After a win for the Indiana Fever over the Seattle Storm, the head coaches of the two team had a meeting and discussion in the handshake line postgame.
Following the 92-75 victory for Indy inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Christie Sides and Noelle Quinn had a long talk with one another at the scorers table around midcourt in the final seconds. However, the pair seemed to have resolved it by the time of the final buzzer with them hugging one another afterward.
The broadcast speculated that the conversation may have been over when the two sides decided to empty their respective benches to close the 92-75 win for Indiana.
This came after the fourth quarter turned their matinee matchup on Sunday from a competition into a blowout. Although a one-point difference entering the final frame, the Fever closed with a 33-17 finish in the fourth to take the 17-point final margin at home.
Most of that was due to the scoring and three-point shooting for Indiana. They had three players with 20-plus points with Kelsey Mitchell (27), Caitlin Clark (23), and Lexie Hull (22). The trio combined for 14 of the 15 makes for their team from distance with five, three, and six respectively as the Fever hit 48.4% on threes.
Clark nearly had a double-double as well with nine assists that set a new league record for her along with five rebounds, a pair of blocks, and a steal. She also picked up a technical foul in a heated moment of her own.
As for Seattle, Jewell Lloyd led the way with 26 points, four rebounds, and four assists. Skylar Diggins-Smith (15 points, five assists, four rebounds, two steals) and Nneke Ogwumike (14 points, nine rebounds, four steals, three assists) also had decent stat lines for the Storm.
In a contested game with a month to go in the regular season, you can see where things could get testy in the last moments. It was not much in the end, though, with the two coaches settling it by the eventual finish of the game.
Clark picks up controversial technical after punching stanchion
Caitlin Clark is back in action on Sunday against the Seattle Storm. And she picked up her fifth technical of her rookie season in the WNBA, after she punched the stanchion, basically the base of the hoop.
