Indiana Fever (12-9, 5-4 Eastern Conference) at Phoenix Mercury (8-14, 5-8 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Thursday, 9 p.m. CDT on Prime Video<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Indiana Fever visits the Phoenix Mercury after Kelsey Mitchell scored 29 points in the Fever\u2019s 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: Alyssa Thomas: questionable (foot), Natasha Mack: out (foot), Shay Ciezki: day to day (coach decision), Sami Whitcomb: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Fever: Aliyah Boston: probable (leg), Caitlin Clark: out (back). <\/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, 9 p.m. CDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-752467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}