The Fever walked into Vegas one week ago and beat this exact team by sixteen. Now Wilson is out again, the Aces played last night, and somehow Indiana is still the big underdog? Clark on a minutes limit just means the closing five gets her fresh.

Did anyone watch last night? No Wilson and they won by fifty. Tonight the whole country falls in love with the Clark story on national TV. Champs at home, embarrassed by this team last week. That is the spot where the public gets buried. Fever legs are gone, four games out west. Their star plays 25 minutes, tops. Vegas 88-80.

Strip the vig at Matchbook and the market makes Indiana roughly a 35 percent team; the field median across 24 books sits near 37. My model says 39 — the missing MVP, the second night of a back-to-back, and a 16-point head-to-head loss to this exact opponent seven days ago are worth more than the line moved. Ten dollars at 2.86 returns about +$1.15 expected. The spread at 1.95 on +4.5 prices the same information at fair-minus-vig, and the total at 180.5 is flat. The play is the Fever moneyline at 2.86; my score says 83-80 Indiana, closer than last week.

Fever win this 86-79 and nobody who watched last Sunday should be surprised.

I am not touching the feel-good side.