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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