2011 Atlanta Dream season | |
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Coach | Marynell Meadors |
Arena | Philips Arena |
Attendance | 6,487 per game |
Results | |
Record | 20–14 (.588) |
Place | 3rd (Eastern) |
Playoff finish | Lost in WNBA Finals |
Team Leaders | |
Points | Angel McCoughtry – 21.6 |
Rebounds | Erika de Souza – 7.5 |
Assists | Lindsey Harding – 4.8 |
Media | |
Television | FS-S, SSO ESPN2, NBATV |
The 2011 WNBA season is the 4th season for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association. The Dream finished the regular season with a 20-14 record, good for third-best in the Eastern Conference. The Dream then won their second consecutive Eastern Conference Championship. The Dream made their way to the WNBA Finals before being swept by the Minnesota Lynx.
See also: 2011 WNBA draft |
Round | Pick | Player | Nationality | School/team/country |
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1 | 8 | Ta'Shia Phillips | United States | Xavier |
2 | 18 | Rachel Jarry | Australia | Australia |
3 | 32 | Kelsey Bolte | United States | Iowa State |
Date | Transaction | |
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January 7, 2011 | Extended Qualifying Offers to Alison Bales and Yelena Leuchanka | |
March 23, 2011 | Signed Sandora Irvin to a Training Camp Contract[1] | |
March 24, 2011 | Signed Ashley Paris to a Training Camp Contract[2] | |
March 31, 2011 | Signed Alison Bales to a Training Camp Contract[3] | |
April 11, 2011 | Traded Kelly Miller, the draft rights to Ta'Shia Phillips, and a 1st Round Pick in the 2012 WNBA draft to the Washington Mystics in exchange for Lindsey Harding and a 2nd Round Pick in 2012.[4] | |
Traded the draft rights to Rachel Jarry and a 2nd Round Pick in the 2012 WNBA draft to the Minnesota Lynx in exchange for the draft rights to Felicia Chester | ||
April 21, 2011 | Signed Kelsey Bolte to a Rookie Scale Contract | |
April 28, 2011 | Signed Shannon McCallum to a Training Camp Contract | |
April 29, 2011 | Signed Felicia Chester to a Rookie Scale Contract | |
May 21, 2011 | Waived Ashley Paris and Kelsey Bolte | |
May 31, 2011 | Exercised 4th-Year Team Option on Angel McCoughtry | |
Declined Team Option on Shalee Lehning | ||
Waived Shannon McCallum | ||
June 1, 2011 | Waived Felicia Chester[5] | |
June 5, 2011 | Waived Brittainey Raven | |
Signed Kelly Mazzante[6] | ||
June 16, 2011 | Temporarily Suspend Sancho Lyttle due to Overseas Commitments | |
June 18, 2011 | Signed Courtney Paris[7] | |
July 3, 2011 | Activated Sancho Lyttle from her Temporary Suspension | |
Waived Kelly Mazzante[8] | ||
September 8, 2011 | Signed Sancho Lyttle to a Contract Extension[9] |
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Pos. | Starter | Bench |
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C | Erika de Souza | Courtney Paris |
PF | Sancho Lyttle | Alison Bales Sandora Irvin |
SF | Angel McCoughtry | |
SG | Armintie Price | Iziane Castro Marques |
PG | Lindsey Harding | Coco Miller Shalee Lehning |
2011 Preseason Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total: 1–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 1–0)
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2011 Regular Season Total: 20–14 (Home: 13–4; Road: 4–13) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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June: 3–7 (Home: 2–5; Road: 1–2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
July: 5–3 (Home: 3–0; Road: 2–3)
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August: 8–3 (Home: 3–1; Road: 5–2)
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September: 4–17 (Home: 3–0; Road: 1–1)
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All games are viewable on WNBA LiveAccess or ESPN3.com |
2011 Playoffs Schedule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eastern Conference Semifinals vs. Connecticut (Won Series 2-0)
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Eastern Conference Finals vs. Indiana (Won Series 2-1)
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WNBA Finals vs. Minnesota (Lost Series 0-3)
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Eastern Conference | W | L | PCT | GB | Home | Road | Conf. |
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Indiana Fever x | 21 | 13 | .618 | – | 13–4 | 8–9 | 13–9 |
Connecticut Sun x | 21 | 13 | .618 | – | 15–2 | 6–11 | 14–8 |
Atlanta Dream x | 20 | 14 | .588 | 1.0 | 11–6 | 9–8 | 14–8 |
New York Liberty x | 19 | 15 | .559 | 2.0 | 12-5 | 7–10 | 11–11 |
Chicago Sky o | 14 | 20 | .412 | 7.0 | 10–7 | 4–13 | 10–12 |
Washington Mystics o | 6 | 28 | .176 | 15.0 | 4–13 | 2–15 | 4–18 |
Conference Semi-Finals Best-of-3 | Conference Finals Best-of-3 | WNBA Finals Best-of-5 | ||||||||||||
E1 | Indiana | 2 | ||||||||||||
E4 | New York | 1 | ||||||||||||
E1 | Indiana | 1 | ||||||||||||
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E3 | Atlanta | 2 | ||||||||||||
E2 | Connecticut | 0 | ||||||||||||
E3 | Atlanta | 2 | ||||||||||||
E3 | Atlanta | 0 | ||||||||||||
W1 | Minnesota | 3 | ||||||||||||
W1 | Minnesota | 2 | ||||||||||||
W4 | San Antonio | 1 | ||||||||||||
W1 | Minnesota | 2 | ||||||||||||
Western Conference | ||||||||||||||
W3 | Phoenix | 0 | ||||||||||||
W2 | Seattle | 1 | ||||||||||||
W3 | Phoenix | 2 |
Note: italics denote home-court advantage; bold denotes series winner.
Legend | |||||||
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GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game | RPG | Rebounds per game |
APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game | BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage | TO | Turnovers per game |
PF | Fouls per game | Team leader | League leader |
Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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Angel McCoughtry | 33 | 30 | 27.9 | 42.4 | 26.4 | 77.7 | 5.2 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 21.6 |
Erika de Souza | 32 | 32 | 27.4 | 49.9 | 0.0 | 65.5 | 7.5 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 11.8 |
Lindsey Harding | 34 | 33 | 30.5 | 45.5 | 30.3 | 73.3 | 3.2 | 4.8 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 10.5 |
Sancho Lyttle | 22 | 19 | 26.2 | 44.8 | 28.6 | 70.9 | 6.3 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 10.0 |
Armintie Price | 34 | 21 | 23.4 | 51.9 | 0.0 | 60.8 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 8.5 |
Iziane Castro Marques | 34 | 14 | 19.8 | 36.0 | 21.3 | 62.0 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 7.6 |
Coco Miller | 31 | 5 | 17.4 | 43.2 | 33.3 | 54.1 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 7.3 |
Alison Bales | 34 | 15 | 20.2 | 48.6 | 35.3 | 75.0 | 4.7 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 5.0 |
Courtney Paris | 28 | 0 | 9.6 | 51.9 | 0.0 | 51.6 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 3.4 |
Shalee Lehning | 18 | 0 | 12.1 | 48.1 | 44.4 | 61.5 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.1 |
Sandora Irvin | 30 | 1 | 8.3 | 33.9 | 0.0 | 70.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
Kelly Mazzante | 6 | 0 | 5.7 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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Angel McCoughtry | 8 | 8 | 29.1 | 42.3 | 30.0 | 74.7 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 23.1 |
Lindsey Harding | 8 | 8 | 37.8 | 39.1 | 25.0 | 74.3 | 3.0 | 5.9 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 14.5 |
Iziane Castro Marques | 8 | 3 | 25.6 | 45.3 | 53.6 | 44.4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 13.6 |
Erika de Souza | 5 | 5 | 33.4 | 42.4 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 11.4 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 11.0 |
Sancho Lyttle | 8 | 8 | 29.3 | 39.1 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 7.5 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 10.0 |
Armintie Price | 8 | 8 | 30.1 | 46.8 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 5.3 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 7.5 |
Alison Bales | 8 | 0 | 16.0 | 38.5 | 42.9 | 50.0 | 5.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 3.0 |
Coco Miller | 8 | 0 | 8.0 | 20.0 | 20.0 | 50.0 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.3 |
Sandora Irvin | 3 | 0 | 2.7 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 |
Courtney Paris | 5 | 0 | 3.6 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 |
Recipient | Award | Date awarded | Ref. |
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Angel McCoughtry | Eastern Conference Player of the Week | July 25 | [10] |
July 31 | [11] | ||
August 22 | [12] | ||
September 12 | [13] | ||
Eastern Conference Player of the Month - July | August 2 | [14] | |
All-Star Starter | July 16 | [15] | |
All-WNBA First Team | September | [16] | |
All-Defensive First Team | September | [16] | |
Sancho Lyttle | All-Defensive Second Team | September | [16] |
Armintie Price | All-Defensive Second Team | September | [16] |