What. A. Game.

In an 89-87 overtime win, the Mercury snapped a two-game losing streak for the third time this season and improved their record to 10-7. It’s the fifth time the Mercury have had 10 wins by the halfway point in the season since the WNBA changed to a 34-game season in 2003.

But it was how Phoenix won that was the most impressive.

Check out the four things we learned from #MercVsSky below:

A Comeback for the Books   

Trailing by 19 points in the second quarter, things certainly didn’t look very good for the Mercury.

But thanks to a 22-8 run in the third quarter when they took a one-point lead, Phoenix quickly erased the double-digit deficit.

“I just didn’t think we were playing hard enough, really,” Brondello said about the turnaround. “It’s not that we weren’t having the effort; we didn’t have the execution and that really hurt us in the schemes that we did. Let’s just be aggressive, DB (DeWanna Bonner) staying up and in, and just taking pride in your one-on-one defense. We started blocking out—it’s just been Achilles heel—we preach it and talk about it but tonight was one of the first nights I actually saw everyone physically blocking out so we can go get the boards and get out and run.”

In fact, it tied their greatest comeback in team history (the Mercury trailed by 19 points on June 22, 1999 at Washington and came back to win, 79-76).

DeWanna Bonner and Elena Delle Donne’s Duel    

Watching Bonner and Delle Donne go back and forth was a privilege.

Bonner scored 16 points in the third quarter, going 6-7 from the field and 5-5 from the free throw line, the most points from a Mercury player in a quarter this season. Bonner finished with 34 points which are a new team season-high for her (previous 23 on June 21 at Seattle). It was also her first 30 or more point game of the season and her fourth 30 or more point game of her career.

“I just wanted to win,” Bonner said. “We came out pretty sluggish (tonight)—we got down by a lot and we weren’t playing our game. I just wanted to be aggressive (at the end)—tried to get things going. That’s what they preach to me so that was what I was trying to do.”

Sky Forward Elena Delle Donne finished with 32 points, her fourth game with 30 or more this season. Delle Donne scored zero points in the third quarter and came back to score 12 in the fourth.

“It was just an offensive kind of night for the both of us,” Delle Donne said. “She was absolutely on fire. It felt like anything she was putting up, it was going in and I was just trying to attack on the other end.”

Clutch When it Mattered

Name any player; each one had a significant impact on this win for the Mercury.

“I thought Monique Currie played her best defense of the season tonight,” Brondello said after the game. “Leilani [Mitchell] came up big with a steal at the end, Cayla Francis ignited our comeback and of course Brittney [Griner] and Candice [Dupree] made big plays, especially BG’s block on Elena [Delle Donne].”

As a team, the Mercury are averaging 11.88 turnovers per game, the fewest in the WNBA. Phoenix is on pace to set a WNBA record for fewest turnovers per game in a season, topping the 2013 Minnesota Lynx team that averaged 12.12 turnovers per game (412 turnovers/34 games).

The X-Factor Crowd

If their postgame quotes were any indication, the Chicago Sky organization was vastly impressed with the loud and amazing Phoenix Mercury home crowd on Tuesday.

“This is a credit to Phoenix, the organization, their fans…it can be a preseason game and that will be the atmosphere,” Pokey Chatman said. “I say that as a compliment.”

Elena Delle Donne took it a step further.

“This team has great character and it’s a gritty team to be able to come back like that,” she said. “With this incredible crowd, it’s really good to know it’s something we can build on. Obviously we’re upset we didn’t get the win, but it’s something to build on.”

Kudos, X-Factor. And thank you.