{"id":120131,"date":"2025-08-30T05:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120131\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:35:08","slug":"maddy-siegrists-career-high-in-points-not-enough-as-short-handed-wings-fall-to-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120131\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddy Siegrist\u2019s career high in points not enough as short-handed Wings fall to Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Wings<\/a> needed some emergency relief to have enough players to play against the Atlanta Dream on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Wings fought hard, but just didn\u2019t have enough to beat the Dream, falling 100-78<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dallas signed Christyn Williams and extended another seven-day contract to Amy Okonkwo to give the Wings the league minimum eight players available for the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t know if we\u2019d have enough players to play tonight,\u201d Dallas wing Maddy Siegrist said after the loss.<\/p>\n

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The Wings were able to sign players to the hardship exception since they were below the minimum needed that occurs when a squad has two players or more out due to injury, illness or other extenuating circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re playing the hand we\u2019re dealt. We have people coming in who have never played before,\u201d said Paige Bueckers, who had 16 points and 10 assists.<\/p>\n

Dallas is missing Luisa Geisels\u00f6der (right shoulder), Ty Harris (left knee), Aziaha James (right ankle), Haley Jones (right knee), Arike Ogunbowale (right knee), JJ Quinerly (left knee) and Li Yueru (left knee).<\/p>\n

Bueckers missed the last game<\/a>, but was able to play against the Dream.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur front office has been busy. Unfortunate with the bug that we\u2019re being hit with right now,\u201d Dallas coach Chris Koclanes said. \u201cWish everyone was healthy and can get healthy quick. Lots of work behind the scenes to see who is available. It\u2019s an awkward time of the year because so many players are heading overseas for their international responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dallas was in striking distance to start the fourth quarter before Atlanta scored the first eight points to put the game away.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ran out of gas a little bit. We had some lapses defensively,\u201d Siegrist said.<\/p>\n

The Wings (9-31) haven\u2019t had a player appear in every game this season and the franchise has had over 100 games missed by players due to injury or absence during the season.<\/p>\n

Find more Wings coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Wings needed some emergency relief to have enough players to play against the Atlanta Dream on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2834,99,13469,434],"class_list":["post-120131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-dallas-wings","tag-sports","tag-wings","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}