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Golden State’s Natalie Nakase: ‘She's rebounding it like her life depends on it’

Lately, the Washington Mystics coaching staff has challenged rookie forward Kiki Iriafen, the team’s leading rebounder at 8.2 per game, to crash the offensive glass even harder.

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Iriafen did that with under five seconds left against the Minnesota Lynx on Friday, even though time was running out on the Mystics in an 80-76 loss. She got inside position on her defender while a 3-pointer was in the air. Then Iriafen outraced the defender and another Lynx player for her third offensive rebound of the night.

Iriafen, Citron fast-tracking Mystics' playoff push

Kiki Iriafen knew the Washington Mystics could be a playoff team from the very beginning.

The rookie forward had a sense of their potential based on the collective mentality they brought into the campaign.

"We've always believed in ourselves, regardless of what (preseason) rankings said, what other people said," Iriafen told reporters, including theScore, during media day at WNBA All-Star Weekend.

"We had such a belief in our core. Everybody was super selfless and bought into the mission that our coach had for us. So I don't think we're surprised at all with the way that we're playing, and we'll only get better in the second half of the season."

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