“I’m going to start this by saying that myself in this last match, I dropped the ball, my brother,” said Williams in the second episode of Courtney’s dad and her podcast, which she does with her father, Don. “… I know that we talked about the controversial call, but just my seat, I say to myself as” shit brother if I did what I am supposed to do, that doesn’t even come back to that. “”
Neither Williams nor anyone else in a minnesota lynx jersey, hesitated to address the persistent chip on each of their respective shoulders. They are in advance on one of the many times they have been questioned since October: it is a weight and a bite that only a championship trophy can remedy.
“This is the main motivation,” said Williams after the Minnesota opening evening in Dallas when he was asked to turn the page last season. “This is the main motivation, guy, we are trying to go get one. Honestly, it’s the main motivation and it is the only motivation at this stage.”
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In May only May, the lynx cannot do everything necessary to clean the bad taste that remains of last year. But the start of the regular season presents a welcome opportunity to start doing something after weeks and months to be questioned about it.
“It puts this chip on your shoulder,” said Williams earlier this pre-season. “We know what it takes to get there and lose in the last game. We know what we have to do and I think that is what we bring every day, and we get our days and do not take shortened. This is where we want to be again and we want to overcome this bump this year.”
The language of “overcoming the bump” was appropriate, because in the first two minnesota games in 2025, the Lynx was to overcome the bump from a sub-showed lunch to obtain their 2-0 departure and an undefeated road trip.
Williams’ game was essential; During the matches against Dallas and Los Angeles, the playmaker rocked Rusty in the first half and turned into a assassin after half time. Williams has scored 32 points in the second half this season, against only six in the first half. On the opening night, she pulled a perfect 8-in-8 on the field after the intermission and scored 21 of her 25 points in the second period.
“To give you an idea of what I am facing, I shared with them [during] After the match, some of our superlatives, Courtney obviously had a double-double, and when I started reading her statistics line, I looked with “ 5 for 19 ”, “Lynx, Lynx head coach and president of basketball operations, Cheryl Reeve said after Minnesota defeated the 89-75.” She fell from her chair, so she didn’t know it was 1 from 99-75. [in the first half] And that it was not going well with his shot. This is partly what makes her really good. She does not linger on anything. She will check the heat and everything else. She is simply very confident. »»
Just as essential as its score, the creation of Williams games was the key to 2-0 departure from Minnesota. She left at a stocky pace of 19-0 in the return tour service. His 19 assists led the League before the list of matches of May 20, and the highest total of aid without committing a single turnover belongs to Lindsay Allen in Connecticut with eight.
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“I entered the match saying to myself:” The work will show, “said Williams. “I am in the gymnasium, I went here early, putting the shots. This is the first time in my career that I did that. I hate saying that, but that’s the truth. This is the first time I have been doing additional, Like when it comes to my handles, my blow, my three. So, as I said, I think work only shows at this stage. “”
A common denominator of the two victories was the domination of Minnesota with regard to the movement of the ball. Lynxs were the best team in the league last season as a percentage of helped fields (66.8% on 2-point fire, 97.4% on 3-point shooting), and they organized an identical help advantage 27-15 in each of their first two games to start their 2025 campaign, with Williams with a nine and 10-year summit.
“We understand that we are an excellent team when we moved the ball, to move it forward and take the right shots,” said Williams after Sunday evening’s victory in Los Angeles. “We trust everyone. We know that everyone can score, so I think that is one of the biggest things for our team, just trust each other and make sure that if you are open, you have to take this shot, and we hope that the one who takes this blow will reverse this blow.”
