WNBA Player Props & Bets: Wednesday (7/15)
There are three WNBA games on Wednesday, and I'm picking out the best player prop for each matchup. Below, I explain why Olivia Miles is being incredibly undervalued against the Sparks, why Gabby Williams' struggles from deep are likely to continue and why Dominique Malonga is in for another huge performance on the glass. Here are the best WNBA player props for Wednesday, July 15th.
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Wednesday’s Best WNBA Player Props & Bets
(Odds courtesy of FanDuel Sportsbook)
Olivia Miles Over 19.5 Points (-115)
Olivia Miles scored a season-high 33 points on Monday. She's now scored at least 21 points in five of her last six games.
Though she's averaging 19.4 points per game, this line surprises me for two reasons. First, Miles has been very efficient of late. Second, she's about to face the worst scoring defense in the league.
When Miles faced the Sparks on June 17th, she scored 24 first-half points on her way to a 31-point performance. She shot 12-of-15 in that game.
While shooting such a high percentage will be hard to replicate, she also has a lot of wiggle room with this total set 11.5 points below that total.
Miles has scored at least 19 points in 11 of her last 14 games. Oddsmakers simply haven't caught up with the reality that she's truly the best scorer on the Lynx right now.
Gabby Williams Under 1.5 Made Three-Pointers (-132)
The Valkyries and Fever are about to meet in a battle of strength-on-strength, as the league's top three-point shooting offense takes on the league's best three-point shooting defense.
In their two previous meetings, the Fever have gotten the better of the matchup, holding the Valkyries to eight or fewer three-pointers in both games.
In those two previous meetings, Gabby Williams missed all seven of her attempts. Those two performances came during a seven-game stretch where Williams made at least three shots from deep in five of them.
If Williams were shooting well right now, maybe I'd stay away from this prop, especially at these odds. But Williams has been off lately. She's made one or fewer shots from beyond the arc in four of her last five games.
During that stretch, she's just 6-of-21 from deep, with four of her makes coming in a single game against the Dream. The Dream are allowing opponents to shoot 37.1% from deep, which is the second-highest rate in the league.
Dominique Malonga 10+ Rebounds (+100)
Dominique Malonga just grabbed 15 rebounds against the Mystics on Sunday.
While it was only her first double-digit rebounding performance of July, she has grabbed at least 10 rebounds in five of her last 10 games. And she has at least nine rebounds in three consecutive games.
Tonight, Malonga faces a Sky team allowing a league-high 37.2 rebounds per game. What really hurts the Sky is that they're shooting just 43.6% from the floor. That's the fourth-worst rate in the league.
However, Seattle is shooting even worse from the floor. But the Storm's poor shooting may actually benefit Malonga, as the Sky are allowing the fourth-most offensive rebounds per game this season.
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