Indiana Fever Coach Places Blame After Caitlin Clark No Call

On Saturday, May 24 the Indiana Fever fell to 2-2 on the season with both of those loss coming by a combined three points.

Caitlin Clark and company fell to the reigning WNBA champion New York Liberty, which escaped with a 90-88 victory thanks to some questionable officiating down the stretch. In the final few minutes three suspect calls went the Liberty's way kicked off by a blocked shot from New York guard Natasha Cloud on Indiana's DeWanna Bonner where it looked like the latter took contact.

Not long later, Fever guard Lexie Hull was called for a foul on Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu, who eventually hit the game-winning free-throws. Near the end of the game Clark had a chance at a final shot, but got the ball knocked away from Cloud.

Fever head coach Stephanie White was less than pleased with the call on Clark - and the foul call on hull. "I thought it was egregious, honestly. I thought it was obvious," White said after the game.

Of the foul on Hull she said, "It was an offensive player veering into the defensive player's path. We have to be able to play through it. But at the same time, I feel like it's really disrespectful. There's a system to making sure we can send [concerns about officiating] in and communicate our grievances, so to speak. I don't know that I ever feel like the system works. We're not looking for a change, we're just looking for consistency."

While White was unhappy with the call from the officials, Clark, who complained at the time of the non-call, admitted she would have to check the tape. "I'd have to go back and watch. ... I don't know," she said.

After falling 91-90 to the Atlanta Dream on May 20 and suffering another close loss to the Liberty, Clark knows how close her team was to being 4-0.

"That's probably what's frustrating about it. ... We are two possessions from being 4-0," she said. "But there were so many little areas of this game we could have improved. It definitely stings, but this is what's going to make us better at the end of the year."

The Fever will get a few days off before returning to the court on May 28 for a game against the Washington Mystics.

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