Sacramento at San Antonio

The San Antonio Silver Stars were 24-10 a year ago, the best in the WNBA. This team can't be mistaken for that one. They maintain their top two players in Hammon and Young, but gone are Wauters, Buescher and Johnson. That trio combined for 29 ppg, 16 rpg,and over 200 assists. It has not been easy for them to make up those kind of losses and the Silver Stars are a big favorite off of what they did a year ago, not by the 2-3 team they put on the floor tonight. The Monarchs have not had a great deal of success this season, but they will be coming here with the memory of getting knocked out of the playoffs two straight years by the Silver Stars and, that mindset sometimes determines outcome, especially with a Silver Spurs team lacking the same ability as the team from a year ago. San Antonio is also not the defensive force they were a year ago with opponents putting up 77 a night on them and the Monarchs can score at 76 a game. The last four meetings have gone over the total as well as five of the last six in San Antonio. Payback time for the Monarchs and I will go with them here, along with the OVER.