Offensive Rebounding: The Storm held even with the Silver Stars here, with 12 apiece, but the difference was that the Storm's 12 were 46% of the available rebounds and the Silver Stars 12 were only 32% of their available rebounds. I called Yo out in this category, and she responded with 4 on her own, helped by Swin Cash (3) and Shyra Ely (2).
Offensive Layups: I don't recall any missed chippies, but the Storm shot a reasonable 47% considering they didn't score much with the bench in the second half.
Ball Movement: I thought it was pretty darn good.
Post up Swin and Sheryl: They skipped out here, but LJ was so dominant on the block last night that everyone just let her have that spot.
Defensive Rebounding: The Storm grabbed 68% of the available defensive rebounds...that will do, and the starters were great with Griffith having 10, and Cash 9. LJ's rebounding is way down this season...she appears to be deferring to Yo and Swin.
Keep Becky out of the paint: How does 0-6 with only 4 free throws sound?
Stay on the shooters: The Silver Stars shot 27.6% on the night. Teams can't beat you if they can't hit the basket.
The Storm controlled the perimeter and limited the posts...you can't ask for more defensively. The offense is still a little choppy, particularly when the bench is in, but these extra minutes will only help. Sheryl Swoopes is still missing her three, and she moves uncharacteristicly slow on the court, but her defense is still solid.
STORM
MOST EFFECTIVE SHOOTERS
Player | True Shooting % | Floor % | Eff FG % |
Jackson | 75% | 53% | 69% |
Santos | 69% | 72% | 50% |
Cash | 66% | 74% | 63% |
Wright | 63% | 57% | 63% |
Jackson was clearly, dominant, Swin Cash is cementing herself as the second scorer and Santos is consistently performing at the offensive end of the floor in her limited minutes. Tanisha Wright turns in her third consecutive strong performance with a mix of play at both guard positions, though she is strongest when playing with Sue Bird. Yolanda Griffith deserves an honorable mention here though her effective field goal percentage was only 40%, the other two ratings had her over 50% due to free throw success.
BEST RATINGS
| Player | Offensive Rating | Indiv Rating |
| Santos | 159.99 | 140.71 |
| Cash | 147.39 | 126.01 |
| Griffith | 121.33 | 96.00 |
| Jackson | 120.24 | 114.86 |
Other notable players were Tanisha Wright and Sue Bird.
RAW PLUS/MINUS
Cash: +28
Griffith: +25
Swoopes: +22
Jackson: +19
Bird: +16
Wright: +14
Ely: +1
Santos: -2
Gearlds: -5
Beck: -6
Robinson: -7
MOST EFFECTIVE LINEUPS
Bird-Swoopes-Cash-Jackson-Griffith: +10
Bird-Wright-Swoopes-Cash-Jackson: +7
Wright-Swoopes-Cash-Jackson-Griffith: +6
We saw some truly unusual lineups tonight, including some very odd "small ball" lineups, with mixed success.
Bird-Wright-Gearlds-Swoopes-Jackson (-4) and Beck-Wright-Cash-Ely-Robinson (-3) did not do so well while Bird-Wright-Cash-Ely-Griffith (+4) did quite well. It looks like Coach Agler is highly enamoured with his swing players and will spend a lot of time in the second halves of games creating mismatches to keep his opponents guessing.
Silver Stars
MOST EFFECTIVE SHOOTERS
| Player | True Shooting % | Floor % | Eff FG % |
| Wauters | 75% | 72%% | 75% |
| Young | 62% | 58% | 50% |
| Buescher | 57% | 56% | 50% |
| Lawson-Wade | 43% | 46% | 30% |
BEST RATINGS
| Player | Offensive Rating | Indiv Rating |
| Wauters | 142.80 | 131.35 |
| Buescher | 124.11 | 99.27 |
| Lawson-Wade | 124.66 | 80.71 |
| Young | 113.40 | 100.31 |
RAW PLUS/MINUS
Atunruse: +2
Irvin: 0
Lawson-Wade: 0
Buescher: -10
Johnson: -11
Young: -14
Hammon: -19
Wauters: -26
Darling: -26
MOST EFFECTIVE LINEUPS
Hammon-Johnson-Buescher-Young-Wauter: +4
Hammon-Johnson-Atunrase-Young-Wauters: +2
Lawson-Darling-Atunrase-Young-Irvin: +2
Lawson-Johnson-Atunrase-Buescher-Irvin: +2
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