Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve was a little nervous before Saturday's season open game. She knew her team would come out with some high intensity. She just hoped that her team, which waited a week longer than most teams to start their WNBA season, might be a little out of control.
She need not have worried.
Playing a pretty good Connecticut team that was playing on the second night of a back-to-back, the Lynx matched their intensity with efficiency. The result was a very one-sided 90-74 victory that would have been bigger had Reeve not emptied out the bench early in the fourth quarter.
"I told the team that was a great start to the 2013 journey," Reeve said.
The Lynx had 24 assists and just 10 turnovers. They shot 50 percent. They out-rebounded a Sun team that had beat them up on the boards in the final preseason game.
Here are some impressions following the game:
--Janel McCarville, in her return to Minnesota, in her first WNBA game since the 2010 season, didn't take a shot tonight. But she impacted the game. Limited to 20 minutes as she works back into shape, McCarville showed nice passing touch from the high post. She had three rebounds, three assists, two steals and three blocks. And she's only going to get better.
--I believe Maya Moore is poised for a very big season. She was wonderful tonight, hitting her first five shots, scoring 11 points before the game was 11 minutes old. At times she just dominated the game, with seven rebounds, five assists and a steal.
