Real suspense at KeyArena last night, where the Storm-- even with Lauren Jackson in street clothes-- cut a huge deficit down to three points with under a minute to go.
Despite all the cheers from their home crowd, though, Seattle couldn't get ahead: the Sparks will advance to the Western Conference finals against the Silver Stars. L.A.'s bench outscored the Storm's bench 22 to 2.
Kevin has postmortem comments up and running, and a version of the final minute that TV viewers can confirm: from the televised version of the final huddle, it was clear (and Sue Bird confirmed) that Agler wanted one foul (to put L.A. into the bonus), but not two (to send L.A. to the line). If, indeed, the refs blew the whistle in erroneous anticipation of an intentional foul, then the refs arguably cost Seattle the game.
Despite all the cheers from their home crowd, though, Seattle couldn't get ahead: the Sparks will advance to the Western Conference finals against the Silver Stars. L.A.'s bench outscored the Storm's bench 22 to 2.
Kevin has postmortem comments up and running, and a version of the final minute that TV viewers can confirm: from the televised version of the final huddle, it was clear (and Sue Bird confirmed) that Agler wanted one foul (to put L.A. into the bonus), but not two (to send L.A. to the line). If, indeed, the refs blew the whistle in erroneous anticipation of an intentional foul, then the refs arguably cost Seattle the game.
posted by Stephanie at 11:45 AM
