Lynx 90-73 Mercury (3 Aug, 2011) Box Score

Phoenix Mercury

11-8, 6-5 away

	1	2	3	4	T
PHX	15	23	24	11	73
MIN	20	21	26	23	90

Minnesota Lynx

14-4, 8-2 home

Phoenix Mercury

starters
P. Taylor F
N. Sanford F
C. Dupree F
D. Taurasi G
T. Johnson G
bench
K. Braxton F
D. Bonner F
M. Ferdinand-Harris G
K. Swanier G
A. Gray-Lawson G
O. Sanni NA
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
34	2-8	1-2	6-7	0	4	4	2	0	0	2	2	-15	11
20	2-5	0-0	0-0	1	3	4	0	0	0	0	3	-8	4
34	4-11	0-0	3-3	1	3	4	1	0	2	2	2	-6	11
27	6-13	0-1	8-9	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	5	-11	20
23	4-10	2-3	0-0	2	3	5	4	3	0	1	2	-8	10
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	3-7	0-1	0-0	1	7	8	0	1	0	2	1	-2	6
14	4-5	1-1	2-2	1	1	2	1	1	0	2	1	-10	11
17	0-4	0-2	0-0	0	2	2	0	1	0	2	3	-9	0
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2	0
7	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	-14	0
	25-63	4-10	19-21	7	23	30	10	6	2	14	23		73
	39.7%	40.0%	90.5%

Minnesota Lynx

starters
T. McWilliams-Franklin F
R. Brunson F
M. Moore F
L. Whalen G
S. Augustus G
bench
C. Houston F
A. Harris F
J. Adair C
C. Wiggins G
A. Hornbuckle G
M. Wright G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
32	4-8	0-1	3-4	2	8	10	1	0	3	2	4	+5	11
16	2-5	0-0	2-6	4	2	6	0	0	0	0	2	-7	6
35	7-11	5-7	3-6	1	2	3	2	4	1	0	2	+12	22
29	4-11	0-0	3-4	0	3	3	5	0	0	2	2	0	11
31	7-13	0-1	7-10	1	3	4	2	1	1	2	2	+16	21
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
17	3-7	2-3	0-0	0	3	3	1	0	1	2	3	+18	8
2	0-0	0-0	2-2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	+2	2
16	2-4	0-0	0-0	1	4	5	0	1	3	1	2	+18	4
19	2-6	1-5	0-0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	+18	5
5	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	2	3	1	1	0	1	0	+3	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	31-66	8-17	20-32	11	27	38	14	7	9	10	19		90
	47.0%	47.1%	62.5%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

MIN wins 3-2

Mercury
112
Lynx
105

Game 1

13/7

Lynx
106
Mercury
98

Game 2

20/7

Mercury
73
Lynx
90

Game 3

3/8

Lynx
80
Mercury
85

Game 4

10/8

Lynx
96
Mercury
90

Game 5

11/9

Target Center

1:00 AM, 3 August 2011

Minneapolis, MN

Referees:
Denise Brooks
Sue Blauch
Lamont Simpson

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Minnesota	30	10	.750	-	L1
Las Vegas	27	13	.675	3	W5
Seattle	25	15	.625	5	W1
Phoenix	19	21	.475	11	L1
Dallas	9	31	.225	21	L9
Los Angeles	8	32	.200	22	W1

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Phoenix Mercury

Minnesota Lynx

Regular Season Series

MIN wins 3-2

Game Information

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