Indianapolis – For the first time since the suffering of a quad injury that has practiced her for a year and a half, Caitlin Clark spoke to the media after training on Thursday.
Clark said that she “made a lot of progress” and will be evaluated again during the weekend, whereby the two -week time frame corresponds to the fever that was initially given.
“I will be evaluated again this weekend,” said Clark, “so I will miss the game of this weekend, but then it’s day after day and see how I feel and just turn a kind of medical staff and what they think. I feel that I have made a lot of progress. I don’t feel well. I am not going to hurry.
The injury, revealed Clark, took place early during the Indiana match against the fever. Although Clark could not locate the exact moment or it happened, she said, she said it happened early.
“It is clear that adrenaline covers a lot of things when you are in battle and after the game I had some pain and then I got an MRI and that gave me the result that I didn’t want to see,” Clark said. “But you know that things like that don’t lie.”
The fever has a competition on Tuesday, which would come after Clark was again evaluated. However, when asked if she could be available for that game, she was without obligation.
“We don’t try to say as an exact date, because it is a kind of day-to-day thing and see how I feel,” Clark said. “You don’t know this kind of injury. If I wake up, I will feel different from the day before. We will see. It can be a possibility, but I could not be available for that game either.”
It is the first time that Clark has missed competitions in not only her short professional career, but also before her university career. It is a new challenge for the second -year guard, who has remained a constant figure on the sidelines everywhere, cheered her teammates … and still arguing with the referees.
“I think it was different,” Clark said. “I think that a good perspective is the best way to approach it. Like, yes, you can be frustrated and not, but I think the medical team has done really good work by doing my rehabilitation every day, staying in a routine, staying in a routine.
“But I think I can concentrate on a really good teammate, there are a voice for them for my teammates, because that’s what I am when I play, so you still have to be that consistent voice when I’m sitting on the couch.”
In that sense, Clark sat next to the coaching staff during competitions, so that she also allowed a ‘unique perspective’ as she called it on Thursday, as well as the chance to keep learning, even while she is silk.
“If you play there and actually in the heat of the moment, you don’t realize everything, you don’t always see everything,” Clark said. “You see things from a different perspective that the coaching staff may not have seen. So it is certainly different. I try to be a kind of that connector between the coaches and then my teammates at the same time, whether that is in the dressing room during the rest, or that is during the time.
“It has taught me a lot. I have never been to that position before and I have been able to watch a longer period from the bank for a long time.”
Without her, Clark and the fever have struggled, going 1-2 while they are dealing with injuries to Sydney Colson and Sophie Cunningham during that period too. It was a difficult time for the entire team, which came in this season with championship expectations that had to be taken during a break for the time being.
Clark joked that she is not a patient person, so that she also challenged her during her absence. At the same time, she also approaches that from a learning perspective.
“I have never been a patient person in my entire life, so this certainly tests me a bit, but I think it will be really good for me,” Clark said. “Like I said, I just tried to approach it in the best way I can. I can’t change it. But yes, I think my patience has certainly grown a lot and, as I said, just try to grow and learn and I think I certainly did that.”
That patience will have to be in place at least a little longer, because she will miss at least another match against heaven this weekend.
If things go well for Clark and the fever during her re -evaluation, a return can be around the corner for the superstar guard.
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