Catchings leads Indiana back to finals with 66-51 win

“After reviewing postgame video and interviewing last night’s game officials, we have determined a foul should not have been called”, Renee Brown, the WNBA’s chief of basketball operations and player relations, said in a statement Monday. Marissa Coleman opened up the third quarter hitting three shots from behind the arc to add nine for Indiana.

They will face the Lynx in the finals that begin Sunday in Minnesota.

The former regular-season MVP (2011) made her way to a packed Madison Square Garden where the Fever was hosted by top-seeded New York Liberty. “To be sitting here means a lot for the organization, for my team”.

Still, Catchings has found a way to will her team to victories. Spike Lee right before the game was yelling my name, and I looked at him and winked my eye.

“[The fans] have been through everything – through the thick and the thin – and they’re part of the reason why we do what we do in terms of wanting to win for this city”, White said. The Lynx are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 vs. Eastern Conference and 7-3 ATS in their last 10 WNBA Championship games.

QI was just talking with Lindsay Whalen about your will as a rebounder and that she hasn’t come across many players, if any, who can match it. Where does that come from? She posted 14 points, four rebounds, two assists, and a block on the road.

And even though she is still in her first season as a head coach, White has bonded with her team and is seeing the chemistry payoff in postseason games like tonight against the Liberty. If we play defense the way we’re capable of and on offense move the ball and everything’s clicking there’s no one who can beat us.

Almost everyone thought Minnesota would be playing for a championship.

The Lynx swept the Mercury in the Western finals this season, but they have expressed little interest in the revenge angle that was brought up before that series and is resurfacing again this time around as the two teams prepare for Game 1 on Sunday in Minneapolis.

QHow much different is it this year, a fifth go-round as a team that’s among the best in the league and making another deep playoff run? It’s more about redemption for the Lynx, who don’t believe they gave the best accounting of themselves in that series against the Fever. A lot of it is because we don’t have an All-Star or the Olympians.

Three years later, the two teams are meeting again.

“This is awesome”, Catchings said. I am so thankful and blessed to have had an opportunity to play the game I have loved for so long.

“For me, it’s incredible”, Cruz stated while smiling ear to ear.

This team’s consistency and excellence is a motivating example for all the other teams in town on what winning year after year is all about. It might make sense, when Tamika Catchings plays them, to refer to them as something else.

Moore suffered a broken nose late in the regular season while Augustus and Whalen each missed big chunks of times with injuries.