Lynx 86-77 Mercury (11 Aug, 2022) Box Score

Minnesota Lynx

14-20, 7-10 away

	1	2	3	4	T
MIN	22	20	17	27	86
PHX	18	22	20	17	77

Phoenix Mercury

14-20, 10-6 home

Minnesota Lynx

starters
Jessica ShepardJ. Shepard#10
Napheesa CollierN. Collier#24
Sylvia FowlesS. Fowles#34
Kayla McBrideK. McBride#21
Moriah JeffersonM. Jefferson#4
bench
Natalie AchonwaN. Achonwa#11
Bridget CarletonB. Carleton#6
Rachel BanhamR. Banham#15
Aerial PowersA. Powers#3
Lindsay AllenL. Allen#2
Damiris DantasD. Dantas#12
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
33	4-4	0-0	7-8	4	8	12	4	1	1	4	3	+27	15
21	4-6	1-1	2-4	1	4	5	1	0	0	0	3	-11	11
30	7-10	0-0	2-3	3	6	9	1	0	1	1	2	+22	16
31	5-16	3-7	5-5	1	1	2	1	3	0	2	0	+24	18
31	3-9	0-1	0-0	1	5	6	12	0	0	2	4	+20	6
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
10	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	-13	0
3	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
13	2-5	2-5	0-0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	-10	6
21	5-13	0-2	4-4	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	+2	14
8	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-16	0
DNP-PERSONAL
	30-65	6-17	20-24	13	25	38	21	5	2	12	13		86
	46.2%	35.3%	83.3%

Phoenix Mercury

starters
Brianna TurnerB. Turner#21
Shey PeddyS. Peddy#11
Jennie SimmsJ. Simms#25
Diamond DeShieldsD. DeShields#1
Sophie CunninghamS. Cunningham#9
bench
Reshanda GrayR. Gray#12
Sam ThomasS. Thomas#14
Megan GustafsonM. Gustafson#10
Yvonne TurnerY. Turner#6
Brittney GrinerB. Griner#42
Diana TaurasiD. Taurasi#3
Skylar Diggins-SmithS. Diggins-Smith#4
Kia NurseK. Nurse#0
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
34	1-2	0-0	0-0	3	4	7	1	1	3	0	5	-6	2
35	7-15	5-10	2-2	3	7	10	4	3	1	1	3	-4	21
28	1-5	0-3	2-2	1	1	2	2	1	0	2	3	+7	4
32	3-12	1-4	0-0	0	2	2	10	1	0	7	2	-8	7
38	9-17	6-10	0-0	1	3	4	1	2	0	0	2	-11	24
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
4	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	-7	0
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	6-10	1-3	2-2	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	3	-8	15
10	1-5	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	-8	4
DNP-NOT WITH TEAM
DNP-RIGHT QUAD
DNP-PERSONAL
DNP-RIGHT ACL
	28-67	13-31	8-8	9	18	27	20	8	4	12	21		77
	41.8%	41.9%	100.0%

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

Regular Season Series

MIN wins 4-0

Lynx
84
Mercury
71

Game 1

22/6

Mercury
88
Lynx
100

Game 2

24/6

Mercury
107
Lynx
118

Game 3

13/7

Lynx
86
Mercury
77

Game 4

11/8

Footprint Center

3:00 AM, 11 August 2022

Phoenix, AZ

Attendance: 7,307

Referees:
Amy Bonner
Fatou Cissoko-Stephens
Tim Greene

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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Minnesota Lynx

Phoenix Mercury

Regular Season Series

MIN wins 4-0

Game Information

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