During a sequence of five best consecutive victories, the Phoenix Mercury will be there to continue their rebirth when they welcome the defending champion New York Liberty on Friday.
The most prestigious victory of their sequence came on June 19 to New York when Monique Akoa Makani scored a summit of 21 points and Alyssa Thomas delivered 18 points with 15 rebounds.
The Mercury (11-4) pulled only 41.7% of the soil in the victory, but won its defense which transformed 20 turnover from New York into 19 points.
The most recent victory of Phoenix occurred on Saturday when the offensive drew attention during a victory on the 107-86 road against the Ciel de Chicago. This exceeded the top of the previous season of 94 -point mercury in a home victory on the sky on May 27.
Sami Whitcomb scored a 17 -point summit on the Phoenix bench on Saturday and played three of his five two -digit score games in the last three competitions.
“The belief is 100% there,” said Whitcomb about the impressive start of the team after finishing below 0.500 in each of the last three seasons. “We are trying to get rid every day. We try to focus on us and not really worry about anything else.”
Since he missed five consecutive games when the calendar changed from May to June, Thomas collected an average of 13.6 points with 9.8 assists and 6.8 rebounds in the last five games.
La Liberty (11-3) arrives after winning an 81-78 victory over the Golden State Valkyries on Wednesday, but they lost three of the five after a 9-0 start.
Breanna Stewart scored 23 points with 10 rebounds against the Valkyries and Kennedy Burke collected 20 points on the bench. Sabrina Ionescu scored 11 points, but was only 1 by 7 of the 3 -point range in her bay region.
“We are resilients,” said Stewart. “There are a lot of things that happen in our team and we continue to fight, no matter who is on the ground.”
Ionescu was only 1 out of 10 in long distance during last week’s home defeat against Phoenix, which makes it 2 out of 17 (11.8%) on attempts of 3 points in the last two games while playing a neck injury. She has a career at 31.8% remotely.
Jonquel Jones (12.1 points, 9.6 rebounds per game) missed the last two games for New York with a sprain on the right ankle and should miss another month.
– field level media
