Seimone Augustus, still ‘Money’ for Minnesota

Seimone Augustus has now played in the WNBA for twelve years. Drafted by the Minnesota Lynx in 2006, she was the first building block to the core we’ve seen in six of the last seven WNBA Finals.

Offensively, she has been sacrificing to allow others to shine. Her regular season numbers aren’t quite near her career norms — 11 points per game with four assists. Her efficiency and effectiveness were never in doubt, considering her team’s main objectives to play through Sylvia Fowles and dominate with their defense once again. Augustus was a star in her role all season long in regard to the former. She set a career high in assists, shot 50.2% from the floor and made 43% of her three-pointers. Augustus is a problem running around screens. Hesitate for a second or get caught up on a screen and she’s burying a jumper. In addition to being an expert in getting around those screens to find her own shots, Augustus makes the right read to find one of her bigs slipping to the rim. Many times, that would be Fowles. Augustus made plays for the Lynx even when Maya Moore was the one jetting around a pair of screens.

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