Lexie Hull’s Mom Signals Hesitation in Caitlin Clark Disclosure 50 Seconds Before She Sets the Record Straight

The storyline that Caitlin Clark single-handedly saved Lexie Hull’s career by changing her game has been bouncing around the internet like a loose basketball. And we get it. Hull’s first two seasons with the Fever did not exactly produce standout moments, at least when it comes to her 3p%. She shot just 20.15% from three over 56 games. Then 2024 arrived and, out of nowhere, Hull started splashing threes like she’d been hiding Steph Curry DNA all along, finishing at 47.1%. Since then, she’s held steady, rocking 38.5% this season and 42.8% over her last 74 games. But here’s the thing: Is an improved deep play enough to say her pro career was saved, when she was never really a three-point shooter? That’s precisely the point her mother brought up in a recent interview with Rosalina Lee.

When Lee asked Jaime Hull, “Has playing with Caitlin changed Lexi’s game much?” the mother hesitated. “I don’t know…,” Jaime began with a pause. “Well, I mean, to be honest, Lexi was never a three-point shooter like in college or any like she hit threes, but it was never the that to be accounted. But I feel like Lin Dunn saw her, I think it was the first or second round game, and I think she was like six or seven from threes, and so that’s partly why I think they were into Lexi. So, figuring that part out with Caitlin on the floor, I feel like is a bit different.”

The game Jaime had in mind would be Stanford’s 91-65 beatdown of Kansas in the second round of the 2022 NCAA Tournament. And the star of the show was Lexie Hull, through and through. She poured in a career-high 36 points, drilled six threes, grabbed six rebounds, and swiped six steals. It was the kind of performance that echoes in the record books, too—the most points by a Stanford player in the NCAA Tournament since Nneka Ogwumike dropped 39 on South Carolina in the 2012 Sweet 16. That’s what Lin Dunn and Marianne Stanley saw, and they had reason enough.

Now, Hull wasn’t really projected as high as Indiana picked her, so the decision surprised many. But Dunn was confident, as she said, “We just didn’t see anybody better if we wanted a great shooter. Maybe she was the surprise of the draft, but she wasn’t a surprise to us.” Stanley was just as “super, super excited”, after all, the season before, Indiana had ranked dead last in three-point percentage last season and was the only team to shoot under 30% from long-range. “The best shooter that I think is on the draft board,” Stanley said of Hull.

So, Lexie had it all to receive the same recognition as now. ‘Change’ isn’t really the word; ‘uncover’ is. And Jaime Hull gives Clark due credit there. She added, setting the record straight, “Lexi’s always been someone who runs. So that blends really well to Caitlin’s game and that’s a little bit different. Like, we don’t run near as much without Caitlin on the floor. It’s no fault of the point guards or anyone bringing the ball up. It’s just the court vision is different. And so Caitlin’s game amplifies Lexi’s game. Like, they just play really well together.“

So, thanks to CC’s passing skills, that allowed Hull to play more than she was used to. “I definitely got passes and tried to finish when I wasn’t expecting to get the ball,” Hull said of Clark’s passing vision last year during an episode of the Dunker Spot. “Now it’s like, every cut I have, every cut I make, every fast break I run, I have a real opportunity to get the ball, which definitely took me a second. And I think it really just took one of those to get my head around.”

That practice with Clark in 2024 also helped her put on notable performances during the Unrivaled stretch. And out of that has emerged a player people should never count out. But more than that, for Jaime Hull, a team and a duo have emerged. So, when it came to the old “with Clark or without Clark” narrative, Jaime had a simple answer.

Jaime Hull is convinced of Indiana’s still-unused potential

Everyone knows the panic that set in every Fever fan’s throat once Clark was ruled out for the first time. Then, everyone knows the joy that erupted when she returned for the first time. Since then, it’s been a weird stretch of in and out for Clark. Speaking on the same, Jaime said, “

No, earlier this season when Caitlyn went out the first time and then she came back and Lexi would talk about practice and she’s just like, “We’re so good. We are so good.” And I’m like, “Sweet.” And then then now we’re so different. But I think we’re still good. Like we’re still really good that people like don’t sleep on them”.

Don’t sleep on them. That’s the message. Rosalina Lee further added, “

This team got to the playoffs mostly without Caitlyn. Imagine when she comes back and gets comfortable with the team,” and Hull readily agreed. Lee then asked the ultimate question, “Yeah. Like Yeah. I mean, how far do you think How far do you think they could go?”. And while answering this, Hull brought out another factor besides the talent in the roster and on the bench.

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I feel like you I would never count them out of anything,” Hull said, before sprinkling in the luck factor. “But I wouldn’t count I mean most teams out just because you just don’t know how it’s going to go. Having gone through um them winning a national championship in college, you realize there’s a little bit of luck in kind of the run of things. Like it’s not all because you’re just the best team. I mean look at Commissioners Cup. They come out and they beat the Lynx and it’s like Lynx are the odds-on favorite to win the whole thing. Look what you just did without Caitlyn. Like this can be done”. 

So, yes, here’s the answer. The Fever might have fallen to the Valkyries today and slipped to the 8th spot, but the story is far from over. Who knows what magic luck might wield in the upcoming four games?