The Chicago Sky’s rejuvenated confidence from three-consecutive victories in which they scored at least 100 points was stunted by the Minnesota Lynx. The Sky were unable to overcome the sharp shooting and overall physicality of the Lynx in a 88-79 defeat.
Despite some individual heroics and a last-minute surge that brought Chicago within reach of a fourth-straight victory, they didn’t have enough to get it done.
Both Kahleah Copper and Elizbaeth Williams put on some strong performances. Copper embraced her usual lead-by-example ethos by doing a little bit of everything. She scored a team-high 23 points and grabbed three rebounds. Early on, she hit her first three shots from the 3-point line. This season, she is shooting 42.7 percent from 3, which is a mere four percentage points behind the 46.7 percent she shot from deep during her 2016 rookie season with the Washington Mystics.
Copper says she has grown more confident and comfortable in her ability to shoot the 3. “I’m super confident,” she said. “It’s the part of my game that I wanted to grow this year. I know how hard it is to guard someone that could score at every level. Me being able to hit the 3 does a lot for my game and also for my team.”
E. Williams arguably played her best game in a while….
