With Taurasi, Taylor, Dupree, and Sanford all injured and in street clothes, the Mercury bench plus a very talented rookie guard played an intense and spirited full 48 minutes of basketball. I figured before the game, the highlights would amount to a talented hip hop squad doing their thing, but instead we were all impressed with some very exciting basketbal, and the fact that the Mercury won never hurts. Even the National Anthem was sung very impressively. If you skipped the game, you missed a good time.