Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston's evolved two-man game is causing problems for the opposition
Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones Jr. dive into the Fever 's improved team play and everything else that comes withCheck out the full conversation on “The Dunker Spot” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen .
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And so my mind goes to when, when everything is healthy, th- that growth that we've seen from Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston in the two-man game.
I think Aliyah Boston has done a great job of just finding comfort reading the defense and finding the openings, and hey, if I'm spaced on the weak side, it's gonna be a post seal.
If I'm in pick and roll and you're, you're, you're gonna go ahead and give me this pocket, I'm not just gonna automatically roll to, like, the mid post or, like, the free throw line.
I might just pop.
I might just take this three, and I might just drive this closeout.
And I think we've seen, comfort from Caitlin Clark to drive the basketball and keep the dribble alive.
Like, I think you've talked about, "Hey, I wanna see what the in-between game looks like."
I think she has not been afraid to try and get a paint touch and hold the big and hold the help and kind of just exaggerate it and, and say, "Okay, what are you gonna do with that?"
Trying to engage it.
What's the overall impact of that?
That's where I'm intrigued how that looks like over the course of the season.
That extra probe and waiting out the, that, waiting out that defender, get into a mid-range step back.
If she nails that, what do you do?
Especially if the three-point shot is able to, to kinda heat up, which we've seen kinda grow as the season's gone on.
But do you take away the roll if you try and engage too much?
So there is a balancing act there, so I'm intrigued by that, but it, it does really help when Kelsey Mitchell has decided, "I'm gonna get buckets and I'm not gonna stop getting buckets."
Uh-huh.
"I'm just gonna continue to get buckets."
And so you have mobile bigs.
You have guards who can give activity and defend.
It, I think it's just piecing everything together for the Fever and finding a way to do it consistently in this league where it's like, "Hey, we're gonna try and be physical with you and disrupt your offense, and we're gonna try and attack you on the other end."
So they gotta navigate that.
