ATLANTA DREAM (17-10) at PHOENIX MERCURY (23-4) Aug. 5, 2014 • 10:00 p.m. ET • TV: N/A US Airways Center • Phoenix, Ariz. Regular Season Game 28 • Away Game 13 2014 Schedule & Results PROBABLE STARTERS Date .........Opponent ....................Result/Time Pos. No. Player PPG RPG APG Notes May 11 ..... NEW YORK^ .......................W, 63-58 G 9 CÉLINE DUMERC 3.5 2.0 4.1 Leads the WNBA in assists per 40 May 16 ..... SAN ANTONIO (SPSO) ....W, 79-75 5-7 • 145 • France minutes (9.0) May 17 ..... at Indiana (FSS) .......W, 90-88 (2OT) Averaging 17.1 points per game in her May 24 ..... at Chicago (NBA TV) .......... L, 73-87 13.2 3.0 2.7 G 15 TIFFANY HAYES last 11 games May 25 ..... INDIANA (SPSO) ...... L, 77-82 (OT) 5-10 • 155 • Connecticut May 30 ..... SEATTLE (SPSO) ................W, 80-69 F 35 ANGEL McCOUGHTRY 20.0 5.5 4.1 Averaging 24.7 points on 57.8 pct. field June 1 ....... at Connecticut ....................... L, 76-85 goal shooting last three games June 3 ....... LOS ANGELES (ESPN2) ....W, 93-85 6-1 • 160 • Louisville June 7 ....... CHICAGO (SPSO) ..............W, 97-59 F 20 SANCHO LYTTLE 12.7 9.0 2.4 Tied career high with six steals Sunday June 13 .... MINNESOTA (SPSO) .........W, 85-82 6-4 • 175 • Houton vs. New York June 15 .... at Washington ......................W, 75-67 June 18 .... WASHINGTON (FSS) ........W, 83-73 C 14 ERIKA DE SOUZA 14.1 9.0 1.2 Averaging career bests in scoring and June 20 .... NEW YORK (SPSO) ...........W, 85-64 6-5 • 190 • Brazil free throw percentage June 22 .... at New York ........................... L, 78-85 June 26 .... at San Antonio .....................W, 81-79 June 29 .... at Indiana (NBA TV) ..........W, 76-68 2014 ATLANTA DREAM RECORD July 1 ........ INDIANA (ESPN2) .............. L, 70-77 RECORD HOME ROAD OT 2OT July 5 ........ WASHINGTON (SPSO) .....W, 86-73 July 8 ........ CONNECTICUT* (ESPN2) .W, 83-71 OVERALL 17-10 11-4 6-6 1-1 1-1 July 12 ...... at Indiana (SPSO) ................W, 93-74 EASTERN CONF. 11-9 7-4 4-5 1-1 1-0 July 13 ...... CHICAGO* ................W, 81-79 (OT) July 16 ...... at New York ........................... L, 75-77 WESTERN CONF. 6-1 4-0 2-1 0-0 0-1 July 22 ...... at Minnesota (FSS) ...L, 108-112 (2OT) CURRENT STREAK L1 L1 W1 W1 L1 July 25 ...... CHICAGO* ........................... L, 75-79 July 27 ...... at Washington (NBA TV) .... L, 67-77 July 29 ...... CONNECTICUT (SPSO) ...W, 89-80 INJURIES AND TRANSACTIONS July 31 ...... at Tulsa ..................................W, 85-75 Aug. 3 ...... NEW YORK (SPSO) ............ L, 76-83 INJURY REPORT Aug. 5 ...... at Phoenix ..................................10 pm Delisha Milton-Jones (Out - Right Achilles) Aug. 7 ...... at Seattle .....................................10 pm Aug. 8 ...... at Los Angeles ..................... 10:30 pm RECENT TRANSACTIONS Aug. 10 .... at Chicago (NBA TV) ................6 pm July 9 Traded Swin Cash to the New York Liberty for Delisha Milton-Jones June 2 Removed Céline Aug. 13 .... PHOENIX (FSS) .........................7 pm Dumerc from the suspended list May 31 Waived Inga Orekhova May 15 Temporarily suspended Céline Aug. 15 .... TULSA (SPSO) ......................7:30 pm Dumerc May 12 Waived Cassie Harberts, Jhasmin Player and Samantha Prahalis May 7 Traded Court- Aug. 17 .... at Connecticut .............................1 pm ney Clements and Atlanta’s second-round pick in the 2015 WNBA Draft to the Chicago Sky for Swin All Times Eastern Cash and Chicago’s third-round pick in the 2015 WNBA Draft May 4 Waived Rebekah Gardner and Home games in CAPS Khaalidah Miller April 29 Waived Ashley Corral, Jacki Gemelos and Danielle Wilson April 25 Signed ^ - Preseason Game Ashley Corral, Rebekah Gardner, Khaalidah Miller, Amanda Thompson and Danielle Wilson to train- * - Game at McCamish Pavilion (Georgia Tech) ing camp contracts April 14 Selected Shoni Schimmel (First Round, No. 8 overall), Inga Orekhova (Sec- ond Round, No. 18 overall) and Cassie Harberts (Second Round, No. 20 overall) in the WNBA Draft. 2014 ATLANTA DREAM BASKETBALL 2014 ATLANTA DREAM NUMERICAL ROSTER No. Player Pos. Ht. Wt. Birth Date Exp From 1 Delisha Milton-Jones F 6-1 185 09/11/74 15 Florida 5 Jasmine Thomas G 5-9 145 09/30/89 3 Duke 9 Céline Dumerc G 5-7 132 07/09/82 R France 10 Matee Ajavon G 5-8 160 05/07/86 6 Rutgers 13 Aneika Henry F-C 6-4 192 02/13/86 2 Florida 14 Erika de Souza C 6-5 190 03/09/82 8 Brazil 15 Tiffany Hayes G 5-10 155 09/20/89 2 Connecticut 20 Sancho Lyttle F 6-4 175 09/20/83 9 Houston 21 Amanda Thompson F 6-1 180 11/18/87 1 Oklahoma 23 Shoni Schimmel G 5-9 161 05/04/92 R Louisville 31 Nadia Colhado C 6-4 196 02/25/89 R Brazil 35 Angel McCoughtry G-F 6-1 160 09/10/86 5 Louisville Head Coach: Michael Cooper (New Mexico) Assistant Coaches: Karleen Thompson (Southern California), Teresa Edwards (Georgia) Athletic Trainer: Michael Douglas (Morehouse) Coordinator of Basketball Operations: Camensky Bryson (Memphis) PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Matee Ajavon (muh-TEE AJ-uh-vahn) Nadia Colhado (cole-YAH-doh) Erika de Souza (deh-SOH-za) Céline Dumerc (seh-LEEN doo-MAIRK) Aneika Henry (uh-NEEK-uh) Sancho Lyttle (SAN-choh) Angel McCoughtry (mc-CAW-tree) Shoni Schimmel (SHOH-nee) UPCOMING GAMES DATE OPPONENT TIME (EDT) ARENA TV Thursday, Aug. 7 Seattle 10:00 pm Key Arena N/A Friday, Aug. 8 Los Angeles 10:30 pm Staples Center N/A Sunday, Aug. 10 Chicago 6:00 pm Allstate Arena NBA TV Wednesday, Aug. 13 Phoenix 7:00 pm Philips Arena FSS Friday, Aug. 15 Tulsa 7:30 pm Philips Arena SPSO www.AtlantaDream.net • @AtlantaDream • Facebook.com/AtlantaDream 2014 ATLANTA DREAM BASKETBALL DREAM-MERCURY SERIES HISTORY SERIES RECORD SERIES RESULTS DATE H/A W/L SCORE Overall...................................PHX leads, 7-5 7/1/08 H L 79-97 at Atlanta ......................Tied, 3-3 7/19/08 A L 84-110 at Phoenix ....................PHX leads, 4-2 7/30/09 H W 106-76 Current Streak ......................PHX, W2 9/5/09 A L 82-100 at Atlanta ......................PHX, W1 5/28/10 A W 96-93 at Phoenix ....................PHX, W1 6/29/10 H W 94-88 Largest Atlanta Win ............30 (7/30/09) 6/24/11 H L 83-92 Largest Phoenix Win ...........26 (7/19/08) 8/11/11 A L 95-109 5/31/12 H W 81-65 7/7/12 A W 100-93 (2OT) 8/3/13 A L 76-82 9/8/13 H L 71-79 2013 DREAM STATISTICS VS. MERCURY 3-POINT ----REBOUNDS---- NO PLAYER GP-GS MIN FGM-FGA FG% FGM-FGA FG% FTM-FTA FT% OFF DEF TOT/AVG AST PF-DQ STL TO BLK PTS/AVG 35 McCoughtry, A 2-2 66:11 20-51 0.392 3-12 0.250 15-21 0.714 2 4 6/3.0 11 11-1 7 11 0 58/29.0 15 Hayes, T 1-0 21:02 6-14 0.429 2-4 0.500 5-10 0.500 0 2 2/2.0 1 5-0 3 1 0 19/19.0 14 de Souza, E 2-2 64:05 12-25 0.480 0-0 0.000 4-6 0.667 4 17 21/10.5 2 5-0 7 2 1 28/14.0 5 Thomas, J 2-1 52:08 6-23 0.261 1-6 0.167 0-0 0.000 3 4 7/3.5 7 3-0 2 6 0 13/6.5 43 Willingham, L 2-2 53:26 4-5 0.800 1-2 0.500 0-0 0.000 1 11 12/6.0 1 5-0 2 2 0 9/4.5 22 Herrington, A 2-2 70:29 3-10 0.300 0-0 0.000 2-4 0.500 6 3 9/4.5 7 6-0 5 3 0 8/4.0 2 Bentley, A 2-1 36:02 2-17 0.118 0-4 0.000 3-3 1.000 2 0 2/1.0 4 4-0 2 0 0 7/3.5 13 Henry, A 2-0 27:07 0-2 0.000 0-0 0.000 5-6 0.833 3 4 7/3.5 0 5-0 1 1 0 5/2.5 54 Clements, C 2-0 5:51 0-2 0.000 0-1 0.000 0-0 0.000 1 0 1/0.5 0 1-0 0 2 0 0/0.0 0 Riley, R 1-0 3:39 0-0 0.000 0-0 0.000 0-0 0.000 0 0 0/0.0 0 1-0 0 0 0 0/0.0 Team 23 1 Atlanta Dream 2-10 400:00 53-149 0.356 7-29 0.241 34-50 0.680 22 45 90/45.0 33 46-1 29 29 1 147/73.5 Team 17 0 OPPONENTS 2-10 400:00 56-115 0.487 10-27 0.370 39-48 0.813 11 62 90/45.0 37 46-1 14 49 13 161/80.5 2013 MERUCY STATISTICS VS. DREAM 3-POINT ----REBOUNDS---- NO PLAYER GP-GS MIN FGM-FGA FG% FGM-FGA FG% FTM-FTA FT% OFF DEF TOT/AVG AST PF-DQ STL TO BLK PTS/AVG 3 Taurasi, D 2-2 70:40 17-34 0.500 4-12 0.333 15-19 0.789 3 11 14/7.0 10 7-0 1 11 1 53/26.5 24 Bonner, D 2-2 76:32 10-21 0.476 4-10 0.400 11-12 0.917 1 11 12/6.0 4 2-0 4 6 1 35/17.5 4 Dupree, C 2-2 70:50 10-22 0.455 0-0 0.000 5-5 1.000 2 7 9/4.5 9 3-0 4 8 0 25/12.5 42 Griner, B 2-2 61:23 8-15 0.533 0-0 0.000 6-10 0.600 1 14 15/7.5 3 7-0 1 6 8 22/11.0 15 Gilbreath, B 2-2 33:01 3-6 0.500 1-2 0.500 0-0 0.000 0 8 8/4.0 3 2-0 2 4 1 7/3.5 14 Hornbuckle, A 2-0 15:36 3-5 0.600 1-1 1.000 0-0 0.000 1 4 5/2.5 1 7-1 1 2 0 7/3.5 12 Kizer, L 2-0 9:10 3-4 0.750 0-0 0.000 0-0 0.000 1 0 1/0.5 1 3-0 0 1 0 6/3.0 13 Taylor, P 1-0 14:13 0-1 0.000 0-0 0.000 2-2 1.000 0 1 1/1.0 1 2-0 1 2 0 2/2.0 34 Thomas, K 2-0 18:37 1-2 0.500 0-0 0.000 0-0 0.000 1 1 2/1.0 0 8-0 0 2 1 2/1.0 10 James, J 2-0 14:59 1-3 0.333 0-1 0.000 0-0 0.000 1 4 5/2.5 5 1-0 0 5 0 2/1.0 22 Houston, C 2-0 14:59 0-2 0.000 0-1 0.000 0-0 0.000 0 1 1/0.5 0 4-0 0 2 1 0/0.0 Team 17 0 Phoenix Mercury 2-10 400:00 56-115 0.487 10-27 0.370 39-48 0.813 11 62 90/45.0 37 46-1 14 49 13 161/80.5 Team 23 1 OPPONENTS 2-10 400:00 53-149 0.356 7-29 0.241 34-50 0.680 22 45 90/45.0 33 46-1 29 29 1 147/73.5 www.AtlantaDream.net • @AtlantaDream • Facebook.com/AtlantaDream 2014 ATLANTA DREAM BASKETBALL RECORD PACE WNBA Standings The Dream is shooting for its best regular season ever.