Indiana Fever (12-9, 5-4 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (8-14, 5-8 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Indiana Fever visits the Phoenix Mercury after Kelsey Mitchell scored 29 points in the Fever’s 106-92 loss to the Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n
The Mercury are 3-7 on their home court. Phoenix has a 5-10 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Fever are 4-5 on the road. Indiana is fourth in the WNBA with 20.8 assists per game led by Caitlin Clark averaging 7.8.<\/p>\n
Phoenix averages 8.0 made 3-pointers per game, 1.3 more made shots than the 6.7 per game Indiana allows. Indiana averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.1 fewer makes per game than Phoenix allows.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the third time this season. In the last matchup on June 24 the Mercury won 111-109 led by 28 points from Kahleah Copper, while Mitchell scored 30 points for the Fever.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Noemie Brochant is averaging six points for the Mercury. Copper is averaging 23.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Clark is averaging 20.5 points and 7.8 assists for the Fever. Mitchell is averaging 24.1 points and 1.8 rebounds while shooting 51.9% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mercury: 4-6, averaging 85.5 points, 32.8 rebounds, 20.2 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Fever: 6-4, averaging 99.1 points, 36.8 rebounds, 20.6 assists, 5.5 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 49.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 94.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Mercury: Natasha Mack: out (foot), Shay Ciezki: day to day (coach decision), Sami Whitcomb: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Fever: Aliyah Boston: out (leg).<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a9 2022 Data Skrive. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever (12-9, 5-4 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (8-14, 5-8 Western Conference) Phoenix; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":922636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[1518,1495,160,62,67,132,68,7184,232,16966],"class_list":["post-922635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-eastern-conference","tag-fever","tag-mercury","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-western-conference","tag-wnba","tag-women"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116888737365832594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922635","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=922635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}