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Indiana Fever prima Sophie Cunningham did not mince words astir nan team’s caller struggles.
The Fever mislaid back-to-back games connected nan West Coast while Caitlin Clark and caput coach Stephanie White went viral for a sideline altercation, and Cunningham took rumor pinch nan team's play.
"We person each nan pieces we request (to win), but it's knowing your role, owning your domiciled and besides conscionable being tough," Cunningham said. "We're conscionable excessively soft correct now, and that's not what our personality is, truthful we request to get distant from that."
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Indiana Fever defender Sophie Cunningham plays against nan Seattle Storm astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis, Ind., connected May 17, 2026. (Trevor Ruszkowski/Imagn Images)
On Monday, Clark and White said that they had moved connected from their sideline spat. Cunningham said that nan squad had a gathering connected Tuesday and hopes it helps move nan page.
"We had a squad gathering (Monday) — a agelong gathering — and truthful hopefully we've benignant of turned nan page," Cunningham said. "I deliberation we were successful location an hr and a half, almost 2 hours and we built backmost each nan layers. I deliberation everyone's connected a bully page correct now and fresh to work. We'll opportunity it started (as a) coaches (meeting) and past ended up being players. It was overmuch needed, though."
Cunningham and All-Star defender Kelsey Mitchell did not divulge specifics astir what was discussed, and White said nan gathering didn't spell rather arsenic agelong arsenic Cunningham thought.
Clearly, though, everyone thought it was basal and valuable aft TV cameras caught nan incident betwixt Clark and White during Saturday night's 100-84 nonaccomplishment to Portland — an description squad Indiana hit by 17 points conscionable 10 days earlier without Clark.
CAITLIN CLARK FANS ERUPT AT HEAD COACH STEPHANIE WHITE AFTER FEVER BLOWOUT LOSS TO PORTLAND FIRE
Indiana Fever guards Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark guidelines adjacent to each different during nan 2nd half against nan Portland Fire astatine Moda Center successful Portland, Ore., connected May 30, 2026. (Jaime Valdez/Imagn Images)
Mitchell explained Clark and White’s sideline incident arsenic portion of being a family.
"I deliberation it's a portion of being a family," she said. "If you deliberation everything is glitz and glamour, past you're mistaken. I deliberation difficult times tin make you aliases break you and, hopefully, it doesn't break us, and I deliberation losing is important because you find retired a batch astir yourself, astir wherever you request to be, wherever you're missing nan people and I'm happy that's happening now. If location is frustration, I'd alternatively it beryllium now than later."
The Fever are presently 4-4 and a half-game retired of nan last playoff spot. They entered nan play pinch precocious expectations aft falling 1 triumph short of reaching nan WNBA Finals contempt missing a big of cardinal players owed to injury.
The Fever’s discourtesy has been great. They mean a league-best 91.8 points per game; nan problem is their defense. They springiness up 89 points per game, which is nan second-most successful nan WNBA.
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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark waits for play to resume during nan 4th fourth against nan Golden State Valkyries astatine Chase Center successful San Francisco, Calif., connected May 28, 2026. (David Gonzales/Imagn Images)
Cunningham said nan squad didn’t moreover watch movie from their nonaccomplishment to nan Fire successful an effort to move on.
"We didn't moreover watch movie (from nan Portland game), that tells you really bad it is because usually she (White) is watching each 2nd of it. We wanted to flush that one, everyone knew it was bad. We each benignant of watched it connected our ain and it's conscionable unacceptable. We're excessively bully to beryllium playing for illustration that."
The Fever will look to move it astir erstwhile they play Angel Reese's Atlanta Dream astatine 7 p.m. ET connected Thursday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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