Dream: 1 Win Away From the WNBA Finals

[lethalweapon3]

http://www.wnba.com/games/20100905/ATLNYL/gameinfo.html

Tickets still on sale (although it's great to see the middle seats are sold out). If you ever "dreamed" of witnessing an Atlanta basketball team win its conference and make the Finals, live, this could be your chance:

https://oss.ticketmaster.com/html/pack_planlist.htmI?l=EN&CNTX=&team=wnbaatlanta&selID=49

The Liberty won every one of the shooting-percentage battles (including 7-17 from three, vs. 1-5 by ATL), but could hardly do anything on the boards when Sancho or Erika was in the game.

Sancho was the game-ball player tonight, as the Dream went small-ball again and put her in at center, bringing Erika off the bench. She made a few Horfordesque jumpers to get things going early, aggressively stripped the ball away on several occasions, and snared every critical rebound during the game, including one where she tossed an outlet pass to Armintie Price for a wide open layup, snubbing a late Libs run and sealing the victory.

Outside of Sancho, the starters were all over the place FG-wise (11-for-42), but leading scorer McCoughtry mercilessly attacked the glass and was focused at the line (13-for-17). Angel carried her team in stretches offensively when New York's MVP runner-up Cappie Pondexter was going off on the other end of the floor. Angel's aggressive play created lots of whistles and had the New York fussing with the refs all night. The Dream took 17 more trips to the foul line and made 12 more FTs.

The bench mob came in and made big baskets, and oft-maligned Shalee Lehning was superb in driving and passing the ball, as well as surprisingly burying the sole three pointer to keep the Liberty at bay.

Excellent coaching once again by the Meadors-Ross team, the WNBA's Woody-Drew tandem done right.

~lw3

Edited September 6, 2010 by lethalweapon3

[HawksFan87]

I'll be at the game tomorrow, it's just fantastic to see how much they have grown. Tomorrow is going to be a tough game though. But I think the ladies are ready.

[lethalweapon3]

Whooooo-hoooo!

http://www.ajc.com/sports/mccoughtry-leads-dream-to-608583.html

More in the morning, I'm too hoarse tonight.

WNBA record 42 points for Angel Mac. Joe, THIS is what CLUTCH looks like!

~lw3

[Dnice]

I kinda thought something like that would be stated Lethal, lol I gotta give them a lot of credit, I was discouraged to see them lose the top spot, but in 2 series they take the road games and close it out in Atlanta.