Can the Dream survive without Allisha Gray? Will the Valkyries depth be key to making Finals? + Fever’s biggest offseason questions

Cass, I mentioned it, you're in Atlanta.

You were there for that game one victory for the Atlanta Dream.

That's the good thing for Atlanta Dream fans.

[laughs]

You're up 1-0.

The bad to that, though, is no Alicia Gray in game two.

She was sitting for the second half of that first game, was limited in the first half.

So I wanna start there.

What does that mean for Atlanta going into game two?

Yeah.

First of all, a tough blow for Alicia Gray.

I mean, it looked like it happened kind of on our side of the court, looked like maybe a dislocated finger or something like that.

The team is simply saying a left hand.

Uh, they did say that she, Carl Smusko said she had an X-ray.

The team did not answer if she had an MRI or not, but she missed practices today.

She was being seen by a doctor.

In terms of the Dream, I mean, that's a blow.

She's their leading scorer.

Carl Smusko talked about just how important she is in all aspects of the team.

And I think as well, for a team like the Dream, who have kind of been slowly building towards this, if you will, they get Alicia Gray a couple of years ago, and she has talked about the green light she has there.

It does feel like it, it jostles them a little bit, although players like Rhyne Howard and Naz Hillmon said today that they, and players said in game one, that they are playing for her.

This Dream team is also a little short bench-wise.

Uh, having DeWanna Bonner continues to look better and better and better and better.

They also talked about how, you know, the next woman up mentality is not just the person who comes in off the bench.

It's everyone playing in the game-