{"id":367363,"date":"2026-10-08T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367363\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:08:08","slug":"wnba-playoffs-liberty-dream-score-new-york-looks-to-bounce-back-in-game-2-even-semifinal-series-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367363\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA playoffs, Liberty-Dream score: New York looks to bounce back in Game 2, even semifinal series in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York&#8217;s crew faced inquiries all week about live-ball turnovers and combating the steal-happy Dream&#8217;s perimeter players. They faced each other twice two weeks ago in the final week of the regular season. They should have, and did, know the foe at hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have a lot of speed, and they&#8217;re very good [at] \u2014 I don&#8217;t want to call them gambles because they take the right risks when they do try to get steals,&#8221; DeMarco said two hours before tipoff.<\/p>\n<p>The Dream tied the WNBA postseason record for points off turnovers with 32 off 21. It provided one-third of their offense. Jordin Canada, namedropped by DeMarco as a defensive problem, had five steals.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the Liberty were still in it at the end enough that newly awarded Defensive Player of the Year Angel Reese wanted a timeout to settle her team and close out a win.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Read the full story here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;cpos:1;pos:1;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Read the full story here&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yContentType&quot;:&quot;story&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/article\/how-can-aces-and-liberty-wnbas-most-recent-champions-bounce-back-after-semifinal-game-1-losses-165641675.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York&#8217;s crew faced inquiries all week about live-ball turnovers and combating the steal-happy Dream&#8217;s perimeter players. They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-367363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}