Connecticut Sun's win over Minnesota Lynx delivers the perfect WNBA playoffs showdown
Connecticut Sun's win over Minnesota Lynx delivers the perfect WNBA playoffs showdown
MINNEAPOLIS — Basketball might be a game of runs, but Connecticut-versus-Minnesota basketball is a game of inches. Regardless of which arena, which lineup, which month — no two WNBA teams have been better matched, blow-for-blow, this season than these. The latest data point — Connecticut’s 73-70 win over Minnesota in Game 1 of the WNBA semifinals — was another one of those nail-biter, stomach-clenching, it’s-anyone’s-game kind of contests.
For that, basketball fans should rejoice. This is what you want to see in the playoffs. Two teams so perfectly matched that truly every...
MINNEAPOLIS — Basketball might be a game of runs, but Connecticut-versus-Minnesota basketball is a game of inches. Regardless of which arena, which lineup, which month — no two WNBA teams have been better matched, blow-for-blow, this season than these. The latest data point — Connecticut’s 73-70 win over Minnesota in Game 1 of the WNBA semifinals — was another one of those nail-biter, stomach-clenching, it’s-anyone’s-game kind of contests.
For that, basketball fans should rejoice. This is what you want to see in the playoffs. Two teams so perfectly matched that truly every...