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Phoenix Mercury/#WNBA coverage. Founded by @veenstra_david with the intent to serve the fan with trustworthy reporting.

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Alyssa Thomas has taken over. She has 10 of her 27 points in the fourth quarter and the Mercury are on a 15-4 run with Thomas scoring eight of those points. #WNBA

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ALYSSA THOMAS AGAIN!! She has 12 of her 29 points in the fourth quarter. The Mercury are on a 17-4 run and Thomas has 10 of those points. Mercury lead 77-71 with 38.2 left. #WNBA

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FINAL: Minnesota Lynx 71 Phoenix Mercury 79 The Mercury (14-6) hand the Lynx (17-3) just their third loss of the season. Phoenix ended the game on a 19-4 run. Alyssa Thomas had 12 of her 29 points in the fourth quarter. #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas on her career-high 29 points in Wednesday’s 79-71 win over the Lynx. ā€œI’ve always been a scorer. I mean, I’m top in Maryland history, men and women, so for me it’s just reading the game and making (the) right plays.ā€ #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas on DeWanna Bonner’s return. ā€œShe’s loved here by all the fans. I’m happy for her to get such a warm welcome.ā€ #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas said she didn’t know she reached her career-high of 29 points. ā€œI’m super competitive, and if there’s an opportunity in front of me, I’m gonna go after it.ā€ #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas on the Mercury having a season-high 56 points in the paint, while also having a season-low number of made 3-pointers, 3-point attempts and 3-point percentage (1-for-16/6.2%). #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury coach Nate Tibbetts said the plan was for Alyssa Thomas to attack downhill since Minnesota takes away the 3. Thomas had a career-high 29 points, and the Mercury had a season-high 56 points in the paint. #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury coach Nate Tibbetts on Alyssa Thomas’ defense against Napheesa Collier. Collier had 18 points (on 8-for-15 shooting) but shot just two free-throws. ā€œAbsolutely unbelievable performance by (Thomas) today.ā€ #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury coach Nate Tibbetts said he was ā€œstruggling to call stuff offensivelyā€ with the integration of DeWanna Bonner. He later went on to call the game an ā€œoverall really good win.ā€ #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury coach Nate Tibbetts said adding DeWanna Bonner’s brings more ā€œversatilityā€ and ā€œprofessionalism.ā€ ā€œI just kept saying to the staff and some of our players, ā€˜I can’t believe how big (Bonner) is.ā€™ā€ #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury coach Nate Tibbetts said the Mercury players don’t talk about the standings as a team. ā€œThey’re probably more disappointed because they feel like people overlooked them.ā€ #WNBA

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STORY: Alyssa Thomas' fourth-quarter surge fueled the Phoenix Mercury to a 79-71 victory over the Minnesota Lynx. More from David Veenstra: open.substack.com/pub/desertwave… #WNBA

STORY: Alyssa Thomas' fourth-quarter surge fueled the Phoenix Mercury to a 79-71 victory over the Minnesota Lynx.

More from <a href="/veenstra_david/">David Veenstra</a>:
open.substack.com/pub/desertwave…

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Kahleah Copper – (right hamstring) is getting a light workout in at Phoenix Mercury practice. Satou Sabally – (right ankle) did not participate at all. #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury assistant coach Michael Joiner said, ā€œ(Kahleah Copper’s) been looking great. The energy’s really good.ā€ He said he doesn’t know the timetable of when she could return from the right hamstring injury that’s kept her out of the past two games. #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury forward Kathryn Westbeld said it’s been ā€œawesomeā€ having DeWanna Bonner as a teammate. ā€œI’m so grateful to have her here. She’s obviously a tremendous player, tremendous person. A legend in the league.ā€ #WNBA

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Phoenix Mercury assistant coach Michael Joiner called DeWanna Bonner ā€œa special playerā€ and praised her versatility. ā€œI’m glad to be able to coach her.ā€ #WNBA