Indianapolis - Stephanie White knows how to coach Connecticut Suns last season. She played them 5-1, including a 2-0 sweep in the playoff series.

Now, this WNBA season, White knows what opponents will try to do to Indiana. Atlanta Dream did it in a 91-90 victory at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Tuesday.

"We didn't handle their bodies," White said. "The team will be physically." This is how I play.

"They will push us, they will push us, they will grab us. They will do their best to escape and we have figured out how to use this body against them."

The dream also has a new coach in Karl Smesko this season, who added two experienced post players to free agents, both of whom were doing well on Tuesday. Brittney Griner scored 21 points and 8 rebounds, while Brionna Jones 19 and 13. It was a strong rebound from Atlanta, which lost the season 94-90 in Washington last Friday.

This time in Atlanta, Dream and Fever meet again. That game was moved to State Farm Arena, which owns nearly 17,000 fans, to accommodate the expected mass crowd Caitlin Clark usually attracts. Most of the dream home games are held at the Gateway Center Arena, with about 3,500 people.

Clark opened the season with a triple-double in a 35-point win over Chicago on Saturday, and performed well again on Tuesday: 27 points, 11 assists and five rebounds. Teammates Aliyah Boston (24 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists) and Kelsey Mitchell (24 points) also performed well. But as a team, fever only had 16 of 26 free throws, while Atlanta hit 25 free throws.

"Today, we failed as a group because there was something that made us effective from Q1 to Q4," Mitchell said. "And you didn't see what it should be like until Q3."

"So, it's just the discipline now: awareness, understanding people. Something we have to go home to succeed. Our calm is too low. They can't be that low. We have no room for mistakes."

Despite this, despite most games falling behind, the fourth quarter fever hit the knockout round in Atlanta 25-15. In addition to Boston's opening basketball game, Indiana has 21.1 seconds left, leading with the first lead - 90-89.

But Rhyne Howard, who scored 20 points, was fouled and free throws for Atlanta.

Indiana still has a chance to win the ball with 9.1 seconds left. But Natasha Howard's shot was blocked and then missed the follow-up shot. Clark said this is a situation where fever develops from it.

"We wanted to win this game, but it was great for our team," Clark said. "A little bit of an adversity, how will we respond? I have to give my team a lot of honors; we never gave up. We found a way to get back in.

“We have a chance to go there (again).