For two hours, Sandy Brondello sat and watched and evaluated.

What transpired directly in front of her reinforced what she believed to be true.

And so, when Brondello and Jonquel Jones and Emma Meesseman met with reporters at Barclays Center on Tuesday night a few minutes after the Liberty’s 75-66 rout of the Mystics, the coach was optimistic about her team’s prospects in the upcoming WNBA playoffs.

“We can be really dangerous,” Brondello said. “I’m really confident. I think the players are really confident just to have our full group back. Hopefully we’ll just go out there and play our best basketball and anyone can beat anyone right now, so we’re going to be confident in what we do.”

The defending WNBA champion Liberty enter the playoffs as the fifth seed after a regular season in

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