Every great team has to deal with a trap game. When you get word the opponent’s best player will be out of action, you sometimes loosen up and let go of the rope. It’s human and it happens to the best of us. If you can avoid the trap, you can handle business in a major way.
Without Caitlin Clark, the Indiana Fever are a much different team. When CC missed the Commissioner’s Cup, the team was able to rally and defeat last year’s Cup winner and WNBA Finals runner up, the Minnesota Lynx. The team was without Clark and this time, they had to do it on the second leg of a road back-to-back against a New York Liberty team looking for some payback.