{"id":464203,"date":"2026-02-12T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/464203\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:53:10","slug":"indiana-fever-star-caitlin-clark-shares-how-she-tries-to-play-like-luka-doncic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/464203\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark shares how she tries to play like Luka Doncic"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are plenty of men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball players who strive to impact games the way that Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark does.<\/p>\n

With that said, there are also players in the WNBA and NBA whom Clark watches, searching for ways to make her game better.<\/p>\n

One NBA player Caitlin Clark models her game after is Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> superstar Luka Doncic. Clark loves the way Doncic controls the game, whether he is scoring or setting up teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, Luka\u2019s amazing. And he\u2019s incredible, I think, the way he can not only score the ball but also the way he passes,\u201d Clark said<\/a>. \u201cAnd I think the thing about him is like, he\u2019s not the fastest; he\u2019s not the most athletic. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut he can get his defender to move where he wants him to go, and he takes up that space. And he does a really good job of either keeping the defender behind him or keeping him to the side. So I think that\u2019s something I can certainly learn from.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doncic, an MVP candidate, is averaging 32.8 points, 7.8 rebounds and 8.6 assists per game on the season.<\/p>\n

Clark can certainly fill up a stat sheet, too. But she\u2019s also looking to improve as she enters her third season in the WNBA.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always kind of want to run away from the defense, rather than absorbing the contact and taking up the space that they give me,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I think obviously he\u2019s pretty incredible. He averages like a 30-point triple double. So he makes it look pretty easy, but I can promise you it\u2019s not that easy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are plenty of men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball players who strive to impact games the way that Indiana…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-464203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}