Marina Mabrey had a traditionally brutal recreation within the Connecticut Solar’s 100-52 blowout loss to the New York Liberty on Sunday.
In 28 minutes of motion, Mabrey was unable to get her shot going as she additionally received into foul hassle. She completed with a stat line of eight factors, 4 rebounds, two assists, and a steal. She shot 2-of-11 from the sphere, together with 2-of-9 from past the arc.
What stood out from Mabrey’s struggles was how the Liberty dominated when she was on the courtroom. When the ultimate buzzer sounded, Mabrey had a plus-minus ranking of -55, which means that New York outscored the Solar by 55 factors when Mabrey was taking part in. Because of this, she recorded the bottom +/- in a single recreation in WNBA historical past, per StatMamba.
What’s subsequent for Marina Mabrey, Solar
It’s going to in the end be a recreation to neglect for Marina Mabrey and the Solar, contemplating they misplaced in dominant trend to the defending WNBA champions within the Liberty.
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New York took a convincing 31-13 lead within the first quarter and by no means seemed again. Connecticut did not put collectively a string of runs to get again within the recreation, seeing the deficit get larger as extra time handed.
The Solar’s shot choice proved to be inefficient towards the Liberty. They had been profitable on 31.1% of their complete shot makes an attempt, together with 21.4% of their tries from three. Connecticut additionally turned the ball over 19 instances, which proved to be deadly in direction of their possibilities of staying considerably aggressive with their opponents.
Solely two gamers scored in double-digits on Connecticut’s behalf. Jacy Sheldon was lively on the stat sheet with 10 factors, three rebounds, two assists, and two steals. She shot 4-of-7 from the sphere, together with 1-of-4 from downtown. Tina Charles got here subsequent with 10 factors and a steal, whereas Aneesah Morrow supplied eight factors and three rebounds.
The Solar will look to bounce again of their subsequent matchup, being at dwelling. They host the Atlanta Dream on June 6 at 7:30 p.m. ET.