Another upset tonight, this time by the visiting Fever, which took down the Sky, 85-72. Indiana is used to adversity:
The Fever were without injured star Katie Douglas, who is day to day with a different back injury than the one that limited her to just four games during the season, but playing short-handed in big games is pretty much the norm for Indiana.
The Fever lost nine players to injury this season and four for at least 16 games, and are the only playoff team with a losing record. During the title run last season, Douglas was lost in the conference finals and Jeanette Pohlen tore her left ACL in Game 2 of the Finals.
One game out of the four in the opening round went according to script, as the Lynx hammered the Storm, 80-64.
More news:
A more comfortable Maya Moore is emerging as the Lynx's leader in her third season as a pro.
(It strikes me that Moore has a WNBA championship and longs for the MVP award, while Candace Parker has two MVPs and pines for a title)
The WNBA has never seen a player like Elena Delle Donne.
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It's pretty hard to understand how Chatman can have a playoff game plan in which EDD takes the fourth most field goal attempts on the team. She's the best free throw shooter in the W. Seems to me they should be going to her consistently and making Indiana stop or hack her. Chatman's lack of playoff coaching experience is showing.
Even so, if Indiana can stay hot and consistently drop ten 3's, shooting 63% from the arc no one is going to beat them and the W will have a repeat champion.
Will be interesting to see how the Sky responds today. If they can steal one in Indy the have a chance to take the series at home. No way Indy stays that hot.
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