Seattle at Chicago

Chicago has spent the last two weeks finding new ways to lose games it led. The Sky ran off a 12-0 fourth-quarter run at Las Vegas on July 3 to force overtime, then scored four points in the extra session and lost by eight. Sunday at Dallas they led by eight in the fourth and lost 96-91, with Azura Stevens and Kamilla Cardoso both posting double-doubles in defeat. Courtney Vandersloot said it plainly afterward: they're not making the plays when they need to. Seattle is 6-19 and I'm not going to dress that up. This is a bad basketball team, and a worse one on the road. But they're 13-10 against the spread, and that gap between the record and the number is the whole point here. Natisha Hiedeman has scored at least 15 in four straight, including a career-high 31 on Sunday. The Storm have also won four straight meetings against Chicago, the most recent 79-69. Laying points with a 7-16 club that has handed away two straight fourth quarters is asking for more faith than this market deserves. We're on the Storm with the points this afternoon.