PHOENIX — Satou Sabally scored 25 factors and the Phoenix Mercury set a staff report for 3-pointers in a second straight sport — and broke a WNBA report within the course of — in a 106-91 victory over the New York Liberty on Friday evening.
Alyssa Thomas, who had 17 factors, matched the Phoenix report of 15 assists for the second time and completed a rebound wanting her twelfth regular-season triple-double. The Mercury had a franchise report 30 assists on 41 baskets.
The Mercury (12-4) completed 18 of 39 from past the arc one sport after hitting 17 3s in a win over Chicago. The 35 3s over consecutive video games is a WNBA report. The league report for 3s in a regular-season sport is nineteen, which the Liberty has achieved twice this season.
“I feel you are seeing the sport of basketball evolve,” Phoenix coach Nate Tibbetts stated. “It does not matter what league, individuals are making an attempt to play with extra space, extra playmaking, extra talent, extra taking pictures. [General manager Nick U’Ren] and my background within the NBA, we have been making an attempt to come back to this league and play the way in which we envisioned. And it is not simply us — I feel the W has achieved a superb job of hiring coaches that wish to play a brand new type. We have had two actually good nights.”
Sabally went 7 of 10 from distance and Sami Whitcomb was 5 of seven for 15 factors. Kitija Laksa added 13 factors and Kahleah Copper 12 as Phoenix gained its sixth straight.
Breanna Stewart scored 17 factors, Nyara Sabally, in her first begin towards her sister, had a career-high 16 factors, and Natasha Cloud added 15 for the Liberty (11-4), who’ve misplaced 4 of 5 video games, beginning with an 89-81 dwelling loss to the Mercury eight days in the past.
The Liberty have been 8 of 18 from 3-point vary and have been outscored by 13 on the foul line, though each groups shot higher than 50% from the sphere.
Stewart, who had 5 factors at halftime when the Liberty trailed 61-43, scored 10 within the third quarter. She scored six straight factors to drag New York to inside 68-61. However the 3s simply stored raining down and the Mercury led 88-72 with 16 triples coming into the fourth quarter.
Data from The Related Press was used on this report.
