Connecticut Sun's road struggles face a tough test against a Fever team winning seven of its last 10

Believe it oregon not, we are lone 2 months distant from the WNBA Playoffs. There is simply a batch of worldly inactive to travel with the season, but erstwhile your play is lone 44 games, it tends to spell by reasonably quickly. This has been an absorbing campaign. With 2 caller teams successful the league, a large turnaround from the Wings, and somewhat of a falloff from the Aces and Liberty, determination mightiness beryllium immoderate caller excitement successful the postseason. Before we get there, let's speech astir the Sun and the league's astir fashionable team, the Fever.

The Connecticut Sun are 7-19 for the play and person won conscionable 3 games connected the road. I judge this volition beryllium the past play for the Sun successful Connecticut, and this volition beryllium 1 that everyone forgets. The Sun started the twelvemonth with conscionable 2 wins successful 15 games, but person gone 5-4 implicit the past 9 games, truthful astatine slightest the Sun are showing a spot of progress. The biggest occupation for this squad seems to beryllium that it can't find anyone to get a bucket erstwhile perfectly needed.

Phoenix Mercury guardant Natasha Mack fights for a rebound with Connecticut Sun halfway Brittney Griner astatine Mortgage Matchup Center successful Phoenix connected July 19, 2026. (Joe Rondone/The Republic / USA T)

The squad is led by Brittney Griner, but she is scoring conscionable 14.1 points successful 25.8 minutes. This is her second-lowest full constituent accumulation since her rookie season. Last twelvemonth was her worst, posting conscionable 9.8 points per game. Perhaps it is due to the fact that she is 35 years aged and slowing down, but she is nary longer the unit she erstwhile was. The bigger contented for the squad is that it is conscionable a hodgepodge of players - immoderate are castoffs from different teams, others are escaped agents that person been pieced together. However, the pieces truly don't acceptable well.

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The Indiana Fever person a amended grounds than the Sun, but that's not overmuch of a challenge. I deliberation 1 of the things to retrieve astir the Fever is that they get the champion effort from each squad they face, each night. The WNBA players don't truly similar Caitlin Clark (at slightest that's however it seems), and the effort level is intelligibly antithetic successful games with her involved. The Fever are 10-5 astatine location this year, and person won 7 of their past 10 games overall. One different happening to retrieve astir the Fever is that the opening of this play was a large adjustment.

Caitlin Clark attacks the rim arsenic the Indiana Fever instrumentality connected the Las Vegas Aces successful a marquee WNBA matchup. (David Becker/NBAE via Getty Images)

Clark was retired astir each of past season, and her coming into the fold erstwhile again, adjacent aft a truly palmy tally successful the playoffs past twelvemonth without her, meant the squad had to larn caller roles. She is ball-dominant and a large passer, truthful the squad had to alteration its discourtesy a bit. The Fever bash look to beryllium getting backmost to what they were champion astatine past season, erstwhile they looked to get Kelsey Mitchell buckets. She has led them successful scoring successful 8 of the past 9 games. Perhaps it is simply a equilibrium betwixt past year's occurrence and this year's adjustments.

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The Sun are not a squad that you'd expect to people a ton of points - averaging lone astir 80 points per game. However, the Fever are not a precise bully antiaircraft team, and again, you get a large effort each clip from the opposition. I consciousness similar the full tin spell either way, I don't cognize that the Sun tin halt the Fever, but I don't deliberation the Fever person overmuch involvement successful playing defense, either.

Indiana Fever players Lexie Hull (10), Caitlin Clark (22), and Damiris Dantas (12) observe aft the crippled against the Phoenix Mercury astatine PHX Arena successful Phoenix, Arizona, connected July 9, 2026. (Kate Frese/NBAE via Getty Images)

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The Fever person a remainder vantage successful this game; they've been astatine location for a while, but did person a back-to-back earlier this. Still, they've been disconnected for a mates of days. Being successful the aforesaid gym for aggregate days helps with show lines for shooters and allows them to beryllium much comfortable. The Sun volition person a agelong long disconnected aft this game, but volition inactive beryllium connected the road. I similar the Fever aboriginal successful this 1 arsenic I'm not definite they volition stroke retired the Sun late. Connecticut has kept games adjacent connected the roadworthy lately. Give maine the Fever 1st 4th astatine -2.5. I deliberation this is wherever they volition person the biggest vantage of being acquainted for shooting.