Sabrina Ionescu is in the midst of one of the roughest shooting stretches in her WNBA career.<\/p>\n
And to cap the final game before a three-week break as international stars head to the FIBA Women\u2019s World Cup<\/a>, the Liberty guard missed all 10 of her shots in 23 minutes during Saturday\u2019s 85-66 victory over the Chicago Sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n Still, the four-time All-Star\u2019s confidence isn\u2019t wavering one bit.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re kind of just laughing about it. It\u2019s not that big of a deal to me. I know who I am. I know what I\u2019m able to do. Kind of felt like the ball was allergic to the rim there for me,\u201d said Ionescu, who scored just two points on free throws. \u201cLike, it\u2019s literally just like toilet bowling out. I\u2019m not really understanding. They\u2019re not like bad misses. They\u2019re just literally popping out. So sometimes you just gotta laugh and shake it off. I\u2019m not really worried.\u201d<\/p>\n The 0-for-10 shooting afternoon \u2014 which included three missed treys \u2014 came with the star guard entering the Sky matchup shooting no better than 20% from downtown in seven consecutive games. The 34.5% career three-point shooter shot 23.2% from deep in the month of August.<\/p>\n Overall, Ionescu shot 37.4% from the field in August.<\/p>\n Ionescu, though, is sticking with the same process as if she knocked down every single shot.<\/p>\n \u201cNone different than if I went 10-for-10,\u201d Ionescu said when asked what steps she takes to re-center herself in the midst of a skid. \u201cTo be completely honest, no matter what it is, the process stays the same for me, and that\u2019s obviously making sure I\u2019m taking the right shots, feeling confident, feeling good, and all the shots feel good to me.\u201d<\/p>\n The guard noted not wanting to do the opposite of her process and turn down shots, which leads to not getting out of the funk.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m right where I want to be. It\u2019s an opportunity for me to grow and continue to get better and find ways to impact the game,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n The last time Ionescu failed to record a field goal in a game came during the 2022 season, when she went 0-for-5 in a Commissioner\u2019s Cup matchup against the Sky.<\/p>\n She failed to do so three times during the 2021 season.<\/p>\n As Ionescu\u2019s confidence hasn\u2019t wavered, it remains high amongst her teammates, too.<\/p>\n We believe in her. Every time it goes up, whether it goes in or not, I feel like it\u2019s going in because that\u2019s how much I believe in her,\u201d said Jonquel Jones.<\/p>\n Star teammate Breanna Stewart said she pours into Ionescu by instilling confidence and telling her to \u201ckeep shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Ionescu is in the midst of one of the roughest shooting stretches in her WNBA career. And…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1033012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[4548,15534,4540,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":["post-1033011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-liberty","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sky","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117184703101892154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033011","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=1033011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}