11-11-1 +6.3u
Waiting to see the line, but I plan to be all over Chicago in this spot. A lot of the reasons that I bet on this team last game (and lost) still apply and are amplified by another loss. It’s now a 4 game losing streak for Chicago with a quick turn around shot at revenge against this Washington team that (IMO) has not looked all the impressive since the first week when they crush NYL and played a couple tight games with Connecticut. The Lynx have 4 wins. 3 against LA and the other against this Mystics team. Washington is 5-2 in the month of June with two wins against Seattle, another against Phoenix, a 1 point victory against Dallas, and most recently against Chicago. The two losses were to Minnesota and by 21 to Indiana about a week ago.
In the game on Sunday, basically all the *big* names in Chicago struggled and yet they were a 3 pointer away from covering the spread and also only lost by 8. Copper looked a little rusty coming back from injury (Bertsch did not). Mabrey had a down game after going off in the previous one where Copper didn’t play and Chicago only had 6 players play more than 6 minutes. Dana Evans is avging 10 off the bench but could only provide 3. I could go on and on. The point is that this was a down game for Chicago and they still came close. Now they’ve got some rest and practice in. Should be more than ready to protect home court. As silly as it might sound, I do think Washington will miss Li Meng in the coming weeks. Might seem odd because of their 7-4 record, but Washington has the weakest offense in the league by a lot of metrics and Meng had really been finding a groove of late especially with timely baskets even if the pure numbers don’t jump off the page.
Mystics are: 11th in offensive rating, 12th in points per game, 12th in FG%, 11th in true shooting %, and 12 in effective FG%.
Correct. There are only 12 teams in this league and despite those rankings, Washington finds itself a half game back from 3rd place overall.
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