Mystics Postgame Notes
August 19, 2020 - Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) - Washington Mystics News Release
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
Stella Johnson scored 25 points, marking the first Mystics rookie to score 25+ points in a game since Ariel Atkins on 8/12/18 vs. Dallas.
WASHINGTON MYSTICS (4-7) VS. ATLANTA DREAM (2-10)
August 19, 2020
MYSTICS 98 - DREAM 91
WASHINGTON MYSTICS POSTGAME NOTES
Stella Johnson totaled five three-pointers, the first Mystics rookie to total six-plus three point makes in a game. Johnson joins Sabrina Ionescu as the only other rookie this season to make at least five three-pointers in a game.
Washington made 12 three-pointers, the second game this season they have recorded 10 or more three-point makes.
Emma Meesseman totaled a career-best 10 assists, joining Courtney Vandersloot (CHI), Diana Taurasi (PHX), Jordan Canada (SEA) and Julie Allemand (IND) as the only players this season to record 10 or more assists in a game. Meesseman has recorded five-plus assists in four games this season.
Meesseman recorded her third double-double of the season and joins Vandersloot and Taurasi as the only players to record point-assist double-doubles.
Washington recorded 20+ assists for the third time this season and totaled a season-best 26 assists
Five Mystics players (Johnson, Myisha Hines-Allen, Meesseman, Atkins, Leilani Mitchell) scored in double-figures, the second time this season Washington has had five players score in double-figures in the same game.
Johnson and Hines-Allen both scored 20+ points, marking the second game this season that
Washington has had two players score 20+ points in the same game (Atkins + Aerial Powers, 8/1/20 vs. CHI).
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