Mohegan — A longtime Connecticut Sun season ticket holder made the following observation, alluding to the team’s season opener last week at Mohegan Sun Arena:

“I knew more of Washington’s players than I knew ours,” the fan said.

He’s got that in common with much of the fan base, apparently, given the modest 4,523 who showed up to enjoy Thursday’s rousing 67-65 win over way-more-talented Chicago.

This just in: You may want to get to know your players a little better. They were written off before the season started. They’ve won two straight by making winning plays late against two playoff teams, Atlanta and Chicago.

It would be hyperbole to suggest this was the Miracle At Mohegan. But whenever anyone in this league beats Chicago in a close game, given that Elena Delle Donne gets more calls than Dominos, break out the trumpets, bells and horns.

Here, then, is a primer to people here with whom you might familiarize yourself before Sunday’s home game with Atlanta:

Camille Little: They traded her to Seattle for, essentially, Renee Montgomery. Now, we all love Renee. But this was robbery. Little is a tough cookie. She was assigned the impossible task of guarding Delle Donne, whose 27 points suggests Little failed. Au contraire. She was great. Remember: Delle Donne’s shooting range extends to the restrooms. And the idea that she finished this game without being whistled for one foul suggests that Johnny Most Reincarnate would call her “Her Lordship.” (He used to call Jordan “His Lordship.”)

“We could have done better,” Little said. “She took some tough shots. You’ve got to be in her space and make the shots tough. If she gets easy ones she’ll make everything. So be in her space. Make her adjust, make her pivot. That’s what I tried to do. Most of her shots were tough, but we could have made it tougher.”

Little has assumed — pardon the cliché here — the leadership role. She chided her teammates, out loud, after what she perceived was a subpar practice Wednesday. She responded with a terrific defensive effort.

“That’s just me. I’m honest to a fault sometimes,” Little said. “I hold our team to a very high standard. I don’t care how young or old we are. In this league, there are certain things you have to do well. Preparing for this team (Wednesday), I didn’t think we were up to par. And I wasn’t going to not say anything. That doesn’t help us. I’m going to do that every day. I’m never going to be quiet. They’ll be tired of hearing my voice by the end of the month. They’ll be like ‘Oh my God, I wish she’d shut up.’ I refuse. There’s too much potential in here for me to be quiet.”

Now doesn’t she sound like someone you should get to know?

Alyssa Thomas: She spent much of the game missing everything, including the rim. And yet she scored eight of her 14 points in the last 4:03, including two huge free throws with 1.9 seconds left. (Off a great pass from Alex Bentley). Thomas even made the free throws after the scorer’s table and officials combined to ice her.

Speaking of ice, Thomas was seen exiting the locker room after the game and walking across the hall to the trainer’s room, wearing enough ice to pass for January.

“I really felt like she was … I hate to say throwing it up there, but there was lot of contact in the paint. She was looking for the foul and it wasn’t coming,” Sun coach Anne Donovan said of Thomas. “And then she just got pissed. You could see it on her face. That’s why we started running stuff for her again.”

Now doesn’t Thomas sound like someone you should get to know?

Then there’s Alex Bentley team-high 16 points and picked Cappie Pondexter clean and hit a layup to begin the fourth-quarter comeback), Kelsey Bone (14 points, 12 rebounds, deft sense of humor) … you get the idea.

“They really trust each other,” Donovan said of her players, who have a belief in themselves right now nobody outside their locker room had even a week ago.

So they’re down to one UConn player here. Kelly Faris. She is a spare part. The rest of them played college basketball elsewhere. Which is not against the Geneva Convention. All they’ve done so far is try really hard and care a lot. They’re 2-1. Modest, but noteworthy.

Or as Bone said after Thursday’s win, “little old us.”

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.

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