Rhyne Howard took over at times, but it was a total team effort for the Atlanta Dream Sunday afternoon at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Allisha Gray led the way with 25 points and Cheyenne Parker played admirably on both ends of the floor all game long against Aliyah Boston.
The team didn’t look to Howard to be the closer, as the ball instead found an open Nia Coffey for three fourth-quarter treys that provided breathing room.
The Dream led by as much as 18 in the contest before holding on to defeat the Indiana Fever 100-94.
Former Dream guard Kristy Wallace made a right-wing three with 10 seconds left to cut it to 98-94. Danielle Robinson, playing in her first game back from knee surgery, dribbled out of trouble right beneath the Dream’s own basket on the ensuing possession and Gray made two free throws to ice it.
Wallace made a mid-air put-back to cut it to 98-91 with 23 ticks remaining and then Dream point-forward Haley Jones went 0-of-2 at the line at 15 seconds.
The Fever (4-7) cut their deficit from 16 to seven with a 12-3 run from 6:00 remaining to 3:46 remaining. Erica Wheeler kicked it off with a foot-on-the-arc two. Aliyah Boston stole the ball from the Dream (5-5) on the ensuing possession, leading to two NaLyssa Smith free throws. The next two…
