Accomplished veteran Courtney Vandersloot played off the bench in the Liberty’s 83-69 Game 1 win over the Dream on Sunday.
In the second year of its superteam era, the Liberty are on a quest to avenge last year’s WNBA Finals fallout with all five core players having another regular season of chemistry under their belt.
“Leo has stepped in and has been huge for us with injuries and everything. So, the starting lineup wasn’t new to her and I think that you saw that right away,” Vandersloot told reporters after the game. “She’s comfortable out there. She fits perfectly with that group. For me, my mentality didn’t change. It was the same. I just wanted to be able to be a spark off the bench. It’s definitely new to me in terms of, yeah, it’s going to take me a second to adjust to this because it is different.
The change was made to avoid a “chunky” offense, as it was described to Vandersloot, spreading out the playmakers of herself, Betnijah Laney-Hamilton and Sabrina Ionescu.Brondello’s hope was for Vandersloot to take a lead role with the second unit during the playoffs.
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