Indiana at Detroit

The Detroit Shock have won three WNBA Championships, but the resignation of Coach Bill Laimbeer and their early play has a lot more question marks on this edition than those of the past. The Shock has issues inside as they will still be without the services of three key players, Cherl Ford, Kara Braxton and Plenette Pierson. Indiana is a very good shooting team, and has had two games draining nine shots from beyond the arc - no other team has done it even once. The Fever also has a lot of revenge motives here as they have been knocked out of the playoffs by the Shock in each of the last three seasons. This time they have an advantage with a lot of Shock players not dressing for this one. I'll go with Indiana in this one, and am also backing the OVER here. The Fever have not been held to under 73 points this season, and going back to the last seven a year ago, are now averaging just shy of 80 points per game. The offense has translated well on the road, producing seven of the last eight to the OVER. These teams have also played four of their last five in the Motor City to the OVER, so it's the Fever and the OVER in this one.