Alexander Shun

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How does a fan know that an upcoming game is important? Simple. When the coach tells you absolutely nothing about practice and what they have been working on.

“I can tell you absolutely nothing of what we worked on and I will tell you nothing of what we worked on,” Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve said. “I just know we had a great day, we really had a great day. We worked on a ton of things, we had great focus in every area that we were working on and it was the day that we needed and so I leave here really happy.”

It’s no surprise that Reeve won’t share the details of her team’s practice, with game one of the 2015 WNBA Finals just two short days away and both the Lynx and the Indiana Fever furiously working to get ready.

Despite sweeping the Fever in the regular-season series 2-0, both Lynx players and coaches know that the Finals will be an entirely different entity, noting Indiana’s improved play as a major reason for that.

“They are a very good team, they’re playing really well right now and we know that they’re going to be hard to beat,” guard Lindsay Whalen said. “Nothing ever comes easy, especially this time of year.”

The Fever have won six of their last eight games entering Sunday’s contest in Minnesota, including playoff series wins over a tough Chicago Sky team and the daunting top team in the WNBA, New York Liberty, to clinch their spot in the Finals. So with Indiana playing so well, there has to be something specific the Lynx are working on in practice, right?

“Sure. Yeah. Yup, all of that, we did all that,” Reeve said, when asked about whether she put her team through scrimmages of any sort, maintaining the high level of secrecy from within the team right now.

So with the Lynx players and coaches not saying much, the Fever were looked to for insight into the upcoming contest; they responded with nothing but praise for their upcoming foe.

“We match up really well. They have big guards, so they try to force a lot of switching,” Fever guard Layshia Clarendon said about the Lynx. “I think it’s always a battle in the paint, and we know Maya is Maya, so it’s going to kind of be that battle. But I think we match-up really well.”

“It’s going to be a fun series. Obviously, they’re a great team. All-Stars, Olympians, first pick – you get a little bit of everything with them. I think for us, that’s the cool thing about our team, is none of us, I’m not even a first pick. We’re kind of a team that was thrown together,” Fever guard Tamika Catchings said.

“They have one through 12 All-Americans on their team. It’s going to be tough,” said Fever guard Briann January. “They are very talented. They do a great job of moving the ball, sharing the ball and playing together. They have great pieces and we’re going to have to come together as a team to win.”

So with the last practice of the week before game one of the Finals on Sunday, we learned…well, absolutely nothing. Personally, I think it just builds the excitement and intrigue of the game even more (but maybe that’s just me). The only thing that anyone, Lynx fans and Fever fans especially, can do, is wait for the series to tip-off on Sunday and wait to see what exactly these two dangerous teams are planning.