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Maite Cazorla became just the fourth Oregon women s basketball player selected by a WNBA franchise in April when she was taken 23rd overall by the Atlanta Dream. Now, she s beginning to make a difference on another basketball team.

After a slow start acclimating to the professional game, Cazorla, a 5 foot 10 guard who started at point https://www.uobasketballjersey.com/roman-sorkin-jersey-c-14.html
guard during all four seasons with the Ducks, has earned a larger role with the Dream, including her first WNBA start on Sunday. She did not play in the franchise s opening game and then played 12 minutes or less in the subsequent six games including two more where she didn t play at all. She s had to wade her way through competition between the team s other point guards Renee Montgomery and Alex Bentley.

Cazorla has played more than 21 minutes in each of the team s last four games, along with the aforementioned start. In those contests Casey Benson Jersey, she s averaged 4.3 points per game, 2.8 assists per game while connecting on 5 of 13 shots from behind the arc.


“She’s a player that — I would want to be her teammate,” Dream coach Nicki Collen said in a story posted on the franchise s website last month. “She’s unselfish and she keeps her dribble alive and she finds open people. She usually makes good decisions. It’s gonna take her some time to be potentially a little more aggressive in terms of scoring https://www.uobasketballjersey.com/kavell-bigbywilliams-jersey-c-13.html, but I think at this point, she scores enough that people have to respect her.”

Even with Cazorla s improved play, the Dream are struggling. After opening the season with a win https://www.uobasketballjersey.com/dylan-ennis-jersey-c-12.html, they ve dropped nine of 10 games to fall to 2 9 this season, good for last place in the league.

The Dream will travel to Seattle on Friday to face the Seattle Storm. The game is set for 7 PM at Alaska Airlines Arena.