Becky Hammon's 'Perfect' Indiana Fever Assessment Says It All

The Indiana Fever wowed the women's basketball community when they took the Las Vegas Aces to the absolute brink in their 2025 WNBA Semifinals series. Despite the Fever's roster being extremely injury-plagued (including season-ending injuries to Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, and several other important players), the Fever managed to take the Aces to overtime in the winner-take-all Game 5 contest, despite star center Aliyah Boston fouling out earlier in the game, along with Kelsey Mitchell sitting out overtime because of an injury she suffered in the second half. This earned the Fever a lot of credit from the WNBA world. It also prompted Aces head coach Becky Hammon to give the squad their flowers during her Aces exit interview on October 16 by saying, "When you go back and watch those games, I didn't feel like it was so much of us playing bad, as they played great. Like, Indiana played great," per a YouTube video from The Ballers Magazine. "They had great individual performances, I think they're coached