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New York (10-9) at Connecticut (13-8)
By MIKE VOTTA, STATS Senior Writer
Jul 14, 2:09 pm EDT
The Connecticut Sun hope a return home will help them snap their longest losing streak of the season.
The Sun will try to end a three-game slide on Tuesday night when they face the New York Liberty at Mohegan Sun Arena.
Connecticut (13-8) is coming off Sunday’s 69-64 road loss to Washington. All three losses during the skid have come on the road, where the Sun have dropped four straight overall.
At home, Connecticut has won six of its last seven and owns an 8-2 record there this year. Thanks to that success and a fast start - the losing streak made the Sun the last WNBA team to drop consecutive games - Connecticut is just one game behind first-place Detroit in the Eastern Conference.
Lindsey Whalen scored a career high-tying 33 points on Sunday, continuing an impressive scoring surge. Whalen, who ranks second on the team with 15.6 points per game, has averaged 19.8 over her last six.
However, Asjha Jones, who leads the team with an average of 16.3 points, managed only six against the Mystics.
The Sun have already captured the season series with the Liberty (10-9), winning 77-63 in New York on May 18 and 89-84 in Connecticut on May 30.
“I’m happy we won,” Sun coach Mike Thibault said after the last matchup. “We’ve won the season series with the team because we only play them three times, and that might come into play later.”
Tamika Whitmore averaged 17.5 points in the first two meetings for Connecticut, while New York’s Shameka Christon has averaged 13.0.
Christon scored 19 points in New York’s 74-64 win over the Shock on Saturday. Loree Moore and Janel McCarville added 13 apiece for the Liberty, who came back from an 18-point third-quarter deficit.
“We started getting tough with them, we started fighting back … not allowing them to take advantage of us or dictate how we’re going to play,” Moore said. “We showed that toughness from top to bottom. We did the things we needed to do to turn it around.”
Christon, who leads the team with 17.3 points per game, has averaged 23.6 over her last five contests.
“We started getting some stops, which was not something we did in the first half,” she said. “They killed us on the boards, and we persevered. We came back, we kept fighting and we kept fighting.”
The Liberty are 3-7 on the road, but have split their last four games away from home. They are tied with Indiana for third place in the East, two games behind the Sun
By MIKE VOTTA, STATS Senior Writer
Jul 14, 2:09 pm EDT
The Connecticut Sun hope a return home will help them snap their longest losing streak of the season.
The Sun will try to end a three-game slide on Tuesday night when they face the New York Liberty at Mohegan Sun Arena.
Connecticut (13-8) is coming off Sunday’s 69-64 road loss to Washington. All three losses during the skid have come on the road, where the Sun have dropped four straight overall.
At home, Connecticut has won six of its last seven and owns an 8-2 record there this year. Thanks to that success and a fast start - the losing streak made the Sun the last WNBA team to drop consecutive games - Connecticut is just one game behind first-place Detroit in the Eastern Conference.
Lindsey Whalen scored a career high-tying 33 points on Sunday, continuing an impressive scoring surge. Whalen, who ranks second on the team with 15.6 points per game, has averaged 19.8 over her last six.
However, Asjha Jones, who leads the team with an average of 16.3 points, managed only six against the Mystics.
The Sun have already captured the season series with the Liberty (10-9), winning 77-63 in New York on May 18 and 89-84 in Connecticut on May 30.
“I’m happy we won,” Sun coach Mike Thibault said after the last matchup. “We’ve won the season series with the team because we only play them three times, and that might come into play later.”
Tamika Whitmore averaged 17.5 points in the first two meetings for Connecticut, while New York’s Shameka Christon has averaged 13.0.
Christon scored 19 points in New York’s 74-64 win over the Shock on Saturday. Loree Moore and Janel McCarville added 13 apiece for the Liberty, who came back from an 18-point third-quarter deficit.
“We started getting tough with them, we started fighting back … not allowing them to take advantage of us or dictate how we’re going to play,” Moore said. “We showed that toughness from top to bottom. We did the things we needed to do to turn it around.”
Christon, who leads the team with 17.3 points per game, has averaged 23.6 over her last five contests.
“We started getting some stops, which was not something we did in the first half,” she said. “They killed us on the boards, and we persevered. We came back, we kept fighting and we kept fighting.”
The Liberty are 3-7 on the road, but have split their last four games away from home. They are tied with Indiana for third place in the East, two games behind the Sun
