New York Liberty faced its first loss of the season on Saturday, but the commissioner’s cup series on Tuesday is not the time to fret with Atlanta Dream in the city for a major game.
Dream, Liberty and Indiana Fever are all 3–1 to play in the game with a game in cup standing. The point difference on Indiana in Atlanta and New York has a large -scale lead in the tiebreaker, which means that the winner will be a former representative on Tuesday.
First year Atlanta coach Carl Smaceco said, “Everyone wants to go to that Commissioner Cup Championship, and we have the opportunity to reach there and defeat Defending (WNBA) champs on our home court.” “It will make an extraordinary effort, but we have great players. I am eager to live in a big sports environment.”
Atlanta (8-3) has been one of the wonders of the WNBA season under Smsko. They are already more than half for the victory of the previous season, when the dream was 15–25. The franchise, which did not have a winning season since 2018, is headed by Guard Alisha Gray, who is third in WNBA, scoring with an average of 21.0 points per game.
Gray did a career-high 32 on Sunday in a 89-56 win over Washington mystics on Sunday. Dream also set a franchise record with 18 Made 3-pointers.
“He is such an extraordinary talent and the year he is extraordinary,” Smasco said. “Every game she looks more and more comfortable. Hopefully, she continues it and I hope she will do it.”
Liberty (9–1) WNBA was over 9–0, but on Saturday, Cateline Clarke of 102–88 and was given its first defeat by fever. New York star Jonkel Jones was without an ankle injury.
The WNBA final in 2024 is MVP Jones, 13.9 points and 10.3 rebound average. The injury is not expected to recall an extended period of time.
Liberty still ranks into the number 1 (90.2 digits a game) and defense (permission of 74.2) in the WNBA. Sabrina INESCU and Breanna Stewart Each average 19.5 digits one game.
“We now have 10 games in the season and we have to go a long way,” Stewart said on Saturday after the loss. “We have to go a long way to go to us. We had some games where we won something, so there is an disadvantage for everyone to see themselves in the mirror and focus on things that we need to do to be better.”
This is the first meeting of the season among the teams. In the regular session of 2024, New York won three out of four and swooped the first round of playoff series against Dream.
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