Caitlin Clark did not start a game in her first tournament for the United States, yet the numbers presented in the supplied video tell an extraordinary story about her impact.

Across six World Cup games, Clark reportedly led the entire tournament in two major categories: assists and plus-minus.

She finished with 32 assists and a plus-121 rating.

According to the transcript’s statistical analysis, those performances were connected to seven Team USA or World Cup records despite Clark coming off the bench in every game.

The contrast between her role and her production is at the center of the story.

Clark’s 32 assists comfortably led Team USA.

Jackie Young ranked second among the Americans with 19, followed by Breanna Stewart with 17, Chelsea Gray with 16 and Paige Bueckers with 14.

That meant every Team USA starter finished with 19 assists or fewer while reserve Clark reached 32.

Her passing was also distributed throughout the roster.

According to the transcript, Clark recorded assists to 10 different teammates.

Angel Reese converted seven Clark assists, while Aliyah Boston finished six of them.

Rhyne Howard converted four, and all four were three-pointers.

The video calculated that Clark’s assists directly produced 66 points.

That represented 12.3 percent of all the points scored by the United States during the tournament.

Clark’s passing numbers became even more striking when expanded beyond Team USA.

Among all 192 players cited in the transcript, her 32 assists ranked first.

A Belgian guard was next with 31 assists in four games, while a Chinese guard recorded 28.

No other player reached 26.

Clark was therefore not merely the leading passer on the American roster.

According to the source, she led the entire World Cup.

Her 32 assists also represented 23.88 percent of Team USA’s total assists.

The transcript described that as the highest share produced by an American at a World Cup since Sue Bird accounted for 29.29 percent in 2006.

Then came the plus-minus numbers.

Team USA outscored its opponents by 121 points during Clark’s 116.07 minutes on the floor.

Boston ranked second among the Americans at plus-104.

Bueckers and Howard followed, while Stewart’s plus-76 was reportedly the highest figure among Team USA’s starters.

That placed two reserves above every American starter in the category.

Clark’s plus-121 also ranked first among all 192 players in the tournament, according to the transcript.

A French reserve finished second at plus-111, followed by a French starter at plus-107 and Boston at plus-104.

The difference between Team USA with and without Clark provided another striking comparison.

Across six games, the Americans finished plus-157 overall.

Of those 157 points, 121 came during Clark’s minutes.

The United States was only plus-36 during the minutes she was not on the court.

Against China, Team USA was plus-30 with Clark and plus-three without her.

Against Italy, the difference was plus-six with Clark and minus-three without her.

Against the Czech Republic, the Americans were plus-22 during Clark’s minutes and plus-19 without her.

The quarterfinal against Hungary produced Clark’s biggest margin.

Team USA was plus-36 during her 20.42 minutes and plus-16 during the rest of the game.

Against Spain in the semifinal, the Americans were plus-16 with Clark and minus-six without her.

In the championship game against France, Team USA was plus-11 with Clark and plus-seven without her.

According to the transcript, the United States never posted a negative net margin during Clark’s minutes in any of the six games.

The non-Clark minutes fell below zero twice.

Those numbers came despite Clark receiving progressively fewer minutes during the knockout rounds.

Her playing time reportedly dropped from 20.42 minutes in the quarterfinal to 16.83 in the semifinal and just 13.10 in the final.

Yet Team USA remained positive during her minutes in all three games.

That helped produce what the video identifies as Clark’s first record.

Among American World Cup players since 2014 who accumulated at least 60 minutes both on and off the floor, Clark reportedly produced the widest gap between her on-court and off-court team margins.

Her figures were plus-121 on the court and plus-36 when she sat.

The transcript identified Breanna Stewart’s 2018 World Cup as the next-largest gap, with Team USA plus-95 during Stewart’s minutes and plus-27 without her.

The source notes that the 2021 Olympic team produced three wider gaps, so this particular record is specifically characterized as a World Cup record.

Records two and three came from comparing tournament plus-minus leaders.

The video reviewed World Cups and Olympics dating to when the statistic became available.

Diana Taurasi reportedly led the 2016 Olympics at plus-200 while starting all eight games.

Alyssa Thomas reached plus-196 at the 2022 World Cup and also started all eight.

Other tournament leaders mentioned included Stewart, A’ja Wilson and a Spanish forward.

According to the transcript, all of those previous plus-minus leaders started every game they played.

Clark became the first player in the comparison to lead a tournament in plus-minus without starting a game.

The video identifies that as record two.

Record three is the combination.

According to the transcript, Clark became the only player on that historical board to lead the same tournament in both assists and plus-minus.

Record four again centers on her reserve role.

Clark’s 32 assists were described as the most in a tournament by any player who never started, considering every nation since 2014.

A Chinese guard’s 28 assists at the 2022 World Cup ranked second.

Kelsey Plum and Lindsay Whalen shared third with 25.

The championship game against France provided a vivid example of why Clark’s plus-minus became such a significant part of the statistical discussion.

The game did not begin positively for her.

Clark entered late in the first quarter with Team USA down one, and that initial stretch reportedly went minus-10.

France eventually scored 16 consecutive points and built a 31-17 advantage.

But the situation changed dramatically later.

When Clark returned with 2:03 remaining in the third quarter, the United States held a seven-point lead.

Her next stretch produced a plus-17 margin.

Clark made all three of her shots, scored nine points and added three assists as Team USA outscored France 26-9.

When Clark returned to the bench, the next stretch went minus-seven.

France outscored the United States 16-9 during that period.

Clark returned again for the closing 1:45, and Team USA ultimately won by 18.

According to the transcript, this happened during Clark’s smallest workload of the entire tournament.

Three more records originated in Clark’s national-team debut against China on September 4.

Coming off the bench, Clark produced 14 points, 11 assists, zero turnovers and a plus-30 rating.

The transcript says no American since 2006 recorded more assists in a national-team debut.

Clark’s 11 topped 49 debuts examined by the video.

Alyssa Thomas ranked second with nine.

That was record five.

Record six came from the combination of assists and ball security.

The video examined Team USA games since 2006 in which an individual player recorded at least seven assists.

Sue Bird had a 13-assist performance in 2021.

Chelsea Gray had another 13-assist game in 2024.

But both also committed at least one turnover.

According to the transcript, no other player on the zero-turnover line exceeded eight assists.

Clark’s 11 assists without a turnover against China were therefore described as the most in a United States game since 2006.

Record seven involved the bench.

Since 2014, when starter information became available for the dataset, Clark’s 11 assists against China were reportedly the most by a Team USA reserve.

Plum’s nine assists against Korea in 2022 ranked next.

Clark herself matched that nine-assist total against Hungary during this tournament.

Her passing remained impressive even after adjusting for playing time.

The transcript compared American tournament performances since 2006 among players who logged at least 60 minutes.

Chelsea Gray’s 2024 Olympic performance ranked first at 12.99 assists per 36 minutes.

Clark ranked second at 9.93.

Gray’s 2022 World Cup followed at 9.83.

The video therefore characterized Clark as first in the tournament by total assists and second among qualifying Americans over the past 20 years by assist rate.

There was, however, one major area where Clark did not dominate.

Shooting.

Clark made 14 of her 39 field-goal attempts, according to the transcript.

She attempted 25 three-pointers and made seven, producing a 28 percent rate from beyond the arc.

Her overall field-goal percentage was 35.9 percent.

Among the 73 tournament players with at least 25 attempts, that reportedly ranked 64th.

The rest of Team USA collectively shot 48.8 percent.

On two-point attempts, Clark was seven-of-14 for 50 percent, compared with 54.4 percent for her teammates.

From three, she shot 28 percent while the rest of the roster shot 34.6 percent.

Clark also took 64.1 percent of her field-goal attempts from three-point range.

Her championship performance was considerably stronger.

The transcript says she made four of five shots, including two of three three-pointers.

She finished the final with 12 points, tied for fourth on Team USA despite playing the fifth-fewest minutes among the 12 Americans who appeared.

That balance is important to the statistical picture presented by the source.

Clark was not Team USA’s most efficient shooter.

She did not start.

Her minutes actually declined as the tournament moved deeper into the knockout stage.

Yet according to the video’s dataset, she finished her first Team USA tournament leading all players in assists and plus-minus.

She accumulated 32 assists.

Team USA was plus-121 in her minutes and plus-36 without her.

And the transcript attributes seven records to her six-game performance.

For a player who never appeared in the starting lineup, those numbers made Clark’s international debut statistically unusual.

They also leave one unavoidable question hanging over the tournament’s final numbers.

What does a reserve role really mean when the player coming off the bench leads the entire field in both assists and plus-minus?