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As Rebekkah Brunson remarked, and Cheryl Reeve concurred, any pregame pep talk Wednesday was futile. All the Lynx had to do was mentally rewind to nine months ago — that is, if the image wasn’t already burned into their corneas.
“The last time we saw each other they were, you know, in confetti,” Reeve said, “and we were not.”
What more was there to say? Very little, Reeve suggested, especially after the Lynx had just suffered their first regular-season home loss to the Dream on Sunday. The parting message to the Lynx before tip-off was, more or less: “We already know.”
Behind Napheesa Collier’s 30 points, the Lynx (23-5) toppled the reigning WNBA champion New York Liberty 100-93 on Wednesday night at Target Center.
Kayla McBride added 24 points, while Courtney Williams tallied 13 assists, tying a career-high. Sabrina Ionescu finished with a game-high 31 points for the Liberty.
The loss extends New York’s skid to three games since Saturday, which saw two-time league MVP Breanna Stewart go down. She was still sidelined Wednesday with a right knee bone bruise. Stewart was one of four Liberty players who sat out — five if you include Emma Meesseman, who just joined the team but was unavailable against the Lynx.
It took the Lynx a few minutes to warm up Wednesday, but they soon took advantage of the guard-heavy lineup.
