here?

00:36I would blame some of it on the coaching, and I would blame it on the fact that the

00:41players from last year aren't playing as well as they have.

00:44Now, let's just, Smith, you know, you can look at Aaliyah Boston, right?

00:50They have not played as well as they have, and it's put a lot of pressure on Katelyn

00:54Clark, who's used to treating it the same as Indiana.

00:57Now, when people bring up a guy like Shaq, whose team won 20 more games this year, I'm

01:01going to say this, folks.

01:03She is one of the best, if not the best, player to ever come out of college.

01:09Do I think she's Tarazi good?

01:11No.

01:12Do I think she's Candace Parker good?

01:14No.

01:15I'm talking about their game as it translates to the next level.

01:19Katelyn Clark will be better.

01:20She is one of the 20 best players in the WNBA, but she's not the best player in the sport,

01:25and I will say this.

01:27Her teammates and her coach have to do a better job of helping her make that team a better

01:31team.