This season, the Lynx finished at the Target Center, which was tied for the second-best home record in the league. And two of those losses came early in the season before Napheesa Collier rejoined the team. Coincidentally the other was to the Sky back in June, but the point remains: the Lynx are extremely difficult to beat at home. One key reason is that their defense is markedly better at home, where they allow just When you zoom out and look at things from a historical perspective, the numbers also bode well for the Lynx.
Since the WNBA moved to this new playoff format, home teams are in the single-elimination games. Those numbers don't include the bubble season. The Sky's lack of consistency has been a major talking point all season long, and it's going to continue to be for as long as they remain in the mix. Injuries have been part of the problem, but even when they've been healthy you still don't know what you're going to get game-to-game.
Three times this season they won a game by double digits and then lost the next game by at least nine points. Sometimes the problem even pops up quarter-to-quarter. Take the first round, for example. The Sky came out with all sorts of confidence, were active on both sides of the ball and had a point lead before the Wings even realized there was a game going on.
But instead of taking care of business, they were listless for a large part of the second half, scored just 11 points in the third quarter and saw their lead shrink to just three points.
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