Dallas Wings (26-16, 12-9 Western Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (15-27, 9-12 Western Conference), Phoenix; Monday, 9 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Dallas Wings plays the Phoenix Mercury after Paige Bueckers scored 26 points in the Wings\u2019 87-82 win against the Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n
The Mercury are 9-12 in conference games. Phoenix is 9- when it wins the turnover battle and averages 13.0 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
The Wings\u2019 record in Western Conference action is 12-9. Dallas is 8-15 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n
Phoenix is shooting 44.5% from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points lower than the 44.8% Dallas allows. Dallas averages 8.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.5 fewer than the 9.7 per game Phoenix allows.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Wings won 87-82 in the last matchup on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Natasha Mack is averaging 8.7 points and 6.8 rebounds for the Mercury. Kahleah Copper is averaging 16.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jessica Shepard is averaging 14.3 points, 10.9 rebounds, and 5.1 assists for the Wings. Bueckers is averaging 2.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mercury: 3-7, averaging 84.9 points, 32.3 rebounds, 21.4 assists, 8.3 steals, and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Wings: 7-3, averaging 90.1 points, 35.7 rebounds, 22.4 assists, 7.0 steals, and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Mercury: Kahleah Copper: out (groin), Kelsey Plum: out for the season (leg).<\/p>\n
Wings: Alanna Smith: out (leg), Azzi Fudd: out for the season (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings (26-16, 12-9 Western Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (15-27, 9-12 Western Conference), Phoenix; Monday, 9 p.m. CST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,14421],"class_list":["post-442842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}