Add the Lynx to the list of teams with home victories: Minnesota blew an 18-point lead, shot 38%, turned the ball over 21 times, got outrebounded, took 21 three-point shots and made 8... and still beat LA.

Katie Smith's pair of threes in the closing minutes put the Lynx up 64-61, but two LA baskets against two made Smith free throws cut the lead to one with 10 seconds left. Katie (who played 38 minutes) then missed two freebies, which doesn't exactly happen every day; Jacobs and Abrosimova clogged up a Sparks play, Svet came up with the ball (on her back, yet), and the Russian forward made her free throws to create a 68-65 win.

LA's terrible shooting (under 30% for the first half) put the Lynx in control. Then the Sparks switched to zone defense, and Lynx scoring went AWOL: LA took their only lead late in the game.

Each team tried to take out the other's posts. Both got points instead from drives (Svet; Dixon) and jump shooters (Smith, with 24; Hodges; Holdsclaw). Drive, Svet, drive: don't take those threes; and stop travelling (5 TOs)!

Harrower started, but Jacobs finished: she still has trouble with half-court traps, but she looked good (4 steals, 3 assists, no TOs). Suzie appears to have figured out that Lovelace is not a center, but a tall wing, and that she's more effective on offense than Lassiter (DNP). Teasley did not play in the second half: is she ill?

"My dad is going to be mad at me," Smith said of her late-game misses: "He thinks I should make them all."