Caitlin & Aliyah DOMINATE, Mo GOES DOWN, roster predictions + game HIGHLIGHTS / RECAP!
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Demon Caitlyn is back and she is setting
screens for Ilia Boston who is also back
by the way and surprisingly led the team
in drum roll assists. And it is no shock
that Indiana Fever blew Nigeria out of
the water 105 to 57. But let's go over
this final game of the preeason. talk
about who is ready, who is not ready,
who will make the development spots, and
I think it can be official. Raven
Johnson, you are an Indiana Fever.
>> I would like to caveat this video by
saying that the Indiana Fever played the
Nigerian Basketball Federation. So, in
no way did I think that the Indiana
Fever would be going down to Nigeria.
This did end up seeing like a friendly
game of pickup. And I have to be honest,
in the last half of the game, as with a
lot of these preseason games, it was
very hard to watch. But the first half
of the game was great. We have a lot to
talk about. Demon Caitlyn is back. She
was picking apart defenses. She was
playmaking. She was hitting shots from
all areas of the court. She even got a
little spicy at one point when she was
fouled by a player from Nigeria. It was
not called by the refs. She stopped
midplay.
Gave them some words.
About 2 seconds later, she's fouled. It
is called, but she still decides to hit
uh kind of like I guess like an FU3.
But one of my favorite plays of the game
was when Sophie cuts back door. Caitlyn
cuts through three defenders, threads
the needle and hits for pass. Beautiful
find to cutting.
>> I saw a lot of cutting back door
inside for Mitchell who pulls it down
and lays it in.
>> And I do think that these back door cuts
are going to be a very important part of
the playbook for the Indiana Fever this
season, especially with their lack of
size. In my opinion, they will be making
up for it with a lot of these like fast
back door cuts. And here is even some
offball action that worked where Raven
is bringing the ball down, passes it
over to Caitlyn, of which she decides to
spin and fade at the free throw line.
Now, she could have passed that over to
Dantas. Dantas. Let's talk about Dantas
later, but she might have just been
practicing different things that she can
do in different areas of the court since
this is the last preseason game before
the actual game opener on May 9th of
which they play the Dallas Wings. And
you know, I have to say I don't think
that they were trying against the Dallas
Wings. There was so much controversy
around that game, calling Caitlyn like a
foul merchant, of which she so isn't.
comparing her to SGA. She wasn't even
trying to draw fouls. I wish sometimes
that Caitlyn would go in and try to draw
more fouls because it is a tactic.
Briana Stewart does it. Sabrina does it.
Asia obviously does it. She's the best
at it. And Paige even mentioned herself
that she was working on that. And I
noticed Paige did start drawing fouls in
the last half of last season and she
looked a lot like Sabrini Anescu when
doing them. But Caitlyn was the ultimate
playmaker in this game. But her setting
a screen for AB was definitely not on my
bingo card. And speaking of AB, she is
such a difference maker for this team.
She actually did not lead the way in
rebounds. That was Raven Johnson, the
Swiss Army knife that she is. But it is
good to see someone boxing out under the
basket waiting for rebounds. That is
something that has been missing from the
other preseason games. And you know,
it's always nice to see some blocking
from someone other than Raven Johnson.
Aaliyah did play for 10 minutes, and she
did only come away with four points. She
had one rebound, but she had six
assists. This is going to come in very
handy as a team that will be sharing the
ball a lot. I think we did all know that
this was an Aaliyah Boston's bag. As a
center, she is elite. She has probably
the best best playmaking skills of any
center in the league. But if she just
developed a solid three ball, she would
be absolutely deadly. I should probably
mention Caitlyn stats also. She came
away with 12 points in 13 minutes. She
herself had two rebounds, four assists.
She had a steal. If she would have had a
block, she would have stuffed that stat
sheet. And she only had one turnover.
And Mo Billings finally playing her true
four position at the forward position
looked great tonight. Now, she was only
in for six minutes, but in those six
minutes, she did a lot. She didn't blow
any open layups like she was doing in
the previous games. She even hit a three
at the wing, but she did go down. She
rolled her ankle and as a precaution,
the Indiana Fever just took her out
because as Scott Agnes says, in a
blowout and a week before the regular
season starts, they would rather be safe
than sorry. And Stephanie White was
interviewed and says that it's probably
not bad. They did take her out just as a
precaution. She said she felt fine,
wasn't iced up or anything, and they are
going to get her evaluated tomorrow. And
it was her birthday and Mo Billings was
the birthday on her birthday. So, happy
birthday, Moings. You looked great. But
let's talk about Raven Johnson for a
second. I do want to go over some of
these things because she is an Indiana
Fever. She is a Swiss Army knife, a
utility player. She showed us a little
bit of everything tonight. Like here,
she has a nice crossover to Kelsey.
She definitely is showing off her
wingspan with that quick ball pickup and
stops on a dime into a pullup on the
other side. She even gets some perimeter
action going shooting from the three
here. And she really just suffocates her
defenders. I truly think at number 10
that Raven Johnson was the steel in the
draft. She really has proven her worth
and I think she has a great attitude
whether or not she did want to be on the
Fever or not. All she's showing is
pretty good vibes. I think that I can
see her being a great person in the
locker room, too. And Sophie Cunningham
is back. In the last game, she was
absolutely asleep at the wheel in the
Wings game. I don't know if that was a
tactic. I don't know if they were
purposely trying to look bad because
again they are playing them in the home
opener and I seriously doubt that
Stephanie White wants any of their plays
or any of their schemes met when it
actually counts in a week from now. No
time for adjustments keeping their cards
close to the vest. By the way, thank you
for everyone who commented in my
comments to let me know that is cards
close to the vest and not the chest.
Y'all are too kind. She went three for
four tonight. She did hit a three, one
for two. She was in for 12 minutes and
came away with eight points. Got a
rebound, three assists. Hey, and I saw a
lot of moments where she almost stole
disrupted plays a lot. Some of the
things that did not show up in the stat
sheet, but one of those steals did. And
she came away with a steal. And Kelsey
Mitchell was an absolute bucket tonight.
She came away with a game high of 17
points. And how long was she in? She was
in for 14 minutes. She also had two
rebounds, two assists, so it was good
seeing her move the ball around a lot.
Less isoing. She had two steals and this
crazy play which was definitely a
highlight reel
>> if they weren't playing Nigeria. That is
now Deiris Dantes is somebody that I
would love to talk about because in her
first game back, first time playing on
the court, I wanted to give her a lot of
grace. However, the 048 that she shot in
the last game from the three-point line,
just the three-point line, did have me
concerned a little bit because I felt
like Deir Dantas was in her head, but it
reminded me a lot of what looked bad
from her last season, but she was
hitting her threes in this game. I do
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