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Match preview: Tulsa Shock - Minnesota Lynx 2010-05-16 (WNBA)

New town, new coach, old goals

One of the WNBA’s most successful teams has a new home. Tulsa Shock formerly known as the Detroit Shock made a few changes to start this season. With a revamped roster and a new city to call home, the Shock also have a new head coach - Nolan Richardson. His teams typically play an up tempo game with intense pressure defense - a style that was known as "40 Minutes of Hell." And he`ll have to focus on defense even more, now that the Shock lost couple of important players. Two of them are Katie Smith (13.7 points, 2.8 assists per game) and Deanna Nolan, who was last year`s team leader in both scoring (16.9 ppg) and assisting (3.5 apg). bet now

Perhaps this could be the year

Minnesota hasn’t enjoyed the same success as the Shock, who’ve made the playoffs each of the past seven seasons. Last season, the Lynx won only 14 of 34 games and have qualified for the postseason only twice in 11 tries and. Last season, the Lynx averaged 80.3 points per game and one of the league`s best scorers, Seimone Augustus is returning from a torn ACL in her left knee that limited her to six games in 2009. They’ve never won a playoff series, but there’s a feeling things could be different this year. online betting

Defense vs. offense

While Nolan and Smith won’t be playing in Tulsa, Marion Jones will make her Shock debut. Last year, the Shock played rather good on defense. They`ve allowed 78 points per game, while their opponents shot only 41% from the field. They were league`s second-best team in that category. Minnesota on the other hand was focusing on their offense in the last couple of years. With couple of offensive weapons gone, the Shock will have to work even harder on the defensive end. They have the right coach to do it. bet online

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Prediction:

Tip: Under 166.5
Odd: 1.98
Bookie: Pinnacle
Stake: 7 /10
Tipster: Peri

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