{"id":204564,"date":"2025-09-06T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/204564\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:54:10","slug":"stephanie-white-hints-at-major-change-coming-to-fever-stars-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/204564\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie White hints at major change coming to Fever star\u2019s game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana simply hasn\u2019t been able to catch a break<\/a> this season. Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, Aari McDonald, Sydney Colson, and Chloe Bibby are all out with season-ending injuries. Even player development coach Keith Porter suffered a torn right Achilles. Throughout those struggles, there have been few constants. One of those constants has been Aliyah Boston.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her third season, Boston is averaging career highs in points, assists, and field-goal attempts per game. Her steady presence alongside Kelsey Mitchell\u2019s MVP-level scoring outbursts has allowed the Fever to stay in the playoff race<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With how well she has played over her first three seasons, it is easy to forget that Boston is still very young and has plenty of room to grow. After a 97-77 win over the Chicago Sky, head coach Stephanie White hinted at one adjustment she would like her starting center to make.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI always say to AB, I\u2019d like her to take two or three threes a game,\u201d White said<\/a> while praising Boston\u2019s steady impact on the Fever this season. \u201cI think that she\u2019s got that in her arsenal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boston hasn\u2019t established herself as a 3-point threat yet<\/p>\n

121 games into her WNBA career, Boston averages 0.5 3-point attempts per game and converts 26.2 percent of them. Boston thrives as a pick-and-roll partner for Caitlin Clark, a big presence in the paint, and a facilitator in the post. There is really little need for her to regularly step out to the perimeter and establish herself as a 3-point threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, this season marked a career high in total 3-point attempts for Boston. With two games still left in the season, she has taken 29 shots from long range\u2014three more than last season and 19 more than in her rookie season. Boston hasn\u2019t regularly found the bottom of the net, though. She converted only six of her 29 attempts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Taking two or three shots from behind the arc per game would be a huge uptick for Boston, who didn\u2019t even attempt a three in almost half the games she played this season. This is not a change Boston will make this season, but it is something for fans to look out for going into the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Indiana doesn\u2019t have a true floor-spacing big at the moment<\/p>\n

The Fever\u2019s current forward rotation consists of Aliyah Boston, Natasha Howard, Brianna Turner, Makayla Timpson, and Damiris Dantas. Timpson hasn\u2019t attempted a three all season long, Turner took one, Boston went 6-29, Howard converted six of her 30 attempts, and Dantas is currently shooting 23 percent from long range. Chloe Bibby and Sophie Cunningham, who both played the three and four for the Fever, were the only reliable 3-point threats at the forward spots. Neither one is a true big, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If Boston develops a consistent three, as White would like her to, it could add a new dimension to the Fever\u2019s offense. However, given Boston\u2019s talent in the post, the Fever likely don\u2019t want her to spend too much time away from the basket.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana simply hasn\u2019t been able to catch a break this season. Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, Aari McDonald, Sydney…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":204565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-204564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115156514689478038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}