The Golden State Valkyries recorded early earnings against Washington Mystics and Los Angeles Sparks, two teams that do not make 2024 WNBA playoffs.
On Tuesday night, Valkyries will face the most difficult test of the first franchise history against the defending champion New York Liberty.
Golden State revenge on the opening loss of the season to Sparks (2-1) on Friday in Los Angeles 82-73 wins returned. Zafer gave the Golden State the first winning line in the history of the franchise and showed good performances of a pair of French rookies, Carla Leite received 19 points from the bench and added 18 to increase the average of the team height to 14.0.
Zafer came despite the injuries of Veterans Tiffany Hayes and Monique Billings.
Salaun’s stable game was critical for Golden State in the first stages of his first campaign.
“This is for moments,” said the head coach Natalie Nakase Salaun. “When we need a bucket, we are quite sure to put the ball in their hands, and you know, he wants this responsibility.”
The competition level rises significantly against Liberty (3-0), who returned home after the victory of Caitlin Clark and Indiana on Saturday.
In a battle back and forth, both New York and Indiana returned from the double-digit deficits, Jonquel Jones’s 26 points and 12 rebounds of the double-end scored 14 fourth quarter points to defend the fire.
However, Natasha Cloud was two defense games that seed victory in the last 10 seconds with a block under the rim, and then played in the last game of the game.
“Everyone knows what he brings to this team and why he is so valuable and defensively so valuable,” he said. He said. “He plays with a lot of hearts. We know what to get from him, and that’s why everyone was very happy when he could come here.”
The game will be the first of the two matches between Valkyries’s first California and this week between the two teams in Brooklyn, and the teams will meet again on Thursday night.
-FELD level media
