The 2009 Atlanta Dream season was the 2nd season for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association, and their second season under head coach, Marynell Meadors. The Dream qualified for the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. However, they were eliminated by the Detroit Shock in a sweep in the first round.
Transactions
Houston Comets Dispersal Draft With the Houston Comets ceasing operation and based on the 2008 records of teams, the Dream selected 1st in the Dispersal Draft.WNBA.com: Houston Comets dispersal draft
Pick Player Nationality College Previous team 1 Sancho Lyttle Houston Houston Comets
WNBA draft
Round Pick Player Nationality School/Team/Country 1 1 Angel McCoughtry Louisville 2 25 Shalee Lehning Kansas State 3 27 Jessica Morrow Baylor
Trades and Roster Changes DateTrade December 8, 2008 Traded a First Round Pick in the 2009 WNBA draft to the Los Angeles Sparks in exchange for the rights to Chamique Holdsclaw January 2, 2009 Extended Qualifying Offers to Kasha Terry, Yelena Leuchanka, and Jennifer Lacy January 12, 2009 Signed Nikki Teasley January 14, 2009 Waived Ann Strother and Chioma Nnamaka Rescinded the Qualifying Offer to Kasha Terry January 21, 2009 Traded Alison Bales to the Phoenix Mercury for a Second Round Pick in the 2009 WNBA draft February 3, 2009 Waived Betty Lennox February 4, 2009 Waived Kasha Terry February 11, 2009 Signed Chantelle Anderson to a Training Camp Contract February 17, 2009 Signed Jennifer Lacy to a Training Camp Contract February 18, 2009 Signed Michelle Snow to a Training Camp Contract April 8, 2009 Waived Katie Mattera April 9, 2009 Traded a Second Round Pick in the 2009 WNBA draft to the Detroit Shock in exchange for Ashley Shields April 13, 2009 Waived Kristin Haynie April 14, 2009 Signed Angel McCoughtry, Shalee Lehning, and Jessica Morrow to Rookie Scale Contracts April 20, 2009 Signed Chamique Holdsclaw April 28, 2009 Waived Ashley Shields May 11, 2009 Waived Jessica Morrow May 12, 2009 Signed Marlies Gipson to a Training Camp Contract May 15, 2009 Signed Coco Miller May 29, 2009 Waived Marlies Gipson May 31, 2009 Waived Chantelle Anderson June 3, 2009 Waived Ivory Latta July 3, 2009 Waived Nikki Teasley Signed Ivory Latta August 12, 2009 Traded Tamera Young to the Chicago Sky in exchange for Armintie Price
Roster
Depth Pos.StarterBench C Érika de Souza Michelle Snow PF Sancho Lyttle Jennifer Lacy SF Chamique Holdsclaw Angel McCoughtry SG Iziane Castro Marques Armintie Price PG Shalee Lehning Ivory LattaCoco Miller
Schedule
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 1 || May 27 || 7:00pm || Connecticut || 76-73 || de Souza, Holdsclaw (16) || de Souza (9) || Teasley (7) || Philips Arena 4,980 || 1-0
Regular season
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 1 || June 6 || 7:00pm || Indiana || || 87-86 (2OT) || Holdsclaw (23) || de Souza (17) || Holdsclaw, Teasley (4) || Philips Arena 8,709 || 1-0 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 2 || June 7 || 4:00pm || @ Washington || || 71-77 || Miller (17) || de Souza (6) || Lehning (4) || Verizon Center 11,759 || 1-1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 3 || June 12 || 8:30pm || @ Chicago || CN100NBA TV || 73-81 || Castro Marques (20) || de Souza (8) || Miller (4) || UIC Pavilion 5,689 || 1-2 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 4 || June 14 || 3:00pm || @ Connecticut || || 67-62 || Lyttle (20) || Lyttle (16) || Teasley (5) || Mohegan Sun Arena 6,429 || 2-2 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 5 || June 19 || 7:30pm || Washington || || 93-81 || Lyttle (20) || Lyttle (13) || Teasley (4) || Philips Arena 6,050 || 3-2 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 6 || June 21 || 3:00pm || New York || || 81-93 || Holdsclaw (17) || Lyttle (9) || Teasley (5) || Philips Arena 5,624 || 3-3 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 7 || June 23 || 12:00pm || Chicago || || 98-99 (OT) || McCoughtry (26) || de Souza (7) || McCoughtry (8) || Philips Arena 10,351 || 3-4 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 8 || June 26 || 7:30pm || Detroit || || 96-86 || Holdsclaw (28) || de Souza (13) || Teasley (11) || Philips Arena 5,935 || 4-4 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 9 || June 27 || 7:00pm || @ Connecticut || || 68-82 || Castro Marques (16) || Snow (9) || Lehning (4) || Mohegan Sun Arena 6,264 || 4-5 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 10 || June 30 || 7:00pm || Minnesota || ESPN2 || 85-91 || Castro Marques (31) || de Souza (10) || Lehning (4) || Philips Arena 7,686 || 4-6
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 11 || July 3 || 7:30pm || Washington || || 72-65 || Holdsclaw (18) || Lacy, Snow (8) || Holdsclaw (8) || Philips Arena 5,456 || 5-6 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 12 || July 5 || 6:00pm || @ Indiana || || 74-78 || Lyttle (18) || de Souza (8) || Lehning, McCoughtry (4) || Conseco Fieldhouse 7,024 || 5-7 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 13 || July 7 || 7:30pm || Connecticut || || 72-67 || Holdsclaw (19) || de Souza (17) || Lehning (7) || Philips Arena 6,225 || 6-7 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 14 || July 11 || 7:30pm || @ New York || || 69-71 || Castro Marques (18) || Castro Marques, de Souza, Holdsclaw (8) || Castro Marques (6) || Madison Square Garden 8,732 || 6-8 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 15 || July 15 || 1:00pm || @ Minnesota || FSN-N || 91-77 || Holdsclaw (28) || Lyttle (10) || Lehning (5) || Target Center 11,245 || 7-8 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 16 || July 17 || 7:00pm|| @ Indiana || || 79-84 || de Souza (23) || de Souza (14) || Castro Marques, Lehning (3) || Conseco Fieldhouse 7,975 || 7-9 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 17 || July 19 || 4:00pm || @ New York || || 86-89 || Holdsclaw (26) || de Souza (10) || de Souza (3) || Madison Square Garden 8,560 || 7-10 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 18 || July 22 || 12:00pm || @ Detroit || || 98-95 (OT) || Latta (22) || Snow (12) || Holdsclaw (4) || Palace of Auburn Hills 14,439 || 8-10 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 19 || July 30 || 7:30pm || Phoenix || || 106-76 || McCoughtry (17) || de Souza (14) || Lehning (5) || Philips Arena 7,827 || 9-10
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 20 || August 1 || 7:00pm || New York || NBA TVMSG || 89-83 || Holdsclaw (18) || Holdsclaw, Lyttle (7) || Latta, Lehning (3) || Philips Arena 6,103 || 10-10 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 21 || August 6 || 8:00pm || @ San Antonio || || 92-84 || Holdsclaw (21) || Lyttle (10) || Lehning (7) || AT&T Center 5,042 || 11-10 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 22 || August 8 || 7:00pm || Chicago || || 80-82 || Latta (18) || de Souza (15) || Latta, Miller (3) || Philips Arena 5,424 || 11-11 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 23 || August 13 || 7:30pm || Detroit || || 80-75 || Castro Marques (16) || de Souza (13) || Lehning (5) || Philips Arena 5,641 || 12-11 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 24 || August 15 || 7:00pm || Seattle || || 88-79 || Lyttle (20) || de Souza (12) || Lehning (6) || Philips Arena 8,751 || 13-11 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 25 || August 20 || 7:30pm || San Antonio || || 93-87 || McCoughtry (34) || de Souza (11) || Lehning (6) || Philips Arena 5,848 || 14-11 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 26 || August 23 || 3:00pm || Los Angeles || || 87-91 || Castro Marques (26) || de Souza (9) || Castro Marques, Lehning (4) || Philips Arena 11,304 || 14-12 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 27 || August 25 || 7:30pm || Sacramento || || 103-83 || Castro Marques (30) || Lyttle (9) || Lehning (10) || Philips Arena 5,159 || 15-12 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 28 || August 27 || 7:30pm || @ Detroit || || 83-87 || Castro Marques (19) || de Souza (13) || McCoughtry (5) || Palace of Auburn Hills 5,695 || 15-13 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 29 || August 29 || 10:00pm || @ Seattle || || 84-91 (2OT) || McCoughtry (16) || Lyttle (11) || Lehning, McCoughtry (4) || KeyArena 9,089 || 15-14
|- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 30 || September 1 || 10:30pm || @ Los Angeles || || 84-79 || Castro Marques (27) || de Souza, Lyttle (7) || de Souza, Latta (3) || STAPLES Center 8,756 || 16-14 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 31 || September 4 || 10:00pm || @ Sacramento || || 98-90 || de Souza (27) || de Souza (13) || McCoughtry (10) || ARCO Arena 6,517 || 17-14 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 32 || September 5 || 10:00pm || @ Phoenix || || 82-100 || de Souza (23) || Snow (7) || Lehning (10) || US Airways Center 10,424 || 17-15 |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" | 33 || September 11 || 7:00pm || Connecticut || || 88-64 || McCoughtry (18) || de Souza (14) || Lyttle (5) || Philips Arena 8,644 || 18-15 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 34 || September 12 || 7:00pm || @ Washington || || 64-82 || McCoughtry (19) || McCoughtry (13) || Castro Marques, de Souza (3) || Verizon Center 11,987 || 18-16
| All games are viewable on WNBA LiveAccess
Postseason
|- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 1 || September 16 || 8:00pm || @ Detroit || ESPN2 || 89-94 || Castro Marques (25) || Lyttle (9) || Castro Marques (7) || Palace of Auburn Hills 6,122 || 0-1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 2 || September 18 || 7:30pm || Detroit || NBA TV || 79-94 || Latta (21) || de Souza (7) || McCoughtry, Latta, Price (3) || Gwinnett Arena 4,780 || 0-2
Standings
Playoffs
Statistics
Regular season Player GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG Iziane Castro Marques 34 33 26.9 41.3 34.5 78.0 2.2 2.0 1.1 0.1 14.4 Chamique Holdsclaw 25 25 28.3 41.4 20.0 83.9 4.4 2.2 1.4 0.3 13.9 Sancho Lyttle 34 31 27.4 50.7 0.0 74.3 7.5 1.5 2.0 0.6 13.0 Angel McCoughtry 34 10 21.6 47.6 29.4 74.1 3.1 2.1 2.2 0.4 12.8 Erika de Souza 34 34 27.3 52.8 0.0 65.3 9.1 1.1 0.9 1.3 11.8 Ivory Latta 24 0 14.6 40.9 36.0 82.6 0.7 1.4 0.5 0.0 6.1 Michelle Snow 34 2 14.8 47.9 0.0 76.1 4.3 0.5 0.4 0.5 5.4 Nikki Teasley 10 10 23.4 40.0 41.2 80.0 1.7 3.5 0.9 0.1 3.9 Coco Miller 34 5 12.0 41.0 29.6 88.5 1.5 1.0 0.4 0.1 3.9 Shalee Lehning 34 20 20.8 38.7 20.0 77.4 2.3 3.7 0.5 0.1 3.0 Jennifer Lacy 32 0 11.3 32.7 21.1 66.7 2.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 3.0 Tamera Young 11 0 6.5 33.3 20.0 64.7 1.3 0.5 0.5 0.1 2.7 Armintie Price 11 0 8.9 35.7 0.0 60.0 1.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 1.5
Playoffs Player GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG Angel McCoughtry 2 2 29.0 48.4 57.1 66.7 5.5 3.0 1.0 0.0 19.0 Iziane Castro Marques 2 2 25.5 50.0 50.0 70.6 1.5 4.5 0.0 0.0 16.0 Ivory Latta 2 2 37.5 40.0 33.3 88.9 2.0 2.5 0.5 0.0 13.5 Erika de Souza 2 2 27.0 55.6 0.0 75.0 7.0 1.0 2.0 1.0 11.5 Sancho Lyttle 2 2 25.5 41.2 0.0 42.9 5.0 2.0 2.0 0.0 5.0 Armintie Price 2 0 15.5 33.3 0.0 57.1 3.0 2.0 2.0 0.0 5.0 Michelle Snow 2 0 16.5 30.0 0.0 60.0 4.0 0.5 0.0 1.0 4.5 Coco Miller 2 0 6.5 60.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 3.5 Chamique Holdsclaw 1 0 13.0 25.0 0.0 100.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 Jennifer Lacy 2 0 11.5 0.0 0.0 50.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0
Awards and honors Recipient Award Date awarded Ref. Sancho Lyttle Eastern Conference Player of the Week August 17 2009 WNBA All-Star Selection July 20 All-Defensive Second Team September 25 Angel McCoughtry All-Defensive Second Team September 25 WNBA Rookie of the Year October 1 WNBA All-Rookie Team October 1 Érika de Souza 2009 WNBA All-Star Selection July 20 Marynell Meadors WNBA Coach of the Year October 1
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