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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark couldn\u2019t play up to her standards in the 2025 WNBA season, with frequent injuries limiting her to 13 up-and-down games. Nevertheless, she\u2019s been the belle of the ball<\/a> since college, often compared to Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry\u00a0because of her unprecedented range.<\/p>\n Even Curry\u2019s trainer, Brandon Payne, has taken notice of her shot-making ability.<\/p>\n Breaking Down What Makes Caitlin Clark Such An Absurd Shot-Maker<\/p>\n Payne revealed the secret for anyone who wants to be the next Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n \u201cHer compact shooting is up and out with a quick release<\/a>. She has incredible distance. One reason is, she has tight, repeatable mechanics and shoots through her core and wrist. She lives in her work,\u201d Payne explains, per ESPN\u2019s Paul Biancardi<\/a> (h\/t nosyone4 on X).<\/p>\n Clark\u2019s detractors will quickly point out that she\u2019s coming off a season in which she could only make 27.9% of her 3-point tries. However, between her quadriceps strain and groin injury, she may not have been able to establish her normal base. Her soft tissue lower body injuries may have also affected her ability to transfer power from her base through her core.<\/p>\n When a healthy Clark returns to the court<\/a> for the 2026 season, she should look a lot more like her usual self.<\/p>\n MORE: <\/strong>Steph Curry Makes Big Personal Announcement After Warriors-Trail Blazers Game<\/a><\/p>\n That player left Iowa with the most 3-pointers (548) in NCAA women\u2019s basketball history. She made a league-high 122 trey-balls in 2024, breaking the rookie record for most 3s made in a single season. She made 37.7% of her 3-point attempts in college and shot 34.4% from 3-point range as a rookie.<\/p>\n She even had a more outstanding collegiate career than Curry. To be fair to the future Hall of Famer, he left Davidson with the NCAA record for the most 3s made<\/a> in a single season (162). Had he returned to the Wildcats for his senior season, he\u2019d have broken the NCAA\u2019s all-time record for made 3s. Even so, no argument favors him in that head-to-head with Clark.<\/p>\n Ultimately, it\u2019s often unfair to place unwieldy expectations on players. Yet, the 23-year-old megastar\u2019s bar has been set so high because there really hasn\u2019t been another player like her in the WNBA. What makes Curry her closest player comparison isn\u2019t even necessarily the skillset that she possesses, but the impact she\u2019s made<\/a> with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark couldn\u2019t play up to her standards in the 2025 WNBA season, with frequent…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":337019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[104,728,10814,86770,62,166604,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-337018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-newsbreak","11":"tag-pfsn","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-stephen-currys-trainer-provides-in-depth-breakdown-of-caitlin-clarks-absurd-shooting","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115448532918245485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337018","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=337018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}