The Washington Mystics purpose to mount a late playoff push on Monday after they go to the Seattle Storm.
Washington (7-22) enter Monday 4 video games behind the Chicago Sky for the league’s last playoff spot.
4 of the Mystics’ subsequent 5 video games are on the street, starting with a rematch in opposition to Seattle, which gained 83-77 at Washington final Tuesday.
The Mystics are looking for consecutive wins for the primary time since June 22-23 following their 80-74 dwelling victory over the Los Angeles Sparks on Friday. The win snapped a five-game dropping streak.
Brittney Sykes scored 28 factors for Washington in simply her fifth sport since coming back from a leg harm on June 11.
Sykes is averaging 15.2 factors in these video games, together with her 12 factors in opposition to the Storm on Tuesday.
“Every sport has been sort of a chunk of the puzzle,” Sykes instructed the Washington Publish.
“And I am simply at all times going to maintain giving credit score to my teammates and the teaching employees and trainers. All people poured into me to have the ability to keep afloat. Days the place I did not have it, my teammates, they stored my head up.”
Sykes and the Mystics go to a Seattle squad that has not performed since its win at Washington final Tuesday.
The Storm (18-10) return to Seattle for the primary time since July 14 to start a three-game homestand.
Monday marks one other homecoming for the Storm, as ahead Gabby Williams rejoins the group for the primary time since struggling a season-ending foot harm final yr.
Williams re-signed with Seattle on Tuesday after serving to host nation France to a silver medal on the Paris Olympics.
She averaged 8.4 factors, 3.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.5 steals in 10 video games for the Storm final season.
“The deciding issue was so long as I felt wholesome mentally and bodily, I might end the season with Seattle,” Williams stated. “Bodily, I really feel wholesome. I really feel good. I took a couple of week mentally after the Olympics.
“This looks like dwelling,” she added. “It is a system I am conversant in, a employees I am conversant in, gamers I am conversant in.”
Williams provides significant depth to enhance Jewell Loyd, who averages 20.3 factors per sport. Presently fourth within the league, Seattle holds a half-game lead on the Las Vegas Aces for the ultimate home-court benefit slot within the playoffs.
–Area Stage Media
