Sutou scored Sabally 15 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter and the Host Phoenix Mercury beat Minnesota Lynx 84-76, seeded on Friday to take a 2-1 advantage in their series of semi-final of the WNBA.
Alyssa Thomas has raised 21 points, nine rebounds and eight assists while Kahleah Copper also scored 21 points for Phoenix. Thomas passed Sue Bird for the second assists in the history of the WNBA qualifiers.
The fourth seeded Mercury, which ended the match on a 9-0 race in the last 3 1/2 minutes, can close the best series of five people on Sunday at home for their first appearance in the WNBA final since 2021.
Natisha Hiedeman had a 19 -point career summit, Napheesa Collier added 17 and Courtney Williams contributed 14 for the Lynx, who lost two successful games for the second time this season.
Thomas stole the collar ball and made a lay-up for an advance of 82-76 with 21.8 seconds remaining, after which the MINNESOTA coach, Cheryl Reeve, stormed the court to protest. Reeve, who argued what she considered an excessive contract on collar, received a second technical fault during the night and was ejected.
Necklace went to the ground and caught it on the left ankle on the game, and it was helped in the locker room.
Sabally made the 11 attempts at its free throws, hitting the last two after the technical fault on Reeve and another at the same time on the associate coach of Minnesota, Eric Thibault.
Necklace, Williams and Hiedeman did not score in the fourth quarter, going a 0-in-7 ground against a defense of Mercury which limited the nine-point lynx in the fourth quarter out of 3 out of 16 (18.8%) pulling ground. The lynx reached 42.3% of their attempts at the field at night, while the Mercury was 46.2%.
Maria Kliundikova gave Minnesota an advance of 76-75 on a driving lay-up with 3:31 to play, but the lynx no longer scored. Klkiundikova scored six of his eight points in fourth.
The Mercury’s eight -point margin of victory was their biggest match, which had 15 changes in mind.
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