Caitlin Clark hopes to get out of a mini shooting slump and help the Indiana Fever to another WNBA Commissioner’s Cup championship.The in-season tournament begins this week with the Fever trying to become the first team to repeat as champions. They’ll need more from their superstar guard to have a chance. Indiana has dropped two straight games with Clark struggling from the field. She was a combined 4-for-19 from the field — the worst two-game stretch in her young career.Clark played just 22 minutes in a loss to Portland on Saturday as she got into foul trouble. She finished the game with just a season-low six points.“It’s hard when you foul, and you know, I just need to do a better job being straight up, keep the defender in front of me ... just move my feet a little bit better and yeah, definitely some tough ones,” Clark said after the Portland loss. “But it’s just basketball, just a game, you know? Learn from it, watch the film and come back next game and be ready to go.”
Indiana won last season’s Commissioner’s Cup without Clark, who was sidelined with an injury, when the Fever beat Minnesota. In the five years of the tournament, there have been five different champions. Only Las Vegas has gone on to win the WNBA Finals the same season — doing so in 2022.
