The highlight coming into the general week of the WNBA common season shines on 4 groups jostling for 3 playoff spots.
The New York Liberty and Dallas Wings, in the meantime, are very easily perched above the quartet of determined squads within the standings, with each having punched their postseason tickets.
Provided with this sort of luxurious because the common season closes, New York (30-7) and Dallas (20-17) meet on Tuesday in Arlington, Texas, aiming to situate themselves as favorably as conceivable within the playoff bracket.
The Liberty are assured a minimum of the second one seed within the postseason and stay within the combine for the league’s superb report once they pulled away overdue from the Chicago Sky on Sunday. New York trailed 61-60 early within the fourth quarter prior to it scored 22 immediately issues over the following 5:10 and steamrolled to an 86-69 victory in Chicago.
“I do not know why we got here out and it did not resemble the rest that we now have been doing in recent years — I do not know if complacency or fatigue seeped in,” Liberty trainer Sandy Brondello stated. “We all know we were not at our superb … and we were given again to it. This group is hard.”
Brondello’s squad trails the Las Vegas Aces (32-6) through 1 1/2 video games for the league’s best seed and will scouse borrow that place through profitable its ultimate 3 video games, only if the Aces lose their remaining two.
Tuesday’s recreation carries extra weight for Dallas, which remains to be combating to fasten up home-court merit within the first spherical after Sunday’s 97-84 domestic additional time loss to the Indiana Fever. The fourth-place Wings lead the Minnesota Lynx (19-19) through 1 1/2 video games for the general seed that promises two domestic video games to start the best-of-three opening spherical.
“We nonetheless have much more paintings to do,” Wings trainer Latricia Trammell stated, in keeping with mavsmoneyball.com after her group clinched its 3rd consecutive playoff berth with a 110-100 win at Indiana on Friday. “I am commemorated, blessed, and thankful that I am going in this adventure with them.”
Dallas’ Arike Ogunbowale ranks 5th within the WNBA with 21.1 issues in keeping with recreation, whilst New York’s Breanna Stewart sits 2d along with her 22.8 scoring moderate.
—Box Degree Media
