Image by Getty Images via @daylifeAngel McCoughtry needed a few minutes to let it all sink in.
The second-year Dream star set a new league playoff scoring record and helped Atlanta make the WNBA finals for the first time.
McCoughtry had 42 points to win a high-scoring duel with Cappie Pondexter as the Dream beat the New York Liberty 105-93 on Tuesday night to complete their unlikely march to the league finals.
Perhaps overwhelmed by it all, McCoughtry at first claimed the Eastern Conference finals clincher "was just another game."
Just another game? McCoughtry couldn't leave that as her signoff on the biggest night of her two-year professional career.
"I take it back," McCoughtry said when asked again. "This was different."
McCoughtry, the 2009 WNBA rookie of the year, has scored more than 20 points in Atlanta's four straight playoff wins.
"Angel McCoughtry just really showed how good she is going to be and what a bright star she is already," said New York coach Anne Donovan.
Atlanta, a third-year expansion franchise which set a league record with 30 losses only two years ago, will face the Western Conference champion Seattle Storm in the WNBA finals. The best-of-five series begins Sunday in Seattle.
The Dream, the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs, swept Washington in the first round before also winning two straight over the Liberty in the conference finals.
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