League-best Lynx driving momentum on go to to Mystics

The Lynx hope to return WNBA high scorer Napheesa Collier to the lineup after she missed a sport and a half with a again harm.

Collier was damage early in Tuesday’s 76-62 win over Las Vegas, ending with a season-low seven factors. She sat out Saturday’s 82-66 win over Los Angeles.

Collier is averaging a league-high 24.4 factors per sport, however her beginning spot was stuffed by Maria Kliundikova. Making her second profession begin, Kliundikova tallied 12 factors and eight rebounds within the win.

“We were sort of unsure what was going to happen,” Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve mentioned of the transfer to switch Collier. “We spent a couple days looking at various options … and then you get the players involved, and so they sort of put us over the top in a direction. They’re very comfortable with .”

Kayla McBride picked up a lot of the scoring slack from Collier as she tallied a season-high 29 factors, capturing 9-for-13 and 5-for-7 from 3-point vary. The Lynx shot 53.6 % general however did have 21 turnovers with out Collier.

” should be back, probably on a plane tomorrow,” Reeve mentioned on Saturday. “So we should expect her . … That’s what we think is going to happen.”

The rookie-driven Mystics come into the sport off a 91-88 extra time win over Dallas.

Instrumental within the victory have been first-year standouts Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen .

Leading scorer Brittney Sykes was held to eight factors, however the younger stars helped ship the win as Citron’s tiebreaking 3-pointer with 12 seconds left was the distinction.

“We have two special players here,” Mystics coach Sydney Johnson mentioned of his rookie stars. “It comes down to more than talent. It’s the professionalism.”

Washington is at present one-half sport behind Indiana and Las Vegas for the No. 8 spot within the league.

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