The WNBA schedule-makers did the young Atlanta Dream no favors once the calendar flipped to June. Of their 10 games in the month, eight are against the top-four teams in the league, including three against the New York Liberty. To little surprise, they got off to a rough start, losing three in a row to fall to 2-5.
With a brutal four-game road trip up next, their season could have easily gone completely off the rails. Instead, they locked in, started to click on offense and are now the hottest team in the league outside of the Aces. They’ve won three in a row, with victories over the Connecticut Sun and Liberty, and are back to .500 at 5-5.
“Just their fight. That’s what I’ve learned most,” head coach Tanisha Wright said after they beat the Indiana Fever on Sunday. “One that they’re bought in to what we’re trying to do here. I think that’s really important. I think the things that we’re trying to tell them, the things that we’re trying to instill in them, they’re really buying into it. And then they just fight. We have a team of people who don’t quit, who don’t give in to certain things. They don’t give in, they don’t give up.”
A big reason for their turnaround is the play of Allisha Gray, whom the…
