The Los Angeles Sparks are struggling. They lost all three games during their recent road trip and the injuries continue accumulating as Curt Miller and the staff struggle to put together any semblance of an ideal or optimized lineup on the floor.
“Our starting lineup on opening night and that’s still without Jasmine Thomas healthy, without Azurá, tonight going back and looking at our opening day starting lineup, we had four starters out tonight,” Miller said after their loss to Atlanta on the road.
But before playing the Dream, the Sparks spent another night in the Windy City competing against a Chicago Sky team that suddenly was under the leadership of interim head coach Emre Vatansever with James Wade accepting a role as a Toronto Raptors assistant coach and stepping down from his general manager/head coaching position with Chicago.
You would think the sudden change would give L.A. the advantage, but Chicago came out sharp, especially Courtney Williams, who had one of her better games of the season. She had her first career triple-double with 12 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds.
Fielding only nine players, the Sparks struggled to get enough production from their core in the fourth to get a comeback win. Thomas started for L.A. but struggled, going 0-of-5…
