WNBA Finals Games 1-4 Thread: Minnesota vs New York

highlights plus your comments from the old site

Game by Game Highlights

Finals Schedule

All times Eastern…

Oct. 10 Game 1 at New York 8 p.m. ESPN, Fubo, Sling
Oct. 13 Game 2 at New York 3 p.m. ABC, Fubo, Sling
Oct. 16 Game 3 at Minnesota 8 p.m. ESPN, Fubo, Sling
Oct. 18 Game 4 at Minnesota* 8 p.m. ESPN, Fubo, Sling
Oct. 20 Game 5 at New York* 8 p.m. ESPN, Fubo, Sling

Your comments from the previous site (as of Oct 19)

Sab30

·5 days ago (edited)

This series is coming down to Brondello vs Reeve. 100%

Nellie

·5 days ago

If you're right, my money is on Minnesota. No disrespect to Sandy, but Reeve is just something else, imo. Ionescu was absolutely killing them in the first half, and she only got one shot up in the second half. One. Still played well and found ways to impact the game, as great players will, but I just felt it exemplified Minnesota's ability to take things away from the opposition.

Eric Apricot

·5 days ago

Okay, there will be a Game 4!

ValksNerd

·5 days ago

Had to watch delayed, and from the final score I was expecting a boring game, but it was quite entertaining.

Aaannnd1

·5 days ago

In a previous comment, I was going to say that the Liberty probably can’t finish out this series without Lainey Hamilton. And here she was in this game, shining. Finally shooting. Playing through pain. Strange game from Sabrina. JJ and Leonie kept their fouling under control.

In general, the Liberty was playing their type of basketball. Lots of movement. Lots of 3s. Lots of turnovers. Sound familiar?

Arnie

·4 days ago

Hope this series goes to 5! Hats off to Pheese... I had no idea she was this good. Her defense reminds me of Draymond. Undersized, but gets low to the ground, uses strength to hold her position, uses length to get to the ball and force tie-ups, excellent lateral speed. She's the system. She makes her teammates better by her screens, gravity and shot-making.

Sab30

·2 days ago (edited)

Sabrina "STEPHEN" Ionescu for the WIN!!!!

Sabrina Ionescu took a hail mary shot almost from the logo and made it. With like ten seconds to go. And the game tied.

Eric Apricot

·2 days ago

Crazy shotmaking. Sabrina with two mega shots in the last minute.

Arnie

·2 days ago

Sabrina also had a clutch assist to Jonquel. But that last shot was Steph-like. I hope the Lynx win game 4. This series deserves to go 5.

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Nellie

·One day ago

Okay, I'm super late to this party (time zone), but my god, Sabrina. Amazing game. Amazing shots. Just awesome.

Eric Apricot

·Yesterday

Another nail biter, and with 1:10 to go, Jones with an and-1 FT to tie...

Eric Apricot

·Yesterday

Oooof, NYL missed out on a 5-on-4 fast break, then put Stewart on a small but out on the perimeter. Don't know about that...

Sab30

·Yesterday

That was a BS call.

Eric Apricot

·Yesterday

whew, Game 5, here we come. Sab nowhere close on the prayer shot -- excusable -- but a really rough boxing out foul the play before that led to the game deciding FTs.

I'll try to have a proper game thread before Sunday. I think I'll go back to Substack, as it's just kind of uncomfortable commenting here.

Arnie

·Yesterday

Woohoo! Game 5. These 2 teams are evenly matched, even though NY has more star power. Dorka's a better fit than Hines-Allen when Alanna needs a rest.

Great win for women's basketball.

Nellie

·One hour ago

That's now two games in these finals where the officials have awarded what were likely to be the game winning FTs in the final seconds. In Game 1 it was arguably more forgivable because it was a 1-point game, so a non-call would also have decided the outcome (and as it happened, Stewie missed one). But in Game 4, all they had to do was swallow the whistle and we could have had an epic OT period.

On the bright side, now we get Game 5.

Feel free to discuss the Finals and everything else in this thread.