When Atlanta Dream hosted New York Liberty on Sunday afternoon at College Park, GA, two teams are colliding in search of a positive step.
Defending champion Liberty has lost three of their last four matches and gave a season-high 106 points to lose in Phoenix on Friday night.
New York (11-4) playing without starters is Jonquale Jones, who is out with an ankle injury for one and three weeks, and Leoni Fiabich, who are playing for Germany in the Eurobacket by the end of June, but coach Sandy Breondello is not seen as an excuse for Liberty slide.
Brondelo said on Friday, “A lot of teams have lost Eurobacket players. Competition is something that is inside.” “I don’t care who is not with us. They are not going to save us. This is that and we need to find a way to excavate.”
Atlanta (10-6) has lost two consecutive loses and is coming out of 96-92 overtime loss for League-Leading Minnesota on Friday. This dream was quickly implicated in a sport which was delayed in eight minutes when electricity went out due to thunderstorms in the area.
Atlanta coach Carl Smaceco said, “To be honest, we were wondering if the game is going to continue.” “Officials were saying that we could not continue for the players if there is no safe environment. Fortunately, the situation of light was fixed.”
Atlanta had the ball at the end of regulation with the opportunity to win, but was unable to get a clean form. Smaceco said that his team needs to focus on executing the stretch.
“We just have to take that next step,” he said. “We should be able to finish some of these sports and this is something we will spend more time to work in practice.”
An example of the heavenly struggles of Dream came to his first meeting with Liberty on 17 June. Atlanta blew up the third quarter lead of 17 points and saw Liberty away for the 86-81 victory. Sabrina INESCU had 34 points for New York in that victory.
INESCU enters an average of 18.9 points in the Sunday competition, second for Breanna Stewart (20.7) in the team. New York leads WNBA in scoring a game at 87.8 points per game.
Elisha Gray led a game to Dream with 19.5 points, followed by Rhine Howard 17.5.
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