24 against defending champion Indiana - the league's best individual scoring output this season.Īfter playing power forward for the bulk of her career, Moore has adjusted to life on the wing, often guarding opponents' top scorers and exhibiting a Lindsay Whalen-like penchant for generating turnovers (team-high 1.7 steals per game). During Minnesota's current five-game winning streak, she's surpassed 30 points twice, including a 35-point hailstorm Aug. She is making over half her shots and shooting 3s at a more efficient clip (45.8 percent) than ever despite the WNBA moving back its 3-point stripe. Moore leads a group featuring three fellow All-Stars, all of whom can carry any given day, with a career-best 18.6 points per game, good for third in the league. She is obviously in that groove right now." "The great ones have the knack," Seattle Storm coach Brian Agler said after Moore dropped 30 points on his team Aug. Comfortable enough to wrap a hand around the lower back of a veteran teammate twice as tenured and offer guidance between plays. Comfortable enough to claim charge in redirecting Minnesota's season, which at one point began floundering. "I think what she'll tell you is that year three, she feels really comfortable."Ĭomfortable enough to frequently take over in clutch moments. "I think we've seen her evolve," Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said. How does someone who's reached the summit climb even higher? Balance.
The intangible intricacies of her game date back to her early childhood, too.īut for the first time in her life - even after accomplishing every meaningful team milestone women's hoops has to offer - she's fusing them compositely, a synergy of body and mind birthing her best basketball since mom first tacked that hoop onto their apartment door. Now in her third season with the Minnesota Lynx, Maya Moore always possessed the physical gifts.
MINNEAPOLIS - There are few more intriguing phenomena in sports than witnessing the best somehow get better.
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