Toronto Tempo (10-21, 5-8 Eastern Conference) at Atlanta Dream (19-12, 9-4 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
College Park, Georgia; Monday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Toronto Tempo enters the matchup with Atlanta Dream as losers of eight in a row.<\/p>\n
The Dream are 9-4 in Eastern Conference games. Atlanta is fourth in the Eastern Conference with 20.6 assists per game led by Jordin Canada averaging 7.5.<\/p>\n
The Tempo are 5-8 in conference matchups. Toronto is fifth in the Eastern Conference with 20.2 assists per game led by Julie Allemand averaging 5.9.<\/p>\n
Atlanta is shooting 43.4% from the field this season, 3.9 percentage points lower than the 47.3% Toronto allows to opponents. Toronto averages 10.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 more made shots on average than the 8.4 per game Atlanta gives up.<\/p>\n
The two teams play for the fourth time this season. The Dream defeated the Tempo 111-92 in their last meeting on July 17. Naz Hillmon led the Dream with 24 points, and Marina Mabrey led the Tempo with 26 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Canada is averaging 11.3 points, 7.5 assists and 2.1 steals for the Dream. Allisha Gray is averaging 20.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Maria Conde is averaging 9.3 points for the Tempo. Mabrey is averaging 17.4 points and 2.8 rebounds while shooting 41.2% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Dream: 7-3, averaging 92.3 points, 35.3 rebounds, 22.7 assists, 8.7 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 89.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Tempo: 1-9, averaging 83.3 points, 30.1 rebounds, 20.5 assists, 5.6 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 98.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Dream: Te-Hina Paopao: out (leg).<\/p>\n
Tempo: Brittney Sykes: out (foot).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo (10-21, 5-8 Eastern Conference) at Atlanta Dream (19-12, 9-4 Eastern Conference) College Park, Georgia; Monday, 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[45324,5058,28976,2692,45323,23803,19957,2693,51978,9603,49,48,2318,2317,16428],"class_list":["post-161349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-allisha-gray","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-brittney-sykes","tag-jordin-canada","tag-julie-allemand","tag-maria-conde","tag-marina-mabrey","tag-naz-hillmon","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-tempo","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}