It was a playoff type atmosphere with both teams riding six game winning streaks. And it was even on national T.V. But as in the three previous games this season, the Sun showed they could hang with the Shock but not actually knock them down.

Three players had career highs and both teams shot the ball at or near 50% and only combined for 19 turnovers.

Eastern Conference Player of the Week Lindsay Whalen and Katie Douglas continued their strong play and combined for 60 points as they shot nearly 73% from the floor. Perhaps most surprisingly is that Whalen connected on most of her shots, not driving to the basket but hitting open jump shots. She finished with a career high 33, including 3 three pointers.

But as good as Whalen and Douglas were, Deanna Nolan was even better. Nolan finished with a franshise record 36 points. Asjha Jones said of Nolan: “It's tough to guard a player who's that athletic and is making shots fading way from you. She's jumping and fading. There's not really too much you can do about that.” Nolan has some help too. Katie Feenstra, started and also finished with a career high 19. She set the tone early for the Shock.

While the Sun has lost 9 of the past 10 against the defending champs, the players have not given up on getting over the hump. "I'm not frustrated at all," said Jones. "When you have nothing to correct and you lose, that's when you get frustrated. But there were a lot of things we could have fixed tonight, and we just have to work on it."