SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 After a couple of rough shooting nights against Minnesota and Las Vegas, the Valkyries found their groove.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And it couldn\u2019t come at a better time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Playing the Atlanta Dream, the Eastern Conference\u2019s top team, Golden State hit 15 3-pointers to cruise to a 77-66 win at home and snap its two-game losing streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Valkyries shot 47% from the 3-point line and 45% from the field. Despite being the much smaller team, the Valkyries only lost the rebounding battle 34-32.<\/p>\n
Gabby Williams led the way with 23 points while Kayla Thornton added 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we went back and watched film on what we didn\u2019t do in Vegas, and I think we had a different attitude,\u201d Williams said. \u201cWe work together when we\u2019re connected.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Valkyries held Angel Reese, the league leader in rebounds per game, to just 10 points on 3-of-12 shooting from the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Golden State moved the ball well, recording 20 assists on 27 made shots.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Valkyries built on a solid first quarter by outscoring the Dream 22-9 to go into halftime with a 17-point lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Golden State continued its momentum into the third quarter, ballooning its lead to as large as 26.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Atlanta opened the fourth quarter on an 11-0 run and cut the deficit to as little as 11. But despite a somewhat cold final 10 minutes, the Valkyries\u2019 cushion was just too big for the Dream to overcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Golden State will play the Dream again on Friday at home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thornton shines on both ends<\/p>\n
The Valkyries\u2019 first-ever All-Star played lights out on both ends.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Along with her 17 points, Thornton was key in keeping Reese and the rest of the daunted Atlanta front court at bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reese, Naz Hilman and Madina Okot were held to 28 points combined with Okot scoring 16 \u2013 mostly in the fourth quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 After a couple of rough shooting nights against Minnesota and Las Vegas, the Valkyries found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2356,4804,14059,5415,36930,10834,10835,5413,7234,10841,10842,5414,99,434],"class_list":["post-724566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-california","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-lake-county","tag-marin-county","tag-mendocino-county","tag-monterey-county","tag-napa-county","tag-north-bay","tag-northern-california","tag-santa-cruz-county","tag-solano-county","tag-sonoma-county","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724566","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=724566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}