1. The Mercury played their game in Sacramento and came away with a big win despite Sac's late comeback. The Diana scored 26. "She got too many open looks," Kara Lawson explained.

Fun Phoenix fact: despite their winning record, the Mercury had fewer rebounds than their opponents in every game so far this year.

2. The Lynx wilted in Seattle: the home team won comfortably behind 30 points from Lauren Jackson, who returned to the lineup after an unspecified illness. Pelton says she's fine.

3. The Sky took apart San Antonio. Becky Hammon created for herself (20 points) but her team shot 33%: it looked a bit like one of last year's bad Liberty games. The Stars will be happy to take most of next week off.

Candace Dupree, on the other hand, is averaging almost 18 points per game, and shooting almost 49%. Did anyone see this for her coming out of Temple?