Connecticut Sun scored his third win for his third win in four outings after the commencement of 0–5 in Sunday’s performance against host Washington Mistics.
Connecticut (2-6) comes in a win of 84-76 on Atlanta on Friday.
Marina Mabre scored 34 points and Tina Charles won 19 pairs for The Sun, who won the 3-point range despite the shooting of just 3-for-15. However, Mabre made 13 out of 22 shots from the ground.
The Sun won the second half rebounding battle from 15–9 and kept Atlanta for only 39 percent shooting after the time.
Head coach Rachid Mezian appreciated that defensive effort.
“I think we controlled rebounding,” said Mezian. “I think we did a great job with that part of the game. He played hard, but we definitely fought a lot of his shots.”
Washington (3-6) has lost three consecutive and six of their last seven matches.
On Thursday, Kiki Irifen and Sonia Citron scored 17 and 13 marks respectively for New York Liberty, Mistics’s 86-78 shock.
But New York excluded Mistic from the 3-point range (35.7 percent) from 10-for-28 and foul line (80 percent) from 24-for-30, while Washington abolished 5-for-19 (26.3 percent) and 15-for-24 (62.5 percent).
Washington Shakira is working through the lineup combination changes with Austin and Aliah Edwards, returning from injuries. A quarter of 32–12 seconds gave Liberty a comfortable lead before pulling the game in a late four digits.
“Yes, we had some stress points,” said Washington coach Sydney Johnson. “Whether it is a hard whistle or (being) on the road or heating a certain player of the other team or maybe our own personal mistakes. But they find a way to come back … if we can do that bottle up … then we know that we have found something.”
These teams earlier played on 18 May, in which Brittany Cyx scored 27 points to Washington’s 90-85 win.
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