If the New York Liberty suffer an unceremonious early exit from the playoffs, it won’t be because of their 78-62 loss to the Atlanta Dream on Saturday.

Instead, they’ll have a trio of inexplicable losses to the three worst teams in the league, including a shocking home defeat to the Chicago Sky just two days after they knocked off the mighty Minnesota Lynx .

As of Saturday afternoon, the standings show the Liberty in fifth place, but just two games behind the Dream for second with eight remaining. When the league is that bunched together, you can’t afford those letdown games.

But it is fair to ask now if they really are letdown games — or if this is just the team that the Liberty are. New York started the season 9-0 and is two games under .500 since then. That’s a 28-game stretch,

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