"I would like to get on the court and play against other teams more, but we have some things that we need to work out within our team," said [Lisa Willis]. "It has nothing to do with the other team. It has to do with us. So, we'll just go hard in practice. I'm sure we'll be ready to go on the 18th," said Lisa, noting the Liberty plays its home opener vs. the Connecticut Sun on Sunday at the Garden.

"I've learned to take this all one day at a time," said point guard Megan Duffy. "We've got a great core group of players coming back. I know they're trying to fill in a few more pieces to take this team to a championship level. I'm trying to work as hard as I can and see what happens."

Most WNBA teams play two or three preseason games, but the New York Liberty lost its sole preseason outing, 58-52, to the Washington Mystics at Madison Square Garden.

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