Fever injury report scares fans as FOUR players are listed out for the game against the NY Liberty

Well, we're back, guys. And by we, I

mean the hospital squad of the Indiana

Fever as four players are out against

the first game against Liberty tomorrow.

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>> Listen, I know that there's people like

breathing in paper bags, popping Xanax,

taking deep breaths in because there is

a lot of PTSD about what happened with

the Indiana Fever last season and their

injury riddled season. And it was just

dropped that four players will not be

participating in tomorrow's first

preseason game against the New York

Liberty. And that's Aaliyah Boston due

to her lower leg injury, Ty Harris,

knee, Lexi Hull, hamstring, and Deiris

Dantis of course because she is in visa

hell in a whole different country. And I

had just gotten over my fears about what

was wrong with Aaliyah Boston because

the way that they were speaking about

her injury very much reminded me about

how Caitlyn Clark injury was spoken of

last season. I do also recognize that

there are things that do get blown out

of proportion, especially with big fan

bases. So, I was giving the benefit of

the doubt that maybe they were trying to

keep it close to the chest, keep their

cards close because they did not want to

have other teams scouting in certain

ways or the fan bases freaking out about

things. And I have to say, one of the

reasons I thought that the Indiana Fever

would be drafting a backup for Aaliyah

Boston, which I was thinking could be Ok

even though she does need some more

development. But I was thinking this

because I was wondering what was going

to be happening with Aaliyah Boston's

injury because it was very cloak and

dagger for a while there. And Aaliyah

Boston is a key member of this core.

Now, I'm so thankful that Caitlyn

Clark's name does not appear on the

injury list. Neither does Kelsey

Mitchell's. But I'm definitely concerned

about the hamstring issue that Lexi Hole

has. Now, hamstring issues definitely

vary upon the grade. And according to

good old Google right here, grade A mild

hamstrings, that is a one to two week

recovery time. And this is uh NBA

related. Um, grade two is 3 to 6 weeks.

Grade three is which is severe months

potentially requiring surgery. Now, I

doubt it is that, but either way, one to

two weeks is a pretty decent chunk of

time. I mean, it might be soreness, but

if it is a grade one, then she will

still be able to be here for the

beginning of the season because that is

2 weeks away as it starts on May 9th. As

far as being cautious, I do understand

the precaution because it is much better

to have people out that have any sort of

a strain or soreness for the preseason

games because these are the games that

don't count towards the record. But I

think I'm not the only one feeling a

little bit of PTSD about what happened

last season on the fever. But without

jumping to conclusions,

this could just be very precautionary. A

lot of these players have just started

playing for the first time in months.

And after a full week of training camp

where they probably went pretty hard,

especially some of the newer pieces on

the team to kind of show their stuff and

make sure that they make the team, Lexi

and AB are omitted from that as they do

have multi-year contracts. But I also

don't think I'm at the crash out stage

just yet. The New York Liberty have also

released their injury list and it is as

follows. Satu Sabily is listed as

questionable for reconditioning.

Rebecca Allen is also reconditioning. So

this this is what I was saying that

there the reconditioning element of

things and Fatau Fat Fatau is also

reconditioning

but she is listed as out. A lot of their

European players are also not with the

team yet, including Leoni Feebich. Um,

and Raquel Carrera, who was on the

Spanish team that uh, the Liberty have

rights to. I really liked what I saw

from her at FIA. Um, Pauline Astier and

Uggon Onaya, I believe it is. With the

Leah Boston out, I think we will see a

lot of Mo Billings and Maiisha Hines

Allen in that position. And again, Mo

Billings with her screen setting, she

probably will be rolling to the basket.

This is actually probably a great

opportunity to see Mo Billings and

Caitlyn Clark together and how they gel,

especially in that pick and roll action.

Now, with Ty Harris out, I do anticipate

we do see more Raven Johnson maybe

backing her up at the point. That is not

something that I anticipated seeing as

much tomorrow, but since their Becca

point guard will be out, I think this is

the opportunity to see where Raven

Johnson is with her court IQ and her

passing. And again, I didn't see Raven

Johnson making a big impact in

tomorrow's game because I even though

she's pesky as heck on defense. I think

that the size of the Liberty and the

veteran presence would present a bit of

a problem for a rookie like Raven

Johnson at her size. And as I was

filming, Khloe Peterson did drop another

bit of news and she was told that all of

these are precautionary. It is part of

AB and Harris's return to play regimen

after injury. And Hull is dealing with

some tightness that Indiana didn't want

to risk in the preseason. If this was a

regular season game, they would be

playing. So, okay, good. Put the Xanax

away. Meditation done. That paper bag

you're breathing in, you can put that

down now. I think we're good. But they

really buried the lead on that one,

didn't they? I think it would have been

integral when dropping this information

in particular for Indiana Fever fans to

include the precautionary element about

this because this was dropped right

before I started filming this and I

guarantee you I think especially because

of last season thinking that there's a

curse on the team. The overreactions to

this were absolutely predictable. I'm

very curious about what the injury

report will be for other teams. I also

think they might give KK some shots

under the post. KK is someone that I

definitely think needs to hone a lot of

her skills and her court awareness and

her IQ on the court. She is super

athletic though, so she has that going

for her and you know, wingspan for days.

But I do like that they are airing on

the side of caution because last season

Caitlyn Clark did not air on the side of

caution. She felt some soreness in her

quad and she had that home game over at

Iowa that I don't think she wanted to

miss and would have missed for anything.

It just didn't work out for her in the

end though and she kept trying to power

through things. I don't think that

Caitlyn understood her own body as far

as injuries goes because she had never

been injured really. So, she was trying

to tough it through. And I think the

team is realizing, you know what, we

have to take further precautions,

especially with, you know, AB a star on

the team, Lexi, somebody who they have a

multi-year contract and is integral to

their defense and anybody else and

everybody else on the team. Ty Harris is

an important part of that team, even

just as a backup to Caitlyn. If Caitlyn

ever does need some rest, they do need

to be able to count on Ty. And Ty Harris

did have surgery last year and was out

for the majority of last season when she

was on the wings. And not only would Tai

be able to give Caitlyn a rest, but Ty

Harris would also be able to give Kelsey

Mitchell a rest. So, no, I think we can

uh crawl back from the ledge. Things

seem to be okay. This is a preseason

game, so it wouldn't be going like a

regular game anyway. And I do hope that

everyone does get rested and healed up

and they come out swinging for May 9th,

the official opening day for the Indiana

Fever. There is still a lot of upside to

what will be happening against the New

York Liberty. Caitlyn Clark will be on