New York Liberty Host Dallas Wings: Key Players and Their Impact
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00:00And New York is just crushing teams like not winning by 1020
00:06winning by like 40.
00:07And so they're 14 and a half point favorite tonight over
00:09the wings.
00:11I mean, it's you can be the one to take the points here
00:14Gilbert.
00:14I ain't going to do it.
00:15You know, like if I'm going to take any team tonight, I think
00:17I just lay the points.
00:19Absolutely.
00:19And I think that's it with New York, you know, you talk about
00:21Dallas and it's not too solidly is back.
00:23She looked really good in her return to the WNBA after
00:26missing beginning part of season.
00:27And I think the Olympics helped her kind of round back into
00:30all WNBA form, but New York is so good defensively.
00:33They can neutralize other teams best players and that's what
00:36gives them a big advantage in games like these.
00:39So let's talk about Brianna Stewart than the season that
00:42she's having 19.6 points per game, 8.7 rebounds per game,
00:46almost four assists and shooting 50% from the field.
00:50Is this as impressive a player of your seeing this season
00:52in the WNBA?
00:54You know, I think she's kind of in a firmly in second.
00:58Aja Wilson has been in the class of her own out in Las Vegas
01:00and it hasn't necessarily contributed to as much team success.
01:03But I think they're another team that's been dealt a tough
01:06hand with injuries.
01:07But think about Brianna Stewart and think about what she's
01:09been able to do with this Liberty team coming back from
01:12coming up so short from winning a championship last year.
01:14You can tell it's a motivated bunch kind of feel similar
01:17to that Spurs team, you know, back in 2013.
01:19They lost in the finals and then came back on a mission to
01:22go all the way.
01:22So she's kind of leading the way, but they also have Sabrina
01:24Inescu, John Quill Jones, but she is certainly the leader
01:28of a very talented group.
01:30Yeah, and I would say that interesting notes here to record
01:32a double-double tomorrow.
01:34Excuse me, double-double tonight.
01:35Brianna Stewart plus 125, Jonkel Jones minus 115, and then
01:40you have some other options as well in this game.
01:43Sabrina Inescu, a long shot at 7-1.
01:46Anything interesting here tonight, Gilbert?
01:48Natasha Howard stands out to me a little bit.
01:51That's one who she could be active on the boards and get
01:53going scoring, especially not necessarily being that team's
01:56first option.
01:57So that is one that stands out.
01:58Jonkel Jones has been a monster on the boards and that's
02:00obviously evidenced by the odds for that one there.
02:03I don't think anybody else will probably get any double-doubles
02:05in the game like that, especially if it's a blowout.
02:07You can see the starters get pulled pretty early.