Minnesota at Atlanta (Friday WNBA)

[Dr.T]

Minnesota at Atlanta
8pm eastern Friday

pick: Atlanta -1 (1st quarter)*

Atlanta has led early in the first two games of the series at Minnesota and played poorly in the second half. They now return home down 2-0 in the Best of 5 series. They have played well in the first quarter. Here are their playoff scores in the 1st quarter.

at Conn down 20-18
Conn led 16-11
at Ind led 24-21
Ind led 34-25
at Ind led 28-23
at Minn led 18-14
at Minn led 28-22

They have led the last six games after one quarter by at least 3 points and four of those were on the road. Now they return home. They are led by Angel McCoughtry, who scored 38 in the last game and is a first team All-WNBA. They also get points from Marques, Lyttle, de Souza and Harding.

Minnesota is a very good team led by Simeone Augustus, Whalen and rookie Maya Moore but now they go on the road.

I expect the Atlanta Dream to jump out to an early lead and cover the first quarter line of -1.

Atlanta -1 (1st quarter)

 

[Dr.T]

Atlanta -1.5 (1st quarter) is the opening line at most books.

 

[Dr.T]

Atlanta lost the game but did jump ahead 20-17 after one quarter.

 

[Dr.T]

Final WNBA stats:

24-12 regular season
1-3 playoffs
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25-15 overall (62.5%)


Overall a nice season. Lost a few close totals as two unders went into overtime.

I hope to continue posting some International games in the other thread.

Congratulations to the Minnesota Lynx for winning the 2011 WNBA title.

 

[gr8whtnorth]

Nice call Dr. T!!

Thanks for the plays! See you around with some more winners.

BTW you don't happen to cap hockey do you?

Thanks again...

 

[bumpy24]

The lynx are the champ's this year....these girls's played some great ball...and they deserved a great win...hoooray minnie...nice job girls...