You hard-core complainers probably are accusing the Lynx of giving away another game in this series with a fourth quarter collapse. I’m blaming the basketball.
OK, the Mercury tightened up some on defense, and their Nate Tibbetts was the best coach in the series no matter who was running the bench for the Lynx. Yet, for 10 minutes, the same Lynx that filled up the basket in the third were taking shots that had a chance and the ball (that old prankster) refused to rattle in.
The Lynx made one of their first 10 shots, until McBride made a couple of threes.
Each of those cut the Mercury lead to one, but Alyssa Thomas (what a tremendous veteran WNBAer) or Satou Sabally had the answer.
McBride was so good, with her resilient 31 … no lie, she had me thinking about that one-player performance the great Bobby Jackson gave the Gophers in 1997 NCAA tournament, when he was missing guard partner Eric Harris and almost beat Clemson by himself.
McBride tried to do that without Collier, a teammate here and also in the past overseas. Finally, her shots were in desperation, and the Lynx were cooked.
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