Toronto entered with third-best offensive rating and second-worst defensive rating, while Seattle ranked third-last offensively and fifth in defense. Seattle kept Toronto in a defensive grind through the first half, but Toronto later ran the Storm out of the gym at Coca-Cola Coliseum. The Tempo went 31-of-33 from the line, making their first 29 straight. Toronto repeatedly used the Nyara Sabally–Marina Mabrey pick-and-roll, including a looping over-the-top pass and pull-up and transition threes. Stingy point-of-attack defense and drives plus fastbreak scoring produced a 5-0 break lead and a 21-13 overall advantage.
"Yeah, KYP, said Brondello pregame of practising coverage on double drags. Know your personnel. I think that's important here because sometimes you want to be aggressive on the second one. We may want to switch it because it's a switch player. Now, it's more about our positioning on and off the ball. I think we're getting hit on too many screens, and we're not in our, we call them, obviously our congestion, our shrink, as well as we could."
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