{"id":181832,"date":"2025-08-28T07:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/181832\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:17:13","slug":"james-leads-dallas-against-atlanta-after-22-point-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/181832\/","title":{"rendered":"James leads Dallas against Atlanta after 22-point performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/dallas-wings-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings<\/a> (9-30, 3-17 Western Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/atlanta-dream-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> (24-14, 12-6 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">College Park, Georgia; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Dallas Wings visits the Atlanta Dream after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/aziaha-james-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aziaha James<\/a> scored 22 points in the Wings&#8217; 101-95 loss to the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Dream have gone 12-6 in home games. Atlanta ranks second in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> giving up 77.1 points per game while holding opponents to 43.0% shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Wings are 4-14 in road games. Dallas is fifth in the WNBA scoring 37.2 points per game in the paint led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/maddy-siegrist-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maddy Siegrist<\/a> averaging 7.1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Atlanta&#8217;s average of 9.2 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.1 fewer made shots on average than the 9.3 per game Dallas allows. Dallas averages 81.8 points per game, 4.7 more than the 77.1 Atlanta gives up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Dream won 88-85 in the last meeting on July 31. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/naz-hillmon-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naz Hillmon<\/a> led the Dream with 21 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/paige-bueckers-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paige Bueckers<\/a> led the Wings with 21 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/allisha-gray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allisha Gray<\/a> is averaging 18.7 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists for the Dream. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/brionna-jones-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brionna Jones<\/a> is averaging 13.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Bueckers is averaging 19 points, 5.2 assists and 1.6 steals for the Wings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/luisa-geiselsoder-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luisa Geiselsoder<\/a> is averaging 5.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Dream: 7-3, averaging 80.1 points, 37.3 rebounds, 19.9 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 43.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.2 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Wings: 1-9, averaging 81.1 points, 33.7 rebounds, 20.5 assists, 6.7 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 42.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 91.4 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">INJURIES: Dream: Jordin Canada: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Wings: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/jj-quinerly-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Quinerly<\/a>: out for season (acl), Arike Ogunbowale: out (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/li-yueru-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Li Yueru<\/a>: out for season (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/tyasha-harris-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyasha Harris<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Dallas Wings (9-30, 3-17 Western Conference) at Atlanta Dream (24-14, 12-6 Eastern Conference) College Park, Georgia;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-181832","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\/115105172200088463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181832","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=181832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}