Elisha Gray scored a game-hai 23 points and six rebounds and four aid pair, as Atlanta Dream won 77–58 for touring Indiana fever on Tuesday.
Briya Jones added 21 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta (6-3), which won the fifth time in six matches. Nia Coffee excluded 10 points and seven rebounds from the bench for dreams, which carried Indiana ahead of 44–27.
Indiana (4-5) snatched her two-game winning streak as superstar Ketleen Clarke recalled her fifth straight game with a quad injury.
Natasha Howard led the fever with 15 points and 10 rebounds, while the Reserve Arri McDonald scored 14 points. Kelsey Mitchell had 11 points, but shot just 5-for-16 from the ground and recalled all his five 3-point attempts. Indiana shot 36.2 percent from the region and 5 -for -24 (20.8 percent) beyond the arc.
Atlanta ended 47 percent from the floor and 22.7 percent from long distance (5 out of 22).
Dream broke a halftime tie with 14–4 runs to start the third quarter-to take a lead-47–37 lead with pastes of on-47-37-47-37.
After Mitchell’s paste pulled the Indiana within nine in the last minute of the third, Gray’s triple and Jones’ paste extended the lead of Atlanta to 56–42 and entered the last quarter.
The fever deficit in Howard’s frequent baskets was cut off with less than 60–48 minutes, but the 3-pointer of coffee started 7–0 Atlanta Spirt, which manufactures a commanding 19-point profit on a five-minute mark.
Atlanta took a lead of 22–19 in the second quarter before making its profit up to 31–27 by Gray and Jones, leaving in the first half with 4:25.
Indiana responded with six direct points to take a 33-31 lead at a mark of 1:36. Gray’s puttback lep with 18.1 seconds pulled Atlanta into a 33-33 halftime tie, despite remembering all of his 3-point attempts before the brake.
Gray led all the scorer with 13 first-half points, while McDonald’s placed Indiana with nine.
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