Event: Shock at Mercury
The Phoenix Mercury fall to the Detroit Shock in a WNBA Finals rematch. Without key players Penny Taylor and Tangela Smith, coupled with poor performances by Diana Taurasi (1-13) and Cappie Pondexter (4-24), the Mercury trailed the majority of the game. The Mercury are 2-6 in regular season play.
I tried a few different things for today’s game. I set up a remote camera, as I usually do for Phoenix Suns games. While the WNBA players won’t sky to the rim like the NBA players, they tend to be very aggressive on the boards, and will scrap in the paint to force and gather up loose balls.
And while I was at it with the remote, well let’s just say I brought a video camera. More info on that, and the full game gallery link to follow!
So, being that this was a finals rematch, a day game, and a Saturday game (giving me the rest of the weekend to edit video), I figured this was the perfect storm of circumstances, and decided this was the best time to video the camera remote segment. Little did I know. Everyone came out of the woodworks for this game. It was nationally televised, so extra video people were present. The dancers were practicing, so the arena music was blaring. Kids were all over the place, because the Mercury had a Fathers Day event planned. In general, it was a madhouse. I like it like that when all I have to do is shoot the game, but when you have to put together a segment for video, it can get frustrating.
Anyhow, I plan to edit that up soon, because this coming week will be very busy. Rattlers game on Monday, and Mercury games Wednesday and Friday. I love being busy.
So, back to the game. My usual assortment of images, including the remote images, in the gallery link below:
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