Janelle Salaun brings a clear three-point edge into the Minnesota Lynx matchup on Friday night at Chase Center. The Golden State Valkyries forward has hit 40% from deep this season, and her volume has made her one of the league’s most active perimeter shooters.
Janelle Salaun’s perimeter volume
Salaun ranks fifth in the league with 6.7 three-point attempts per game and third with 2.7 makes per game. Sixty-three point seven percent of her shots have come from beyond the arc, and she has hit 3+ threes in 53.3% of her games this season. In her first matchup with the Minnesota Lynx, she made five threes.
Veronica Burton’s outside shot
Veronica Burton gives the Golden State Valkyries another long-range option. She is making 1.6 triples per game while shooting 36.9% from long range, and she has hit multiple threes in 60% of her games. Golden State also led the WNBA in three-point attempts and made threes, which is why the market keeps circling perimeter production in this matchup.
Minnesota Lynx injury pressure
The Minnesota Lynx entered Friday with Napheesa Collier, Dorka Juhasz, and Emma Cechova all out. That absence list meets a team that had allowed a league-high 29 triples against it this season, while Golden State had already taken 37 triples against the Lynx in the first meeting. Both teams were in the top three in offensive rating and three-point percentage, so the preview centered on shot volume rather than half-court grinding.
Minnesota was 10-5 to the Over, Golden State was 9-6, and both teams were 7-3 across their last 10 games. The Lynx had also hit the game total Over in four straight games, leaving the Friday night number at 169.5 with the perimeter workload still doing most of the talking.
