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That tends to happen when two really, really good teams face off.Sometimes youll say, Oh, we didnt play hard enough, Reeve said. I told these guys, Im not killing us about our effort, but it just wasnt good enough to win a WNBA Finals game on the road.When we decided in Game 2 what was going to happen, its not like L.A. didnt try. And its not like we didnt try last night.However, the Lynx just didnt play throughout the entirety of Fridays game with the kind of urgency that they needed to.If we dont bring it [Sunday], we know whats going to happen, Minnesota guard Lindsay Whalen said. When you put yourself in a hornets nest like we did [Friday], its tough. If defense has been your calling card and your backbone for all these years, and it isnt at a high level, it hurts.Its now do-or-die for us. We have another chance to come out and do what we need to do. We built this thing on a lot of hard work; the Lynx werent always at this level. So I think that mentality is in us, but we have to come out here and do it.Whalen had 11 points in Fridays loss, in which post players Sylvia Fowles and Rebekkah Brunson led the way with 14 points each. The glaring stat offensively was star forward Maya Moores nine points.She averaged 19.3 points per game during the regular season, and her scoring has trended upward in the past month-plus. In her last seven games of the regular season, she averaged 21.6 PPG, and in the Lynxs five playoff games before Friday, her scoring average was 23.2.Moore got just seven shots in Game 3, making four, and went to the free throw line just once. But like the rest of the Lynx, Moore thought that the teams slow start and its lethargy, at times, onn defense were the two biggest problems.ddddddddddddThe start of Game 4 will be so intense, just as it should be in the Finals, Moore said. We have to continue to find a way to lock in defensively, despite some offensive struggles. The heart of who we are is being a great defensive team.In the WNBA Finals, the smallest details separate winning from losing. In a series like this, some of those details can have explosive results for both teams.There were moments Friday when then Lynx just didnt look like themselves. The Sparks flat-out grabbed the ball away from them a few times, and Minnesota was slow to get back defensively on a few of Los Angeles transition scores.Last year, when the Lynx won a five-game WNBA Finals series against Indiana, they took Game 3 on Moores buzzer-beater but then were not as aggressive as they wanted to be in Game 4. That sent the series to a Game 5 which the Lynx dominated at home at Target Center.Minnesota has been on an incredible run since winning its first WNBA title in 2011. During that stretch though, they havent been in a must-win situation on the road during the playoffs very often. This is just the third time, in fact, and they lost the other two: Game 4 of the 2012 WNBA Finals vs. Indiana and Game 3 of the 2014 Western Conference finals against Phoenix.The Lynx had the best regular-season record (28-6) and the No. 1 seed. They are trying to tie the Houston Comets with four titles and become the first WNBA team to win back-to-back championships since Los Angeles did it in 2001 and 2002. But to keep hope alive for all of that, they may have to play their best game of this series on Sunday.We just werent as ready as we needed to be [Friday], and that shouldnt happen in the playoffs, Fowles said. We watched some film, and you can see things so much clearer than what you thought it was when you were on court.We cant look at it with a negative attitude, though. Just be positive from here on out. We looked at the things we didnt do well, and we know theyre correctable. ' ' '