Game thread: Phoenix vs Chicago game 1

[RadyLady]

OK, starting the game thread, but I cannot be here to watch the game, so please someone post updates so I can check them out later......

 

[RadyLady]

Actually, I wish the game had been yesterday...the weather was bad, and no one wanted to do anything but stay home....today....different story

 

[RadyLady]

Love that half court shot by Taurasi.....OK game on

 

[RadyLady]

Just interviewed Elena...she is going to play...

and she's starting....

 

[RadyLady]

love the intra team chest bumps....these women are mostly all friends afterall..

Griner wins the tip and Penny Taylor gets the first points.

Epiph misses her first shot and Griner gets her first rebound!

Here we go

 

[RadyLady]

Great D by Phoenix, shot clock violation and Fowles all over Griner, but Griner gets her 2

4 zip Phoenix

 

[RadyLady]

Awesome passing sequence ending with a 2

6 zip 7:22 to go, time out.

 

[sarals24]

About to tune in...technical difficulties...

 

[RadyLady]

'Sloot walks and commits a turnover On the other end Taylor gets stripped....

 

[RadyLady]

Dee for three....NET BARELY MOVED

 

[RadyLady]

About to tune in...technical difficulties...

OK, good. I have to go in a minute. I don't want to, I want to watch the game...

 

[RadyLady]

a lob to Taylor? C'mon!!

 

[RadyLady]

Quigley is in....


and I am out. rats!

9 - zip Phoenix, 5:20 to go....

 

[RadyLady]

Fowles looks as though she is face guarding Griner...well, she is probably the only one who actually can...

Sky finally on the board with a couple of buckets by 'Sloot, Diana scores

Score is 11 - 4 Phoenix

 

[RadyLady]

Delle Donne scores!!!

 

[Zorro]

3.57 EDD for two, 11-6

 

[RadyLady]

Dupree parts the red sea (splits the defenders and scores 2, and Griner say ummm...no (emphatically, Griner style) on the other end.....

Score is 31 - 6 3:12 to go

 

[RadyLady]

Another Griner block! and another shot clock violation forced by the Mercury defense.

 

[Zorro]

BG with 4 blocks at 1.23

 

[RadyLady]

BLock #4 for Griner!!!

15 - 6 1:23 to go in the first

 

[RadyLady]

Griner playing very well, being very disruptive on the defensive end...block #5

 

[RadyLady]

You know, I feel almost sorry for the rest of the world - Griner and Fowles in the front court -

WOW

 

[RadyLady]

Chicago shooting fouls shots...and I really don't understand what the foul was...I missed it.

Makes both, score 15 - 8, final 10 seconds.

 

[RadyLady]

15 - 8 at the end of the first.
Phoenix unrelenting on Defense. Chicago has to figure a way through them.


Now I really have to go or I will be in big trouble.

 

[sarals24]

Grier with a great catch on an attempted alley-oop, has to come down and go under the basket, fouled and makes the shot. Wow.