Talk a few tricky get started. Seattle beat the Mystics 2 out of three all through the common season.

All the video games have been shut and hard-fought. But the Storm is a tricky matchup for any workforce. They are led through Breanna Stewart, a 6-foot-4-inch ahead who leads the WNBA in scoring, averaging 22 issues in step with recreation. Stewart may be rugged sufficient to grasp greater than seven rebounds a recreation.

Seattle is loaded with veteran management. Point guard Sue Bird is in her nineteenth and ultimate season within the WNBA. The four-time WNBA champion has gained 5 Olympic gold medals with the United States workforce. Bird is used to the highlight and won’t get fearful in a detailed recreation.

Seattle has former Mystic Tina Charles too. The 33-year-old middle is searching for her first WNBA identify however has completed nearly each different honor within the recreation.

The WNBA has had problems catching on, but men’s pro sports had problems too.

If the Mystics beat the Storm, they are going to must play the Number 1 seed Chicago Sky. The protecting WNBA champs lead the league with a report of 25-9. The Sky includes a balanced offense by which six gamers reasonable greater than 10 issues a recreation.

The Mystics would have their fingers complete with the Sky. Washington misplaced 3 of its 4 matchups with Chicago all through the common season.

The Mystics have a tricky street forward, however they have got the skill to move the entire approach.

Elena Delle Donne remains to be some of the best gamers in girls’s basketball. The Mystics rested Delle Donne all through the season to ensure her surgically repaired again was once in a position for the playoffs. Hopefully she might be on the best of her recreation all through the postseason.

Even if she isn’t, Washington nonetheless has an amazing backcourt in guards Ariel Atkins and Natasha Cloud. Atkins scored nearly 15 issues in step with recreation, and Cloud led the WNBA in assists with greater than seven a recreation.

Finally, if the previous sports activities pronouncing that offense wins video games however protection wins championships is correct, the Mystics must have an actual likelihood on the identify. The Mystics allowed the fewest issues in step with recreation within the WNBA this season.

It gained’t be simple, however a minimum of the Mystics have a shot.