Thursday night’s contest between the New York Liberty and Indiana Fever — the first of a home-and-home series — was not the Caitlin Clark Show.
Perhaps much of Indiana’s sell-out crowd expected it to be, and perhaps some of the media did too. The first five questions asked to Liberty Head Coach Sandy Brondello in her pregame presser were about Clark, only a couple of them about the X’s and O’s challenges the rookie star would present.
And Clark is a star, to be sure, but Brondello soon had to make it clear that Clark “is a great young talent, but I think you have to realize the other players, the great players we have around.