2006 Phoenix Mercury Statistics

Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Team Record: 18-16
Finishing 5th in the WNBA's Western Conference
Coach: Paul Westhead (18-16)
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Attendance: 126,801, Avg. 7,459 in 17 home dates

2006 Phoenix Mercury Roster

The Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association ended the 2006 season with a record of 18 wins and 16 losses, finishing fifth in the WNBA's Western Conference.

Phoenix scored 2,960 points, best in the league. The team gave up 2,879 points, most in the circuit. Diana Taurasi tossed in a team-best 860 points for the Mercury, while Cappie Pondexter netted 14 or more per game also. Kristen Rasmussen racked up 208 boards. Diana Taurasi dished out 139 assists for the squad.

Defensively, Diana Taurasi added 42 steals.

Paul Westhead coached the team.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Diana Taurasi	F-G	34	34	1152	660	298	305	121	183	143	25	97	122	139	42	27	79	100	860
Cappie Pondexter	G	32	32	1067	495	219	126	47	163	139	37	70	107	98	37	4	45	84	624
Kelly Miller	G	27	24	814	259	109	79	30	62	48	41	103	144	94	28	6	73	74	296
Penny Taylor	F	20	8	536	220	98	65	24	66	57	32	81	113	51	29	9	29	57	277
Kamila Vodichkova	F-C	28	27	736	250	111	7	0	65	50	46	141	187	41	28	19	53	89	272
Jennifer Lacy	F	33	3	504	128	61	4	0	58	40	42	60	102	14	12	12	45	102	162
Kristen Rasmussen	F	34	32	908	125	64	14	6	20	12	72	136	208	72	28	27	33	98	146
Belinda Snell	G	30	0	250	90	35	63	20	10	10	11	28	39	19	15	3	17	28	100
Jennifer Derevjanik	G	31	8	467	75	38	15	4	26	16	11	46	57	68	23	7	25	42	96
Crystal Smith	G	23	0	197	47	21	19	7	12	11	4	18	22	22	17	0	18	24	60
Tamicha Jackson	G	3	2	54	28	10	3	0	6	4	1	3	4	7	6	1	4	7	24
Ann Strother	G-F	8	0	39	14	6	10	4	0	0	2	3	5	2	1	2	0	3	16
Bridget Pettis	G	11	0	67	19	5	8	1	6	3	5	4	9	10	3	0	2	11	14
Sandora Irvin	F	7	0	38	13	2	3	0	5	3	2	8	10	1	2	8	3	5	7
Kayte Christensen	F	11	0	53	6	1	0	0	2	1	2	12	14	2	3	1	5	14	3
Mandisa Stevenson	F-C	2	0	18	5	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	2	3	3
Totals		334	170	6900	2434	1079	722	265	684	537	334	811	1145	640	275	127	433	741	2960

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Diana Taurasi	F-G	34	34	33.9	45.2	39.7	78.1	0.7	2.9	3.6	4.1	1.2	0.8	2.3	2.9	25.3
Cappie Pondexter	G	32	32	33.3	44.2	37.3	85.3	1.2	2.2	3.3	3.1	1.2	0.1	1.4	2.6	19.5
Kelly Miller	G	27	24	30.1	42.1	38.0	77.4	1.5	3.8	5.3	3.5	1.0	0.2	2.7	2.7	11.0
Penny Taylor	F	20	8	26.8	44.5	36.9	86.4	1.6	4.1	5.7	2.6	1.5	0.5	1.5	2.9	13.9
Kamila Vodichkova	F-C	28	27	26.3	44.4	0.0	76.9	1.6	5.0	6.7	1.5	1.0	0.7	1.9	3.2	9.7
Jennifer Lacy	F	33	3	15.3	47.7	0.0	69.0	1.3	1.8	3.1	0.4	0.4	0.4	1.4	3.1	4.9
Kristen Rasmussen	F	34	32	26.7	51.2	42.9	60.0	2.1	4.0	6.1	2.1	0.8	0.8	1.0	2.9	4.3
Belinda Snell	G	30	0	8.3	38.9	31.7	100.0	0.4	0.9	1.3	0.6	0.5	0.1	0.6	0.9	3.3
Jennifer Derevjanik	G	31	8	15.1	50.7	26.7	61.5	0.4	1.5	1.8	2.2	0.7	0.2	0.8	1.4	3.1
Crystal Smith	G	23	0	8.6	44.7	36.8	91.7	0.2	0.8	1.0	1.0	0.7	0.0	0.8	1.0	2.6
Tamicha Jackson	G	3	2	18.0	35.7	0.0	66.7	0.3	1.0	1.3	2.3	2.0	0.3	1.3	2.3	8.0
Ann Strother	G-F	8	0	4.9	42.9	40.0		0.3	0.4	0.6	0.3	0.1	0.3	0.0	0.4	2.0
Bridget Pettis	G	11	0	6.1	26.3	12.5	50.0	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.9	0.3	0.0	0.2	1.0	1.3
Sandora Irvin	F	7	0	5.4	15.4	0.0	60.0	0.3	1.1	1.4	0.1	0.3	1.1	0.4	0.7	1.0
Kayte Christensen	F	11	0	4.8	16.7		50.0	0.2	1.1	1.3	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.5	1.3	0.3
Mandisa Stevenson	F-C	2	0	9.0	20.0	100.0		0.5	0.5	1.0	0.0	0.5	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.5
Averages		334	170	20.7	44.3	36.7	78.5	1.0	2.4	3.4	1.9	0.8	0.4	1.3	2.2	8.9

2006 Phoenix Mercury Statistics

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