The four Liberty starters other than Jones were a combined 22-for-61 (36.1%). The entire Liberty team other than Jones shot 25-for-76 (32.9%).
The Lynx stole a road game in the best-of-five series.
After the game Reeve was clearly unhappy about the rebounding, about the Liberty’s 23 second-chance points. There is a lot to clean up, she said.
But the rock of Minnesota’s success is a pretty good place to start.
“You look up at the end, and you know, we held them below 40 percent, which is monumental,” Reeve said. “A lot of that was obviously late. We got big stops when we needed them. Repeatedly, whether the ball is going out of bounds or 50/50 balls.
“Referees, whatever happens, jump balls, all that stuff. We just had to be gritty at the end. We had to get stops to win and that’s what I’m proud of.”