Yahoo Sports Staff Updated Sat, October 24, 2026 at 4:15 PM UTC About Our Ads Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement In this story The Atlanta Dream can take a big step toward the first championship in franchise history with a win in Saturday's Game 4 of the WNBA Finals .
Angel Reese recorded another double-double with 21 points and 12 rebounds on Wednesday as the Dream took a 2-1 series lead over the Golden State Valkyries. The 24-year-old is the youngest player in WNBA history to drop three straight double-doubles in the championship series.
The Valkyries are looking to send the best-of-seven series back home for Monday's Game 5 even at two games apiece. Natalie Nakase's team has to clean up how it handles the ball. Golden State committed a total of 36 turnovers in Games 2 and 3, which led to the Dream scoring 46 points.
Easy baskets cannot be allowed when pursuing a title. The Dream have capitalized, and the Atlanta offense has progressively improved, scoring 64, 79 and 97 points, respectively, through three games.
Game 4 of the 2026 WNBA Finals between the Valkyries and Dream will begin Saturday at 1 p.m. ET on NBC .
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For this piece, we'll be zooming out and looking at five numbers that helped define the Dream's dominant win.
We knew this series was going to be a gnarly one because of how good both of these defenses were. Six All-Defensive members, including this year's Defensive Player of the Year in Reese, headline the matchup, with several other high-level defenders in each team's rotation.
The first two games were, predictably, slugfests. The Valkyries logged a 0.62 points per possession (PPP) half-court clip in their comeback Game 1 win. The Dream followed that up with a 0.7 mark in Game 2. In both games, transition play (and offensive rebounds) played a big role in scrounging points.
The Dream exploded in Game 3, generating 0.99 PPP on half-court trips in Game 3. It was their best mark since Game 2 of the semifinals against the New York Liberty (1.0 PPP); it's also the highest clip the Valkyries have allowed in a game since their Game 2 semifinals matchup against the Las Vegas Aces (1.05 PPP).
Tied to that, the Dream had their best half-court driving game of the series.
Atlanta's downhill comfort is probably the thing that popped loudest for me in this one. There were timely rim finishes from Reese and Howard (more on her shortly), in particular, but the Dream being able to puncture the paint as often as they did triggered the Valkyries' help in a real — and, per postgame commentary from the Valkyries and head coach Natalie Nakase, undisciplined — way.
Drive-and-kick was back on the table, also opening up the Dream's best catch-and-shoot game of the series. They shot 9-of-22 from deep (40.9%) overall, with Reese (2-of-2) and Naz Hillmon (3-of-5) knocking down multiple.
Read four more numbers that defined the Dream's dominant Game 3 win in the 2026 WNBA Finals.
Moneyline odds: Dream -198, Valkyries +166
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