Storm (10-23) vs. San Antonio Stars (7-26)

KeyArena | Seattle, Wash.

September 13, 2015 | 6 p.m. PT

Broadcast: Live Access

2015 vs. San Antonio: 2-2

Last meeting:  W 83-69 (August 28, 2015)

Leading scorer: Crystal Langhorne 22

Coming off an impressive win against Minnesota on Friday night, the Storm will wrap up the 2015 campaign on Sunday when it hosts the San Antonio Stars.

PLAYER TO WATCH: Jewell Loyd

It is the final time Jewell Loyd can make an impression on the voters for Rookie of the Year and it seems that she has continued to rise to the occasion. She is averaging 16.4 points over her last five games and was very efficient on Friday with 14 points on 5-for-8 from the field with no turnovers in 19 minutes.

SCOUTING SAN ANTONIO

San Antonio has had a rough go of it since the All-Star Break. The Stars are 2-14 since the July 29 and have lost 10 straight games coming into Sunday. Not only that, San Antonio has yet to win a game away from Freeman Coliseum. But Jia Perkins has played well against Seattle. She is averaging 16.7 points in the four meetings this season.

KEYS TO THE GAME

Keep the momentum rolling. The Storm has played three straight quarters against the top team in the West and outscored the Lynx by 19 in that span. A big part of that attack was getting into the paint. Seattle outscored Minnesota 36-18 in the paint on Friday night and got a combined 18 points and 13 rebounds from centers Markeisha Gatling and Quanitra Hollingsworth, including a double-double from Gatling.

#LoydROY

Jewell Loyd continues to add to her Rookie of the Year candidacy. Already with a Rookie of the Month award under her belt, Loyd is the only rookie in the top five in points, rebounds, and assists and averaged 12.2 points (1st among rookies), 4.4 rebounds (2nd), 2.3 assists (5th), 28.5 minutes (1st), and was shooting 92.1 percent from the line (1st) in the month of August. Loyd has reached double figure scoring in 11 of her last 14 games and is averaging 16.4 points over the last five games, including a 21-point performance at Chicago on Sept. 6. She has also been near automatic from the line and has made 73 of her last 77 attempts (94.8 percent).

KALEENA’S CAREER NIGHT

After nearly beating Minnesota on Tuesday, the Storm was able to turn the tables on Friday and it was a group led by Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis that finished it off. The rookie forward scored seven of her career-high 16 points in the fourth quarter for the 78-64 win. She also picked up a career-high four rebounds and four assists. It was her fourth double digit performance of the season with all four of them coming since Aug. 11. She is also averaging 9.7 points in the last month (10 games).

AMONG THE LEAGUE’S BEST

One of the more important parts of a player’s game is consistency and Jewell Loyd is starting to show just that. Between Aug. 21 and Sept. 6, she was averaging 15.4 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 2.2 assists, which puts her in elite company. She was one of only seven players to be averaging at least 14 points, five rebounds, and two assists during that span. The others were Candace Parker, Tamika Catchings, Maya Moore, Tina Charles, Jantel Lavender and Chelsea Bone.

THE RETURN OF TAK

After a four game absence, Ramu Tokashiki made her return to the Storm on Tuesday at Minnesota and came back from the FIBA Asia Championships with some hardware. The Japanese team finished a perfect 7-0 en route to claim a bid to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio De Janiero and Tokashiki played a major part in that, earning MVP honors for the tournament. She averaged 16.5 points, seven rebounds, two blocks, and 3.5 steals during the semifinals and finals of the tournament.

AUTOMATIC

Jewell Loyd is not only great at the free throw line. The rookie is all-time great. She is shooting 90.4 percent from the line for the season and this after missing five of her first 18 on the season. Loyd is second in the league in free throw percentage with at least three attempts per game and has made the eighth most (104). That 90.4 percent is the second best in WNBA history behind only Elena Delle Donne and if she were to maintain that 90 percent clip, she would become only the third rookie in WNBA or NBA history to make 90 percent with at least three attempts per game. The other two are Delle Donne and Sue Bird.

LANG FILLING UP THE STAT SHEET

Crystal Langhorne has been one of the more efficient and effective players in the league this season. She is third in the league with a 54.1 shooting percentage from the field and had a stretch of eight straight games in double figures, including a 29-point performance where she shot 12-for-13 from the field. Langhorne picked up her first double-double of the season on Friday against San Antonio with 22 points and 10 rebounds and then followed it up with 15 points and four rebounds against Washington on Aug. 30. She is also one of only two players in the league to be averaging 10 points, five rebounds, one steal, and be shooting better than 50 percent from the field. The other is Nneka Ogwumike.

JEWELL LOYD > LAUREN JACKSON

Jewell Loyd did something on Sunday night that had never been done before in franchise history. Loyd’s two free throws late in the fourth quarter were her 13th and 14th attempts of the night, having made all of them. The rookie’s 14-for-14 performance bested the previous single game record, held by all-time great Lauren Jackson at 13-for-13, for the most free throws attempted without a miss.

BIRD FLYING UP THE CHARTS

It has been a season of milestones for one of the all-time greats. With her three pointer late in the fourth quarter on June 25, Sue Bird eclipsed Sheryl Swoopes for 13th on the WNBA’s all-time scoring list. On August 2 at Madison Square Garden, she surpassed the 5,000-point mark to become the only player in league history to record 5,000 points and 2,000 assists for a career and did it in front of her hometown crowd. She is at 5,087 points and passed Tangela Smith for 11th all-time after scoring 13 in the win over San Antonio on Aug. 16. Bird will have a long road to trek to potentially break into the top 10 with Katie Douglas sitting at 5,563

BIRD IN THE HAND, WORTH TWO IN THE BASKET

Sue Bird continues to be one of the better distributors in the league and dished out a season-high 13 assists, one off a career-high, on August 8 at San Antonio. She also collected 12 on July 18 against Atlanta. Bird is second in the league with 5.4 assists per game and is one of only two players to be averaging 10 points and five assists (Courtney Vandersloot).