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The city, hot and dry.
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And empty. Who would be out here if they didn't have to be?
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It's the pregame rally. This place was as dark as a dungeon.
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The players saying nice things to us on a laptop.
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Brian Agler's wife.
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And Doppler makes his quiet appearance.
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No Stanky Legg Dance for us this morning.
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Fans already at the arena.
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The concourse is huge!
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They also have these things.
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This poor Monarchs fan has no team so we try to get her on our side...
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...no, these are not copies of The Watchtower.
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Success!
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The shiny hair gets to Adia and Dick shows her how crazy she looks.
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See?
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Dick looks like a cross of Kurt Cobain and C3PO.
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The apostrophe is in the wrong place! We look illiterate!
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Oh well, the game has to start now.
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Too many shots of Sue Bird? Unthinkable.
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The US Airways Arena lighting has hot spots that made the exposure uneven.
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Gonna be a lot of this.
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In the post game press conference, Agler said Swin was "the most animated".
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Penny's shoulder looks all messed up.
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Foul.
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But no one saw it. Thanks, Roy.
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Well they saw this foul.
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This was called as a foul!
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No look pass.
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ARob is the only player that says stuff back to us.
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LJ gets called for another foul and gets hit on the head with the ball.
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Boy, Agler looks especially intimidating with those reading glasses.
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The technical.
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LJ on the bench due to too much fouling.
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Le'coe rolled her foot.
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The Tanisha to LJ passing has worked great this year...
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...I guess someone heard about it.
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They don't do a conga line. They just walk around the court. We infiltrated this.
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How did LJ save this ball?
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But she did.
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Near the end of the game here.
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Agler is saying pick and roll.
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And there it is.
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Sue sent the ball into a low Earth orbit to get it over Bonner!
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We win! Well soon enough.
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I wonder who that pass will be going to.
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I guess I took the shot a little late. Oh well.
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We won! For real!
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We had to win. We already had the t-shirts.
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At the Sheraton waiting for the party to start.
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A toast to our beloved Storm.
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Sue's grandparents.
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And they're here, with Sue in the lead of course.
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And Adia videoing everything, because she's on the radio.
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That's my "hail Mary" shot over her head.
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A Svetlana dimple! Score!
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Why does ARob always look like she's in trouble?
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Another hail Mary shot.
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But wait. Where are the Australians?
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They were leaving as I ran to the airport. Nice of Allison to hold the automatic door open for the other two.
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