They say the game of basketball is a game of runs; perhaps the season is as well. Right now, the L.A. Sparks (5-7) are in a bad stretch where injuries are accumulating and losses are too. With the team losing three straight and four of their last five, what’s going wrong in Los Angeles? Is the honeymoon between Curt Miller and the Sparks over?
This past week the Sparks played against the Minnesota Lynx twice and the Connecticut Sun once, all home games and all losses. There are many reasons/excuses for the poor performance, but let’s start with what’s happening on the court.
In each game, the Sparks fell short in the same ways: being outscored in the paint, too many turnovers and losing control of the game in the fourth.
Los Angeles Sparks head coach Curt Miller on Lexie Brown’s impact. Brown is the Sparks third-leading scorer at 13.3 points per game and is shooting 42% from 3 but has missed the last 3 games with a non-COVID illness. #WNBATwitter #WNBA pic.twitter.com/HRfCh1XLWN
— John W. Davis (@johnwdavis) June 21, 2023
Being unable to score as many points in the paint as they’d like is vexing, but it seems that the paint points are down because 3-point shooting is suffering with Lexie Brown’s absence. She’s missed the last three games and the team…
