When you’re trying to make it back to the top, you gotta stay locked in from beginning to end. You don’t have room to start off slow or gently ease your way into something. You’ve got to bring the same fight you would at the end of the game from the beginning. If you don’t, you make the task harder and the effort to climb out of the hole may be too much to overcome.
On Thursday night, the New York Liberty had their rematch against the Atlanta Dream. In game one last week, the Dream were shorthanded and the Liberty were able to take advantage and come away with the win.