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In an action-packed WNBA, can offense win championships?

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By Pat Borzi Verified
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We’ve heard this in basketball for decades: Defense wins championships. The Lynx under coach Cheryl Reeve embodied that throughout the club’s dynastic run in the 2010s, and defense remained the foundation the last two seasons as the Lynx contended for that elusive fifth WNBA title. But as we look around the WNBA now, winning seems to be all about offense. Every night, some team — maybe several — scores at least 100 points, sometimes both in the same game.
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Cheryl Reeve’s record-setting odyssey with the Lynx is far from finished

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By Pat Borzi Verified
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It’s one of the most trite journalism angles in the book: That a successful veteran coach, long known for passion and intensity with a bit of a temper, has “mellowed.” What does that even mean? Fewer F-bombs per capita? No overturned chairs in the locker room after a loss? Less strident “conversations” with the refs? So let’s not go down that road with Cheryl Reeve of the Lynx.
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Regardless of how the team fares in July, the Twins organization needs to invest in winning

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By Pat Borzi Verified
| MinnPost Verified
This is crazy, even by the watered-down standards of the wild-card era. As the calendar turned from June to July, only six of the American League’s 15 teams were playing .500 ball. (The Twins, unsurprisingly, were not one of them.) And in the AL wild-card race, five teams, including the Twins, were within 4 1/2 games of the third and final berth, although none of the five had a winning record.
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