A Look at the Lynx: Sacramento, May 20

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A LOOK AT THE LYNX: Sacramento
Here is the second contest the Lynx played this year on Sunday at home against Sacramento.

SACRAMENTO monarchs 74, MINNESOTA lynx 64

Again I was wrapped up in the AAU tournament in Forest Lake so here is what I could glean.

#1. Minnesota scored on 35 possessions compared to 34 for Sacramento, but Sac town dropped the 3 bomb six more times in the contest.
Droughts: Minnesota had a pair of long ones a 9 possession string stretching between the first and second quarter. Later in the second and third a 7 possession string put a damper on scoring. The biggest Sac drought was six.
Runs: MN's best string was four three times, Sac had two 4 runs, the last at the tail end of the fourth quarter.
Second Chancers/D Rebounds: MN gave up 13 points on second chancers. Sacramento had 15 offensive rebounds. MN had 17 defensive rebounds, a .531 rebound %, compared to Sacramento's .818 d rebound %. Ohlde needs to get more than one defensive rebound in the game.
Late game execution: MN closed to 63-59 with 3:22 left. Sac finished off the contest with a 6/7 offensive sequence with all 11 points coming at the line. MN finished off the contest 2/7. All the non scoring possessions were missed shots from the floor, from behind the arc and from the line.

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

MINNESOTA
STARTERS
Seimone Augustus 28, 19, 147.4, .737
Lindsey Harding 4, 13, 30.8, .231
Kristen Mann 9, 11, 81.8, .455
Noelle Quinn 2, 7, 28.6, .143
Nicole Ohlde 6, 11, 54.5, .273
BENCH
Navonda Moore 8, 6, 133.3, .833
Katherin Ress 4, 2, 200.0, 1.000
Kiesha Brown 3, 4, 75.0, .500
Amber Jacobs 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Svetlana Abrosimova 0, 1, 0.0, .000

SACRAMENTO
STARTERS
Chelsea Newton 7, 8, 87.5, .500
Ticha Penichiero 0, 0, 0.0, .000
Nicole Powell 14, 12, 116.7, .417
DeMaya Walker 12, 14, 85.7, .429
Yolanda Griffith 4, 7, 57.1, .286
BENCH
Kara Lawson 19, 16, 118.8, .563
Rebekkah Brunson 6, 6, 100.0, .500
Kristin Haynie 10, 5, 200.0, .800
Scholanda Robinson 0, 0, 0.0, .000
Adrian Williams 2, 5, 40.0, .200
Kim Smith 0, 1, 0.0, .000

TRENCH PLAYER
Seimone Augustus, even in a loss the best player.

BY THE NUMBERS
Minnesota 64, 76, 84.2, .467
Sacramento 74, 75, 98.7, .453
made 3s: Sacramento 7, Minnesota 1
made fts: Minnesota 25, Sacramento 21
assists: Sacramento 14, Minnesota 13
bench: Sacramento 37, Minnesota 15
From behind the arc MN is getting beat 14-1.
Again the stronger bench belongs on the other side of the court.

DEFENSIVE WRAPS
MINNESOTA
Lindsey Harding 8
Kristen Mann 7
Seimone Augustus 4
Navonda Moore 3
Noelle Quinn 2
Nicole Ohlde 1
Kiesha Brown 1
Katherin Ress 1
totals: 27

SACRAMENTO
Kara Lawson 6
Nicole Powell 5
DeMaya Walker 5
Adrian Williams 5
Yolanda Griffith 4
Rebekkah Brunson 4
Kristin Haynie 2
totals: 31

Next up: later tonight the North Tartan vs NC Heat Forest Lake Gold AAU semifinal.