{"id":93446,"date":"2025-07-26T06:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/93446\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T06:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:53:09","slug":"sun-face-the-valkyries-on-4-game-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/93446\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun face the Valkyries on 4-game slide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/golden-state-valkyries-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Valkyries<\/a> (11-12, 6-8 Western Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/connecticut-sun-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Sun<\/a> (3-20, 2-7 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Uncasville, Connecticut; Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Connecticut Sun heads into the matchup against Golden State Valkyries as losers of four in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Sun are 2-9 on their home court. Connecticut has a 1-14 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Valkyries are 3-8 on the road. Golden State is sixth in the Western Conference with 18.5 assists per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/veronica-burton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Veronica Burton<\/a> averaging 5.3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Connecticut is shooting 39.8% from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points lower than the 40.2% Golden State allows to opponents. Golden State&#8217;s 40.3% shooting percentage from the field this season is 6.3 percentage points lower than Connecticut has given up to its opponents (46.6%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The teams play for the second time this season. The Valkyries won the last matchup 87-63 on June 23, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kayla-thornton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kayla Thornton<\/a> scoring 21 points in the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/tina-charles-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Charles<\/a> is scoring 16.0 points per game with 5.8 rebounds and 1.7 assists for the Sun. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/bria-hartley-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bria Hartley<\/a> is averaging 11.6 points and 3.2 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Burton is averaging 10.7 points and 5.3 assists for the Valkyries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/tiffany-hayes-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiffany Hayes<\/a> is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Sun: 1-9, averaging 74.3 points, 32.2 rebounds, 15.9 assists, 7.1 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 39.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 89.7 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Valkyries: 4-6, averaging 80.0 points, 36.8 rebounds, 19.2 assists, 4.9 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 41.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.4 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">INJURIES: Sun: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Valkyries: Kayla Thornton: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Golden State Valkyries (11-12, 6-8 Western Conference) at Connecticut Sun (3-20, 2-7 Eastern Conference) Uncasville, Connecticut;&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-93446","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93446","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=93446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93446\/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=93446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}