The #8 seed New York Liberty visited the #4 seed Atlanta Dream in game 1 of the WNBA playoff semifinals last night. The story of this game was turnover, the Liberty turned the ball over 21 times which led to 32 Dream points, while they only got the Dream to turn it over 13 times, and weren’t able to convert those into many points, only converting the Dream turnovers into 14 points. The New York Liberty led 24-21 after the first quarter. In the second quarter the two teams were even with 16 points apiece, and the Liberty took a 40-37 lead into halftime. In the third quarter, the Liberty could not stop turning the ball over and giving up easy baskets to the Dream, they were outscored 32-15 in that frame, and could never come back after that bad third quarter. In the fourth quarter, the Liberty would outscore the Dream 27-23 but they had dug themselves too deep of a hole, and were only able to cut the lead to 5 a couple times in the quarter. The Dream held on to win 92-82. The Dream had 4 players score in double-figures in the win led by Jordin Canada who had 25 points (20 in the second half) on 9-14 from the field, 4-6 from three, and 3-3 from the free throw line, grabbed a rebound, dished out 4 assists, picked up 5 steals, and a block, Dewanna Bonner had 23 points off the bench on 10-18 from the field, 3-6 from three, and 0-1 at the free throw line, grabbed 9 rebounds, dished out 2 assists, and picked up 2 steals, Angel Reese had 17 points on 6-10 from the field, 1-1 from three, and 4-6 from the free throw line, grabbed 7 rebounds, dished out 2 assists, picked up 4 steals, and 3 blocks, Rhyne Howard had 16 points on 5-20 from the field, 1-8 from three, and 5-6 from the free throw line, grabbed 8 rebounds, dished out 8 assists, and picked up a steal. The Liberty had 3 players score in double-figures in the loss led by Sabrina Ionescu who had 27 points on 10-20 from the field, 3-8 from three, and 4-4 from the free throw line, grabbed 4 rebounds, and dished out an assist, Breanna Stewart had 19 points on 6-13 from the field, 1-3 from three, and 6-6 from the free throw line, grabbed 2 rebounds, dished out 3 assists, picked up 3 steals, and 3 blocks, Jonquel Jones had 12 points on 4-9 from the field, 2-4 from three, and 2-2 at the free throw line, grabbed 11 rebounds, dished out 4 assists, picked up a steal, and 5 blocks. The Atlanta Dream take a 1-0 series lead in these best of five semifinals.
Next up:
Game 2 of this best of five series back in Atlanta as the Dream host the Liberty on Wednesday at 7:30 PM EST broadcast on ESPN.
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