The Mercury shot 49.2 percent. They won the rebound battle 36-28. They outscored the Lynx in the fast break and in the paint. But the Lynx still win.
It's never easy when you have to play the Phoenix Mercury. The Lynx are quite familiar with that fact as they've already had to play them three times in only eight games this year. It's even harder when a normally hot-start team shoots 26.3 percent from the field in the first half.
Minnesota started the game by going 0 for 10, and didn't get its first field goal until 3:49 left in the quarter from Janel McCarville.