Indiana Fever Bench Notes
Published on June 8, 2010 under Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Indiana Fever News Release
. The Indiana Fever has scored 30+ points off the bench in three straight games, and in 4 of 8 games overall. Only twice before and not since 2001 has the Fever scored as many points from its bench in three consecutive games.
. Shavonte Zellous' 23 points on Saturday vs. New York represented the fourth-highest point total by a Fever player off the bench.
. Five different Fever players (Davenport, Hoffman, Morris, Murphy, Zellous) have recorded double-digit points off the bench this season.
. Since beginning the season 0-2, a Fever bench player has scored in double figures in six straight games. Indiana is 5-1 in those games.
. Only three pairs of Fever bench players have ever totaled 20-point games in the same season: Shay Murphy and Shavonte Zellous in 2010; Coretta Brown and Kelly Schumacher in 2003; Gordana Grubin and Rita Williams in 2001 (Williams, however, was an All-Star and 29-game starter).
. Shay Murphy's 20 points and 10 rebounds at Chicago on May 22 was just the sixth double-double off the bench in Fever history. It was, however, the first double-double by a true bench player since Angie Braziel had 10 points and 10 rebounds in 2001. (Tamika Catchings in 2008; Tamika Whitmore in 2007; and Ebony Hoffman in 2006 all had bench double-doubles during seasons in which they started 17 or more games.)
. Shay Murphy has come off the bench in seven of eight games, yet is the club's leading rebounder with 6.4 rebounds per game, and she is the Fever's third-leading scorer with 8.3 points per game.
. Shavonte Zellous is the WNBA's only Stars of the Sun (All-Star) nominee who has not started a single game on the team for which she plays. (She started one game while playing for Tulsa).
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