🚨Breaking:Caitlin Clark Just TOLD THE SHOCKING TRUTH About Raven Johnson JOINING FEVER‼️

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>> Hey

question.

>> I want to go back a little bit to um

summer obviously.

>> Amber was saying you spent most of your

time here in market and then you had a

lot of things. So kind of what went into

that decision number one and number two

you talked a lot both you and Steph

talked about the pickup games and trying

to make it as gamelike as possible.

>> Can you explain how you wanted to

approach those games? try to get your,

you know, just get back in it.

>> Yeah. I mean, first of all, like I spent

a lot of time here. Um, I love

Indianapolis. I'm a Midwest girl. Um, I

enjoy spending time here. A lot of

people like to get away from the cold. I

don't really mind it as much. Um, and

also like I have every resource I need.

I can I can be on this court every

single day. I can be in the weight room

downstairs. Obviously, have the athletic

training staff and then I have a lot of

my own personal stuff in the city that I

I'm able to do and people have to have

around. Um, and then the pickup part of

it. I mean, honestly, shout out to that

those guys. A lot of those guys are like

part-time workers for the Fever and put

in a lot of time. They're really feel

like full-time employees, but they're

paid as part-time employees and um you

know, a lot of former college hoopers or

some that have even played pro overseas

that are back and are looking for runs

as well and just very selfless people.

And a lot of the time people pick up and

they're playing to a score like we kind

of change it up to make it a little bit

more gamelike where we're playing like

time. So kind of playing like to the

first media timeout or like a six-minute

game a little bit more than a media

timeout. So um you can kind of feel what

a I mean obviously there's only so much

you can do to replicate a real game.

You're never going to fully get that but

doing everything we can to kind of

replicate that. Um and then you know

we're playing like a certain amount of

that and then you know tracking like you

know obviously there's s such great

technology like heart rate wise and you

know a chip that can track like your

accelerations and things like that. So I

can kind of see that and then compare

that to game data that we've had for my

rookie year and then the few games that

I did play in my second year. And then

even tracking that when I was at USA, it

gives me a really good gauge of like I'm

not guessing like I'm understanding like

what the data is telling me um you know

acceleration wise and then I can kind of

relate that to how my body's feeling and

then go from day to day of you know do I

want my load to be heavier? Do I want it

to be a little bit lighter? Do I want it

moderate? And then you can kind of stack

those days from there. So, um, really

more than anything like using data to

kind of build my workouts and build my

weeks, I think has been really helpful.

>> Kaitlyn, when it comes to Kelsey, player

like that who is so selfless, ask for

anything but will give everything. What

perspective have you gained being a

teammate of her try to obviously try to

win a championship?

I mean, obviously somebody that's been

here, I think she's going into her ninth

year um with this franchise and she's

seen every every bit of good, bad, you

know, not as good, whatever it's been,

and she's given a lot of herself. And

even last year, like I mean, she's

literally out there until her legs

didn't work anymore. And I think that's

like a great kind of sums up everything

that she's given to this to this

organization. But um more than anything,

like everybody ever knows that she's a

tremendous basketball player, but like

she's she's really cool people and just

very down to earth and selfless and um

fun to be around and and really cares

about people. And I think that speaks to

like why she continues to sign back here

is like she enjoys the people that are

here and she also feels loved and cared

for and you know people are here to

serve her as well, but she does it in

return too. So just really fortunate

that she's back here. Um I know I've

said this before, but she makes my job a

lot easier when you have somebody in the

back court like that. I I mean I don't

think there's nobody better in the

league for me to play with. So just

really fortunate and lucky.

>> Yeah. Hi. Good. How are you doing?

>> If you can tell me if this is not the

case, please let me know. But

>> yeah,

>> be able to sit out sitting out as long

as you did last year. Was it also like a

mental break for you? You didn't have

strong could have said no to like grand

obligations. You have a built-in excuse.

So was there like a a component of

a

>> mental break? Um,

yes, in a way, but obviously like that

was not what I wanted. I mean, I would

sign up to do media every single day to

be able to play and put my jersey on and

you know, this is part of the job is

getting to talk to you guys every day

and you all do a tremendous job as well.

So, um, I know it's part of the

responsibility of what I get to do. I

mean, I mean, there's always camera

cameras in my face, so I'm pretty used

to it at this point, but um, in a way it

was a little bit of a mental break, but

at the same time, injury is really

mentally taxing as well. Like people

don't always realize that, especially

when you're at the point of trying to

come back and trying to get over the

hump of like trusting your body. That's

the hardest part is like you've done

everything you can, you know, rehab wise

and to get back on the court and then

it's like the the mental block of

trusting your body and knowing you put

the work in. So I feel like it's a

little more mentally exhausting from

that standpoint. Um,

>> not you guys though.

>> Yeah.

>> We're going to jump to the other side of

Chloe. Give that give that side.

>> Yeah. I don't know if you guys have

heard anything I've said, but Curry run

Steph has talked about creating depth in

especially with your injuries last year

and Kelsey go until the wheels fell off.

Just what do you think about you know

having Ryan

>> Raven back

a little bit

>> Yeah. Well, I think that's going to be

something like that's what you have

training camp for and that's what you

have the preseason games for is to try

different lineups and to try different

people and you know to give the people

that are fighting for roster spots a

chance to go out there and compete and

perform. Like I'm not going to go out

and play

>> 30 minutes on Saturday. That's just not

going to be the case. That's not what

it's about. It's you know obviously I'm

going to go out there and compete as

hard as I can but that's not what we

need to do. And um yeah, I think a

little bit of off the ball stuff like I

think mostly on dead balls like I'm the

best I think I'm the best transition

player in the league. That's where I

thrive. Everybody knows that's my game.

So,

>> you know, getting the ball rebounder in

transition like that's probably when I'm

going to be the primary ball handler

more than anything. And then,

>> you know, getting off the ball a little

bit and and catching your breath like it

is exhausting bringing the ball up 94

feet versus pressure every single time.

So, we certainly need to find somebody

that can handle the ball a little bit

and, you know, give me a little bit of a

break. And I think Raven and Tai and

even other people through camp and, you