Despite the 66-58 loss<\/a>, Jonquel Jones lauded Gardner\u2019s \u201ctenacity.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cShe was aggressive,\u201d Jones said. \u201cShe brought great energy, picked up the guards really early in the possessions and executed our ball-screen defense that we wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Rebekah Gardner drives to the basket during the Liberty\u2019s Sept. 2 game. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Gardner\u2019s mentality of \u201cstaying ready\u201d paid off Tuesday. <\/p>\n
The Liberty might look for her in spurts over the final three games and in the playoffs.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, Gardner is locking in on what she believes are the two major areas that will help her get on the floor.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cDefense and rebounding have been two things that the team could be better at and I try to make that my focus,\u201d she said, \u201cand just be active on both ends of the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Liberty went their separate ways Wednesday for a rare in-season off-day.<\/p>\n
Leonie Fiebich went shopping, Isabelle Harrison visited the aquarium and Cloud toured Seattle before meeting up with Brittney Sykes for a Lil Wayne concert.<\/p>\n
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They all had their own ways of decompressing to refill their own cup so they could reconvene Thursday and pour into one another.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Mental reset days are] sometimes more important practice,\u201d Cloud said. \u201cWe put our bodies, our minds, our emotions, all the things that are such high stressors during the season because our job is to win f\u2014ing games. And then you\u2019re not winning games, you\u2019re trying to figure it out because you care so much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Liberty guard Rebekah Gardner has done her best to embody the mantra of when her number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[436,99,434],"class_list":["post-134091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134091","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=134091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Rebekah Gardner defends during the Liberty\u2019s Sept. 2 game. Imagn Images<\/p>\n