Funken just keep going and win mystics

Dearica Hamby came up for one of the last second starts when the clock rose to zero in the first half.

The ball worked from the front edge and seemed short – until Backspin carried it for a second jump to the rear iron.

Advertising

After Julie Allemand stopped her knees and Kelsey Plum already broke, the ball kissed the edge twice. And finally the ball fell after a two -second break, in which the entire arena was held hostage. Hamby fell to rave her teammates to raise her when the Crypto.com Arena broke out for the best half of the basketball of the season in a 99-80 stamping of the Washington Mystics.

“Nobody in our team wants someone to beat a buzzer from three more than Dearica,” said Plum. “We were all super excited and above all the way it penetrated – it was very, like climate. It was a great moment and it only represented the style we wanted to play forward.”

Hamby's unlikely triple ended a solo 10-point gate spree and a 20-minute performance, in which the ball thrown over the hardwood, suffocated the defense and had the fingerprints on a route of the seventh team of the WNBA.

“We started with the defensive end,” said striker Rickea Jackson. “We had our defense dictated our crime. And I have the feeling that if we do it, the crime was really fun, looked really good, and tonight, especially in the first half, we really bothered them and did not let them do what they wanted to do. '

Advertising

At the end of the first half alone, Hamby had stacked 18. Plum broke 14. Jackson scored nine and Azurá Stevens had eight. Allemand made everything and eight templates sent. And – in what was not reflected in the box as it did on the hardwood – the Energizer Bunny interfered with four points.

Energy Bunny?

Before the showdown on Tuesday evening, coach Lynne Roberts awarded this label to Rae Burrell and added that “she brings life and energy” into the squad.

When Burrell decreased her first pass of the game, she orchestrated a piece that led Julie Vanloo found a wide-open Sania feeling in the color and completed a clinic in ball movements.

Advertising

When Burrell stole her second pass of the game, she took the matter in her own hands and went to coast to coast for one and a layup in color.

Read more: WNBA players and the league are far apart in new CBA talks

And every time it seemed as if everyone had benefited from the rabbit. Her contagious energy seemed to spread to each of her teammates who cut through gaps on the offensive and brought out the clamps in the defense to limit the mystics (11-11) to 12 points in the second quarter.

“Rae's challenge is to ensure that she keeps this channel because she brings so much. I thought in the first half, she was phenomenal – she put pressure on her and she is just so sporty. I love her spirit and slit and laughing,” said Robert, after she described BURREL as “fireworks”.

Advertising

On 10 painful minutes for the mystics, Sonia Citron and Kiki Irial-Das Rookie duo of the Mystics, which will compete in the All-Star game this Saturday, were combined.

In the meantime, Plum-the Sparks' All-Star-AM Tuesday evening seemed to have a trial sample and to overthrow her shot before the three-point competition on Friday and Saturday game on Saturday.

Plum opened the night with a crack nine points with a perfect start of four for four, including one from beyond the arch. After cutter cut off the defense and its Bigs sealing room, she also changed moderator mode and collected six templates until the end of the game.

“Our best was tonight,” said Plum. “I know the numbers, but in terms of our pace and the way we shared the ball, we took great pictures. We have great, high -quality recordings.

Advertising

And this time the Sparks (8-14) did not run their hits and drove into the All-Star break with a dominant victory.

“You saw how much we wanted it,” said Roberts. “I am happy and it will certainly take the break better and I'm really proud of these boys – but I will keep my foot on the gasoline and make sure that our team does the same.”

Get the best, most interesting and strangest stories of the day from the La Sports scene and beyond our newsletter, the sports report.

This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.