Caitlin Clark with a … “3” Right? A logo 3 just a simple part of her nightly repertoire as a professional basketball player.
Not the case in New York Sunday as CC was held to a career-low 3 points and the Indians Fever were humiliated by the New York Liberty.
These are trying times for Caitlin to state the obvious. The silver lining in all of this is it’s balancing her out. The meteoric rise to fame and fortune is now tempered with strife …. and turmoil. What’s a good day if you don’t have a bad day to compare it to.
Days are turning into weeks and very likely an entire season for the WNBA rookie.
Very soon (today?) Clark will get her slot on the USA Women’s Olympic team. Paris the thought she gets left off!
Waiting …. the hardest part. Tom Petty. NBA Finals next Thursday in Boston; NHL Finals next Saturday.
The wait IS going to be worth it on the NBA side. The Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks are setting up for a series of “Rock Fights.”
Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving pose a formidable road block to the Celtics 18th World Championship without a doubt.
The Celtics dazzling duo of of the “J’s”- Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are carrying a big load having taken up residence in the “your are not all-time greats until you hoist a championship banner to the Boston Garden rafters.
On the ice, meantime, a Stanley Cup Finals without the NY Rangers rings hollow. NYC loves big. Gotham is BIG! Anything else is a ho-hummer.
Friday night: Edmonton inches closer with a win.
CC: Caitlin Clark looks beaten and clubbed with a disorganized team with no end to the misery in sight. The Indiana Fever are devoid of any team chemistry whatsoever; the infighting, while no outward, is detectable with even a casual glance. The coach is about to walk the plank and her successor inherits a mess. Can the Fever register double-digits in wins this year? Right now, that’s a huge stretch.
Well, we went way over the top on Dallas – Mavericks & Stars- and now both teams are playing with playoff pyro!
The Stars squandered a 2-0 lead last night as Edmonton responded with 5, that’s right 5 unanswered goals enroute to the 5-2 win- series now even at 2-2.
Momentum clearly on the Oilers side and their suspect goaltending becoming a non-issue.
Series very likely headed to 7 games and might as well say a sudden death OT to decide it.
The Mavericks would make history by blowing a 3-0 series lead … yet, remember 16 seeds never beat 1 seeds in the NCAAs until they did… in consecutive years!
More Caitlin tonight in Indy. Versus Seattle. The buzz is barely palpable- there is no buzz actually. You buy a ticket to go see CC shoot, struggle and score a little bit. If it’s a sellout tonight, I’ll be amazed and suspect it’ll be a faux-sellout. Fans disguised as empty seats.
Coach Sides is likely gone very soon. Lisa Bluder is not coming out of retirement to coach the Fever. She walked away from several million dollars at Iowa and $100k to toil in the WNBA is ludicrous. But an Skyper on Sports Byline asked.
Dallas. Cowboys right? Hold the phone. Looking pretty stout for both the basketball Mavericks and the Hockey Stars.
The Stars shook off an early 2-0 deficit before drilling the Edmonton Oilers moving to within 2 wins of a berth in the Stanley Cup Finals.
It’ll be interesting to see how the Oilers and Connor McDavid respond having given back home ice advantage to the Stars. Although, home ice has been anything but an advantage throughout the postseason in the NHL.
Our hockey analyst Rick Carter weighs in tonight on Sports Byline USA at 6:25p Eastern; 5p Central. SportsByLine.com IHEART Radio Tunein Radio
NBA…. Boston versus Dallas. This will be a very contentious series and I will resist the temptation to even remotely suggest that the Celtics are a lock to win their record 18th World Championship. Dallas scares me. Luka Doncic is a beast and flashes reminders of a guy who used to run the parquet panels of the Boston Garden- ah, he wore #33. Larry Joe Bird. Throw in malcontent on the mend Kyrie Irving and any notion this will be fait accompli for the Leapin’ Leprechauns 🍀 is foolhardy.
Sorry T- Wolves it’s over, but a great season nonetheless.
Any description of the Boston Celtics absolutely has to include “Lucky”….
The Celtics first two playoff opponents – the Miami Heat & the Cleveland Cavaliers both were decimated by injuries – key players in Boston cases.
Now, Indiana loses – likely- Tyrese Halliburton on top of being down 2 games to none.
You’ll hear ‘it’s never over until you lose on your home court.’
It’s over. Bummer too because this series had potential to be very exciting and dangerous to a Celtics team that still has that “something’s missing” aura within it.
The sweep is coming and the rest might backfire. A real great wake-up call will be if Mr. Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks emerge out of the West.
Tonight: Absolute must win for the NY Rangers. No opinion other than to submit the obvious: The Florida Panthers are very good… in every facet.
T-Wolves in a nice bounce back.
Caitlin and the 0-5 Indiana Fever hope to ignite a spark in LA against the “Sparks.” ION TV has the telecast and ranks as a National Broadcast I suppose. I think I get …eye on TV. 9p Central…
Really ? Pacers & Fever! Can you inbounds a basketball!!??
On consecutive nights, these two Hoosier State Athletic Entities were unable to execute simple passes to put a basketball in play to an awaiting teammate.
Her Airness, Caitlin Clark, fumbled a simple pass last night in the final seconds denying the Indiana Fever a shot at gaining their first win of the season. Trailing by a point, there was no guarantee of a Fever score to win the game.
Ok, fair enough… but can you just simply catch & shoot? It’s like the Pacers and Fever are drinking from the same water bottles!
The Fever are now 0-5. Coach Sides took Clark out of the game for 2 critical minutes with the game on the line. Clark had blood on shirt? Call a timeout? Injury time out? Looked to me like she was giving CC a “breather.”
CC finished with 21 points along with 7 rebounds and 7 assists. It was a grind and she is surrounded by seemingly befuddled teammates.
Coach Sides doesn’t need a seat warmer on her ride to work; her seat is hot and, frankly, rightly so. Her game management is a mess. Her failure to disrupt oppositional runs is exasperating. Worse, CC doesn’t connect with her … at all.
36 of the Indiana Fever games are slated for Nationwide TV; ESPN has to be second-guessing this decision. CC Effect is wearing thin and garbage-time logo 3’s feel like a game of Horse to me.
Sides might be gone by June 1.
Tonight: The Pacers, leading by 1 with :01 to go in the game and inbounds the ball into the Boston basket and lose by 1.
Miraculous… or just-plain-lucky?? Pick your poison.
The Boston Celtics stunned, ah, just about everybody with a 133-128 OT win against the Indiana Pacers.
The Pacers needed only to successfully inbounds the ball in the waning seconds of regulation and they WIN Game 1… in Boston. They threw it away.
No offense to Celtics radio man Sean Grande, crunch time in this crazy finish was only befitting of the legendary Johnny Most.
“The Pacers throw it way!”
“Jaylen Brown hits a corner 3 with a Pacers player draped all over him!”
“Pacers coach Rick Carlisle has lost his mind.. the Ghosts of the Boston Garden Greats have arrived not a moment too soon.”
“Red Auerbach is out there somewhere and you know his lighting a victory cigar.”
Celtics up 1-0. File under: Garden Gift.
Tonight: Florida in OT. T- Wolves.
Amazing resilience shown by the townspeople of Greenfield, Iowa after yesterday’s devastating tornadoes. The news-clips are hard to watch. WHO TV/Des Moines’ Jason Parkin did an incredible job. His live voiceovers were incredible and evenly delivered. Hard to do we can only imagine amid the impending doom approaching and the immediate obliteration you’ve just witnessed.
It’s getting hard to write this sad saga about Caitlin Clark. Ugh! 0-4 record. Let’s start there. The Indiana Fever are confusing team. Notice I didn’t say bad; you scratch whole watching them play. Helter- Skelter we called it many years ago. Now, it’s just messed up basketball.
The answer is a WIN. Seattle next and we’ll hope to hear an exhale from the Pacific Northwest- if not the rumblings will get louder. Fever Coach Christine Sides seat will be running a fever too! Heck, she’s on the hot seat already.
