WNBA Finals Game 3 game thread

[RadyLady]

Starting now..Looking to see if Griner is playing

 

[RadyLady]

To be fair, looking to see EDD's condition as well

 

[RadyLady]

Griner is NOT playing

Apparently Brittany is NOT happy about the decision. I feel bad for her

http://espn.go.com/wnba/story/_/id/11515163/brittney-griner-phoenix-mercury-game-3

 

[RadyLady]

Emma Kobryn is starting....guessing the spellings, will look to correct

 

[RadyLady]

Here we go...

 

[RadyLady]

Fowles gets the first bucket

 

[RadyLady]

Kobryn answers on a Diana Taurasi feed

 

[RadyLady]

And gets the second bucket..

 

[j66kicker]

Griner is NOT playing

So ETT will get to find out the consequences. BTW Mercury won each of the first 2 games by a margin greater than Griner's game point totals. Defense is where they'll miss her the most (theoretically). (Of course, theoretically, practice is the same as theory

 

[RadyLady]

EDD scores..

THe long distance shooting is off for both teams..Maybe it is the solar flare

Fowles again on the other end.

6 - 4 Chicago

 

[RadyLady]

So ETT will get to find out the consequences. BTW Mercury won each of the first 2 games by a margin greater than Griner's game point totals. Defense is where they'll miss her the most (theoretically). (Of course, theoretically, practice is the same as theory

WE shall see..I am sure that ETT is not the only one looking to see how a Griner-less Merc do in this game.....

Taylor shoots and makes two free throws, Fowles scores again after retrieving several offensive rebounds.....

Bonner for 2, and now Kobryn has picked up her second foul

 

[RadyLady]

score is tied at 8

Mistie Bass is coming in for Kobryn is my guess...

 

[RadyLady]

A smooth Dupree gets two

Quigley is in and gets her first two points

Diana answers with a deuce

 

[j66kicker]

Diana said in pregame interview that she plays with Kobryn in Russia, and trusts her. Certainly no Griner tho, especially on D

 

[RadyLady]

Oops...Kobryn did not leave.....my bad

 

[RadyLady]

Diana said in pregame interview that she plays with Kobryn in Russia, and trusts her. Certainly no Griner tho, especially on D

Agreed. You cannot teach 6 foot 8
They left Kobryn in with two fouls...

 

[RadyLady]

After the time out, the teams exchange baskets, and Diana shoots and makes a long 3.

17 - 12

Elena gets through a triple team for an an' 1, Diana with the foul.

Score is 17 - 15 Phoenix, 3 minutes to go.

 

[RadyLady]

Vandersloot scoots in unimpeded for 2.....

Great ball movement to Penny for 3

DelleDonne again for an an' 1... and makes it

Score 22 - 20

2:09 to go

 

[RadyLady]

Lobo giving Fowles pointers

Shot clock violation with good D by Phoenix.

25.6 to go, score unchanged

 

[RadyLady]

What a dumb foul...Phoenix misses the shot with 3 seconds to go, and Bonner fouls 'Sloot who ties the score to end the quarter.

 

[RadyLady]

Here we go

Phoenix scored right off the bat, an exchange of missed shots

 

[RadyLady]

Bonner does a two step with EDD and gets 2

Phoenix is playing with more energy this quarter

 

[RadyLady]

Jessica Breeland is in and gets 2
Dupree over Breeland for two
Bonner and EDD scrim for a loose ball and Chicago scores.


Bass cleans up a Bonner miss, score is 30 -- 28

 

[RadyLady]

Delle Donne launches a bomb and makes a 3!!
She has 11 points

Chicago takes a one point lead.

Time out

 

[RadyLady]

Out of the time out, Dupree puts Phoenix ahead again