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21
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5%
1 of 21 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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After poor performances in each of the last two games and with the season on the line, Angel Reese found her form again.
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Reese → find → form
The Atlanta Dream forward scored 15 points, pulled down 14 rebounds and had six assists in an 80-69 victory over Golden State on Thursday to help force the first Game 7 in WNBA history.
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forward → score → history
The rebounding total vaulted her to 78 for the series, a record for the most by an individual player in a WNBA Finals.
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total → vault → Finals
She did it in spite of a game where she struggled with efficiency, shooting 5 of 18 from the floor.
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she → do → floor
“It was just a mental mindset of me just being able to go out there and just try to lead the team as best I can,” Reese said.
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Reese → go → team
“No matter how ugly it can be, as long as we came out with the win, I just wanted to do whatever it took.”
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it → come → whatever
She has averaged 22 points, 14 rebounds and four assists in Atlanta’s three wins, while plummeting to 9.7 points, 12 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game in the losses.
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She → average → losses
The two previous games were by far her worst of the postseason, shooting 4 of 20 in the two losses.
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games → shoot → losses
Despite struggling from 3-point range, she did knock down 2 of 8 attempts, improving the Dream to 16-0 this year when she makes at least one from beyond the arc.
“It’s always frustrating especially for 3s,” Reese said.
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Reese → struggle → 3s
“They keep telling me to shoot and I don’t like when I’m not making the shots.
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I → tell → shots
But my teammates still trust and pass it to me, so I am also really, really grateful for always putting confidence into me.”
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I → trust → me
Reese spent more time playing away from the basket, a change that opened her up as a facilitator and created a quicker offensive flow.
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that → spend → flow
“We played with a different spacing and pace,” Atlanta coach Karl Smesko said.
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Smesko → play → pace
“In truth, it’s how we are supposed to play.
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we → ’ → truth
It’s just getting back to our fundamentals of how we like to play offense.”
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we → get → offense
Reese bookended the afternoon with key assists.
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Reese → bookende → assists
Atlanta’s first two baskets of the game — 3-pointers by Allisha Gray and Naz Hillmon — were both via assists from Reese, and she made the pass for Gray’s dagger 3-pointer after Golden State trimmed the lead to eight with under a minute remaining.
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State → make → minute
“We know how they’ve been trying to play Angel, really crowd her,” Hillmon said.
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Hillmon → know → her
“But she’s got so many skillsets, and being a playmaker is one of them.
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being → get → them
She makes those reads every single night, and she found the open people today.”
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she → make → people
Atlanta is aiming to secure its first championship in franchise history, and Reese is trying to claim another big title after winning the 2023 NCAA Championship with LSU.
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Reese → aim → LSU
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