Mercury 85-71 Lynx (30 Aug, 2014) Box Score

Minnesota Lynx

25-9, 10-7 away

	1	2	3	4	T
MIN	20	11	16	24	71
PHX	23	19	25	18	85

Phoenix Mercury

29-5, 16-1 home

Minnesota Lynx

starters
R. Brunson F
M. Moore F
J. McCarville C
L. Whalen G
S. Augustus G
bench
D. Peters F
A. Taylor F
D. Dantas F
T. White G
M. Wright G
N. McKenith G
T. Liston G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
32	5-7	0-1	2-2	4	4	8	3	2	1	1	1	-3	12
29	3-9	1-4	2-2	1	3	4	3	2	1	4	5	-16	9
27	3-9	0-0	0-0	1	6	7	1	0	0	0	2	-3	6
34	11-23	1-2	2-4	1	4	5	2	2	0	1	3	-7	25
34	4-14	0-2	4-5	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	-10	12
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
11	0-1	0-0	0-0	2	0	2	0	1	0	3	0	-19	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	-1	0
10	1-3	0-0	0-0	0	3	3	1	1	0	1	2	+1	2
17	2-7	1-2	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	1	2	4	-12	5
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	29-73	3-11	10-13	9	22	31	10	9	3	14	20		71
	39.7%	27.3%	76.9%

Phoenix Mercury

starters
P. Taylor F
C. Dupree F
D. Bonner F
B. Griner C
D. Taurasi G
bench
M. Bass F
S. Murphy F
E. Phillips G
E. Kobryn C
A. Jekabsone-Zogota G
T. Bias G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
33	3-9	0-2	10-11	3	10	13	7	2	1	3	2	+15	16
37	5-8	0-0	0-0	2	3	5	0	1	1	1	2	+19	10
36	6-13	4-7	0-0	2	5	7	3	2	1	3	0	+17	16
33	9-14	0-0	5-5	4	7	11	1	0	3	3	3	+18	23
35	5-15	0-6	7-9	1	5	6	5	2	1	5	3	+20	17
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
10	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	-9	1
6	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	-8	0
11	1-4	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	-2	2
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	29-65	4-17	23-27	12	33	45	17	11	7	15	13		85
	44.6%	23.5%	85.2%

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

Lynx
71
Mercury
85

Game 1

30/8

Mercury
77
Lynx
82

Game 2

31/8

Lynx
78
Mercury
96

Game 3

3/9

Footprint Center

3:00 AM, 30 August 2014

Phoenix, AZ

Attendance: 10,376

Referees:
Sue Blauch
Tom Mauer
Michael Price

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Minnesota	1	0	1.000	-	W1
Las Vegas	1	0	1.000	-	W1
Dallas	0	0	.000	0.5	-
Los Angeles	0	0	.000	0.5	-
Phoenix	0	1	.000	1	L1
Seattle	0	1	.000	1	L1

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