# 2002 Detroit Shock season

The 2002 WNBA season was the fifth season for the Detroit Shock. The team went 0–13 in their first thirteen games, finishing with a franchise worst 9–23.

## Transactions
### WNBA draft

| Round | Pick | Player | Nationality | School/Team/Country |
| 1 | 2 | Swin Cash | United States | UConn |
| 2 | 18 | Lenae Williams | United States | DePaul |
| 2 | 20 | Ayana Walker | United States | Louisiana Tech |
| 2 | 21 | Jill Chapman | United States | Indiana |
| 2 | 22 | Kathy Wambe | Belgium | Dexia Namur (Belgium) |
| 3 | 47 | Ericka Haney | United States | Notre Dame |

### Transactions

| Date | Transaction |
| April 19, 2002 | Drafted Swin Cash, Lenae Williams, Ayana Walker, Jill Chapman, Kathy Wambe and Ericka Haney in the 2002 WNBA Draft |
| April 26, 2002 | Waived Rachael Sporn |
| May 3, 2002 | Traded Claudia Neves to the Phoenix Mercury in exchange for a 2003 4th Round Pick |
| May 10, 2002 | Traded a 2003 4th Round Pick to the Sacramento Monarchs in exchange for Stacy Clinesmith |
| May 24, 2002 | Waived Ericka Haney and Stacy Clinesmith |
| June 19, 2002 | Fired Greg Williams as Head Coach |
| June 19, 2002 | Hired Bill Laimbeer as Head Coach |
| June 21, 2002 | Waived Oksana Zakalyuzhnaya |
| June 27, 2002 | Waived Begoña García |
| June 28, 2002 | Signed Stacy Clinesmith |
| July 7, 2002 | Traded Wendy Palmer and a 2003 2nd Round Pick to the Orlando Miracle in exchange for Elaine Powell and a 2003 1st Round Pick |

## Schedule
### Regular season

2002 game log Total: 9–23 (Home: 7–9; Road: 2–14) :
May: 0–1 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–1)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
1
May 30
@ Orlando
L 66–80
Swin Cash (16)
Astou Ndiaye-Diatta (7)
Deanna Nolan (5)
TD Waterhouse Centre
0–1 :
June
: 1–12 (Home: 1–5; Road: 0–7)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
2
June 1
@ Indiana
L 62–79
Deanna Nolan (15)
Edwina Brown (6)
Brown Cash (5)
Conseco Fieldhouse
0–2
3
June 2
Indiana
L 65–78
Wendy Palmer (16)
Wendy Palmer (5)
Edwina Brown (6)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
0–3
4
June 5
@ New York
L 59–60
Swin Cash (15)
Cash Palmer (8)
Edwina Brown (6)
Madison Square Garden
0–4
5
June 6
@ Cleveland
L 55–72
Wendy Palmer (15)
Edwina Brown (5)
Dominique Canty (6)
Gund Arena
0–5
6
June 9
New York
L 63–70
Swin Cash (14)
Wendy Palmer (15)
Edwina Brown (5)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
0–6
7
June 11
@ Los Angeles
L 80–90
Deanna Nolan (18)
Swin Cash (8)
Dominique Canty (3)
Staples Center
0–7
8
June 13
@ Phoenix
L 67–70
Wendy Palmer (20)
Cash Ndiaye-Diatta (7)
Dominique Canty (5)
America West Arena
0–8
9
June 15
@ Portland
L 60–67
Wendy Palmer (14)
Swin Cash (12)
Edwina Brown (5)
Rose Garden
0–9
10
June 18
@ Washington
L 67–75
Nolan Palmer (16)
Wendy Palmer (9)
Dominique Canty (5)
MCI Center
0–10
11
June 21
Orlando
L 59–80
Swin Cash (20)
Palmer Walker (9)
Canty Ndiaye-Diatta (2)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
0–11
12
June 26
Charlotte
L 73–80
Dominique Canty (17)
Astou Ndiaye-Diatta (7)
Dominique Canty (6)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
0–12
13
June 28
Miami
L 74–78 (OT)
Swin Cash (17)
Wendy Palmer (9)
Dominique Canty (8)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
0–13
14
June 30
Sacramento
W 71–60
Swin Cash (19)
Swin Cash (11)
Dominique Canty (6)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
1–13 :
July
: 5–6 (Home: 4–2; Road: 1–4)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
15
July 1
@ Minnesota
L 80–85 (OT)
Swin Cash (16)
Swin Cash (8)
Swin Cash (5)
Target Center
1–14
16
July 6
@ Houston
L 40–61
Astou Ndiaye-Diatta (12)
Cash Ndiaye-Diatta (6)
Deanna Nolan (3)
Compaq Center
1–15
17
July 8
@ Utah
L 76–94
Swin Cash (25)
Swin Cash (6)
Deanna Nolan (5)
Delta Center
1–16
18
July 10
New York
W 66–63
Swin Cash (16)
Swin Cash (10)
Dominique Canty (4)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
2–16
19
July 12
Minnesota
W 72–69
Swin Cash (18)
Swin Cash (6)
Elaine Powell (5)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
3–16
20
July 18
@ Washington
L 59–63
Swin Cash (16)
Swin Cash (15)
Edwina Brown (5)
MCI Center
3–17
21
July 20
Miami
W 69–48
Swin Cash (11)
Astou Ndiaye-Diatta (6)
Nolan Powell (5)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
4–17
22
July 23
Utah
L 75–86
Swin Cash (21)
Swin Cash (11)
Elaine Powell (5)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
4–18
23
July 25
Washington
W 64–58
Swin Cash (17)
Astou Ndiaye-Diatta (12)
Elaine Powell (6)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
5–18
24
July 27
@ Charlotte
W 74–66
Swin Cash (20)
Swin Cash (10)
Elaine Powell (8)
Charlotte Coliseum
6–18
25
July 28
Seattle
L 59–72
Swin Cash (15)
Ndiaye-Diatta Powell (7)
Elaine Powell (4)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
6–19 :
August
: 3–4 (Home: 2–2; Road: 1–2)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
26
August 1
Cleveland
L 66–68
Swin Cash (19)
Swin Cash (10)
Elaine Powell (5)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
6–20
27
August 3
@ Cleveland
W 68–57
Swin Cash (24)
Swin Cash (14)
Elaine Powell (6)
Gund Arena
7–20
28
August 4
Phoenix
W 91–75
Swin Cash (14)
Swin Cash (9)
Dominique Canty (7)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
8–20
29
August 6
Charlotte
L 65–76
Elaine Powell (15)
Kelly Santos (7)
Swin Cash (5)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
8–21
30
August 9
Indiana
W 55–54
Brown Cash (10)
Elaine Powell (5)
Elaine Powell (4)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
9–21
31
August 11
@ Orlando
L 58–71
Elaine Powell (15)
Elaine Powell (8)
Elaine Powell (4)
TD Waterhouse Centre
9–22
32
August 13
@ Miami
L 56–61
Swin Cash (13)
Swin Cash (8)
Swin Cash (4)
American Airlines Arena
9–23 :
2002 season schedule :

### Season standings

| Eastern Conference | W | L | PCT | Conf. | GB |
| New York Liberty $^x$ | 18 | 14 | .563 | 11–10 | – |
| Charlotte Sting $^x$ | 18 | 14 | .563 | 12–9 | – |
| Washington Mystics $^x$ | 17 | 15 | .531 | 12–9 | 1.0 |
| Indiana Fever $^x$ | 16 | 16 | .500 | 12–9 | 2.0 |
| Orlando Miracle $^o$ | 16 | 16 | .500 | 13–8 | 2.0 |
| Miami Sol $^o$ | 15 | 17 | .469 | 11–10 | 3.0 |
| Cleveland Rockers $^o$ | 10 | 22 | .312 | 7–14 | 8.0 |
| Detroit Shock $^o$ | 9 | 23 | .281 | 6–15 | 9.0 |

## Statistics
### Regular Season

| Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
| Swin Cash | 32 | 32 | 33.7 | .408 | .206 | .762 | 6.9 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 14.8 |
| Wendy Palmer | 16 | 16 | 29.0 | .425 | .317 | .660 | 6.0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 11.5 |
| Elaine Powell | 15 | 13 | 26.5 | .446 | .273 | .850 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 9.9 |
| Deanna Nolan | 32 | 32 | 25.1 | .415 | .368 | .806 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 8.7 |
| Astou Ndiaye-Diatta | 32 | 32 | 24.3 | .467 | .000 | .590 | 5.1 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 8.6 |
| Dominique Canty | 28 | 12 | 22.3 | .338 | .200 | .724 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 5.7 |
| Edwina Brown | 28 | 7 | 19.6 | .328 | .500 | .719 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 4.1 |
| Barbara Farris | 32 | 16 | 17.6 | .419 | .000 | .738 | 2.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 4.5 |
| Ayana Walker | 32 | 0 | 17.1 | .377 | .222 | .694 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 5.1 |
| Kelly Santos | 12 | 0 | 14.1 | .381 | N/A | .600 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 3.7 |
| Stacy Clinesmith | 12 | 0 | 8.8 | .381 | .400 | .833 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 2.3 |
| Begoña García | 8 | 0 | 8.0 | .182 | .333 | .500 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Lenae Williams | 27 | 0 | 6.6 | .297 | .241 | .000 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 2.7 |
| Jill Chapman | 19 | 0 | 6.3 | .370 | .000 | .667 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.2 |
| Oksana Zakaluzhnaya | 3 | 0 | 3.3 | .333 | N/A | N/A | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
$^‡$Waived/Released during the season $^†$Traded during the season $^≠$Acquired during the season