The Untold Strategy Behind Alyssa Thomas’s Record-Breaking WNBA Playmaking Streak

Thomas puts teams on their back feet, and if they do finally manage to conjure up an attack, they’re met with, in essence, a wall of lasers.

And while Thomas is happy to grind teams to a pulp, she’s equally contented to tie them in knots with a passing prowess that has gone from good to great to historically remarkable.

In her 12th WNBA season, and her first with the Phoenix Mercury, Thomas is putting together perhaps the best passing season in league history.

Thomas Towers Above the Pack

The WNBA record for assists per game in a full season is held by Courtney Vandersloot, who averaged 9.09 assists in the 2019 season (Vandersloot averaged 9.95 assists in 2020, but played in only 22 games in that shortened season).

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