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WNBA Rookies Shine: Reese & Clark Lead Epic Showdown
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6/24/2024
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WNBA is certainly heating up. We had a good, good schedule yesterday. Four games on the
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card. Now, record-wise, this game we're going to talk about, maybe not the best one, but
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if you want to talk about anticipation-wise, the people were ready to go. It was the Sky
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Fever yesterday, and it did not disappoint. 88-87, Sky over the Fever, with a big comeback.
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Superstar performances by Angel Rees, 25 points, 16 rebounds. Katelyn Clark-Chipton with 17
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points, 13 assists, and 6 rebounds in that game. We saw everything we wanted, including
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an atmosphere that was charged and ready to go, and the superstars didn't disappoint.
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The WNBA, that rookie class, Ben, really giving it to us now.
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Really giving it, and that's really the candy I'll ask, because so much expectation was
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paid into these rookies entering. Katelyn Clark, Angel Rees, unfortunate for Tam Brink
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that her season has come to a close, but across the league, also in Chicago, Camila
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Cardoso, Nika Mule now with the Seattle Storm. So many rookies on display, and they have
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all risen to the occasion. Let's focus on what happened yesterday in Chicago. Indiana,
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after playing 11 games in the first 20 days of the WNBA season, often against the Sun,
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the Liberty, the Aces, it was a grueling gauntlet for Katelyn Clark, Leah Boston, and the rest
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of the Fever to get their feet wet here in 2024. They were 2-9, but starting to find
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their footing. They entered yesterday on a 4-game win streak, victorious in 5 of their
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last 6, as they have had some more time to develop, and seemed as though they would make
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it 5 straight wins, up by 11 at the start of the 4th, up by as many as 12, but enter
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Angel Rees, who Katelyn Clark is doing historic things, as expected. Angel Rees, matching
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those words as well. 25 points, 16 rebounds yesterday. The first rookie, Donnie, since
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Asia Wilson, during her rookie campaign back in 2018, to post a 25-point, 15-rebound performance.
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Angel Rees, 8 consecutive double-doubles. That is a record for a WNBA rookie in the
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history of the league for the most consecutive double-doubles. Nobody's had more than 6 in
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a row. Rees has 8, and Katelyn Clark, not bad on the other side. 5 triples, 17 points,
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13 dimes. Chicago came all the way back for a victory. Indiana does cover as a slight
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2.5-point underdog, but you look at the 3 games between these 2 that have dueled both
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in college basketball, LSU and Iowa, the national championship game in 2023, of course an Elite
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8 matchup in the 2024. Big dance now 3 times here in their WNBA careers. All 3 games decided
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by 8 points or less. 2 of the 3 decided by just a single point. And Donnie, as you well
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know, because you were tuned in for the final 4th quarter last week in the matchup between
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these 2 clubs in Indianapolis, it might have been 8 points at the end, but it was much
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tighter throughout the final few minutes of regulation. It is a rivalry between Katelyn
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Clark and Angel Rees, and although the discourse has gotten out of hand at times, the actual
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basketball played between these 2 and their teams has been sensational. And again, you
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set high expectations for things and people in your life, often they do not match said
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expectations. Both Clark and Rees are rising above the expectations that were already a
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very high bar to clear.
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