back to back and back again 🏆🏆🏆 #RaiseTheStakes
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It's game day. Looking at the lineup, all we have is A’ja, Chelsea, Jackie and thoughts & prayers. #RaiseTheStakes
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Putting the Fever on TV all the time then at the end of the season bragging that they were the most watched team is like if when they put that U2 album on all our phones they declared it was the most downloaded album of the year
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Losing Game 1 of a best-of-five series can make things feel urgent pretty quickly. But if there’s one player who has shown she can respond from this exact position, it’s A’ja Wilson.
Three times in her postseason career, Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces have lost Game 1 of a best-of-five series and still found a way to win it.
The first came in 2020, when Connecticut handed Las Vegas a 25-point loss to open the semifinals. Wilson responded with 29 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 blocks in Game 2, including two huge baskets down the stretch to help the Aces even the series.
That win became even more important when Connecticut took Game 3.
Facing elimination, Wilson put up 18 points, 13 rebounds, and 4 assists to help force a deciding Game 5. She followed that with 23 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists, and 3 blocks, scoring Las Vegas’ final four points in a 66-63 win that sent the Aces to the Finals.
Two years later, she found herself in a similar position.
Wilson struggled in Game 1 of the semifinals against Seattle, finishing with just 8 points on 30% shooting as the Aces dropped the opening game of the semifinals. Her response? She averaged (30.0) points, (12.3) rebounds, and (2.3) blocks over the next three games as Las Vegas won all three. None came easily: two were decided by five points and the other went to overtime.
That run eventually ended with Wilson winning her first WNBA championship.
Then we saw it again last season.
Indiana took Game 1 of the semifinals, but Las Vegas responded and eventually pulled out the series in a deciding Game 5. Wilson saved one of her biggest performances for when the Aces needed it most, finishing with 35 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals, and 4 blocks in an overtime victory that sent Las Vegas back to the Finals.
So history says one thing pretty clearly: a Game 1 loss has never been enough to count Wilson out.
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Nike, go right ahead and pay that image licensing fee. let's get this on some on billboards asap.
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chill lmao. you must be confusing me with someone else cause this is not all i post. i'm just being realistic we can't keep asking the big 3 to do everything every year it's not fair to them. it's not shitting on the team to ask the front office to give a'ja better role players
Make the front office wake up to what? Before the injuries we had the team to go back to back. Stop shitting on the team. You are either with us or your not. Pick a side. Go away if this all you will post.
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Becky Hammon on the Aces' Game 1 loss to the Valkyries, via @ArionArmeniakos:
"We played like ass and only lost by 10. Dissect that however you want."
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i still think aces will win the series they're not gonna play this bad again even with all the injuries but honestly if this was it for this year maybe it would be for the best to make that front office wake up. anyways i'm chilling
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It was over fr when Lyss went down and now our entire bench is gone, like I genuinely don’t get why y’all are pressed 😭 what do you want them to do. You need more than 3 players
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A has to score 30-40 for her team to be competitive wohoooo @NikkiFargas
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