The practice right after the Lynx fell to 0-6 to start the 2023 season was understandably no fun at all, especially with players having to answer to four-time WNBA champion coach Cheryl Reeve. Yikes. "Still finding joy in the moment, it's about the people that you're with," veteran guard Kayla McBride said on the team's chemistry. Embracing the grind to improve together helped them turn the .
The Lynx's 2023 season began abysmally and ended as a relative success, but what it proved to be most of all, after all of the ups and downs, was confusing. The Lynx won a lot of games for a team that doesn't have enough good players. The Lynx have quality role players, and a couple of nice complementary players.
Kayla McBride scored 28 points and Napheesa Collier added 26 points and 13 rebounds as the Minnesota Lynx beat the Connecticut Sun 82-75 on Sunday to force a deciding Game 3 of their first-round playoff series. Alyssa Thomas scored 26 points and DeWanna Bonner added 24 for the No. 3 seeded Sun, who won the first game of the series by 30 points on Wednesday, but now must win a road game to advance. “We love our fanbase and we do feel like that's an advantage for us," Collier said.
There are several playoff spots still up for grabs in the final week of the WNBA's regular season. Only five teams have clinched berths in the postseason and just one knows its seeding with Connecticut locked in at No. 3. Las Vegas and New York are battling for the top seed with the Aces having a 1 1/2 game lead and two games remaining: a home and home versus Phoenix.
Almost everybody in Connecticut's Mohegan Sun Arena knew who was going to have the ball in the closing seconds of this tight game between the Lynx and the Sun. Dorka Juhász did, too. So, during a timeout with Minnesota up two and 11.7 seconds left, Lynx rookie Juhász asked for the assignment on DeWanna Bonner. "I said, 'I got it,' " Juhász said. So: The Sun inbounded the ball and it got to .