The young, the Australian, and/or the injured:

Sun coach Thibault says Erin Phillips told him she would show up this season before he drafted her, and before her agent said she would not.

T-bone blames the Australian national squad: "She's kind of the young and the upcoming point guard of the future, and they've put a lot of pressure on her... What I think happened is that nobody on her national program thought that she was going to get drafted, so there wasn't any worry. So all the sudden it's, ‘Oh, shoot, Erin's been drafted. Is she leaving us?' Then the phone starts ringing. That's my theory."

Phillips speaks: "I've still got to make up my mind whether to go but at this point I'm thinking I'll hold off for a year and try and cement a spot with the Opals."

Tully's move to Indiana left Seattle with only one Australian. Batkovic will bring the count back up to two, but long-awaited guard Bibby reinjured her back and may not show up this year at all.

K-State coach Patterson says Megan Mahoney is exactly like Kristin Haynie, and will recover just like Nykesha Sales. Like Mahoney, Kesha hurt her Achilles tendon in her senior year: Patterson calls Sales "the standard example of how you handle an injury as severe as that."