Indiana Fever head coach Christie Sides drew the anger of WNBA fans on Thursday night when she recommended that star rookie Caitlin Clark should shoot the ball more.
Her comments came after Clark shot the ball fair nine times in an 89-77 misfortune to the Seattle Storms. Fair two of her field objective endeavors came within the moment half.
“Caitlin Clark should shoot at minimum 15 shots a game for us. She’s gotta get shots, we have to be do distant better;a much better;a higher;a stronger;an improved”>a much better job of setting her up and setting a few truly great screens for her to induce her open.”
Clark has taken 223 field objective endeavors hence distant this season. That positions 11th within the WNBA. But her 11.7 field objective endeavors per amusement positions exterior the best 15 within the association.
Fans put fault on both Clark’s partners and Sides for the need of shots from the whiz rookie.
“Between Aliyah Boston’s best companion tossing shade at CC’s play fashion and NaLyssa shouting ‘everyone eats’ idk why we are stunned. Her colleagues have fixed her amusement. All their complaining has turned into this detached play style,” one fan tweeted.
“She was doing that early within the season at that point you chosen it was all around ‘paint touches’ and you turned her into Developmental Steve Nash, presently you need her to go back to the primary 9 diversions? Shaddup,” said another.
Clark averaged 13.6 field goal attempts per diversion over the primary nine recreations of the season. In spite of the fact that Indiana won fair one of those games. Indiana is 6-4 in its last 10 diversions, but Clark is averaging fair over 10 field goal endeavors per game in that extend.
Something has need to deliver. And it shows up that Sides isn’t precisely beyond any doubt what that “something” is.
In the mean time, partner Kelsey Mitchell has taken 245 shots, an normal of 13.6 endeavors per amusement.
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