Skylar Diggins replaced a driving paste with 3.4 seconds, which helped the Seattle Storm Post to win 80–79 on the dream of Atlanta on Thursday at College Park, GA.
Nneka Ogwumike led Hurricane (11–7) with 24 points and seven rebounds, while Erica Wheeler had 21 points and Gabby Williams and Digins added 11 points to Seattle, including five of them.
Jordan Canada had 25 points and four stolen to speed up Dream (11-7), who have dropped three out of three. Briya Jones added 18 points and 10 rebounds, followed by 12 points of Alisha Gray and 11 boards.
Atlanta star Rhine Howard sat outside with an upper body injury.
Later with less than five minutes, behind a point, Atlanta scored six points in a row-also included Jones’s back-to-back basket-2: 32 to take a 75-70 lead.
Ogwumike’s mid-range jumper had responded to the three-point play of Ogwumike with a paste of Naz Hillon, before pulling the storm within two points with 1:06 rest.
Canada left the hurricane deficit in the wheeler’s triple with 79–78 to 32.5 seconds.
After Maya Calledwell missed a triple for Atlanta, Digins scored a game-winner for Seattle and missed a 3-pointer before Canada Bajer.
The storm took a two-point lead in the third quarter, neither the team made two bigger until the Triple of Ogwumike gave the storm a 51-46 lead with 4:38. Digids then hit a pair of free throw, before the dream 8–0 responded with a spirt.
Canada’s jumper gave Atlanta a point with 1:01 in the third, but Elisha Clarke and Wheeler connected to each jumpers, to enter the fourth on the edge of 59–56.
After the wheeller’s 3-pointer focusing ahead 64–60, the Grinner and Caldwell’s pastes gave the dream a lead of 5:34 with a gain of 69-66.
Seattle took a 15–13 lead after the first quarter, Britney Grinner and Canada’s Basket of Canada stamped 11–2 Atlanta Spirt to start second place, leading to the dream 24–17.
Easy Magbegore and Ogwumike replied with 3-pointers consecutively that 22–13 runs to end the first half, as the storm took a 39–37 lead. Ogwumike and Williams placed each Seattle with nine first-huff points, while Canada led Atlanta with 13.
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