Connecticut Sun (5-22, 3-8 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (17-11, 9-7 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix Mercury hosts the Connecticut Sun after Kahleah Copper scored 25 points in the Phoenix Mercury’s 83-67 victory against the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n
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The Mercury are 9-4 in home games. Phoenix is third in the Western Conference scoring 83.4 points while shooting 43.4% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Sun are 1-11 on the road. Connecticut is sixth in the Eastern Conference scoring 74.9 points per game and is shooting 40.4%.<\/p>\n
Phoenix scores 83.4 points per game, 3.6 fewer points than the 87.0 Connecticut gives up. Connecticut’s 40.4% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.4 percentage points lower than Phoenix has given up to its opponents (42.8%).<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The Mercury won the last matchup 83-75 on June 18, with Lexi Held scoring 14 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Alyssa Thomas is scoring 16.0 points per game and averaging 8.4 rebounds for the Mercury. Sami Whitcomb is averaging 11.2 points and 2.3 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tina Charles is averaging 16.1 points and 5.8 rebounds for the Sun. Bria Hartley is averaging 12.9 points and 2.4 rebounds while shooting 40.4% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mercury: 5-5, averaging 82.4 points, 35.3 rebounds, 20.8 assists, 6.9 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Sun: 3-7, averaging 81.3 points, 33.0 rebounds, 17.1 assists, 8.8 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Mercury: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sun: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connecticut Sun (5-22, 3-8 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (17-11, 9-7 Western Conference) Phoenix; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[4552,5229,5643,1587,9772,1497,2472,1518,20022,1589,1502,8730,19714,19709,2475,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7184],"class_list":{"0":"post-117583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-alyssa-thomas","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-bria-hartley","13":"tag-chicago-sky","14":"tag-connecticut-sun","15":"tag-eastern-conference","16":"tag-kahleah-copper","17":"tag-phoenix","18":"tag-phoenix-mercury","19":"tag-points-per-game","20":"tag-sami-whitcomb","21":"tag-the-mercury","22":"tag-tina-charles","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114969229950636136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}