The Washington Mystics are winless no extra.
The Mystics snapped their 12-game dropping streak to start out the 2024 season with an 87-68 victory over the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday evening. Washington acquired 18 factors every from the returning Brittney Sykes and Ariel Atkins.
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Brittney Sykes, #20 of the Washington Mystics, dribbles the ball throughout the recreation towards the Atlanta Dream throughout the 2024 WNBA Commissioner’s Cup recreation on June 11, 2024 on the Gateway Middle Area in School Park, Georgia. (Dale Zanine/NBAE by way of Getty Photos)
Washington prevented tying the longest dropping streak in franchise historical past. The workforce began the 2012 season dropping its first 13 video games in a row.
“The texture is it has been coming,’ Mystics head coach Eric Thibault stated, by way of ESPN. “I stated the opposite evening that we’re turning into an excellent basketball workforce, and we simply have not had the wins to indicate for it but. We have been taking part in higher basketball now for some time.
“We’re clearly capturing properly, however I believe the standard of the photographs we’re getting is absolutely good.”
Sykes is in her second season with the Mystics however missed the final 10 video games resulting from an ankle damage. Thibault agreed her impression was felt on offense and protection.
Washington guard Ariel Atkins, #7, reacts throughout the WNBA recreation between the Washington Mystics and the Atlanta Dream on June 11, 2024 at Gateway Middle Area in School Park, Georgia. (Wealthy von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photos)
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“You see it within the open courtroom,” he stated. “It isn’t one thing the place there’s lots of it across the league. We had been in a position to throw it forward to her a few instances and let her assault. There’s simply an aggressiveness to her recreation that is an awesome trait to have on our workforce.”
Sykes appeared to tweak her ankle late within the recreation, however Thibault stated they might re-evaluate the damage after they returned to Washington, D.C.
Atlanta guard Rhyne Howard, #10, shoots a free throw throughout the WNBA recreation between the Washington Mystics and the Atlanta Dream on June 11, 2024 at Gateway Middle Area in School Park, Georgia. (Wealthy von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photos)
Dream star Rhyne Howard scored 16 factors because the workforce fell to 5-5. She turned the youngest participant in WNBA historical past to succeed in 200 profession 3-pointers.
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Washington heads again residence to tackle the Chicago Sky on Friday. The Dream hit the street to play the Indiana Fever.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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