On Tuesday night, women’s basketball sensation Caitlin Clark made her WNBA debut with the Indiana Fever, but it’s safe to say it did not go quite as planned for her personally or for her team.
Caitlin Clark finished the game with a staggering 10 turnovers, many of which were completely unforced and were simply glaring mistakes from her. Clark seemed to have a difficult time in her WNBA debut, leading to those turnovers. And she opened up about that after the game.
“I think definitely the physicality,” Clark said when asked what was so difficult for her on Tuesday according to ESPN. “I think also just like some uncharacteristic stuff. Like, I pick up the ball and travel, I dribble off my foot, I pass it on the inbound, I turn it over. So just a few things that are just — you have to be crisper.”
Clark ultimately finished with 20 points, breaking the record for the most points ever scored by a rookie in their WNBA debut, but her turnover issues did not help as the team ultimately fell to the Connecticut Sun by a final score of 92-71. But Clark vows to learn from it.
“I’m disappointed, and nobody likes to lose, but I don’t think you can beat yourself up too much about one game,” Clark said. “I don’t think that’s going to help this team.
“Just learn from it and move on.”
[ESPN]
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