That was as wild a final 10 minutes of basketball as you will ever see. At any level. This game was drunk.

And Minnesota will gladly take it.

The Lynx are up 1-0 in the WNBA Finals after a dramatic 95-93 overtime win that saw their lock-down defense eventually win out in dramatic fashion. Game 2 is Sunday in New York.

From the opening tip the pattern emerged: New York would get hot for a stretch, go on a crowd-fueled run and push their lead out — as much as 18 in the first half — then Minnesota would clamp down their defense, make some shots and trim the lead down to a few. Then New York would make a run again.

The game seemed all but over when New York pushed its lead out to 15 with 5:20 left in the fourth, but that’s where things shifted. New York became cautious and basically moved into a prevent-offense trying to run time off the clock, and Minnesota’s defense swallowed that up. The Lynx used those stops to get out in transition, then they started hitting shots — especially Courtney Williams, who had an amazing close to thee game.

This time Minnesota broke the pattern, they got over the hump and took the lead when Willaims was fouled by Sabrina Ionescu on a 3-pointer with 5.5 seconds left. In a series of mistakes New York made to close out the game, this bad foul by Ionescu was the worst (and marred an otherwise quality game from her).

Minnesota was up one but New York had a chance, and those final 5.5 seconds of regulation were indescribably insane. There was a controversial inbounds pass that the Liberty chose not to challenge. There was Napheesa Collier blocking a Breanna Stewart shot with one second left in the game. That was follwed by an inbounds play for Stewart under the basket where she was fouled by Collier — then Stewart hit just 1-of-2 free throws, and we were headed to overtime.

Once there, the Lynx scored the first four points and the Liberty were playing catch-up — but they were making plays.

New York got all the way back to even the game with that Jones layup. With the game tied 93-93, the Lynx’s MVP Collier hit what proved to be the game-winner with a sweet 15-foot turnaround jumper.

The Liberty had the chance for their MVP, Stewart, to tie it and force double OT, she got the ball moving towards the rim and had a lane, but she missed the lay-up as time expired.

Minnesota steals Game 1 on the road in a comeback that showed real grit and heart — and puts New York on its back foot heading into the rest of this series.

Williams led the Lynx in scoring with 23, while Kayla McBride scored 22 and Collier had 21 with six blocks and eight rebounds.

Jones had a brilliant game and led the Liberty with 24 points on 9-of-14 shooting, plus 10 rebounds. Ionescu scored 19 and Stewart 18. However, as a team the Liberty struggled against the Lynx top-ranked defense and shot just 37.8% as a team for the game. The more playoff-experienced Liberty also struggled down the stretch — they can’t do that in Game 2, or this series could swing quickly.