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f that on a long pass to Kenny Britt inside the final two minutes of a blowout. The Rams had 247 yards the
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in Team 28.02.2019 06:36von jcy123 •

The mission for Chicago is clear: stop Angel McCoughtry.McCoughtry scored 37 points in Atlantas first-round playoff win over Seattle on Wednesday. The win set up a second-round, single-elimination game between the Dream and the Sky on Sunday. Tipoff is at 1 p.m. EDT at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill.No player in the WNBA has been as dominant on the offensive end as McCoughtry since the Summer Olympics break. Shes leading the league in scoring at 23.4 points per game. And she already holds the WNBA playoff record scoring a game-high 42 points.Chicago, which earned a first-round bye, will have to find a way to contain McCoughtry, and they have to do it without 2015 WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne, who was ruled out of Sundays game after having thumb surgery last week.Delle Donne is averaging 21.5 points and 7.0 rebounds per game. She was hurt on Sept. 7 against Washington and had surgery six days later.Atlanta advanced to the second round of the playoffs thanks to a fourth-quarter surge that secured a 94-85 home win over the Seattle Storm on Wednesday night.With the score tied 66-66, McCoughtry and Bria Holmes fueled a 24-6 run.The Sky watched intently as McCoughtry worked her magic against the Storm. Holmes added 21 points, giving the Dream another solid option on offense as well as another player for the Sky to worry about.Atlanta was without its second-leading scorer, Tiffany Hayes (15.0 points per game), who was suspended for the first round after picking up her seventh technical foul in the final regular-season game.Chicago earned a first-round bye despite losing Delle Donne and going 3-2 in their final five games.Delle Donne resumed practicing this week after having surgery. She was limited and finally ruled out of Sundays game.In Delle Donnes place, the Sky will lean on Cappie Pondexter for scoring and leadership. Pondexters 19.8 points per game in the playoffs is the fifth highest in league history.Maybe more important, Pondexter averaged 13.6 points, 4.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game in three games this season against Atlanta.Also having to step up in Delle Donnes absence will be Courtney Vandersloot, who was averaging 15.0 points per game in her last five games.When the two teams last met, the Sky hung on for a 90-82 win on Aug. 26 in Chicago. Atlanta won the previous two meetings between the two. NFL Jerseys China . If ever they start actually putting pictures beside words in the dictionary, the Blue Jays left-handers mug will appear beside “Consistency. Wholesale NFL Jerseys China . It says Pocklingtons lawyer filed the appeal Friday in a California court. 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The Rams are back to last in the NFL in total offense -- the same place they finished last season -- with just 284.0 yards per game heading into Sundays visit from Atlanta (7-5), which has the NFLs highest-scoring offense.Everything has got to improve, Boras said Wednesday. Its easy to point a finger, and none of us are about that. We all need to coach better. We all need to play better, and prepare better.Before Boras began his first full season as the Rams coordinator, he stressed the importance of immediate improvement. After all, he persevered through 24 years in coaching to become an NFL play-caller last December, and he realized the opportunity might never come again.But Boras has been unable to interrupt a decade of ineptitude for the Rams. The franchise that once boasted the Greatest Show on Turf seems certain to finish among the NFLs 10 worst offenses for the jaw-dropping 10th consecutive season, including five straight under coach Jeff Fisher.During their final nine years in St. Louis, the Rams never finished higher than 23rd in the league in offense. They havent averaged more than 330 yards per game -- which would make them only 24th in the current league standings -- since 2006, when Marc Bulger, Torry Holt and Steven Jackson were all selected to the Pro Bowl.A move to Hollywood did nothing to make this team more entertaining, and Fishers staff could be down to its last few chances to fix things. While Boras says he has made innumerable adjustments to nearly every aspect of the Rams schemes, the results arent showing up.I know I keep repeating myself, (but) this is a resilient group, Boras said. The guys have stayed together. I think our defense has done an unbelievable job supportting the offensive guys and trying to keep them going in the right direction.dddddddddddd As frustrating as it is, these guys keep coming back to work.Los Angeles managed just 162 yards last weekend against New England, 66 of that on a long pass to Kenny Britt inside the final two minutes of a blowout. The Rams had 247 yards the week before that in New Orleans, and they had 227 yards in their last home game against Miami three weeks ago.Rookie quarterback Jared Goff has been decent in his first three NFL starts, but not game-changing. Todd Gurley has been unable to produce in the running game all season long. Los Angeles has a patchy offensive line and a plague of drops among its unimpressive receiving corps.The Rams are last in the league in third-down percentage, converting just 32 percent of the time and repeatedly failing to extend drives. Thats often because the running game cant even pick up enough yards on the first two snaps to give them third-and-short.The big thing for us is really getting our time of possession up, guard Rodger Saffold said. What does that mean? Converting third downs and keeping their defense on the field. Its a lot easier for Coach Boras to make calls if weve got more third-and-manageable situations.Boras replaced Frank Cignetti as the Rams offensive coordinator and play-caller with four games left last season. St. Louis went 3-1, but still finished last in the NFL in total offense with 297.6 yards per game.The Rams are even worse so far this season, but Boras will keep trying to extend his opportunity.The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results, Boras said. Were always (trying something new). It might not look like it. ... Theyre little things that the players would know that were trying to do different. Its not carrying over to Sunday, but we are trying to change things.---For more NFL coverage: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '

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