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The Atlanta Dream and the New York Liberty Battle in a WNBA Thriller
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In just their third season, the Atlanta Dream reached the 2010 WNBA finals. Three games into 2011, they are hoping they haven’t regressed.

After blowing yet another second-half lead in their last game, the Dream visit the New York Liberty in the teams’ second meeting of the season Tuesday night.

Atlanta (0-3) was swept in three games by Seattle in the WNBA finals in September, but the fast improvement had the club excited heading into this season. The Dream, however, are the only winless team in the Eastern Conference, having suffered overtime losses in their first two games - one of them by a 94-88 score to New York in their opener June 5 - before an 86-74 defeat at San Antonio on Saturday.

Atlanta led that game by 10 when the Silver Stars went on a 22-10 run in the third quarter. The Dream have failed to protect second-half leads in all three contests.

“We have to finish. I would say we panicked, but I don’t know,” said forward Sancho Lyttle, who had 12 points and six rebounds. “We settled down and we didn’t go on a run but they did. They went on a run and we needed to stop it before it got too bad. We didn’t stop the bleeding.”

The Dream are giving up a league-high 92.7 points per game and were outscored 31-18 in the fourth quarter by San Antonio.

Even having Angel McCoughtry play her most significant minutes of the season wasn’t enough. McCoughtry, who scored a team-high 19 points in her first start of the season, missed the first matchup with the Liberty with a sprained left knee and logged three minutes in a 98-90 OT loss to Washington on Thursday.

New York (2-1) hasn’t been much better when it comes to holding second-half leads, as it failed to protect a 13-point advantage late in the third quarter of an 86-80 loss to Indiana on Saturday. That followed the opener of the teams’ home-and-home series Friday, when New York blew an 18-point lead before pulling out an 81-80 victory on Cappie Pondexter’s jumper with 8.1 seconds left.

Pondexter especially seemed to struggle in the second game of the back-to-backs. She finished with 21 points Friday, but shot 5 of 13 and scored 13 points while committing three turnovers Saturday.

The Dream are 4-9 ATS in their last 13 games following a ATS loss and they are 6-15 ATS in their last 21 games following a loss.

The Liberty is 10-3-1 ATS in their last 14 games playing on 2 days rest and they should take down the defenseless Atlanta team in this game.

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