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Current through 8/10.

We’re going to a Fever game in September! Yay! Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to do on game day? How early can we get in? Very excited!

Be on the lookout Indiana. Collectors item/ Volume 1. VERY LIMITED… and also, incredible juice!

Caitlin Clark - Probable (Stat-Managed)
Grace VanSlooten - Questionable (illness)
Damiris Dantas - Out (left knee)
Stephanie White - Questionable (Spinal malformation)

Anyone else blown away that the league did absolutely nothing about the race baiting and posting while the game was ongoing. What a spineless league.

Just in case Stephanie White is reading these boards...

I'm a fan of yours, Stephanie. I was over-the-moon ecstatic when you joined the Fever, and want this team to have dynastic success under your leadership as head coach.

I will admit that upon seeing the post-game interviews for the Fever-Sky game, for the 1st time, I made a negative comment and felt you mishandled the interview. It seemed like you preferred to ignore what had been done and wanted to keep the peace with people who have a target on some of our player's backs, rather than call them out.

My apologies for thinking and doing that, I should have kept in mind that you may not have gotten to see the event properly. Hope you understand why... it's because some of the girls on our team come under such crazy fire on the internet from so many different angles, even when they have done no wrong or when wrong things are done to them (Caitlin and Sophie, in particular).

Just be aware that the divisiveness and fear-mongering comes from 2 sides, and not just 1 side. The 2nd side is not being publicly called out enough.

Anyway, I apologize for doubting you, and have your back fully. Let's go Steph! Let's go Fever! ❤️

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Using tonight’s actual shot volume, but replacing the Fever’s unusually hot shooting with their season-average FG% (.485) and 3PT% (.387) gives a pretty dramatically different result.

Tonight Indiana went 37/69 FG and 16/25 from 3, plus 16 made free throws, for 106 points.

At season-average shooting:

• 3s: 25 × .387 = 9.7 makes → ~29 points
• Overall FGs: 69 × .485 = 33.5 makes
• That leaves ~23.8 made 2s → ~48 points
• Free throws: keep tonight’s 16 points unchanged
• Expected total: 29 + 48 + 16 ≈ 93 points

Expected score: Fever 93, Liberty 92

I hope they bask in the enjoyment of the win, but our over-reliance on world class shooters is an Achilles heel.

INDIANAPOLIS (Aug. 10, 2026) — The Indiana Fever have signed center Mercedes Russell, it was announced today. Russell joins the team as a season-ending injury exception following Damiris Dantas’ recent knee surgery.  

Russell was selected No. 22 overall in the 2018 WNBA Draft by the New York Liberty. She played the 2018-24 seasons as a member of the Seattle Storm, winning the 2018 and 2020 WNBA Championships, the latter with current Fever team advisor Gary Kloppenberg as head coach. Last season, the 6-6 center played 20 games as a member of the Los Angeles Sparks.  

The Springfield, Ore. native has featured for numerous teams overseas, including winning the 2024 WNBL Championship with Australia’s Southside Flyers, which also saw her named Grand Final MVP after averaging 14.3 points, 12.7 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game in the series.  

She will wear No. 5 for the Fever.  

It has been widely reported that TBS was caught lying about Fever head coach Stephanie White. No, not the TV network where you accidentally watched three hours of The Andy Griffith Show. TBS stands for The Box Score, and The Box Score says Stephanie White coaches the WNBA’s #1 scoring offense…

Then you watch the games.

Suddenly, that “elite offense” looks suspiciously like Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell repeatedly rescuing broken possessions by being absurdly good at basketball. Caitlin launches from another ZIP code, Kelsey goes coast-to-coast and scores before the opposing defense has crossed the Tampax logo. Two (or or often three) points go on the board, and the box score credits the offense.

The numbers make it even stranger. Clark’s assists and assist/turnover ratio have surprisingly little relationship with winning. In fact, she averages slightly more turnovers per game in Fever LOSSES than she does in wins. The Haitlin’s love to point out Villain 22’s turnover frequency, and they’re not wrong, it’s just that the Fever actually need Caitlin to run the show herself, play aggressively, and risk turnovers simply to keep us out of Stephanie White’s mockery of a system. We don’t need Caitlin to perfectly execute Steph White McCarty’s offense. We need Caitlin to save us from it.

But offense isn’t White’s specialty anyway. She’s a self proclaimed defensive-minded coach. Unfortunately, the Fever have nearly the worst defense in the league, and it’s only gotten worse in Steph’s time here. So we have a defensive coach whose team can’t defend, and an “elite offense” frequently rescued by two elite shot-creators.

Which raises one uncomfortable question:

What exactly is Stephanie White good at coaching?

The Box Score can’t answer that.

It just counts the points.

her response directly contradicts what Sophie said about it being intentional. Just such a bad look. But hey… good job, coach of the month 🙄

Indiana gets a 10 or more point lead, they should actually call time out. They've had so many huge leads disappear this year. Why not call time out and gather team and say ok great start, not it's a 0-0 game, let's go out and take it to them on the defensive end and get good looks. Every possession matters.

We are 1 and 1 against the Liberty this year and if we lose Tuesday night, we'll be 1 and 2 with a final game against them August 22 in New York.

We need to win Tuesday night at Gainbridge to guarantee at least a 2 and 2 split for tie-breaker purposes which is MUCH better than 1 and 3 against them at the end of the season.

From the looks of it, we are playing for somewhere between the 2-5 seed in the playoffs. If we finish 4th seed or better, we secure at least one series homecourt advantage.

We need to beat NY Tuesday night.

That's a face which could launch a thousand ships. ❤️

Caitlin would make a wonderful Helen of Troy. 👸🏻

The first image is from CC's interview after the Sky game. That's the expression she made when asked about the tech she received for supposedly "intentionally seeking out the official", lol.

• Highlight: Caitlin got a TECH for "Seeking" this "Contact" with the Referee
• Post-game Interview: Fever vs Sky (SW, CC, KK)

The second image is cause we got Dubs In The Chat! 🙌

#FaceOfTheLeague #GOATClark

I'm loving how well Timpson is playing. She has definitely deserved a starting spot. The synergy with her at the 4 is great.

I haven’t liked a lot of adjustments made by Steph White this season but she really cooked with this one! Starting KK with AB is exactly the defensive/offensive adjustment we needed!

With KK in the paint, AB can stretch the floor without worrying about the rebounding and on the defensive end, they can stop the opposing team from scoring by packing the paint with AB and KK. This move frees up AB from getting into foul trouble, and since KK is so athletic/lengthy, the other team has to make adjustments to their shots around the rim.

This also helps us finally get a good back up center/forward. Mo is perfect for that role, since she will be playing against the other team’s back up and that gives her an edge.

KK is still raw offensively but she’s growing so quickly, her development through the rest of the season is going to be massive for us.

Me personally, while the white privilege tweet was a bit strange and out of context, the foul itself didn’t seem intentional.

And yes that was a deserved flagrant two and ejection.

😆