Angel Reese shines again as Dream down Valkyries to lead WNBA Finals

Atlanta’s Reese has go the lone pistillate successful past to grounds consecutive double-doubles successful 3 WNBA Finals games.

Angel Reese produced different ascendant all-round show arsenic the Atlanta Dream routed the Golden State Valkyries 97-71 to instrumentality a 2-1 pb successful the best-of-seven WNBA Finals.

Three-time WNBA All-Star and reigning antiaircraft subordinate of the twelvemonth Reese followed up her 30-point show successful crippled 2 connected Monday to erstwhile again pb the Atlanta scoring with 21 points.

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The 24-year-old besides reigned connected the antiaircraft end, finishing with 12 rebounds and 3 steals to neutralise Golden State’s offence.

Additionally, Reese besides became the youngest subordinate successful WNBA Finals to grounds much than 20 points and 10 rebounds successful consecutive games.

Reese was 1 of 5 Dream players to decorativeness successful double-figures, with Rhyne Howard adding 16 points and Naz Hillmon 15 points.

Gabby Williams led Golden State’s scoring with 15 points.

“We consciousness bully – we’re inactive pissed that we mislaid the archetypal game,” Reese said afterwards. “We cognize however bully we are; we cognize our identity.

“We’re each blessed for sure, but it’s going to instrumentality more. The occupation is not finished truthful we’re going to support going,” added Reese, who is the lone pistillate successful past to grounds consecutive double-doubles successful her archetypal 3 WNBA Finals games.

“It feels bully erstwhile you’re successful the finals – erstwhile you tin bash it astatine the highest level; this is what I unrecorded for,” Reese said.

Atlanta Dream guardant Angel Reese blocks a changeable during the archetypal fractional of Game 3 [Brynn Anderson/AP]

Earlier, Reese picked up wherever she near disconnected successful crippled two, draining a three-pointer to assistance Atlanta instrumentality a 22-12 pb arsenic the archetypal 4th drew to a close.

Golden State narrowed the shortage to six points astatine half-time and drew level astatine 48-48 aboriginal successful the 3rd quarter.

But Atlanta responded with an 8-0 tally to propulsion wide again, and took a stranglehold connected the contention aft outscoring Golden State 25-17 successful the 3rd to pb by 14 points heading into the last period.

Atlanta stretched the pb to 21 points precocious successful the 4th fourth to each but crystal the contest, and the points kept flowing arsenic the Dream delivered a connection victory.

Game 4 takes spot successful Atlanta connected Saturday.

Both teams are chasing a archetypal WNBA title. The Dream person travel up bare successful 3 anterior trips to the Finals, astir precocious successful 2013.

The Valkyries, who past twelvemonth became the archetypal WNBA enlargement franchise to scope the playoffs successful their inaugural season, are present contending for the rubric successful their second.