The Seattle Storm are charging towards the WNBA playoffs. The Connecticut Sun are charging towards the WNBA lottery.
After a huge offseason exodus, Connecticut is 2-16 and the odds-on favorite for the worst record in the league. They’re dead last in offensive and defensive rating. It’s unlikely to improve anytime soon. But the Storm are continuing to improve. At 12-7, they have a good shot at securing home-court advantage for a playoff series. With this level of defense and their star power, the sky is the limit for Seattle.
The Storm are 17.5-point favorites on the road and are -1650 on the moneyline on DraftKings Sportsbook. The total is set at 155.5 points. Let’s look at the best bets and predictions for this contest.
Storm vs. Sun Prediction
It’s not much of a prediction to say the Storm are going to win this game. They haven’t been perfect, but anyone is good enough to crush this Connecticut team right now. The Sun have lost ten games in a row by an average of 20 points. I doubt they can keep that kind of feebleness going all season, but it’s not going to stop against these Storm.
The real question is that spread. Too much for Seattle to handle? Or are our oddsmakers being too generous to the Connecticut Sun?
Storm vs. Sun Pick
Seattle Storm -17.5 (-105)
Sorry, Sun fans. But the losing streak isn’t ending any time soon. And I don’t think this one will be close at all.
The main problem with the Sun is that the offense struggles to get anything going from the start. That responsibility fell to Marina Mabrey, who was already miscast as a number one option. Now that Mabrey is out of the lineup, they don’t stand a chance of getting their offense going against this Storm defense.
That’s when things get ugly. Other teams smell blood in the water, start forcing turnovers, and hammering them in transition. Five-point leads turn to ten, then fifteen, then twenty in the blink of an eye. That’s not going to be any different against the Seattle Storm.
