{"id":208763,"date":"2025-09-07T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208763\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:12:09","slug":"lynne-roberts-reveals-mindset-amid-playoff-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208763\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynne Roberts reveals mindset amid playoff push"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2013 With the 2025 WNBA regular season entering its final week, the Los Angeles Sparks\u2019 chances at making the playoffs<\/a> are hanging on by a thread. The Sparks need to win all three of their final games while getting help<\/a> from the Seattle Storm. Following the Indiana Fever\u2019s win on Sunday, the Storm are the only team the Sparks can catch for a postseason<\/a> spot. But prior to the Sparks\u2019 game against the Dallas Wings, head coach Lynne Roberts stressed the importance of not paying attention to what other teams are doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just have to continue reinforcing that message, and not talking about things we can\u2019t control. Whether Indiana wins or loses or Seattle, we can\u2019t control that. We just have to focus on what we\u2019re doing and see how it all shakes out,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n

The Sparks are currently 19-22 in Lynne Roberts\u2019 first year as head coach, an 11-game improvement from last season. Even if they do not make the playoffs, overall the Sparks have shown improvement from where they were in the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n

Roberts acknowledged that even though she said from the start that making the playoffs and winning were among her first-year goals, she believes this season has been a success in terms of establishing a culture and foundation for the next several years.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd coming into this season, the goal was the process of getting this organization back to where it belongs and making the culture what we want. Win as many games as possible, and we\u2019ve done those things,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t shy about saying that we wanted to get to the playoffs, but I\u2019m still proud of the whole body of work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember hearing as a young assistant: for sustainable success you can\u2019t take the elevator, you have to take the stairs and do it the right way and build culture first and get the right people,\u201d Roberts continued. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s what we\u2019re in the process of.\u201d<\/p>\n

In terms of the playoff picture, the Sparks will need to win their remaining three games against the Wings, Phoenix Mercury and Las Vegas Aces, while hoping the Storm lose their final game against the Golden State Valkyries. There is little room for error. But it\u2019s a task that Roberts believes the Sparks are up for.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe locker room is actually really good. These guys are all in. I\u2019ve been impressed with their resolve and their willingness to get back at it,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cThere\u2019s not a sense of feeling sorry for ourselves or down or anything. We\u2019re ready to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2013 With the 2025 WNBA regular season entering its final week, the Los Angeles Sparks\u2019 chances…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":208764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1488,8808,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-208763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-los-angeles-sparks","9":"tag-reporting","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115165550870138758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208763","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=208763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}