DHJ Quick Take: Alanna Smith Out as Wings Visit Storm<\/p>\n
Alanna Smith will miss the Dallas Wings\u2018 road game at Seattle on Monday with a facial injury and is not with the team. She is one of three rotation players ruled out for the matchup.<\/p>\n
Who is out for the Dallas Wings in Seattle? Alanna Smith, Alysha Clark, and Odyssey Sims are all out, along with developmental player Haley Jones for a coach\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
Why is Alanna Smith sidelined? Smith is dealing with a facial injury and did not travel with the team.<\/p>\n
Who is in the starting lineup? Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd, Arike Ogunbowale, Awak Kuier, and Jessica Shepard.<\/p>\n
How do the teams stack up? Dallas is 10-6 and beat Seattle 79-56 in their first meeting, while the Storm sit at 3-14.<\/p>\n
SEATTLE \u2014 Alanna Smith<\/a> will sit out Monday night when the Dallas Wings<\/a> visit the Seattle Storm, leaving the team without one of its veteran frontcourt defenders for a meeting at Climate Pledge Arena.<\/p>\n Dallas listed Smith as out with a facial injury and confirmed she did not travel with the team, according to the club\u2019s official game status report. Tip-off is set for 9 p.m. CT, with the broadcast on KFAA.<\/p>\n Smith, 29, has played in 15 of the Wings\u2019 16 games this season and started 7 of them, averaging 3.5 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 1.3 assists in 15.1 minutes per game. The Stanford product is shooting 37.9% from the field, and while her scoring has dipped from earlier in her career, she has given Dallas length and interior defense in a rotating frontcourt role. She also missed Saturday\u2019s 93-92 comeback win over the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n Dallas Wings Injury Report<\/p>\n Smith is one of three rotation players unavailable in Seattle. Alysha Clark<\/a> is out with a left leg injury after being tagged as questionable earlier Monday, and Odyssey Sims<\/a> remains out and away from the team as she works back from a left ankle injury. <\/p>\n Guard\/forward Haley Jones, signed to a developmental contract on Sunday, is out for a coach\u2019s decision in her first availability since rejoining Dallas, while rookie guard Costanza Verona<\/a> is available, also under a coach\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n Dallas Wings Starting Lineup<\/p>\n Head coach Jose Fernandez is set to start guards Paige Bueckers<\/a> and Azzi Fudd<\/a>, with Arike Ogunbowale<\/a> and Awak Kuier<\/a> at forward and Jessica Shepard<\/a> at center.<\/p>\n Dallas enters the night at 10-6, coming off the comeback win over Chicago. The Storm, at 3-14, are trying to avoid a season sweep after falling 79-56 to the Wings in Arlington on June 1. Seattle holds a 49-30 edge in the all-time series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DHJ Quick Take: Alanna Smith Out as Wings Visit Storm Alanna Smith will miss the Dallas Wings\u2018 road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-720363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720363","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=720363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}