LOS ANGELES -- The fight was there. But once again, it wasn't enough.
It's felt like a recurring theme for the Sparks this season. Get down big and then come back, only to fall short. It would've been great to keep the momentum going after that huge win against the Lynx but the Sparks couldn't overcome the Valkyries at home, 84-78.
The Sparks got down, 29-15, after one. The team wished they could take back that first quarter.
"I think (Erica Wheeler) put it best when we finished the game," Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike said after the game. "She was saying it's the small things, especially when you're... everybody right now is in the thick of it in the season so when you're trying to put these games together, you really have to pay attention to those details. I think a lot of those details showed up in that first quarter. I think we probably can all say that we would do that first quarter over but with a team like that, you absolutely can't have multiple quarters, even one quarter, playing that way."
The Sparks have had many slow starts this season and Sunday was no exception.
#quarter #season #down
It's felt like a recurring theme for the Sparks this season. Get down big and then come back, only to fall short. It would've been great to keep the momentum going after that huge win against the Lynx but the Sparks couldn't overcome the Valkyries at home, 84-78.
The Sparks got down, 29-15, after one. The team wished they could take back that first quarter.
"I think (Erica Wheeler) put it best when we finished the game," Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike said after the game. "She was saying it's the small things, especially when you're... everybody right now is in the thick of it in the season so when you're trying to put these games together, you really have to pay attention to those details. I think a lot of those details showed up in that first quarter. I think we probably can all say that we would do that first quarter over but with a team like that, you absolutely can't have multiple quarters, even one quarter, playing that way."
The Sparks have had many slow starts this season and Sunday was no exception.
#quarter #season #down
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