Liberty, Lynx advance to conference finals in WNBA playoffs

At 29, she’s the last member of the team that went to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2010.

That’s because their series with the Indiana Fever will begin Wednesday night, less than 24 hours after New York edged Washington 79-74 in a decisive Game 3 of their opening round series. But the disparity between their long-range performance in their two playoff victories over Chicago – Indiana was 1-of-16 in one, and 10-of-20 in the other – shows that if one thing isn’t working for the Fever, they will find something that is. He said she doesn’t utilize all the weapons she has yet, because she doesn’t understand what a matchup nightmare she can be for the opposition if she just aggressively attacks with her quickness, strength and length. She has emphasized to her relatively inexperienced teammates to seize the moment.

“You throw those out”, White said.

REGULAR SEASON ROMP: Indiana won four of the five meetings in the regular season, but the Fever know better than to assume they will have the same success in the postseason.

The Mystics have won a playoff series just once since the start of the franchise.

“It’s never easy”, said Bill Laimbeer, the 2015 WNBA Coach of the Year. “There was some hesitation but at that point when the game is on the line, I can’t think about that. There is so much I can take from them”. “We didn’t get a lot of court time, but we were able to watch the film, make the mental adjustments and do that for Game 2”. The Liberty tackles the Indiana Fever in Game 1 Wednesday.

The ‘Stics were determind to not to let the Liberty have a repeat of Sunday’s hot third quarter, however, and they clawed their way back. “Every player needs to be ready, 1 through 11”.

And though the teams of Liberty past were strong, Carson said, this one has an extra asset in the often grueling, best-of-three format. “She was not existent at all”. Right now, we could clear the whole bench and you wouldn’t even know. Rodgers’ layup made it 28-27 with 5:11 left in the period and gave New York its first lead of the game. Herb Williams is doing a really good job of getting her out of her shell rather with a variety of moves rather than going to one certain move all the time. “She was one-for-11 and she was not looking to shoot, I’m like “come on, she has to shoot”, Laimbeer said. “I hope people are jumping off the rafters”.

Stokes said the team took to heart that in the double overtime loss in the playoff opener Washington’s bench outperformed New York. “They were loud, into it. Great to be in the Garden for our players”.