A Look at the Lynx: Dales Wails

#2 posting 7.29.2006
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It was more of the same from Chicago as the Sky came crashing down on the Lynx 79-65
Stacey Dales was on target for six 3s and 20 points.

NUMBERS EXPLAINED
player, points, possessions, pp100, floor %

MINNESOTA
STARTERS
Amber Jacobs 3, 8, 37.5, .125
Seimone Augustus 17, 17, 100.0, .471
Kristen Mann 10, 7, 142.9, .571
Tamika Williams 2, 4, 50.0, .250
Nicole Ohlde 4, 5, 80.0, .400
BENCH
Svetlana Abrosimova 1, 4, 25.0, .250
Adrian Williams 4, 4, 100.0, .500
Chandi Jones 4, 2, 200.0, 1.000
Vanessa Hayden 18, 12, 150.0, .750
Shona Thorburn 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Megan Duffy 2, 3, 66.7, .333
Team 0, 2, 0.0, .000

CHICAGO
STARTERS
Jia Perkins 13, 9, 144.4, .667
Stacey Dales 20, 10, 200.0, .700
Amanda Lassiter 9, 7, 128.6, .571
Candice Dupree 19, 15, 126.7, .600
Bernadette Ngoyisa 10, 15, 66.7, .400
BENCH
Coretta Brown 3, 3, 100.0, .333
Stcey Lovelace 2, 3, 66.7, .333
Liz Shimek 3, 4, 75.0, .500
Chelsea Newton 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Team 0, 2, 0.0, .000

TRENCH PLAYER
Stacey Dales

BY THE NUMBERS
Minnesota 65, 69, 94.2, .449
Chicago 79, 69, 114.5, .522

Four straight MN turnovers to start the game tell me their minds weren't in Chicago.
12/19 scoring possessions for Chicago in quarter 1 to 6/19 tells it all. Slow out of the gate and having to play catchup ball the rest of the night. What really broke the Lynx back was the six straight scoring possessions (#4-9) in the second quarter--with the first three in that sequence all for 3s. It was a 15-6 run and the Lynx trailed by 19.
A lot of what I mentioned yesterday holds true still.
Vanessa Hayden has been ripping it up and deserves some credit for producing when everyone else is stagnant, but the odd fact is every time she is in double digits the Lynx lose. The Lynx are 3-4 when Hayden is over 100 pp100. The Lynx are 1-4 when Hayden is above .500 in floor %.

Next up: later in the day with the championship games at the University of Minnesota Team camp.