WNBA finals: Mercury remains confident after the difficulties of the time crisis are destroyed in the historic 3 -point shot in match 1
The Phoenix Mercury had the opportunity to hinder a victory on the road on Friday, but finally dropped, 89-86, at Las Vegas Aces in match 1 of the WNBA final. Match 2 of the Best Of-Seven series is scheduled for Sunday at 3 p.m. he.
The Mercury was in this position before because they lost the first match in the first round and in the semi-finals. That, Kahleah Copper said after the match, tune in Phoenix how to bounce stronger.
“Obviously, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter, but it’s okay,” she said when her team had learned. “It is a long series. I think that the point to remember from these other first, the state of mind was” back to the drawing board “. We had the greatest confidence in our locker room and in our coaches to make the adjustments.
Phoenix was locked up on both sides of the ball for most of the night. The defense of Mercury gave many problems to the aces, and they have reached an Uncharted territory in attack with 14 3 points – the most in any match 1 in the history of the WNBA final. It would have been logical to predict a Phoenix victory based on the heat that they were beyond the arc, but the Aces stole the momentum late in the game.
Copper gave Phoenix five 3 points in the first two quarters, who equaled Diana Taurasi during most of the 3S in a WNBA final. She ended the evening with a summit of 21 points, but most of this productivity occurred in the first half, being held at only three points in the second. This was partly from the aces going from the defense of man to man in the first half to the area in the second.
The Aces took an advance of 78-77 while the chronometer was read at 6:46 in the fourth quarter after a 3-point pointer by Dana Evans, who gave his team 21 points on the bench. However, the game remained close and was really decided until the last minute.
A driving lay-up by Alyssa Thomas reduced the Phoenix deficit to 87-86 with 52 remaining seconds. She then made a solid defensive game against the star of the Aces A’ja Wilson with less than 30 seconds and set out to the Lencrères francs. Unfortunately for her team, she missed the two attempts.
On the following possession, the goalkeeper of the Aces Copper hung Jackie Young, who made the two free throws. The Mercury called a complete time and the head coach of Mercury, Nate Tibbetts, said that they planned to give copper a chance to send the game in overtime, but the defense of Las Vegas has spoiled this plan. Instead, Sutou Sabond was forced to despair the arc, which was not close.
“We have to play a better defense,” said Sabally after the match. “Return to what we do best and I think the results show that we are the best team. But I’m really not too much towards me. This game is [over]. We will return, we will train tomorrow. We are going to browse our mistakes and find better solutions for certain things. We will come back on Sunday and win the match. “”
Sabally ended the evening with 19 points, while Thomas flirted with a triple-double when she collected 15 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists. Although falling late from 0-1 is not ideal, the mercury always feels confident in their chances.
“You always want to have an early one and we put ourselves in position [to win]”Said Tibbetts.” These are two of the best teams. This is why we are the last two standing. We talked about it earlier. We did some of these pieces on the section. We did not do them tonight. But we will be ready on Sunday. “
