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ATLANTA DREAM - Coach: Michael Cooper
Current Roster:
Aneika Morello 6'4 and 5 years exp
Tiffany Hayes 5'10 and 5 years exp
Rachel Hollivay 6'4 and 1 year exp
Bria Holmes 6'1 and 1 year exp
Elizabeth Williams 6'3 and 2 years exp
Damiras Dantas 6'3 and 2 years exp
Sancho Lyttle 6'4 and 12 years exp
Matee Avajon 5'8 and 9 years exp
Layshia Clarendon 5'9 and 4 years exp
Briana Kiesel 5'7 and 2 years exp
Meighan Simmons 5'9 and 1 year exp
Nirra Fields 5'9 and 1 year exp
Markeisha Gatling 6'5 and 3 years exp
Whitney Knight 6'3 and 1 year exp
Rachel Jarry 6'1 and 1 year exp
Darxia Morris 5'8 and rookie
Draft Picks: 1st round they have number 7, 2nd round they have 19 and then 3rd round they have 31.
I hope you all noticed one player that is missing from the list above.. ANGEL MCCOUGHTRY. She is one of a few ladies sitting out this season.
This roster needs to be narrowed down to 12 by season tip off so Coopers has some cuts to make.
As we all know, Angel was the offense of this team so I think it will take time to build an offense without her but they are looking decent with their bigs. Very tall team with Lyttle and Williams as well as Hollivay and Gatling. IMHO, this team will be an in the paint kind of team, pounding the inside rather than trying to be the Golden State Warriors. They don't have much depth on their roster and I don't rate Michael Cooper as a coach at all.
So their first 10 games are
@ Sun
@ Sky
vs Sky
vs Sparks
vs Stars
@ Mystics
@ Liberty
@ Sun
@ Storm
@ Fever
That opening 10 game schedule is brutal for a team trying to play without their leading point scorer. Their home games are so important before they hit the road for that brutal 5 game stretch.
My expectations of this team is that they will miss out on the playoffs because they don't have an offense. They will surprise a few but they are so far away from the likes of Lynx, Sparks, Mystics and a few other teams I don't think they will be able to finish top 8 overall.. But we shall see. Cooper doesn't really come up with too many good game plans when his team is down and out during a game so I don't expect them to make many crazy comebacks and they just don't have the offense to compete with the big teams. They will have to rely heavily on their defense which Cooper said at the start of last season he wanted to do but they didn't really happen after they were 20-15 to the over allowing 84 points per game..
Just like previous games, You are nowhere close to reality with this preview. You should have spent this time doing something constuctive. But keep posting i got my fade guy, In WNBA
No more +11,5 for Storm, ok I think +7,5 is a good bet too.
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