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Valkyries host Dream in opener of best-of-seven series
“It doesn’t matter what time [Game 6] is. At the end of the day, we just need 94 feet, two hoops in each other,” Valkyries center Kiah Stokes said. “It’s a close-out game. Atlanta is a great team and we don’t want to give them basically any life. So as much as we love ‘Ballhalla,’ we don’t want to come back here. So we need to go in with the mentality that we have to win. It’s do or die.”
When the Guardian staff made our predictions for the finals, Stokes was a near-unanimous pick for the player most likely to break out in this series. That was a smart call: she has been a defensive force, with three or more blocks in all five games. She also added 13 points in Game 5, tying Veronica Burton for Golden State’s team high. Chants of “MVP” broke out for Stokes at Chase Center on Monday.
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