A vintage Lynx win in honor of Syl

LYNX 91
SPARKS 86

Sunday night the Lynx retired Sylvia Fowles's jersey #34, the 4th of the 5 HOFers who led them to championships. (Maya Moore, now officially retired, will surely complete the set next year)

But before that post-game ceremony, the current Lynx team offered up a rousing win worthy of the glory days.

The Lynx came in a dismal 1-7, most of those losses having come in winnable games too. There are no illusions that this will be a team competing for title #5 anytime soon. But you still don't want a record like that. 

The Lynx played pretty solid for 3 quarters. Showed a little more coherence on offense. We're a little better on defense. Didn't have quite as many sloppy turnovers. Improvement. 

Still, they fell asleep just enough in the 4th quarter to let the Sparks get a 9-0 run to turn a 2 point deficit into 11. And with under 4 minutes left at this point it looked more than hopeless that the Lynx would get their 1st home win of 2023.

But then the Lynx came to, and played their best 4 minutes of the season. Rachel Banham drained a 3. After an LA turnover, Nikolina Milic (who had a great game off the bench) layer one in. Napheesa Collier (who had a big game) made some freebies. Banham had another 3 go in and out, which felt like the one we truly needed. 

But the Lynx kept coming. They got a steal, then Bridget Carleton sunk a 3 that made it a 12-0 run and gave the Lynx the lead. It was glory days level loud at Target Center. But the onslaught was not complete. Another Sparks turnover led to another Carleton 3. A couple free throws tacked on made it a 17-0 run over barely 3 minutes, and ultimately a 19-3 finishing burst. 

In the grand scheme of things, this probably doesn't change much. I don't think it will be a jump start to an eventual playoff run. But it was still a fun win, and we got to see Dorka (try to) dance. 

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