With Skylar Diggins-Smith missing the remainder of the 2022 season, MAVoepel describes how her absence impacts the Mercury's playoff hopes. The story 👉
has appeared in seven games with the Mercury this season, after most recently playing in the WNBA in 2019. The veteran guard, who will be 35 in October, played 10 minutes on Wednesday. And Gustafson was the most successful player off the Mercury bench on Wednesday.
Common sense would say the Mercury don't have good odds to win either of their last games. But strange things can happen when a team's back is against the wall after a lot of adversity. Maybe Turner, a defensive whiz who has struggled as a scorer, finds that in her in these closing games. Maybe the Mercury get hot from behind the arc. Maybe DeShields takes over, as her ability allows her to do.
Just making the playoffs at this point would be a huge accomplishment. It seems unlikely the Mercury will go beyond the first round, obviously. They would have to play the best defense they can play and get hot from behind the arc.All season, it has been obvious that Nygaard and Diggins-Smith do not have a good working relationship. It seems nearly impossible that both are going to be in Phoenix next season. Maybe neither will.
All of Nygaard's previous experience as a head coach was at the high school level, although she has been an assistant in the WNBA. There is so much to manage as a WNBA head coach behind-the-scenes, and this season would have tested even a veteran. Still, Nygaard got the job, so she has to be up to the task, no matter how hard. That's the way it is in pro sports.
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