No player had to fight off perception more than Jenna O’Hea.

The Australian wing had already spent four years in the WNBA and had the reputation of being a spot-up shooter, which was not necessarily untrue but it was something O’Hea wanted to change.

“Personally in the WNBA, I’ve been known as just a three-point shooter and I think this year I worked pretty hard at developing other aspects of my game,” she said. “Coming off ball screens, create more for others and not just be that spot-up shooter that I have been in the past.”

She is a career 42.4 percent shooter from three, fourth best all-time, with more than half of her field goal attempts coming from distance. While being incredibly effective in that role, it was also something that was very limiting.

She sought to break that pattern and worked with assistant coach Ryan Webb to add to her game and it was something that was evident as the season wore on. O¹Hea took the ball off dribble more and more and became a playmaker for her teammates.

“When I’ve played in leagues in France and Australia, I have done those things and when you get to America, it¹s a whole other level,” O’Hea said. “I feel like in those leagues I¹ve had it in my game. It was nice to finally be able to put it in over here and Ryan just worked on a couple of little things. Keep my dribble tighter so I had more confidence in myself to be able to do it.

“One of my favorite things is to create for others. In Australia, that was one of my greatest strengths and so to be able to bring it over here and for people to be able to notice it and see it, that means a lot to me. That’s a culture we are trying to develop here that we make that extra pass, we play as a team. Hopefully younger players see that and they can bring that into their game as well.”

O’Hea recorded four or more assists nine times and set a new career-high with six, which she reached three times during the season. The progress really started to show in the final 13 games of the season when she was dishing out 2.8 assists per game and was collecting 5.1 per 40 minutes on the floor.

Her most complete game came against San Antonio on Aug. 28 when she scored 11 points and had six rebounds, and five assists.

O’Hea’s development mirrored that of the rest of the team, which started to piece everything together at the end of the season and it showed with the Storm winning half of its season total in the final 12 games. It was a display of the direction the team is heading.

“From the beginning to the end of the season, everyone who followed us would see that our whole team grew together,” O’Hea said. “I think if you watched the first couple of games to the last couple of games, from one to 12 players, coaches, everyone was growing together. That is very exciting for the organization.”