The New York Liberty may have swept their four-game regular-season series with the Connecticut Sun, but neither team was resigned to their WNBA Semi-Finals matchup going the same way. And for good reason. Two of those contests went down to the wire, one was the second half of a back-to-back for Connecticut, and the other was a lifetime ago in May. Despite four losses, the Sun had plenty of reason to feel, as Natisha Hiedeman put it, “super confident” prior to the start of Game 1.
Liberty Head Coach Sandy Brondello agreed, saying she “learned that you cannot underestimate them,” from their earlier matchups this season.