{"id":942985,"date":"2026-10-23T05:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942985\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T05:58:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:58:49","slug":"atlanta-dream-up-2-1-rolling-ahead-of-wnba-finals-game-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942985\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Dream (up 2-1) rolling ahead of WNBA Finals Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GIST: All eyes are on the WNBA<\/a> as the best-of-seven Finals series continues with tomorrow\u2019s 1 p.m. ET Game 4. Everything\u2019s coming up Atlanta Dream (up 2-1) after a lopsided Game 3 victory \u2014 here\u2019s who\u2019s handing out Ls in the ATL and how the Golden State Valkyries can respond on the road. All hoops, all the time.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcad The Dream have been a nightmare for the Valks: A 26-point blowout win on Wednesday, punctuated by a historic third straight double-double<\/a> for Angel Reese has flipped this series on its head. The Dream are beating GSV at their own game behind an electric home crowd, lights-out defense, and penchant for forcing turnovers.<\/p>\n

Led by Reese, this defense has held Golden State to just 68 points a game in these Finals, 14 less than their regular-season average. Uncharacteristically quiet on offense, Rhyne Howard has played her part on D, setting a Finals record<\/a> with 11 steals in two games.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc9c What\u2019s going on with Golden State?: Series can change on a dime, but the Valks have looked out of sorts these last two games, suffering their first back-to-back losses since August. What\u2019s more, this squad\u2019s signature defense was nowhere to be found in Game 3 as they surrendered 97 points, the second-most they\u2019ve allowed this postseason.<\/p>\n

As for the offense, Gabby Williams hasn\u2019t been herself since a Game 1 collision<\/a>, shooting a dismal 8-for-33 from the floor in GSV\u2019s last two losses. Whether it\u2019s \u201curgency<\/a>\u201d or a focus on taking care of the basketball, the Valks need to cook up something to get back into this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GIST: All eyes are on the WNBA as the best-of-seven Finals series continues with tomorrow\u2019s 1 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-942985","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\/942985","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=942985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}