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Liberty's 32-point Start vs. Lynx's Strong Second Quarter
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10/11/2024
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I can also give credit where credit is due. First quarter was all Liberty. They were out
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playing the Lynx. Oh, pains me to say that. But they were out playing them, putting up
00:12
a 32 point performance in the first quarter compared to the Lynx 19 points. So talk to
00:17
me about the fast start that you saw with the Lynx or with the Liberty last night and
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how the Lynx started to crawl their way back into it in that second quarter.
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Yeah. So with the fast start, Casey, you know, the thing with the Liberty that has worked
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well for them all season long is that they were moving the ball really, really well.
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And I expected that since the Lynx only had a day of rest, the Liberty hadn't played since
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Sunday. I expected them to get out to this fast start. And we saw that. We thought, you
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know, Minnesota will be a little bit tired having to fly from Minnesota to New York.
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But the key for the Liberty in that first quarter was that they were moving the ball
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really well. They were finding John Quayle Jones on mismatches who was sealing off really
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well and she was scoring inside, grabbing rebounds. She had 10 points and three rebounds
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after the first quarter. Now, you also asked what happened in the second quarter where
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Minnesota closed the gap a little bit. And in fact, even had cut it to two at one point
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in the third. Well, Minnesota really started applying pressure and looking like the team
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that we know that they are defensively. And I think that really changed the game. The
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Liberty got rattled. They got too comfortable in what they were doing. They weren't running
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their sets as efficiently as they could and they weren't moving the ball at the same crispness.
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So you got to credit Minnesota for that because they really disrupted. They didn't hang their
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heads when they were down by as many as 18 points. They really battled back in this one.
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It was really defense that got them back in this game, especially late in the game. They
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were able to force turnovers and that really changed the game for the links and also for
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the Liberty. Absolutely. Now, before we touch too much on the links is defense and most
01:45
importantly, the front runner for helping the Minnesota links find success last night
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in that OT thriller. Let's also talk about the fact that you mentioned Jones, but there
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was some isolations that came about when it came to Brianna Stewart's performance. Somebody
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who typically she did find double digits, but I think she only sat at about 19 points
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or 18 points, excuse me, nine rebounds, which is still tremendous and three assists. But
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a lot of the books, especially Fandula specifically, have her having a 20 plus performance in game
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two. What'd you see out of Stewart last night compared or going up against the links?
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She missed a lot of shots and we can get to the last shot of the game, which she absolutely
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should have hit and was pretty down about it after the game, but she missed a lot of
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easy shots, shots that you thought were in rhythm for her six of 21. So not a good shooting
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night from the field, from Brianna Stewart. You expect her to be better. You talked about
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the books, having her add as a 20 plus point scorer. But I think one of the things we have
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to give respect to is we got to give respect to feed. If he's a Collier tremendous, she
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is the defensive player of the year, had three blocks in this one. She made life difficult
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for Brianna Stewart, particularly in that second half. Still with that said, I thought
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there were some looks that Stewie should have hit and she just wasn't able to. She just
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seemed off rhythm all night. Now you got to give the Liberty credit. They trusted her
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at the end. They went to her at the end and particularly that last shot in overtime. She
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made a good move. You could tell him the fees of Collier didn't want to play as physical,
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especially the way we saw things were called at the end of regulation. But still, he's
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got to hit that shot. Bad night for Stewie. I'm very intrigued to see how the former MVP
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bounces back in game two.
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