By the time coach Cheryl Reeve walked into Williams Arena on Monday, she had a lot to say about how her team opened Game 1 of the WNBA Finals by falling behind 28-2.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve didn't like the way Sunday's Game 1 started or finished. It started with a 28-2 Sparks run and ended on Chelsea Gray's game-winning jumper with 2 seconds left.
Chelsea Gray got a sliver of daylight and let a 14-foot jumper fly — Game 1 of the WNBA Finals and what would have been a dubious piece of history for the Los Angeles Sparks hanging in the balance.
The Lynx and L.A. Sparks, the WNBA's two best teams, pick up where their scintillating Finals left off last year with Game 1 on Sunday. For the series winner, it will be a record-tying fourth title.
No one on the Los Angeles Sparks or Minnesota Lynx really likes to talk about it, but deep down inside most of them knew this is how it was going to end.
No longer a mere curiosity as they head into their sixth WNBA Finals in seven years, the Lynx are a dominant team in a city desperate for title chases.
Bobby Riggs' next big spectacle may be a leap off Suicide Bridge in Pasadena, California, while Billie Jean King is just happy to have made a spectacle of the 55-year-old hustler and to have won $200,000 to boot.
While Sylvia Fowles was sitting out the 2015 season waiting for a trade to the Minnesota Lynx, the 2017 WNBA MVP spent a lot of time cycling. It was a chance for her to stay in shape and keep her mind focused on other things besides basketball.
The upcoming series, just the second rematch in WNBA Finals history, is certainly setting up to be great. And so, in a microcosm, is the Maya Moore-Alana Beard matchup.
Former Gophers star Lindsay Whalen said all along that Williams Arena should be a big home-court advantage for the WNBA Finals. Her teammates are now believers.
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