{"id":176082,"date":"2025-09-23T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176082\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:36:06","slug":"bridget-carleton-key-to-minnesota-lynxs-playoff-comebacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176082\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Carleton key to Minnesota Lynx&#8217;s playoff comebacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cI think as roles change, you find ways to impact success no matter what,\u201d said Carleton, who also averaged 3.6 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game this season. \u201cThose things, I think, go unnoticed a lot of the time, but it\u2019s really appreciated here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">To sweep Golden State in the first round, Carleton hit back-to-back threes (going 4-for-6 from beyond the arc) to keep the Valkyries from digging Minnesota\u2019s hole any deeper in the third quarter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-lynx-golden-state-valkyries-game-2-wnba-playoffs\/601470476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-lynx-golden-state-valkyries-game-2-wnba-playoffs\/601470476\">the Lynx\u2019s 75-74 comeback<\/a> in Game 2 on Wednesday. That was after Carleton shot 2-for-11 from long range in her previous four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cYou\u2019ll see her on one of their best players, and you\u2019ll see her big shots,\u201d McBride said. \u201cShe\u2019s competitive, and she\u2019s just willing to do whatever she needs to do and patch things up, kind of like the glue for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think as roles change, you find ways to impact success no matter what,\u201d said Carleton, who also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-176082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}