Phoenix Mercury calls their home crowd the “X-factor” for a reason. They stumbled out of the postseason with a home loss, but since then, they’ve been unstoppable. Plus, let’s not forget, they went 15-7 at home during the regular season. “We’re excited to go home [and] play in our home arena,” said coach Nate Tibbetts. But the question remains: will returning to familiar turf be enough to solve their Finals struggles? The answer might be… not really. The Aces took Game 1 by a narrow 89-86 margin and then completely dominated Game 2, 91-78. Now, all eyes turn to Game 3 at the PHX Arena on Wednesday, October 8. As Meghan Hall noted on WNBA on NBC, “I think if you’re the Mercury, you got to be questioning what’s happening now. Like how do you change the tide in game three? Yeah, you go home and yes, you have your home crowd, but like what are you going to do differently in that game three that could rectify games one and game two because you had to have at least one of those? And now the question is going to ge
