AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) -- Swin Cash scored 20 points and the Detroit Shock used another strong second half to beat the Chicago Sky 92-84 on Tuesday night.
The Shock, who scored a league-record 72 points in the second half of Sunday's 111-82 rout of Phoenix, shot 69 percent in the second half against the Sky. Detroit is 5-0 all-time against Chicago.
"That's getting to be our M.O.,'' Detroit coach Bill Laimbeer said. "We concentrate more in the second half and we start making shots.''
Deanna Nolan had 18 points for Detroit, which had five players in double figures, and two - Cheryl Ford and Plenette Pierson - with double-doubles. Pierson had 16 points and 10 rebounds, and Ford finished with 10 points and 10 boards.
"We have so many great players that we seem to start every game playing at top speed,'' Cash said. "It takes us a while to play with patience. We did that in the second half again today, and we were able to pick Chicago apart.''
Jia Perkins scored 22 points for Chicago, and Chasity Melvin added 18. Candice Dupree scored 17, but needed 26 field-goal attempts to get there.
Two days after recovering from a lethargic first half by scoring a league-record 40 points in the third period against Phoenix, Detroit was at it again.
This time, the Shock put together a 10-2 run to finish the third and take a 63-57 lead.
Nolan and Ford then scored the first two baskets of the fourth quarter, moving the margin to 10, and Chicago never seriously threatened down the stretch.
Dupree missed more shots in the second half (13) than the entire Detroit roster combined (eight).
"The scheme we had going - she can make those shots, and that's why we were doing it,'' Chicago coach Bo Overton said. "If Detroit was going to give them to us, she was going to take them. She got her shots up.''
Laimbeer reinstated All-Star center Kara Braxton to the starting lineup, two days after benching her for all but the final moments of the Phoenix game.
Braxton wasn't completely out of the doghouse, though. She only played four minutes in the first half, and finished with eight points in 12 minutes.
