It was there in the way Breanna Stewart strode confidently onto the court at introductions and eschewed concerns about the sprained MCL in her left knee. It was there in the way that Natasha Cloud spoke disdainfully about the idea of going to Phoenix for a deciding Game 3 against the Mercury. And it was there in the way the entire team seemed loose and jovial at the end of their morning workout at Barclays Center.

The Liberty was determined to bring their first-round playoff series against Phoenix to a quick end on Wednesday night in their building and in front of their crowd.

“We know that we stole one on the road [and] that's the biggest thing in any series,” Stewart said Wednesday morning of the team’s overtime victory in Sunday’s Game 1 of the best-of-three series. “Now we play in fr

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