Caitlin Clark played the 10th game of her WNBA career on Saturday, which ended with her Indiana Fever barely holding onto a 71-70 win over the Chicago Sky. Clark scored 11 points on 4-of-11 shooting, and the fact that those numbers do not represent the worst performance of her professional career tells you just about all you need to know about how Clark's rookie year has started.
Clark's averaging 17 points, five rebounds, and six assists through her first 10 games, but quite a bit of the shine comes off those numbers when you put them next to these: 37 percent from the field, 31 percent from three-point range, and 5.6 turnovers per game. Clark's looked more like she did at Iowa recently, scoring 30 against the Sparks and 20 against the Storm in consecutive games, and for a moment it looked like Saturday's game would continue the trend. Clark hit her first two shots of the game—signature threes from 28 and 30 feet—but then proceeded to go 2-of-9 the rest of the way.
