Detroit Lakes, MN (KDLM)M \u2013 The Minnesota Lynx suffered a devastating collapse at home Tuesday night, surrendering a 20-point third-quarter lead in an 89-83 overtime loss to the Phoenix Mercury in Game 2 of the WNBA Semifinals at Target Center.<\/p>\n
The loss evens the best-of-five series at 1-1 as it shifts to Phoenix for Friday\u2019s Game 3.<\/p>\n
Minnesota appeared to be in complete control midway through the third quarter, holding a commanding 59-39 advantage. However, the Mercury stormed back with a furious rally, outscoring the Lynx 50-24 over the final 18 minutes of regulation and overtime to steal a crucial road victory.<\/p>\n
Napheesa Collier led Minnesota with 24 points in the losing effort, but the Lynx offense went cold when it mattered most. After shooting efficiently through the first two and a half quarters, Minnesota struggled to find consistent scoring as Phoenix ramped up its defensive intensity.<\/p>\n
The collapse represents a missed opportunity for the Lynx, who now face the daunting task of winning at least one game in Phoenix. Home-court advantage has now shifted to the Mercury, who will host Games 3 and 4 at Footprint Center.<\/p>\n
Game 3 is scheduled for Friday night in Phoenix, with tipoff set for 8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Lakes, MN (KDLM)M \u2013 The Minnesota Lynx suffered a devastating collapse at home Tuesday night, surrendering a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-178753","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\/178753","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=178753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}