Three more games we didn't attend last night. One blowout, two stunners, both of them on TV:

1. The blowout: Seattle crushed Houston. Lauren Jackson tallied 28. Poor Houston.

Sue Bird didn't play, but so what? Tanisha Wright did more than enough for the win. LJ: "Even though at times we looked a little disorientated or we didn't know what was going on, Tanisha managed to calm everybody down."

2. A stunner: New York defeated Detroit in overtime. McCarville: 18 points, 12 boards, and 34 minutes. (She also fouled out.)

Ford was Ford (18 and 22) but Braxton and Feenstra combined for a big haul of zeroes: do the Shock, of all teams, have a hole inside? They've certainly got something missing: the defending champs have lost three in a row.

"We're imploding as a basketball team right now," said a weary coach Laimbeer. "We're pointing fingers at everybody." Braxton, All-Star or not, won't start for a while; she might not even get on the floor.

3. Another stunner: double overtime in Phoenix. The home team finally got past the Sun, 111-109, when Cappie schooled Lindsay with a step-back jumper in the final shot of the night. Before that... well, you can read all, and we do mean all, about it.

Penny Taylor scored 30 before fouling out on a clearly mistaken call; sometimes she looked like all the offense the Merc had. In fact, she looked like an MVP candidate: The Diana says if Taylor doesn't get chosen for the All-Star reserves, D will tattoo "PT" onto her arm.