MINNEAPOLIS — Basketball might be a game of runs, but Connecticut vs. Minnesota basketball is a game of inches. Regardless of which arena, which lineup or which month — no two WNBA teams have been better matched, blow-for-blow, this season than these. The latest data point — Connecticut’s 73-70 win over Minnesota in Game 1 of the WNBA semifinals — was another one of those nail-biter, stomach-clenching, it’s-anyone’s-game kind of contests.
For that, basketball fans should rejoice. This is what you want to see in the playoffs. Two teams so perfectly matched that truly every possession — and really, every decision within every possession — could be the moment that changes everything.
That Marina Mabrey 3. No, it was the Bridget Carleton 3. Wait, it was that Alyssa Thomas shot feels most important. No way, that Alanna Smith block is going to change everything.
It was a game in which every moment felt monumental because you just knew the final margin would be microscopic. It’s a series that oozes with the parity of the 100-meter dash, a basketball game in need of whatever the equivalent of a photo finish might be.
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— Connecticut Sun (@ConnecticutSun) September 30, 2024
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