For the better part of the last two months, no team has appeared to play with as much confidence as the Atlanta Dream.

Fresh off its best regular season in franchise history with 30 wins, No. 3 seeded Atlanta has much more it would like to accomplish. After six straight losing seasons, the Dream hired first-year head coach Karl Smesko, who will lead a long-shot WNBA champion pick into the playoffs.

Smesko has no intention of letting his team overlook the sixth-seeded Indiana Fever in Game 1 of the best-of-three first-round series on Sunday afternoon in College Park, Ga.

Led by Allisha Gray's 18.4 points per game and Rhyne Howard's 17.5, Atlanta enters the postseason winners in six straight and 17 of 21 since July 23. Now Smesko has his team in a good spot to advance past the first round

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