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2021 Phoenix Mercury Stats

Previous Season

Record: 19-13, 4th in WNBA Western Conference

Coach: Sandy Brondello (19-13)

Executive: Jim Pitman

PTS/G: 82.1 (5th of 12) Opp PTS/G: 79.5 (4th of 12)

Pace: 76.4 (11th of 12)

Off Rtg: 106.5 (3rd of 12) Def Rtg: 103.2 (7th of 12) Net Rtg: +3.3 (5th of 12)

Expected W-L: 19-13

Arena: Phoenix Suns Arena

Playoffs:
Won WNBA First Round (1-0) over New York Liberty
Won WNBA Second Round (1-0) over Seattle Storm
Won WNBA Semifinals (3-2) over Las Vegas Aces
Lost WNBA Finals (3-1) to Chicago Sky

WNBA Runners-up

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date	Exp	College
33	Cierra Burdick	F	6-2	172	September 30, 1993	4	Tennessee
9	Sophie Cunningham	G	6-1	170	August 16, 1996	2	Missouri
4	Skylar Diggins-Smith	G	5-9	140	August 2, 1990	7	Notre Dame
20	Haley Gorecki	G	6-0		November 13, 1996	R	Duke
42	Brittney Griner	C	6-9	205	October 18, 1990	8	Baylor
14	Bria Hartley	G	5-9	148	September 30, 1992	7	UConn
0	Kia Nurse	G	6-0	181	February 22, 1996	3	UConn
5	Shey Peddy	G	5-7	145	October 28, 1988	2	Temple
11	Alanna Smith	F	6-4	183	September 10, 1996	2	Stanford
3	Diana Taurasi	G	6-0	163	June 11, 1982	16	UConn
21	Brianna Turner	F	6-3	170	July 5, 1996	2	Notre Dame
1	Kia Vaughn	C	6-4	205	January 24, 1987	11	Rutgers University
2	Megan Walker	F	6-1	175	November 23, 1998	1	UConn

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

Team and Opponent Stats Table
Type	G	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Team	32	6450	945	2102	.450	241	697	.346	704	1405	.501	495	620	.798	255	903	1158	629	152	167	409	521	2626
Team/G		201.6	29.5	65.7	.450	7.5	21.8	.346	22.0	43.9	.501	15.5	19.4	.798	8.0	28.2	36.2	19.7	4.8	5.2	12.8	16.3	82.1
Lg Rank		9	7	11	3	5	5	6	8	10	2	2	2	10	7	3	3	5	12	1	6	3	5
Year/Year		+0.2%	-2.3%	-1.9%	0.0	-10.7%	-11.0%	+0.3	+0.9%	+3.3%	-1.1	-10.9%	-7.6%	-2.7	+6.7%	+6.4%	+6.5%	-3.4%	-29.4%	-7.1%	-8.6%	-17.3%	-4.6%
Opponent	32	6450	965	2313	.417	227	705	.322	738	1608	.459	387	476	.813	300	816	1116	546	219	108	322	583	2544
Opp/G		201.6	30.2	72.3	.417	7.1	22.0	.322	23.1	50.3	.459	12.1	14.9	.813	9.4	25.5	34.9	17.1	6.8	3.4	10.1	18.2	79.5
Lg Rank		9	6	10	3	4	11	3	6	10	4	2	2	7	12	4	6	3	5	1	1	10	4
Year/Year			+0.3%	+2.0%	-0.8	-2.7%	+3.3%	-2.2	+1.3%	+1.4%	-0.1	-26.7%	-27.3%	+0.6	-3.1%	-3.0%	-3.1%	-6.6%	-12.8%	+13.3%	-24.1%	-9.5%	-5.5%

Per Game

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Brittney Griner	30	30	30	32.8	8.3	14.4	.575	0.1	0.3	.444	8.1	14.1	.578	3.8	4.5	.846	2.4	7.1	9.5	2.7	0.4	1.9	2.2	2.4	20.5
2	Skylar Diggins-Smith	30	32	32	32.5	5.5	12.3	.450	1.6	4.2	.370	4.0	8.1	.492	5.1	6.2	.818	0.5	2.6	3.2	5.3	1.1	0.8	2.6	2.2	17.7
3	Brianna Turner	24	32	32	31.1	3.4	6.1	.554	0.0	0.0	.000	3.4	6.1	.557	1.0	1.4	.717	2.4	7.0	9.4	1.8	0.8	1.3	1.5	2.2	7.8
4	Diana Taurasi	39	16	16	28.4	4.4	11.9	.366	2.6	7.6	.339	1.8	4.4	.414	3.9	4.5	.861	0.2	4.3	4.4	4.9	0.2	0.6	2.9	2.4	15.2
5	Kia Nurse	25	32	32	26.1	3.1	8.5	.359	1.8	5.2	.353	1.2	3.3	.368	1.5	1.9	.790	0.4	3.1	3.5	1.8	0.5	0.1	1.5	2.3	9.5
6	Sophie Cunningham	24	30	4	17.5	2.0	4.5	.437	1.1	2.6	.410	0.9	1.9	.474	0.6	0.9	.704	0.3	1.7	2.0	1.1	0.5	0.2	0.5	1.9	5.6
7	Shey Peddy	32	32	5	17.5	1.9	4.6	.412	0.8	2.5	.333	1.1	2.1	.507	0.7	0.8	.920	0.8	1.6	2.3	2.5	0.9	0.1	1.0	1.0	5.4
8	Kia Vaughn	34	28	2	15.8	2.1	4.8	.444	0.0	0.0	.000	2.1	4.7	.447	0.4	0.7	.600	0.8	1.9	2.7	1.3	0.2	0.2	1.3	1.6	4.6
9	Megan Walker	22	29	7	14.7	1.6	5.1	.311	0.7	2.6	.267	0.9	2.5	.356	0.7	1.0	.633	0.2	1.1	1.3	0.9	0.2	0.3	0.8	1.8	4.5
10	Bria Hartley	28	6	0	8.5	1.5	2.7	.563	0.7	1.2	.571	0.8	1.5	.556	0.0	0.0		0.3	0.3	0.7	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.8	0.2	3.7
11	Alanna Smith	24	18	0	6.5	0.4	1.9	.235	0.2	1.2	.190	0.2	0.7	.308	0.1	0.2	.250	0.3	1.1	1.3	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.6	1.2
12	Cierra Burdick	27	4	0	4.8	0.5	1.0	.500	0.0	0.0		0.5	1.0	.500	0.0	0.0		0.8	1.0	1.8	0.8	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5	1.0
13	Haley Gorecki	24	3	0	2.0	0.0	0.3	.000	0.0	0.3	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.7	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Brittney Griner	30	11	11	35.1	9.1	16.2	.562	0.0	0.4	.000	9.1	15.8	.575	3.6	4.5	.800	1.6	6.7	8.4	3.0	0.4	1.6	2.1	1.8	21.8
2	Skylar Diggins-Smith	30	11	11	34.9	5.2	14.1	.368	1.7	5.5	.311	3.5	8.5	.404	1.8	2.5	.741	1.1	2.5	3.6	6.1	1.0	0.5	2.3	2.5	13.9
3	Brianna Turner	24	11	11	31.5	3.6	6.6	.548	0.0	0.0		3.6	6.6	.548	1.2	1.7	.684	3.3	6.6	9.9	2.5	1.3	1.9	1.2	2.5	8.5
4	Diana Taurasi	39	10	10	30.5	5.2	13.3	.391	3.4	9.8	.347	1.8	3.5	.514	3.8	4.3	.884	0.2	3.3	3.5	2.9	0.5	0.6	3.0	3.1	17.6
5	Shey Peddy	32	11	4	23.2	2.4	6.2	.382	0.7	2.8	.258	1.6	3.4	.486	1.2	1.6	.722	1.2	2.4	3.5	2.5	2.0	0.0	0.9	1.8	6.6
6	Kia Nurse	25	6	6	21.8	2.7	6.2	.432	1.7	3.7	.455	1.0	2.5	.400	1.3	1.3	1.000	0.5	2.8	3.3	1.5	0.2	0.0	0.7	2.5	8.3
7	Sophie Cunningham	24	8	2	17.5	1.9	3.9	.484	1.6	2.9	.565	0.3	1.0	.250	1.0	1.0	1.000	0.3	1.9	2.1	0.8	0.3	0.9	0.8	1.4	6.4
8	Kia Vaughn	34	11	0	12.8	1.4	4.7	.288	0.0	0.1	.000	1.4	4.6	.294	0.2	0.2	1.000	0.4	1.8	2.2	1.2	0.4	0.0	1.1	1.4	2.9
9	Bria Hartley	28	10	0	9.6	0.8	2.6	.308	0.3	1.1	.273	0.5	1.5	.333	0.6	0.6	1.000	0.0	1.4	1.4	1.3	0.1	0.0	0.7	1.0	2.5
10	Megan Walker	22	5	0	7.8	0.4	1.4	.286	0.0	0.8	.000	0.4	0.6	.667	0.8	0.8	1.000	0.2	0.6	0.8	0.0	0.2	0.0	1.2	0.8	1.6
11	Alanna Smith	24	5	0	5.2	1.2	3.0	.400	0.4	1.0	.400	0.8	2.0	.400	0.4	0.4	1.000	1.0	1.0	2.0	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.4	3.2

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Totals

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Skylar Diggins-Smith	30	32	32	1040	177	393	.450	50	135	.370	127	258	.492	162	198	.818	17	84	101	168	34	25	82	71	566
2	Brianna Turner	24	32	32	994	108	195	.554	0	1	.000	108	194	.557	33	46	.717	78	224	302	56	24	42	47	70	249
3	Brittney Griner	30	30	30	983	248	431	.575	4	9	.444	244	422	.578	115	136	.846	71	213	284	80	12	58	66	72	615
4	Kia Nurse	25	32	32	835	98	273	.359	59	167	.353	39	106	.368	49	62	.790	14	99	113	56	17	2	48	72	304
5	Shey Peddy	32	32	5	560	61	148	.412	27	81	.333	34	67	.507	23	25	.920	24	51	75	79	29	3	31	33	172
6	Sophie Cunningham	24	30	4	524	59	135	.437	32	78	.410	27	57	.474	19	27	.704	9	51	60	32	14	7	16	56	169
7	Diana Taurasi	39	16	16	455	70	191	.366	41	121	.339	29	70	.414	62	72	.861	3	68	71	79	3	9	47	38	243
8	Kia Vaughn	34	28	2	441	59	133	.444	0	1	.000	59	132	.447	12	20	.600	23	53	76	36	5	6	36	44	130
9	Megan Walker	22	29	7	426	46	148	.311	20	75	.267	26	73	.356	19	30	.633	6	33	39	25	5	8	23	52	131
10	Alanna Smith	24	18	0	117	8	34	.235	4	21	.190	4	13	.308	1	4	.250	5	19	24	10	7	6	6	10	21
11	Bria Hartley	28	6	0	51	9	16	.563	4	7	.571	5	9	.556	0	0		2	2	4	5	1	0	5	1	22
12	Cierra Burdick	27	4	0	19	2	4	.500	0	0		2	4	.500	0	0		3	4	7	3	1	1	1	2	4
13	Haley Gorecki	24	3	0	6	0	1	.000	0	1	.000	0	0		0	0		0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0
			32		6450	945	2102	.450	241	697	.346	704	1405	.501	495	620	.798	255	903	1158	629	152	167	409	521	2626

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Brittney Griner	30	11	11	386	100	178	.562	0	4	.000	100	174	.575	40	50	.800	18	74	92	33	4	18	23	20	240
2	Skylar Diggins-Smith	30	11	11	384	57	155	.368	19	61	.311	38	94	.404	20	27	.741	12	28	40	67	11	5	25	28	153
3	Brianna Turner	24	11	11	346	40	73	.548	0	0		40	73	.548	13	19	.684	36	73	109	28	14	21	13	28	93
4	Diana Taurasi	39	10	10	305	52	133	.391	34	98	.347	18	35	.514	38	43	.884	2	33	35	29	5	6	30	31	176
5	Shey Peddy	32	11	4	255	26	68	.382	8	31	.258	18	37	.486	13	18	.722	13	26	39	27	22	0	10	20	73
6	Kia Vaughn	34	11	0	141	15	52	.288	0	1	.000	15	51	.294	2	2	1.000	4	20	24	13	4	0	12	15	32
7	Sophie Cunningham	24	8	2	140	15	31	.484	13	23	.565	2	8	.250	8	8	1.000	2	15	17	6	2	7	6	11	51
8	Kia Nurse	25	6	6	131	16	37	.432	10	22	.455	6	15	.400	8	8	1.000	3	17	20	9	1	0	4	15	50
9	Bria Hartley	28	10	0	96	8	26	.308	3	11	.273	5	15	.333	6	6	1.000	0	14	14	13	1	0	7	10	25
10	Megan Walker	22	5	0	39	2	7	.286	0	4	.000	2	3	.667	4	4	1.000	1	3	4	0	1	0	6	4	8
11	Alanna Smith	24	5	0	26	6	15	.400	2	5	.400	4	10	.400	2	2	1.000	5	5	10	1	1	1	2	2	16

Advanced

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/40
1	Skylar Diggins-Smith	30	32	1040	21.9	.589	.514	.344	.504	2.0	8.7	5.5	28.7	1.7	1.9	14.6	25.0	114	105		4.0	0.9	4.9	.188
2	Brianna Turner	24	32	994	15.5	.578	.554	.005	.236	9.5	24.2	17.2	9.0	1.3	3.4	17.9	12.2	112	100		1.7	1.7	3.4	.136
3	Brittney Griner	30	30	983	28.4	.626	.580	.021	.316	8.7	23.2	16.4	16.9	0.6	4.7	11.9	26.2	119	100		4.7	1.5	6.3	.255
4	Kia Nurse	25	32	835	9.6	.506	.467	.612	.227	2.0	12.7	7.7	10.9	1.1	0.2	13.8	19.3	96	106		0.2	0.6	0.8	.038
5	Shey Peddy	32	32	560	15.6	.541	.503	.547	.169	5.2	9.8	7.6	22.6	2.7	0.4	16.3	15.7	110	103		1.1	0.6	1.7	.124
6	Sophie Cunningham	24	30	524	11.8	.575	.556	.578	.200	2.1	10.4	6.5	9.9	1.4	1.1	9.8	14.4	112	106		1.0	0.4	1.4	.103
7	Diana Taurasi	39	16	455	17.0	.546	.474	.634	.377	0.8	16.0	8.9	30.0	0.3	1.6	17.4	27.5	103	106		0.8	0.3	1.2	.104
8	Kia Vaughn	34	28	441	7.6	.458	.444	.008	.150	6.3	12.9	9.8	13.6	0.6	1.1	20.2	18.7	87	107		-0.5	0.3	-0.2	-0.019
9	Megan Walker	22	29	426	3.7	.406	.378	.507	.203	1.7	8.3	5.2	9.4	0.6	1.5	12.5	20.0	81	108		-0.8	0.2	-0.6	-0.058
10	Alanna Smith	24	18	117	6.8	.294	.294	.618	.118	5.1	17.4	11.6	12.9	3.1	4.1	14.4	16.5	71	97		-0.3	0.2	-0.1	-0.038
11	Bria Hartley	28	6	51	16.1	.688	.688	.438	.000	4.7	4.2	4.4	17.6	1.0	0.0	23.8	19.1	107	109		0.1	0.0	0.1	.078
12	Cierra Burdick	27	4	19	21.3	.500	.500	.000	.000	19.0	22.6	20.9	25.2	2.8	4.2	20.0	12.2	120	96		0.1	0.0	0.1	.210
13	Haley Gorecki	24	3	6	-12.6	.000	.000	1.000	.000	0.0	35.7	18.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	50.0	15.4	0	101		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.375

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/40
1	Brittney Griner	30	11	386	24.1	.600	.562	.022	.281	5.3	22.4	13.7	17.5	0.5	3.9	10.3	26.1	116	106		1.4	0.4	1.8	.185
2	Skylar Diggins-Smith	30	11	384	12.6	.458	.429	.394	.174	3.6	8.5	6.0	29.1	1.5	1.1	13.0	22.6	99	109		0.2	0.2	0.4	.040
3	Brianna Turner	24	11	346	18.6	.572	.548	.000	.260	11.8	24.7	18.2	12.8	2.1	5.1	13.8	12.3	121	101		0.8	0.6	1.5	.168
4	Diana Taurasi	39	10	305	14.7	.579	.519	.737	.323	0.7	12.6	6.6	16.4	0.8	1.6	16.5	27.0	103	109		0.4	0.2	0.5	.072
5	Shey Peddy	32	11	255	14.0	.481	.441	.456	.265	5.8	11.9	8.8	16.4	4.4	0.0	11.6	15.2	105	103		0.3	0.4	0.6	.101
6	Kia Vaughn	34	11	141	0.0	.303	.288	.019	.038	3.2	16.6	9.8	14.3	1.5	0.0	18.5	20.8	64	108		-0.7	0.1	-0.6	-0.163
7	Sophie Cunningham	24	8	140	14.8	.739	.694	.742	.258	1.6	12.5	7.0	6.7	0.7	4.2	14.8	13.1	126	107		0.4	0.1	0.5	.138
8	Kia Nurse	25	6	131	12.5	.617	.568	.595	.216	2.6	15.2	8.8	11.0	0.4	0.0	9.0	15.4	121	111		0.3	0.0	0.4	.120
9	Bria Hartley	28	10	96	5.3	.436	.365	.423	.231	0.0	17.0	8.4	20.3	0.5	0.0	19.6	16.8	88	110		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.026
10	Megan Walker	22	5	39	-3.0	.457	.286	.571	.571	2.9	9.0	5.9	0.0	1.3	0.0	40.7	17.1	59	110		-0.2	0.0	-0.2	-0.172
11	Alanna Smith	24	5	26	23.2	.504	.467	.333	.133	21.9	22.5	22.2	7.4	2.0	3.2	11.2	31.1	103	103		0.0	0.0	0.1	.117

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