Through the first five games of the season, the Phoenix Mercury are still trying to find its team chemistry and how to perfectly slot in new additions Diamond DeShields and Tina Charles.
“I’m just trying to fill the gap. Sky’s not here and that’s a big gap for our offense. Just trying to show up and be more aggressive knowing that we weren’t going to have her on both sides of the ball. But also just trying to get myself going in general. I haven’t really had a game where I felt that good in a really long time. It was a relief for me, despite the loss to feel myself, get to the rim and absorb contact like that. That’s something I haven’t done in a while,” DeShields said.
“At this point, we’re just really growing as a team. Sometimes it might feel like we’re a long ways away and there are other times where we feel like we’re very close,” Taurasi said. “Diamond and I were just talking about it in the locker room, both our teams made the Finals last year, but there were times where it wasn’t pretty. These are the times where you bond and stay together through these tough times. Dallas played really well tonight, they’re a good team.
Meanwhile, the Mercury had defensive breakdowns against an explosive offense. The Mercury struggled at times to make key shots and key stops at the same time and never led by more than two points . The Wings were ahead by 11 at one point in the game. “We just kept saying, we just got to get a stop. We just needed two stops in a row and they just kept hitting tough shots as we were trying to get these two stops. A lot of times you need to string three stops in a row, that’s when you’re really playing good defense. But we just couldn’t string them together today,” head coach Vanessa Nygaard said.
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