Nykesha Sales isn't nervous. "Nobody expected us to be here. I'm not nervous at all. I don't have time to be nervous. We're just trying to play together to beat the other five on the court."

She'll need some help from the frontcourt, which didn't do much in Game 2. "We had the same shots (Sunday) that we always have," Taj McWilliams-Franklin said. "We might have had to shoot, I think, four of our post shots as the clock was winding down. For the most part, all of our other shots were doable. We'll take care of those."

On the Storm side, it may be up to Betty Lennox again. Coach Thibault says he plans to keep Katie Douglas -- his strongest perimeter defender -- on Sue. "If Betty goes off again, and I know she will, we'll be OK," said LJ.

Jackson, meanwhile, has been mostly bumped off her game. Coach Donovan has made a couple suggestions (vague enough not to draw fines) that the refs are favoring the Sun inside. Thibault scoffs at the notion: "It's ridiculous. If that's as physical as she's had to play, I feel bad for her, because it's only going to get worse the longer she plays."