Welcome to our Channel Dallas Wings Fall to Phenix Mercury despite career-high 36 points from Natasha Howard the wings 104 to 96 defeat to the fix Mercury on Wednesday night marks their third consecutive loss and 14th in the past 15 games despite Natasha Howard's career best 36 points the wings could not manage a win the wings 4 to6 fell to the Phenix Mercury 104 to 96 at College Park Center on Wednesday after phix took an early lead in the fourth minute the fight that these young ladies have it's hard especially when you fight so hard and come out short but we just have to keep priming the pump because it's going to take off worse coach laxa traml said postgame Dallas beat the Minnesota links on June 27 breaking an 11 game losing streak that began May 3 however Wednesday's result compounded by two losses against the Seattle Storm on Saturday and Monday proves the wings wit against the lyns was anomalous the fix loss marks Dallas third consecutive defeat and 14th in the last 15 games Dallas opened the scoring with a pair of free throws in the second minute after Mercury guard Natasha Cloud fouled Wings forward Natasha Howard with Britney griner's JB shot phonix took its first lead 8 to6 and held onto it the wings managed to close the deficit to just three points 20 to 17 with 130 left in the first quarter but the Mercury 10 to 10 widened the Gap van tasi sank a three-point pull-up and two free throws while Sophie Cunningham made a up ending the quarter 27 to 18 a 2024 Allstar scored just two points in the first quarter fix increased its margin in the second quarter leading by as many as 15 points copper who will represent the US in the Paris Olympics later this month alongside Griner and tasi was Stellar for the Mercury making two driving layups a free throw and a three-pointer a mounting to eight points although okan Bal and Howard settled in scoring nine and six points respectively it was not enough the half ended with Dallas down 56 to 43 the Mercury had a strong start to the second half thanks to grinder fix increased its lead to 16 points 61 to 45 by the second minute grinder made two free throws after being fouled by Tera maowen and added a jump shot 20 seconds later the center made a thir third free throw after another foul by macallen the wings responded with a scoring surge in the latter half of the third quarter Howard sank two free throws cutting the wings deficit to 10 points with 616 left in the period with 313 left Odyssey Sims Irving MacArthur Baylor made a free throw bringing the wings within five of the Mercury OK bal's running pull-up closed the wings deficit to Just 2 points 76 to 74 with a minute left we always talk about scoring about being competitive tramble said we brought a lot of energy and I was really proud of that but the Mercury sneaked away again with two copper layups and a jump shot and free throw by Cloud ending the third quarter of 83 to 76 Howard had 14 points in the third quarter alone while open Bal tallied seven the wings kept their offensive momentum in the fourth quarter nearly closing a 10-point gap they came within two points 91 to 89 after another pair of Howard free throws with 427 remaining Howard set a career high with her 34th point of the night on a free throw at 356 left Cloud made two free throws in the final 10 seconds securing a 104-96 win for the Mercury Howard had a game high total of 36 points while ol Bal scored 26 Wednesday's game featured a red white and Hoops theme honoring Hometown Heroes including active and Veteran members of the military police fire entt Hospital personnel and Educators the game marks the wings halfway point of the regular season and Dallas sits at the bottom of the league with a 200 winning percentage the team will need a markedly different approach for the second half of the season if it hopes to qualify for playoffs we left nine at the line and gave them too many open threes in the first half but the competitive spirit I mean the two young ladies sitting beside me Howard and ogaal combined for 62 points traml said Tasha had her career high with 36 and the wings had 20 assists for the ninth time so there's a lot of positives from this to build on going into our next game the wings keep up their busy schedule facing the Atlanta Dream at home on Friday their fifth of six games in the span of 11 days thanks you for watching stay connected with us for more videos