Caitlin Clark and Brazil nationwide staff coach Leo Figueiro shared a enjoyable second in the course of the second quarter of the preseason recreation between the Fever and Brazil when the ladies’s hoops star went over for a fast good day throughout a pause within the motion.
Clark was mic’d up as a part of the ESPN broadcast of the exhibition contest from Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment on Sunday.
ESPN supplied the audio of the second the place Figueiro praised the Iowa alum for what she’s completed for the game.
“You’re an amazing player, congratulations,” Figueiro stated to Clark after she came visiting and requested how he was. “You’ve changed the history in basketball.”
The ever-polite Clark responded by telling Figueiro, “I appreciate it. Thanks for coming here and playing us.”
“Most people you’ve played in front of?” she then requested, to which the Brazil coach replied, “Yes.”
Sunday’s recreation between the Fever and Brazil nationwide staff was being performed on the College of Iowa, Clark’s alma mater the place she first caught basketball followers’ eyes.
Clark and the Fever simply demolished Brazil in what ended as a 108-44 win in entrance of an ecstatic crowd.
The WNBA celebrity had stated that she hoped to offer the followers a present in the course of the exhibition match and she or he did so, ending the afternoon with 16 factors on 6-of-10 taking pictures.
“I certainly give the fans something to cheer about. That’s my goal. Get them involved. Get them loud,” Clark stated, in response to HawkCentral. “Because, I told my teammates, it’s going to be the loudest arena you’ve ever played in. So, I’ve got to make a few shots and be able to get them on their feet.”
Clark had opened and closed the primary quarter with pull-up 3s, which was a crowd pleaser and harking back to the kind of pictures that she grew to become identified for first whereas enjoying for Iowa — which she took to consecutive nationwide championship video games.
