Glad Monday.
Final evening I needed to jot down about Saturday’s Spurs scrimmage, however I turned enthralled with Recreation 5 of the WNBA Finals. For the ultimate time, the WNBA champion was decided by a best-of-five collection. Subsequent season, the league strikes right into a best-of-seven improve.
Though I hadn’t watched a number of WNBA this summer time, the power of this WNBA Finals was unavoidable for those who spend any a part of your day researching sports activities.
Three of the 4 video games had been decided by made or missed buzzer-beaters. Recreation 1 went into extra time.
Recreation 5 didn’t disappoint. It was the primary closeout sport in WNBA Finals historical past to enter extra time. Whereas Minnesota owned the primary half, that they had to answer a counter attacked from New York within the second half. Breanna Stewart induced probably the most nail-biting moments of the fourth quarter. She first missed two free throws that might have tied the sport, solely to make the subsequent pair sending the sport into extra time. She additionally hit two in extra time that put the sport out of attain for the Minnesota Lynx.
The win didn’t come with out controversey.
Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve claimed her group had the title stolen. In her postgame information convention, she protested the foul attributed to Alanna Smith with 5.2 seconds left that despatched Stewart to the road to tie and ship the sport inevitably into extra time.
“I do know the headlines can be, ‘Reeve cries foul,’ “ Reeve stated. “Deliver it on. Deliver it on — as a result of this (expletive) was stolen from us.”
Congratulations to the New York Liberty, one of many authentic WNBA groups, who had not received a championship throughout their twenty-eight 12 months run.
No timetable introduced for a New York victory parade as of the time oft this writing.
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