While Atlanta Dream’s Offsen slipped to some extent under the WNBA radar, his regular season is attracting a lot of attention to the possible season-defaulting six-game road trip.
The first stop is on Friday night in Indianapolis, where they will play esoteric Indiana fever.
At 12–7, Atlanta sits fourth in the overall league standing and will enjoy home-apprehension privileges for the first round of the playoffs if they start now. Under the first year coach Carl Sysco, the turnaround, which created an unexpected power in the Florida Gulf Coast, is built on 3-pointers and pastes. Sapna attempts the targets of the third highest area of 3-pointers (29.1) per game (68.4) and second-and-second.
SMESKO does not have the best-shooting squad at its disposal, with the field round percentage (42.9 percent) in the Dream Ranking Eighth and 10th in the 10th three-point efficiency (32.2 percent). The Atlanta League makes the least turnover (11.8) and glass for this by killing it. Sapna is second in WNBA in rebounding in 37.3 per game.
The 90-81 domestic victory against Atlanta Golden State is coming out of the domestic win on Monday night when Alisha Gray scored 24 points.
“These road games are going to be difficult,” said Dream’s Naz Hilmon, who came from the bench on Monday night with four made theres and 16 points. “But you have to steal those games.”
It is more difficult to make it against an inspired rival. Indiana (9-10) is coming out of the domestic loss of 80-61 in Golden State on Wednesday after shooting 30.9 percent from the floor. Valkyries had 47–36 rebounding benefits.
The fever started the season with great pomp after the fever looked like a successful offsen for the construction of a possible championship team around Cateline Clarke. But the first 19 games have not been planned as Clarke has worked through a pair of injuries.
Head coach Stephanie White is tired of waiting for the response, saying that his team’s energy and competitive fire were not at essential levels after Wednesday’s game. She was not back even after Thursday’s practice.
“We’ve got to bounce back,” said White. “We have grown better. Our focus on expansion is to be better. We have been stopped waiting for someone else to do it.”
The Dream season takes a 2–1 lead in the series, including a 91–90 win in Indianapolis on 20 May.
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