Minnesota at Atlanta

The Minnesota Lynx have been bitten by the injury bug this season. They lost star player Siemone Augustus for the first nine games, and just as she was coming back, their next best player Candice Wiggins was lost for the year with an Achillies injury. The Lynx have still gotten a lot better with Augustus in the lineup. She can carry a team, and has. After her first game back, when she was limited, the Lynx have been 3-2, and not beaten by large margins. They were 2-8 beforehand. The Atlanta Dream opened 6-0, outscoring the sixs teams by 83 points, and looked like the team to beat in the WNBA. They have since fallen sharply without a win by more than 8 points since. They have won five of their last six games but there may be a false sense of security coming from those wins. The fact is, they allowed 80+ in all six and 90+ in three of their last seven, averaging 88 ppg allowed over that span. Laying nearly double-digits with that kind of defense is not smart. I'll really like the Lynx to keep it close here.