Hi everyone! It’s Saturday and the team and I are back in Phoenix. As you know we played at Key Arena in Seattle the other night and came home with a 'W'!! It was a crazy nail-biting game, but we pulled through as the stronger team. Everyone has been so excited about the upcoming playoffs, there's definitely no signs of fear! Practices have been exactly how they've been all summer long. They haven't intensified or gotten easier to rest anyone. During practices in phoenix this past week we had a lot of the Suns guys come in and watch, Suns coach Alvin Gentry always seems to make an appearance in the upper viewing area in our practice court. He just sits back and observes. This weeks practices have had me cracking up! The girls have been going very hard as usual but everyone is in happy spirits. Towards the end of Wednesdays practice Coach Gaines separated the girls into two teams. He had the black jersey'd team running quick 10 seconds or less plays, using a scenario where they were down 3 or 2 points. The white jersey'd team played defense with coach Julie and Bridget setting them up. They went through around 6 different drawn up plays from Corey and although the plays worked and they were able to get some great open looks they didn't score one point :( plus the defense from the white team was on point! On the 7th try the black team started full-court with 8 seconds left on the clock, they we're down 2 points and the white team was all set for a full court defense. As soon as the basketball was in-bounded every player on the white team fell (literally threw themselves on the ground) and the black team ran the ball all the way down and scored a lay-up! The defense was called 'Grenade' I think coach Julie gave it that name. So finally, the black team was able to score... And that section of practice was over! This gave everyone a good laugh, especially for the on lookers in the viewing section.

In Thursdays shoot around the teams continued the fun! Let's see… first Bridget found some big headphones and showed us her DJ'ing skills. Then, while the team did their two warm up laps around the court DeWanna piggy backed on Le'coes back, Le'coe showed us her track skills that were utterly hilarious! I cannot even explain how she set up at the line and ended up stutter stepping when she took off. At the very end of that shoot around Bridget and Le'coe had a race across court, I will upload the video for you all to see!

We are all excited to finally know that we will be playing San Antonio for the first round of playoffs!!! I personally cannot wait for our first home post season game! I know the x-factors going to come out strong! Well its finally time to leave work today!! My mom and nana are cooking dinner for the team tonight... After being on the road I think everyone is excited to get a home cooked meal!

See everyone at the noon game tomorrow vs LA!!