Connecticut Sun vs. Indiana Fever | FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | August 28, 2024

It's Aaliyah Boston and it's Brianna Jones in the center jump circle. We are underway here from Indianapolis. Fourth and final matchup between Indiana and Connecticut. Turnovers is the last thing that Christy Sides said to her team in shoot-around today is taking care of the basketball, not allowing Connecticut to get extra possessions in transition. Kelsey Mitchell fresh off that season high in Atlanta. The Fever getting a huge win on Monday to get closer to their playoff hopes. And Alyssa Smith flips her first shot in. Harris left alone. Can't connect on a three ball. Fever struggling a bit out of the gates here, keeping control of the ball. And Alyssa Thomas lays it in. Because she's gotten so good at handling and managing and making the right reads. Lana Bonner knocks down a tough shot on the other end. Here's Clark. Boston extra pass. Lexi Hole buries a three. Lexi Hole here out of the Olympic break. Now 11 of 15 from the three-point line. That's 73 percent, but the Fever give it away. And Carrington with the finish. That's Connecticut's fourth turnover. Smith spinning on the baseline and gets it to go. Stephanie White riding with Thomas here with two fouls as Clark gets inside and lays it in. Mitchell does not have numbers trying to push it anyway through a double team. He's sizing up Mabry. Mitchell knocks it down. It was 8-2 when Christy Sides called that timeout. Clark behind the back. Boston right up the middle, and it was blocked by Dawana Bonner. Oh, what a play. Wow. Last woman back as Carrington spins and feeds for Thomas. Fever with a 24 spot here, still over three minutes left in the first quarter. Connecticut goes to their horn set. Oh, nice basket cut by Mabry. She is excellent at reading. Boston taking it inside. Feed to Smith who buries a three. Smith is cut off. Boston into the corner. Mitchell is open and slashes home a three. She's still hot. Indiana looks like they got their focus back. Dangerous pass inside. Smith had it and lost it. Found its way to Carrington who lays it in. And what should have been a turnover for Indiana instead is a three-point play. You don't usually see those two sit next to each other on the Indiana bench. But Wheeler hits a three off the bench. It's contagious. Dropped that, at least right now, to a two-point shot. Lost the handle, stripped away. And shot clock violation. Clark looking inside. Oh, a near impossible angle, but still got it to Boston. Mitchell kind of hanging out there in the paint. Right back for Boston who muscles it in. Harris circling her way around. Sets up Olivia Nelson-Odota who gets it to go. Here is Boston on the shot bait going right back at Odota. Right hand hook shot won't fall. Harris going behind the back and getting to the rim. Clark seeing two and turning it over. Jones there into the passing lane ahead to Thomas who's so lethal in transition. Thomas got it to go. Clark and Wheeler sharing the floor in the early second quarter. Wheeler steps into a three and connects. Foot behind the line that time. It will count as a three. Down a 21-foot three-pointer earlier, but it's Harris with a triple of her own. And she said, reminded me that David Letterman's mother bought the first season ticket for Indiana Fever Games. How about that? Very cool. Very fitting he's in attendance. Ty Harris has his level here at 38. Weaver led by nine. Connecticut by six. Thomas Mitchell is showing off the muscles. Here is Clark trying to grade on Thomas. The league's two leading assisters. Thomas knocks it away. Lexi Hull has to fire. And why not? Come on. Here is Mabry answering with a three. Both of Lexi Hull's threes have immediately been responded to by Marina Mabry. Here is Clark wide open. Knocks down a triple. Clark runs Carrington into Alyssa Thomas. Good guard-to-guard switch there by Indiana. Thomas has been really strong too, but that time cuffs it up. Here's Lexi Hull three on two. Hull feeds to Clark. Right back for Lexi Hull, who buries a three. There's red hot, and then there's what Lexi Hull has been doing. Clark off the screen. Waits for Boston, who catches in. Nice sign of the growth here from the fever from early June, the last time they played Connecticut. And showing off on the defensive end, as that one was off Jones last. Here's Melissa Smith trying to grade on the drive. Hangs, but can't finish. Nice move to get there. And here's Carrington. She's got numbers if she hurries. Carrington takes it right into Hull and finishes. Mitchell, shot clock winding down again. And it's stripped from behind. And another turnover. Outlet pass Carrington. It was right on the money. We talked about it on Monday. The Fever have struggled on these jump ball situations here this year. And Bonner hangs and finishes. It turns into a three-point play. Clark can't make them pay. Smith with the put back, and it bounces home. So, the Fever go through Boston, one of their pillars. And Boston gives it away. Carrington with the steal. Carrington, the hesitation, the step through, the find to Bonner. And now Connecticut is in front. It's hard when you turn it over to stop the ball. Lexi Hull, fire away. Why not? Lexi Hull, her fourth three. She deploys that outlet pass already, I would say, better than any player in the league. It's Caitlin Clark's fourth assist. Here is Jones for the mid-range. In fact, Bentley easily wins it here for Indiana. Shot clock at 14. Clark, step back. Hits a three. There's no defense for that. Carrington with an answer. What does Clark have up her sleeve this time? Oh, she gets it to go. Maybe could have got a foul there too. Her fifth straight game with 20 points. A new franchise record when she gets there. And here's Mabry from the mid-range. Uh-oh, she gets hot now. Watch out. Playing defense like that wins the jump ball. What a sequence there by Carrington. Here's Burton going coast to coast and laying it in. The team at the deadline trade right before the break. She can make buckets. Clark splits the double and the floater. There's the floater that she worked on during the break. Thomas just fires it up there and banks it home to beat the shot clock. Clark launching ahead. And Hull with an answer on the other end. What a pass. Boston backing her way inside. Deep position. She won't miss from there. When you give Thomas that cushion on the top because you want her to shoot it, but you've got to make sure you defend her and not let her get that deep. Hull ran right into a wall, flipped it up there, and Adota blocked it out of bounds. Not often you're David Letterman and getting the third biggest cheer in the crowd. Or fourth if you count Caitlin. Certainly. Oh, Carrington weaving through traffic. And a crafty finish for De'Janae Carrington who's got 17. Still turns the corner into traffic. Hull thought about the three. Hull back for Mitchell. Catch and shoot. Buries a three. Nice scream by Temi Fagbenle. Kelsey Mitchell off the Iverson cut. Mitchell turns the corner. Feeds Boston. Won't miss that time. Mitchell there to the rescue. You've got to be really sharp right here. No game slippage. Clark on the drive. Clark lays it in. And they are going to let this go. It's nine wins in their last ten home games for Indiana. They snap an 11-game losing streak to Connecticut.