Stephanie White Details Downsides of Coaching Young Fever Team

Stephanie White has received a ton of credit for how she coached the Indiana Fever during the 2025 WNBA season. Not only was White coming to a new head this offseason, but the team's personnel experienced a staggering amount of change during the season due to the many injuries Indiana had to face. The most notable of these was with star guard Caitlin Clark. And given that the Fever's entire offense revolved around Clark, her being sidelined meant that White and the rest of her coaching staff had to adapt their team's offense on the fly, figuring out how to maximize their players while still being unsure about how long Clark would be out for and whether she would return at any point in the 2025 season. While a big part of the Fever's last offseason was adding veteran players with playoff and championship experience to the roster, that doesn't detract from the fact that Indiana's core of Clark, Aliyah Boston, Lexie Hull, and Kelsey Mitchell (who is 30 years old but barely had any playoff experience before 2025