Five days ago Minnesota went to Washington and got blown out. Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve called it one of her team’s worst defensive performances of the season. Things were different at Target Center on Friday night as these squads squared up for a rematch. The victor remained unchanged, but the tenor and level of competition was much different.
Through three quarters the Lynx held their own against the Mystics. The league-leading Washington offense was nowhere to be found. For much of the first half their free-flowing scoring attack was reduced to a low-efficiency mess.