Dallas Wings Team Notes

 The Wings are now 7-8 for the season and 4-3 at home.

 The Wings complete their series with the Lynx for the season, with Minnesota taking it 3-0.

 The Wings biggest run of the day occurred in the third quarter, when the team went on a 17-4 run.

 The Wings held the Lynx this afternoon to just 76 points. Coming into today’s game, the Lynx were averaging 81.5 points per game.

 The Wings recorded 33 total rebounds this afternoon. It is the 13th time this season the team has grabbed 30-plus total boards in a game.

 Four Wings players hit double figures for the night.

Dallas Wings Player Notes

 Skylar Diggins-Smith led all scorers this afternoon recording 16 points. She also led the team with seven assists, dishing out at least seven assists in the past nine games.

 Liz Cambage had a career afternoon scoring her 1000th’ career point. Cambage recorded 14 points in the first half before being taken out of the game with an eye injury.

 The 14 points for Cambage marks as the 15th consecutive game she has registered double figures for the season.

 Allisha Gray recorded 15 points for the day, just one-point shy from her season high.

 Kayla Thornton went 5-for-9 from the field to record 11 points for the day. It also marked as the eight time this season she has registered double figures.

 Off the bench Aerial Powers led all reserves with seven points.  Cayla George ended the afternoon with five points, scoring in every game she entered so far this season.

Lynx Notes

• Tonight’s win in Arlington makes it 16 in a row against the Wings on the and extends the longest road winning streak in WNBA history for one team against a single opponent. Minnesota has now won 11 in a row in the series and have also won 31 out its last 33 overall against Dallas/Tulsa.
• Maya Moore finished her seventh straight 20+ point performance, finishing with a game-high 26 on 10-of-20 shooting, six rebounds, two assists, two steals and two blocks. Tonight’s performance by Moore was highlighted by her second half, scoring 18 of her 26, including scoring Minnesota’s final six points after Dallas had gone ahead 72-70. During the current seven-game winning streak, she is averaging 24.1 ppg (47.1 FG%, 17-42 3FG), 5.6 rpg, 3.6 apg and 1.57 spg.
• Sylvia Fowles finished with 14 points on 5-of-11 shooting, including going a perfect 4-of-4 from the line and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds. During the current seven-game stretch Fowles is averaging 18.6 ppg (60.0 FG%, 89.5 FT%), 12.4 rpg, 2.29 spg and 1.29 bpg.
• Seimone Augustus added 13 points on 6-of-13 shooting, four assists, two steals and a season-high two blocks. The two blocks are the most for Augustus since swatting away two on September 2, 2016 vs. Washington. The Lynx are now 8-2 when she scores in double-figures.
• Rebekkah Brunson stepped up again on defense while guarding another 2018 WNBA top-10 draft pick, holding Wings forward Azura Stevens to a season-low zero points. On the afternoon, Brunson finished with seven points, four rebounds and four assists. Brunson is now 23 rebounds away from overtaking both Lisa Leslie (3307) and Tamika Catchings (3316) and become the league’s all-time leading rebounder.
• Cecilia Zandalasini added five points on 2-of-5 shooting, including hitting a key three-pointer in the second quarter. Zandalasini has now hit at least one trey in eight straight games.
• Minnesota set a season-high with six blocks, highlighted by a season-high two blocks from Augustus. The previous high was five, most recently at Las Vegas on June 24.
• The Lynx return home on Tuesday to face the Indiana Fever for the first time this season. Tip is set for 7:00 p.m. CT. The game can be heard on BOB 106 FM and can be seen on Twitter.

Head Coach Fred Williams

(On tonight’s game) “I thought in this one, like I told my team before the game, we were going to get battletested against a team who is on a winning streak. We got tested really well in the second half, not having Liz with us. I thought our team stepped up and put forth on the defensive end…a couple shots didn’t fall for us when it was tied. We just had to continue to play harder and get those shots to fall down for us.”

(On Wings center Liz Cambage) “I just saw her in the locker room with a towel over her face. She will go through a few medical procedures for us, but nothing with the concussion protocol. She’s got a little headache…I don’t see any concern. She’s tough in the way that she’ll bounce back.”

(On his third quarter timeout) “The team didn’t have any energy in that time, but I had the energy in that huddle and I let them have it. I told them you have to play ball, and play hard, and make that extra pass. Quite putting your head down and just play. I think a lot of them were thinking in the back of their mind that we didn’t have Liz with us. We had to step up and go with what we had, and play harder defense, and we did. We made some defensive plays. I just go after it in that huddle.”

Wings guard Allisha Gray

(On the third quarter) “Basketball is a game of runs, and they had their run. At the end of the third quarter it was time for us to have our run. We weren’t lacking energy.”

(On Glory Johnson) “Glo definitely was a spark with Liz going down. Glo just came in and does what she does, and was a great energy spark off the bench.”

Wings forward Kayla Thornton

(On tonight’s offensive runs) “That’s what we do…Like I said, it was just some loose things we didn’t get at the end. As a collective, we did good as a team.”

(On the upcoming Fourth of July plans) “It’s a good thing. We can get together without having to think about basketball and just think about helping the community. It’s a blessing.”

HEAD COACH CHERYL REEVE

(On sustaining the Wings second half run) “They came after us in transition and took the lead. We have been in games like this before here in Dallas. I think we got a couple stops and were able to get the separation that we needed, take the lead and hang on. Dallas plays so well at home, so it is always tough coming here. They play so hard and so physical. They make things difficult. I just told our group that it was not pretty, but winning here is tough to do so I am pleased.”

GUARD MAYA MOORE

(On seven-game winning streak) “We are finding a way to win when things are tough. We are trying to keep our foot on the gas at all times. We just try to make it hard for teams to score, that is always our mindset. I just feel like if we can get on the same page defensively and play together we will be good. It is a good thing when we are on the same page and we will continue to work on it this season with this group.”