{"id":2374,"date":"2019-02-04T14:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.draftcentral.com.au\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2019-02-04T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:23:15","slug":"weekend-wash-up-wnbl-semi-finals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/weekend-wash-up-wnbl-semi-finals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend wash-up: WNBL Semi-Finals 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Adelaide Lightning (100) defeat Melbourne Boomers (92)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adelaide storm into the finals following an 8-point victory over Melbourne in Game 2 of the semi-finals. While Melbourne led by a point heading into the second half, they struggled to hold it in the third as Adelaide lifted to a 29-point period while Melbourne dropped to 21. Melbourne kept close in the fourth but still failed to outscore. For Adelaide, <strong>Nia Coffey <\/strong>and <strong>Lauren Nicholson <\/strong>starred. Coffey finished with 30-points, nine rebounds and two assists, while Nicholson shot at 90 per cent from the field, picking up 23-points, six rebounds and three assists. For Melbourne, <strong>Cayla George <\/strong>and <strong>Lindsay Allen <\/strong>had similarly impressive performances. George picked up 24-points, nine rebounds and three assists, while Allen hit 29-points with four rebounds and six assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Perth Lynx (75) defeated by UC Capitals (91)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Capitals take out the Lynx in Perth to earn a chance ata championship against the Lightning. Despite falling short in the firstperiod, the Capitals more than doubled Perth\u2019s score in the second period andshot an enormous 32-points in the final period to stretch a one-point lead to16-points and win the game. For the Capitals\u2019, almost all the starters have a reason to be on this list. <strong>Kelsey Griffin <\/strong>and <strong>Kelly Wilson <\/strong>both earned double-doubles, with Griffin earning12-points and 13 rebounds and Wilson earning 15-points, six rebounds and 12assists. <strong>Kia Nurse <\/strong>picked up27-points with seven three-pointers alongside <strong>Leilani Mitchell <\/strong>who earned 19-points, five rebounds and sevenassists. For Perth, <strong>Allison Schwagmeyer <\/strong>scored17-points with five rebounds and two assists alongside <strong>Katie Ebzery <\/strong>who earned 17-points with five rebounds and fourassists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide Lightning (100) defeat Melbourne Boomers (92) Adelaide storm into the finals following an 8-point victory over Melbourne in Game 2 of the semi-finals. While Melbourne led by a point heading into the second half, they struggled to hold it in the third as Adelaide lifted to a 29-point period while Melbourne dropped to 21. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[394,395,177,259,170,172,193,61,302,196,590,66,392,391],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wnbl","tag-adelaide-lightning","tag-allison-schwagmeyer","tag-cayla-george","tag-katie-ebzery","tag-kelly-wilson","tag-kelsey-griffin","tag-kia-nurse","tag-lauren-nicholson","tag-leilani-mitchell","tag-lindsay-allen","tag-melbourne-boomers","tag-nia-coffey","tag-perth-lynx","tag-uc-capitals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}