Angel Reese just won her first playoff series of her career, but she doesn’t plan on stopping any time soon.<\/p>\n
“This is what I came here for,” she said after helping lead the Atlanta Dream to a first-round sweep of the Washington Mystics in Wednesday’s Game 2. “We wanted to get out of the first round, but it’s not where we’re going to stop.”<\/p>\n
Atlanta cruised to a 93-75 victory to finish the quick two-game sweep to advance past the first round for the first time since the 2018 season.<\/p>\n
And Reese was a major part of that with 15 points, seven rebounds, three blocks and two assists to go along with a game-best plus-26 plus-minus total. All five Dream starters scored in double figures in a balanced effort, which ultimately overwhelmed Washington.<\/p>\n
Allisha Gray finished with a team-high 22 points behind three made three-pointers, while Jordin Canada stuffed the stat sheet with 19 points, 11 assists, seven rebounds and three steals.<\/p>\n
Atlanta looked like a team that could challenge for a title with so many starters playing at such a high level, and it may have received something of a break when the eighth-seeded New York Liberty upset the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx.<\/p>\n
That means the Dream will start the next series at home, although the Liberty are far from a traditional No. 8 seed.<\/p>\n
They are loaded with star power with Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and Jonquel Jones and had no trouble with the Lynx in a two-game sweep. It will be anything but an easy matchup for the Dream, but they have enough star power of their own to win another playoff series.<\/p>\n
Reese is ready to do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angel Reese just won her first playoff series of her career, but she doesn’t plan on stopping any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-916288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}