THE Indiana Fever are struggling for wins within the absence of Caitlin Clark, and teammates try to make sense of it.

Star participant Sophie Cunningham has boiled the Fever‘s struggles all the way down to crew accidents.

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Clark is now down along with her second damage of the season, and it’s clearly affecting the crew.

“I feel to this point this season we have handled a number of distractions,” Cunningham stated.

“Some accidents… do not know who’s taking part in.”

Whereas the crew is battling accidents, Cunningham stated it may be good in the long term for the Fever to cope with adversity early within the season.

“However I feel that’s actually good for us. Let’s undergo the adversity early, let’s be taught from it,” she stated.

“The excellent news is we’re not gonna peak too early, so I imply that’s a optimistic. It’s not an excuse.

“Everybody’s taking part in a back-to-back, everybody has this sort of tough schedule.

“For us, it’s one other alternative tomorrow, and we’ve received to capitalize on it.

“We’re circled on all people’s schedule. Nobody likes us, proper? So everybody in our locker room, that’s the one sort of those that we’ve that we will lean on.

“Now we have received to remain disciplined, we’ve to remain centered, we have to get constant, and we received to lean on one another.

“And I feel we’ve form of wavered on that.”

The Fever are 7-8 on the season following a loss to the LA Sparks regardless of main going into the fourth quarter.

Indiana was outscored 35-17 within the fourth earlier than struggling the loss.

Cunningham joined the Fever this offseason by way of a commerce, and has but to be impressed by her new squad.

All-WNBA first and second crew

THE 10 greatest gamers within the WNBA have been chosen and named to the All-WNBA first and second crew.

First crew:

• Caitlin Clark – Indiana Fever
• Napheesa Collier – Minnesota Lynx
• Breanna Stewart – New York Liberty
• Alyssa Thomas – Connecticut Solar
• A’ja Wilson – Las Vegas Aces

Second crew:

• Kahleah Copper – Phoenix Mercury
• Sabrina Ionescu – New York Liberty
• Jonquel Jones – New York Liberty
• Arike Ogunbowale – Dallas Wings
• Nneka Ogwumike – Seattle Storm

She has known as out modifications that have to be made throughout the locker room to strengthen the crew.

The crew must cope with the lack of Clark whereas they make these modifications.

The Fever are 2-4 this season with out Clark on the court docket.

There may be nonetheless no phrase on whether or not or not she’s going to play in opposition to the Dallas Wings on Friday.