{"id":278622,"date":"2025-11-12T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278622\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:32:08","slug":"becky-hammons-perfect-indiana-fever-assessment-says-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278622\/","title":{"rendered":"Becky Hammon&#8217;s &#8216;Perfect&#8217; Indiana Fever Assessment Says It All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5n\">The Indiana Fever wowed the women&#8217;s basketball community when they took the Las Vegas Aces to the absolute brink in their 2025 WNBA Semifinals series. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5q\">Despite the Fever&#8217;s roster being extremely injury-plagued (including season-ending injuries to Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, and several other important players), the Fever managed to take the Aces to overtime in the winner-take-all Game 5 contest, despite star center Aliyah Boston fouling out earlier in the game, along with Kelsey Mitchell sitting out overtime because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/fever\/news\/kelsey-mitchell-s-wheels-fell-off-health-update-after-fever-game-speaks-volumes-01k6gkch83r2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an injury she suffered<\/a> in the second half. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5t\">This earned the Fever a lot of credit from the WNBA world. It also prompted Aces head coach Becky Hammon to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/fever\/news\/becky-hammon-gives-indiana-fever-flowers-after-aces-wnba-championship-01k7qrc1z8tf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">give the squad their flowers<\/a> during her Aces exit interview on October 16 by saying, &#8220;When you go back and watch those games, I didn&#8217;t feel like it was so much of us playing bad, as they played great. Like, Indiana played great,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=clVuLv-SXe0&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fwnba%2Ffever%2Fnews%2Fbecky-hammon-gives-indiana-fever-flowers-after-aces-wnba-championship-01k7qrc1z8tf&amp;source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per a YouTube video<\/a> from\u00a0The Ballers Magazine.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5w\">&#8220;They had great individual performances, I think they&#8217;re coached great&#8230; that was a very good team, a very resilient team that had just went through Atlanta. Like, I don&#8217;t think, instead of trying to not take away from our credit, why don&#8217;t we give them credit?&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I mean, they&#8217;re a formidable bunch. And I thought they played great.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/01k9wg0mxm9w71a26y20.jpg\" alt=\"Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon on July 8, 2025\" title=\"Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon on July 8, 2025\" width=\"1609\" height=\"905\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full blur-[5px]\" q:id=\"65\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jul 8, 2025; Brooklyn, New York, USA;  Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images | Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Becky Hammon Praises &#8220;Perfect Example&#8221; Indiana Fever<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6c\">Hammon was the guest on a November 12 episode of the Post Moves podcast with Candace Parker and Aliyah Boston. And at one point, she continued her praise of the Fever&#8217;s 2025 season. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6f\">&#8220;The Fever were a perfect example of that,&#8221; Hammon said when speaking about the value of a team staying present and not taking things for granted. &#8220;Like, ups and downs, the resiliency that a team has to go through and grow from. Because you have no point but to get up and go to work tomorrow. That&#8217;s the only option. So it&#8217;s the next person up.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6i\">Hammon later added, &#8220;Indiana, actually, was probably the hardest series I&#8217;ve been through&#8230; I was pissed after Game 5.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6p\">Because she was speaking to Aliyah Boston, she said, &#8220;I&#8217;m sure you were more pissed. But then I went back and watched it&#8230; I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Indiana just played their a**** off.&#8217; Like, you guys played amazing. Can&#8217;t be mad at either team. It was just two teams, blow for blow, back and forth. And both teams really playing at an elite level.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6s\">&#8220;Those were two teams just going at it, in the best way, I thought. Super competitive, down to the wire, obviously, in most of those games. So this one hit different, for sure,&#8221; Hammon added. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6v\">Hammon calling the Fever a &#8220;perfect example&#8221; in assessing how they handled adversity and showed resilience has got to make fans feel good about what this team can accomplish once they get completely healthy in 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Recommended Reading:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Fever wowed the women&#8217;s basketball community when they took the Las Vegas Aces to the absolute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-278622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}