10:05 pm
July 2

Dream @ Storm

Who will WIN this matchup?

Atlanta Dream (6-9)

@ Seattle Storm (12-4)

 

Current odds:

Atlanta Dream: (+900)

Seattle Storm: (-1600)

 

• The line for this game is Storm by 15.5 points.

• The Seattle Storm welcome the Atlanta Dream to Everett, Wash., on Friday night, looking to end a two-game losing skid and keep the pace atop the WNBA standings.

• Reigning champion Seattle (12-4) slipped into a tie with Las Vegas for first place after dropping consecutive games to the Washington Mystics on June 22 and to the Aces on Tuesday. The two defeats followed a five-game winning streak and an 11-1 stretch victories for the Storm.

• Breanna Stewart posted 35 points and 11 rebounds in the 95-92 overtime loss at Las Vegas but said afterward, “It obviously wasn’t enough.”

• The Storm were outscored 7-2 in the final 1:05 of overtime after Stewart missed a pair of mid-range looks in the final 2.1 seconds of regulation that would have won it.

• While Seattle’s last time out marked the extension of a brief losing streak, Atlanta (6-9) stopped its own skid at three games with a 73-69 defeat of the New York Liberty on Tuesday. The Dream played lock-down defense in the second and fourth quarters, holding the Liberty to just nine and 11 points, respectively.

• The win over New York marked a welcomed departure from the season-long trend for Atlanta, which comes into Friday’s contest giving up 87 points per game, second most in the WNBA.

• Seattle, meanwhile, is scoring 88.1 points per game, second only to Las Vegas’ 91.8. Stewart’s average of 21.8 points per game is second among all WNBA players, behind only Washington’s Tina Charles (25.5 ppg). Stewart is adding 10.1 rebounds per game, second to the 10.9 of Connecticut’s Jonquel Jones.

• Jewell Loyd’s 18.6 points per game complement Stewart’s offense, giving Atlanta a pair of primary scoring threats to handle.

• The Dream re-added their own double-figure scorer in Chennedy Carter last week after she missed almost a month due to a hyperextended elbow. However, her return to the lineup coincides with the absence of Tiffany Hayes, a 17.6-points-per-game scorer who is out for at least a month due to a torn medial collateral ligament.

• Atlanta is 3-3 on the road and the Storm are 5-3 at home.

• The Storm have beaten Atlanta in both meetings – both played in Atlanta – by margins of 24 and 11 points.

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