MINNEAPOLIS — Cheryl Reeve described the locker room conversation at halftime in the same terms one might use to praise a brainstorming session at a corporate retreat. “It was collaborative,” said the Lynx coach. “They were all engaged.” Her group had entered the locker room down by seven. It would return an hour later with a comfortable win.
But that is standard operating procedure in Minnesota. The No. 1 seed Lynx make almost everything look easy. They can play with a sense of urgency but without any panic. This is not a perfect team. But it’s such a calm, balanced, cohesive one that it can sometimes be possible to believe otherwise.
