Much of the focus on the first two games of this series was on the way they ended. Minnesota rallied back to win Game 1. The Liberty finished Game 2 with a 12-0 run breaking open a two-point game.
But the Lynx are more focused on the way both of those games started.
In Game 1 the Lynx were down 15 late in the first quarter. In Game 2 they fell behind by 17 with 3:21 left in the second quarter.
“We are really locked into the first 5 minutes of Game 3,’’ Reeve said. “The message is it’s a best-of-three now. We want Game 1. It’s how we go about our business in the first five minutes, the first quarter, the first half that will dictate everything.’’
The Lynx, at one point down 18, came all the way back in the first game, but couldn’t get over the hump in the second.
“We dig a hole and we have to use our fight to get out of the hole,’’ guard Courtney Williams said. “Imagine we didn’t get in that hold, and we still got some fight?’’
