Atlanta Dream (23-13, 11-5 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (13-23, 8-11 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta Dream takes on the Phoenix Mercury after Rhyne Howard scored 26 points in the Dream’s 124-88 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n
The Mercury are 5-11 on their home court. Phoenix ranks sixth in the Western Conference in rebounding with 31.6 rebounds. Alyssa Thomas leads the Mercury with 7.5 boards.<\/p>\n
The Dream have gone 11-7 away from home. Atlanta is 4-2 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
Phoenix’s average of 7.8 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.6 fewer made shots on average than the 8.4 per game Atlanta gives up. Atlanta’s 44.0% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.3 percentage points lower than Phoenix has given up to its opponents (46.3%).<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the third time this season. In the last matchup on Aug. 5 the Dream won 96-82 led by 23 points from Howard, while Kelsey Plum scored 19 points for the Mercury.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Thomas is averaging 14.9 points, 7.5 rebounds and 8.2 assists for the Mercury. Kahleah Copper is averaging 20.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Angel Reese is averaging 15.9 points, 11.9 rebounds and 1.7 steals for the Dream. Howard is averaging 3.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mercury: 5-5, averaging 85.5 points, 32.0 rebounds, 21.6 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Dream: 7-3, averaging 96.0 points, 37.2 rebounds, 23.2 assists, 8.1 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Mercury: Kelsey Plum: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n
Dream: Brionna Jones: out (leg).<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a9 2022 Data Skrive. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Dream (23-13, 11-5 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (13-23, 8-11 Western Conference) Phoenix; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1015650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[2600,1518,160,62,67,132,68,7184,232,16966],"class_list":["post-1015649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-dream","tag-eastern-conference","tag-mercury","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-western-conference","tag-wnba","tag-women"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117135480355024901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}