Phoenix Mercury at Atlanta Dream 9/8/21 - WNBA Picks & Predictions
The Mercury are coming here after playing the Fever on Monday night. The game ended up being a win for the Mercury by a score of 86-81. The Phoenix team is now sitting on a 18-10 record on the year so far.
This season Phoenix has ended up with 82.6 points per game. The leader for the Mercury has been Brittney Griner who has ended up with 20.7 points per game on 57.9% shooting. The Mercury have ended up getting 5.2 assist per game from Skylar Diggins-Smith and as a team have ended up with 19.6 assists per game. The rebounding for Phoenix is sitting at 37 boards per game with Griner leading the Mercury with 9.4 boards per game.
Atlanta comes here after winning in their last game. The win was by 5 points over the Dallas Wings with a final score of 69-64. The win moved the Dallas team to a record of 7-20 on the year overall.
The Dream as a team have been able to get 80.1 points per game. Courtney Williams is leading Atlanta in the scoring with 16.3 points per game on 41% shooting. The Atlanta Dream have ended up getting 18 assists per game. Williams also leads the Dream in passing with 4.2 assists per game. Rebounding for the Dream has come to the tune of 33.7 boards per game. Monique Billings is the leading rebounding for the Dream with only 6.5 boards per game.
In this game the Dream will be playing at home against a Phoenix team that has been playing on the road lately. However, the Mercury are definitely a better overall team and that will show up in this game here as the Mercury are able to secure the win here as the Dream are unable to do much offensively in the game against a good Phoenix team. Final Score Prediction, Phoenix Mercury win 84-67.
