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It’s unlikely to last, but Caitlin Clark is in the coldest shooting stretch of her career
Clark has made just one of her last 23 3-point attempts for the Indiana Fever. That didn’t stop her team fron winning Tuesday night, however.
Jun. 25, 2025 10:37 am, Updated: Jun. 25, 2025 11:22 am
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This is a rare moment in time in Caitlin Clark’s basketball career.
Over her last three games with the Indiana Fever, Clark has made just 1 of 23 3-point shots. She was 0-of-6 Tuesday in the Fever’s 94-86 win at Seattle. Repeat, Indiana won that game, which was the objective. That was despite Clark scoring just 6 points.
Clark made 37.7 percent of her 3s over 139 games at Iowa. As all shooters do, she had occasional slumps. As a sophomore, she hit just 10 of 50 in a seven-game stretch. She followed that by making 20 of 43 over the next five games. Cold spells were rare in the two seasons that followed.
One could blame Clark’s current shooting woes on Clark getting back to basketball form after missing five games with a quad strain. However, she made 11 of 20 3s and scored 52 points in her first two games back before this sudden icy spell.
Clark also has 22 turnovers over those last three games. She had, however, at least nine assists in each of those contests. Teammate Aliyah Boston has been putting many of those Clark passes to work in scoring 57 points over the last two games including a career-high 31 Tuesday.
The blossoming of Boston, the WNBA’s No. 1 draft pick in 2023, could do as much as anything to make Indiana (7-7) a dangerous team when the playoffs roll around.
Plus, veteran guard Kelsey Mitchell has made 8 of 13 3s over the last two games.
Clark averages 18.2 points, Mitchell 17.9 and Boston 15.9. That kind of balance speaks well for the Fever’s remaining 26 games. So does Clark’s league-high 8.9 assists per game.
The story right now, of course, is her 1-for-23 stretch. I expect it to play out like it did late in Clark’s 2024 senior season at Iowa. She came into the Hawkeyes’ NCAA Elite Eight game against LSU having made just 16 of 51 3-pointers (31.4 percent) in her previous four games, wins over Nebraska in the Big Ten tourney final and three NCAA tourney triumphs.
Against LSU, though, Clark knocked down nine 3-pointers in 20 tries in her incredible 41-point, 12-assist performance in Iowa’s 94-87 win for a second-straight Final Four trip.
She’ll be fine. Indiana is coming home after its 3-game swing out west, and plays the 4-11 Los Angeles Sparks Thursday night. Whatever the over/under number is on Clark’s points in that game, you may want to consider an over wager.
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