MONTVILLE, Conn. — Some athletes have to be seen to be believed. With Alyssa Thomas, the more you see her, the harder she is to believe. She has two torn labrums, leaving her with a shooting motion that looks like a waiter carrying a tray, then throwing it in the air and quitting. You might wonder how a player with such obvious physical limitations can do anything in a WNBA game, which is why it’s so incredible that Thomas does everything.
On a day when she made second-team all-WNBA, Thomas performed an extraordinary act of basketball CPR on her Connecticut Sun. She put up 16 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists to lead Connecticut to a 105–76 victory over the Las Vegas Aces.
“She’s probably the toughest player I’ve ever coached,” Sun coach Curt Miller said. “She’s probably the most consistent player in terms of effort that I’ve ever been around.”
