"I think it's good," Ionescu noted after the Lynx spoiled the Liberty's clinch party by running out of Downtown Brooklyn with an 88-79 win that kept them in contention for home-court advantage throughout the postseason. "It's always kind of a blessing in disguise sometime to get punched in the mouth and have to be able to respond and understand what it takes to be a team that's as good as they are."
Stewart certainly did her best, scoring 17 of her season-high 38 points in the fourth quarter. But the Liberty failed to draw closer than 80-72 with 4:39 to play after she drained a 25-footer.
New York coach Sandy Brondello ever went so far as to admit that her team got "smacked in the head" by Minnesota Sunday. Following a humbling and sobering loss to the second-place Lynx at Barclays Center, the two All-Stars and their coach will try to make a quick recovery.
"Right now we're not good enough," Stewart huffed. "And we know that we have two regular-seasons games left. We know we want to clinch the No. 1 seed; this was a game we needed."
[
Collection
]
[
|
...
]