{"id":188894,"date":"2025-08-31T06:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188894\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T06:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:37:12","slug":"lousy-second-half-leads-liberty-to-80-63-loss-to-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188894\/","title":{"rendered":"Lousy second half leads Liberty to 80-63 loss to Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 <strong>Kahleah Copper<\/strong> hit five three-pointers and finished with 22 points, <strong>Alyssa Thomas<\/strong> had 14 points and nine assists, and the Phoenix Mercury beat the defending WNBA champion New York <a href=\"https:\/\/sny.tv\/tags\/liberty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Liberty;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Liberty<\/a> 80-63 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix (25-14) has won four in a row and six of seven to move into a tie with Atlanta for third in the WNBA standings, one-half game behind second-place Las Vegas and 1 1\/2 games ahead of the Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Satou Sabally<\/strong> also scored 14 points for the Mercury. <strong>Natasha Mack<\/strong> had 10 rebounds &#8212; including a career-high seven offensive boards &#8212; to go with eight points and four blocks. <strong>DeWanna Bonner<\/strong> added nine points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>There were nine lead changes and nine ties before <strong>Kathryn Westbeld<\/strong> and Copper hit three-pointers 29 seconds apart to take the lead for good at 51-48 and spark a 15-1 run. Bonner stole a pass and went the other way for a layup, then hit a three to cap the spurt and make it an 11-point lead almost a minute into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury made 10 of 14 from the field in the fourth and scored 17 of the final 20 points. New York missed five consecutive field-goal attempts and committed three turnovers before <strong>Isabelle Harrison<\/strong> made a layup to cap the scoring with 16.8 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emma Meesseman<\/strong> led New York (24-16) with 17 points on 7-for-9 shooting. <strong>Breanna Stewart<\/strong> scored 14 points and <strong>Natasha Cloud<\/strong> added 13.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty play Tuesday at Golden State. The Mercury host Indiana on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Kahleah Copper hit five three-pointers and finished with 22 points, Alyssa Thomas had 14 points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[4552,5356,5336,2340,2862,22817,20022,36917,2184,4548,19713,26399,1502,20021,62,19710,19709,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-188894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-alyssa-thomas","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-breanna-stewart","11":"tag-dewanna-bonner","12":"tag-indiana","13":"tag-isabelle-harrison","14":"tag-kahleah-copper","15":"tag-kathryn-westbeld","16":"tag-las-vegas","17":"tag-liberty","18":"tag-natasha-cloud","19":"tag-natasha-mack","20":"tag-phoenix-mercury","21":"tag-satou-sabally","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-the-liberty","24":"tag-the-mercury","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188894","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=188894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}