For Wolves fans, the NBA season ended a month ago with a playoff elimination by young prodigy Ja Morant. Fortunately there is still women’s basketball in Minnesota thanks to the Lynx! Except that history repeats itself: yesterday, the ladies of Minneapolis could not resist facing the new face of the WNBA: the point guard of New York Liberty Sabrina Ionescu, who released an unprecedented performance in the history of the league.
The retirement of the two best guards in WNBA history Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi, 41 and 39 respectively, are fast approaching. But luckily the first choice of the WNBA Draft 2020 Sabrina Ionescu is present to take over. The start of the season for the lady and the New York Liberty is not the most idyllic: after the change of coach and the beautiful additions to this promising workforce, we expected a much more explosive start. It took a few games to calibrate, but the New York machine finally seems to be on the way. Normal: leader Sabrina Ionescu is on fire in June, with an average of 26 points in the four games already played. And last night, it was the Minnesota Lynx of legend Sylvia Fowles who suffered the great form of the former Oregon. Sab’ continues the shots and the defense can’t do anything: she finished with 26 points at 91% shooting success (10/11!), 8 rebounds and 8 assists in just 26 minutes of play. Because yes, given the gap at the end of the third quarter, the leader was asked to stay on the bench until the end of the match. Snatching the triple-double and more would have made the party more beautiful, but it’s good the Cats have taken quite a lot as it is. And for those wondering how she managed to achieve such a high percentage of success, sorry to tell you that she didn’t only shoot one-on-zero counter-attacking layups. Sabrina preferred to make it more difficult for herself, pulling from the parking lot more than a meter behind the line, or putting a buzzer beater from midfield just before half-time.
Sabrina Ionescu really did all of this in the SAME GAME ????
She went 10-11 FG with this level of shot difficulty. pic.twitter.com/PN5BVgV9Y7
– SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) June 8, 2022
The former Oregon Ducks star continues to write his incredible story that started in college. She is the only college player, men and women combined, to have reached the milestone of 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 1,000 assists during her course. A real college triple-double machine, who only surprised her fans when she didn’t realize any. After a rookie season in the WNBA bubble, cut short after three games by a very bad ankle sprain, the Liberty leader came back very strong and made an impression from the start of her second season, out of the question to forget. who is she. Sabrina Ionescu is back with a vengeance, with a game-winner from the car park for the season opener against the Indiana Fever. And for her sixth career game, she becomes the youngest player in WNBA history to achieve a triple-double. And against whom does she slam her first 3D in the WNBA? The Minnesota Lynx, coincidentally! Madame Ionescu has already chosen her target to mark the history of her league: yesterday, she became the only player in history to score more than 25 points at 90% success, 8 rebounds and 8 assists in a game. Between Celtics point guard Payton Pritchard currently in the NBA Finals and Sabrina Ionescu who continues to show that she will become one of the WNBA’s major players soon, Oregon Ducks fans must be smiling from ear to ear in this moment.
Sabrina Ionescu finishes with unbelievable numbers! ????
???? 26 PTS
???? 90.9% FG%
???? 100% 3P%The only player in #WNBA history to record 25+ points, 8+ rebounds, and 8+ assists on 90%+ FG in a game! pic.twitter.com/tJEUioA1qO
— WNBA (@WNBA) June 8, 2022
The Minnesota Lynx has its new executioner. Between Sabrina’s first triple-double, the 31 points already scored against Minnesota three days ago and therefore an almost… triple-double at 26 points by missing only one shot yesterday, it is not up to the players to Minny that it will be necessary to ask their opinion on Sabrina Ionescu. Post-traumatic syndrome is already painful.
Source text: Bleacher ReportWNBA.com