{"id":912521,"date":"2026-09-28T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912521\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:58:09","slug":"stephanie-white-assigns-blame-after-caitlin-clark-indiana-fevers-wnba-playoff-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912521\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie White Assigns Blame After Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever&#8217;s WNBA Playoff Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach Stephanie White didn\u2019t hold back in her assessment of the Indiana Fever\u2019s performance in their blowout loss to the Las Vegas Aces in Game 1 of their first-round series in the WNBA playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnba.com\/game\/ind-vs-lva-1042600121\/box-score\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trailed by as many as 27 points<\/a> in Las Vegas\u2019 102-85 win, unable to find a way to slow down superstar forward A\u2019ja Wilson. The four-time MVP exploded for 38 points on 15-of-19 shooting, along with 16 rebounds, two assists, two steals and four blocks.<\/p>\n<p>No one from the Fever reached the 20-point mark, with Aliyah Boston leading the team in scoring with 18 points. Caitlin Clark finished with 15 points on an abysmal 6-of-17 shooting, although she did record 10 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Following the heartbreaking loss, White addressed the Fever\u2019s shortcomings and pointed to their turnovers as a major factor in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana committed 16 turnovers and allowed Las Vegas to score 28 points off those mistakes. Clark accounted for six of those turnovers, a team-high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Stephanie White didn\u2019t hold back in her assessment of the Indiana Fever\u2019s performance in their blowout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-912521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912521","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=912521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}