{"id":103954,"date":"2025-07-30T05:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103954\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:10:10","slug":"wnba-officials-receive-more-criticism-from-valkyries-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103954\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Officials Receive More Criticism From Valkyries Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_l2lfnvrm8\">In a thrilling contest, the Golden State Valkyries won a crucial road game against the Atlanta Dream Tuesday night behind 18 points from guard Cecilia Zandalasini, who hit a game-winning jumper with three seconds left in regulation for a 77-75 victory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ny9g76iov\">The Valkyries remain in ninth place after the game, two wins behind the 14-13 Las Vegas Aces. The Aces, fresh off of a victory over the Los Angeles Sparks, currently hold the eighth and final playoff spot in the league. In a back-and-forth hard-fought contest, the Valkyries survived a 19-6 fourth quarter run by Atlanta to secure a much-needed win. Golden State will face the 7th place Washington Mystics as the team\u2019s five-game road trip continues Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"base_1emrqjj-o_O-initial_fzbddc-o_O-style_1a1csmw-o_O-style_e296pg\" alt=\"Atlanta Dream guard Allisha Gray, Golden State Valkyries forward Janelle Salaun\" title=\"Atlanta Dream guard Allisha Gray, Golden State Valkyries forward Janelle Salaun\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Atlanta Dream guard Allisha Gray (15) controls the ball against Golden State Valkyries forward Janelle Salaun (13). \/ Jordan Godfree-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_wkfva21qp\">Though not as zealous in her <a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_bcuhf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/valkyries\/pressure-builds-for-wnba-to-make-changes-after-comments-from-valkyries-coach-01k1br7svs9g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticism of the refereeing<\/a> as games past, Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase noted the foul discrepancy between the two clubs when speaking with reporters postgame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_yz4rj9gsu\">\u201cWe knew the physicality of Atlanta and their size was going to be a challenge, and I thought we did a hell of a job just team-wise being in the passing lanes, being physical without fouling,\u201d Nakase told reporters postgame. \u201cBut the fouls ended up being 21 on us, 11 for them, that\u2019s a big gap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_rzc052io1\">\u201cIn terms of the free throws they had 21, we had eight,\u201d she added. \u201c&#8230; Resiliency was what I saw tonight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_hvds1f0t0\">The Valkyries made a franchise-record seven 3-pointers in the third quarter\u2013three from veteran guard Tiffany Hayes. Zandaliasini led all scorers with 18 points and added a game-high eight rebounds in the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_xx9nmanej\">Atlanta\u2019s Jordin Canada led all scorers with 21 points along with eight assists despite the loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ieck6mxjm\">After a three-game losing streak heading into the All-Star break, Golden State has won two of its last three contests. The Valkyries play the 13-13 Washington Mystics on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a thrilling contest, the Golden State Valkyries won a crucial road game against the Atlanta Dream Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-103954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114940466114484941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103954","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=103954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}