{"id":914824,"date":"2026-09-30T03:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914824\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:04:17","slug":"caitlin-clark-reveals-fevers-mindset-in-win-vs-aces-to-avoid-elimination-in-2026-wnba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914824\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark Reveals Fever&#8217;s Mindset in Win vs. Aces to Avoid Elimination in 2026 WNBA Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever saved their season on Tuesday night, beating the Las Vegas Aces 99-89 and set up a decisive Game 3 on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">&#8220;The way I looked at it, your back&#8217;s up against the wall,&#8221; Clark <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/50063312\/clark-monster-effort-helps-fever-force-game-3-aces\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters<\/a> after the win. &#8220;This is the only opportunity you&#8217;re guaranteed to have is these 40 minutes, and you know you&#8217;re going to go down swinging if you&#8217;re going to lose. But I think we had the mentality like this was one we were going to win, no matter what and do it for our fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Clark was brilliant in the contest, putting up 27 points and 15 assists. She was so good that she already had a double-double by halftime, making her the first player in WNBA playoff history to have a points-assist double-double in the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">&#8220;I thought her energy from start to finish\u2014I mean a double-double in the first half\u2014was pretty incredible,&#8221; Fever head coach Stephanie White told reporters. &#8220;The way she moved the ball, attacked from multiple positions. &#8230; You always expect to be able to make shots and facilitate. But I thought how she managed the game was really good and her defensive energy I thought was terrific. It&#8217;s what we need from her.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever saved their season on Tuesday night, beating the Las Vegas Aces 99-89&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-914824","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\/914824","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=914824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}