The WNBA’s freshest and coldest groups sq. off on Thursday afternoon when the Minnesota Lynx and Dallas Wings meet in Arlington, Texas.
The Lynx (13-3) head to the Dallas-Castle Price Metroplex after a 94-89 win in New York on Tuesday within the Commissioner’s Cup ultimate. Bridget Carleton scored 23 issues on 6-of-8 capturing from past the arc and Napheesa Collier added 21 issues for Minnesota.
Reserve Cecilia Zandalasini scored 15 issues, Kayla McBride had 12 and Courtney Williams racked up 11 to head along side 8 assists for the surging Lynx.
Whilst that sport didn’t depend within the WNBA standings, it did web Minnesota the winner’s prize of $500,000 and stored the Lynx’s spectacular profitable streak alive. Minnesota has received 9 of its previous 10 video games in league play, a run that incorporates six directly victories.
“This simply presentations the entire onerous paintings we installed, and there is a lot extra to come back,” Collier stated. “That is wonderful on the finish of the day, however we now have extra issues that we need to do. We were given to fasten in. We need to succeed in extra issues than this, larger issues on the finish of the season.”
The Wings (3-13) are in loose fall after dropping 11 directly video games. They maximum lately dropped a 92-84 choice in Washington on Sunday in the second one sport of a back-to-back towards the Mystics.
Natasha Howard led Dallas with 26 issues, Arike Ogunbowale added 23 and Monique Billings had 8 to head along side 14 rebounds off the bench. The Wings led through 10 issues in the second one quarter and have been up 51-46 on the wreck prior to being outscored 29-14 within the 3rd length.
The Wings had been shackled with accidents, the newest a damaged finger through ahead Maddy Siegrist. Dallas trainer Latricia Trammell stated the staff has to stay to its “next-woman-up” mentality.
“I in truth have not noticed anything else like this,” Trammell stated. “We are all the time speaking about ‘keep watch over what we will be able to keep watch over’ and check out to let cross of the uncontrollables. It is all about respiring lifestyles into one any other.”
To lend a hand with its intensity, Dallas signed former Wing (and house local) Odyssey Sims to a wage cap hardship contract. The 31-year-old guard performed in 28 video games (0 begins) for the Wings remaining yr, scoring 2.0 issues and dispensing 2.2 assists according to sport.
The Lynx have taken the primary two video games of the four-game season collection with Dallas, profitable 87-76 on June 2 and 90-78 on June 17.
–Box Stage Media
