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THE Los Angeles Sparks were officially eliminated from the realization of the WNBA qualifiers on Tuesday evening. While sparks taking care of business For their part, beating the Phoenix Mercury, 88-83, they needed a loss of storm of Seattle to keep their hopes alive. Unfortunately for them, the Storm beat the Golden State Valkyries to win the last place in the playoffs. After the match, the Sparks striker, Dearica Hamby striker, explained why she was still encouraged despite the fact that the team did not make the playoffs.
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“I came here two years ago and … The plan (was) long -term construction, and to be part of it. I want to be here. I feel like we took steps in the right direction,” said Hamby. “I think it’s a bit frustrating, because you watch some of the games, and we were two games, but I could count on two hands how many games we abandoned. So (I) (I still feel) positive, and (it’s) good momentum for the future.”
Dearica Hamby was right in the sense that Sparks abandoned a lot of tight matches this season which would have reversed the classification in their favor. The storm ended with a 23-21 record while sparks cannot finish better 22-22. Another victory would have overturned the scale towards the sparks as they held the equality break on the storm with a 3-1 file in the series of season in-head.
Although there are many examples to choose, two games that come to my mind on June 24 and August 29. During the June match, the Sparks held a two -digit lead against the Ciel de Chicago, a team that had trouble all season, to suffocate it and finally lose by two figures.
During the August match, the Sparks were at home against Indiana fever who had several key players away, including the star goalkeeper Caitlin Clark, and still lost while not having obtained a shot that would have won the match in the last seconds.
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But as Hamby said, there were also encouraging signs for sparks. The team has rebounded by a terrible start of 6-14 of the season, only to cease firmly in the photo of the playoffs. At one point, they knew one of the longest sequences of active victories in the League when they managed five consecutive victories and had won eight of the nine games in total.
One of the main reasons for the Sparks turnaround this season was Hamby who played at a stars level. It was initially acquired in a business with the Las Vegas Aces in 2023, and has become one of the team leaders And the most consistent players.
This season, she appeared in every match at just over 31 minutes per game. It has on average a career summit of 18.5 points, 8.0 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.5 interceptions with divisions of 57.5% of the shot in the field and 62.5% of shooting of the free throw line.
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