Caitlin Clark simply made her WNBA debut. This is how she and her staff did.

Uncasville, Conn. — Caitlin Clark struggled early in her WNBA debut earlier than ending with 20 factors and 10 turnovers because the Indiana Fever fell to the Connecticut Solar 92-71 Tuesday night time.

Alyssa Thomas led the Solar with 13 factors, 13 assists and 10 rebounds, registering the twelfth triple-double of her profession. DeWanna Bonner added 20 factors and DiJonai Carrington had 16. Carrington additionally was a serious cause for Clark’s early offensive struggles, hounding the guard.

“Disenchanted and no one likes to lose, that is how it’s,” Clark stated. “Cannot beat your self up an excessive amount of about one recreation.”

The NCAA’s all-time Division I scoring chief, who completed the sport 5 for 15 from the sphere, went scoreless within the first quarter. She missed her first 4 pictures earlier than lastly getting on the board halfway by means of the second interval.

Clark stole the ball across the foul line and drove the size of the court docket earlier than laying the ball in. She later added two free throws and hit a 3-pointer with 29.9 seconds left within the first half to complete the opening 20 minutes with seven factors, hitting two of her seven shot makes an attempt. The Fever trailed 49-39 on the break.

The Fever obtained inside 63-57 late within the third quarter on two free throws by Clark, however could not get nearer the remainder of the way in which.

Clark did begin heating up from the sphere, hitting 4 3-pointers, together with one from lengthy vary.

“Caitlin was in a position to get her some appears, in a position to knock them down. our spacing was not nice,” Indiana coach Christie Sides stated. “Connecticut got here in and punched us within the mouth tonight. We’ll be within the fitness center tomorrow watching a number of video making an attempt to determine how to not flip the ball over 25 instances.”

Clark broke the WNBA all-time report for turnovers in a debut recreation that was held by Cynthia Cooper-Dyke. Clark had 10.

CBSSports.com’s Erica Ayala says Clark had “an unorthodox double double — 20 factors and 10 turnovers.”

Ayala continued: “It was bodily,” stated Clark after the sport, studying rapidly that the calls she may need been used to getting — or even perhaps getting away with -– at Iowa weren’t going to fly within the WNBA. “Simply anticipating physicality was the largest factor. Like there is no calls you are gonna get. The [defense] goes to get these calls, it’s what it’s.”