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Sophie Cunningham holds Liberty accountable in Breanna Stewart timeout drama

During the second game of their playoff matchup, the New York squad fell behind by three points with just a few seconds left in overtime and launched a long-range desperation shot rather than utilizing an available reset timeout to move the ball up the court. Following the contest, Breanna Stewart noted that game officials explicitly told the team they had no remaining timeouts, a claim the league later acknowledged stemmed from a significant communication failure.

Speaking on a podcast episode, Sophie Cunningham addressed the late-game breakdown by arguing that the coaching staff must share blame for the error by failing to properly track their team's remaining timeouts. Amid the subsequent off-court distraction and an official league review, the squad ultimately dropped the third game of the series with a score of eighty-five to eighty-three, resulting in their elimination from the postseason.

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