{"id":282108,"date":"2025-11-09T22:49:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282108\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T22:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:49:29","slug":"natisha-hiedeman-continues-her-tear-to-propel-minnesota-lynx-to-game-1-blowout-of-golden-state-valkyries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282108\/","title":{"rendered":"Natisha Hiedeman continues her tear to propel Minnesota Lynx to Game 1 blowout of Golden State Valkyries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI think it\u2019s more of a coincidence on the Valkyries\u2019 part,\u201d said Reeve, who passed Mike Thibault<\/a> for the most combined regular-season and postseason victories in league history with 414.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just the time of year that she really kind of got to a different space, is playing at a different level. It just so happened that Golden State was a couple of those games.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe changed the game today. She changed the game last time we played, and she\u2019s just playing her best basketball of the season. She\u2019s confident. Her decision-making in the pick-and-roll coverages. She\u2019s doing a nice job freezing, you know, the post player a little bit about where to go. Just, you know, she seeks the paint well. Her play, particularly in the first half, was vital to us, kind of getting through that a little bit [of a] slower first quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hiedeman has lifted her game, and the Lynx practically have two starting points guards in Hiedeman and Williams, who will share the backcourt for stretches. On Sunday, Williams watched from the bench as Hiedeman was part of a unit that outscored the Valkyries 26-12 in the second quarter and never looked back.<\/p>\n

Valkyries, it\u2019s not who you play, but when you play them. And you have caught Hiedeman at the wrong time.<\/p>\n

This month, she became third player in WNBA history to score at least 20 points off the bench in three consecutive games. Including Sunday, she has scored at least 18 points in five of her past six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think it\u2019s more of a coincidence on the Valkyries\u2019 part,\u201d said Reeve, who passed Mike Thibault for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-282108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282108","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=282108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}