WNBA Finals: Libertaro loses ace 0-2 to lose championship points Han Xu commentary + difficult to lie down
On October 12, Beijing time, the G2 game of the WNBA Finals, the defending champion Las Vegas Ace continued to sit at home to face the New York Liberty, and Han Xu, the core of the Chinese women's basketball team, was absent, but participated in the finals as a commentator. The New York Liberty started 2-19 behind, trailing by 19 points in the first quarter, even though the second quarter played a 25-14 offensive to chase the difference of 8 points in the first half, but was suppressed again in the second half and gradually opened the 30+ gap, and finally the New York Liberty lost 76-104 to the Las Vegas aces. The New York Liberty lost the championship point 0-2 behind on aggregate, and Han Xu, the core of the Chinese women's basketball team, had little hope of "lying on the crown", while Han Xu said that returning to the home court in the third game needed to be based on defense, and at the same time, strong points such as Stewart and Ionescu needed to play on the offensive end to win.
Statistics
Las Vegas Aces: Wilson 26 points, 15 rebounds and 3 assists, Young 24 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, Plum 5 three-pointers, 23 points and 8 assists, Gray 14 points, 6 rebounds and 11 assists.
New York Liberty: Jones 22 points and 10 rebounds, Lenny 12 points and 5 assists, Stewart 14 points, 13 rebounds and 3 assists, and Ionescu scored 10 points on 2-of-10 shooting.
Match Review
The WNBA Finals are a best-of-five format, with the league's No. 1 ace in the regular season having home-court advantage, with the first two games played at the ace's home court. In the first game, the ace defeated the libero 99-82, and Han Xu, the core of the Chinese women's basketball team, has announced that she will not return to the United States to participate in the WNBA Finals after leading the team to win gold at the Asian Games, but she is now participating in the WNBA Finals as a guest commentator.
In the first 4 minutes and 47 seconds of the first quarter, the Libertarians were crushed by the ace attack and defense, they were beaten 19-2 by the opponent, and only Stewart scored two points in the team, and the ace was to continue to score inside and out. The Libertarians offensive crosshairs in the first quarter were not good, even if the Libertides only trailed by 2 points 17-19 in the second half, but at the end of the first quarter, the Libertarians had trailed the aces 19 19 at 19-38, and the Libertarians were 6 of 20 from the team, including 2 of 10 from three-point range, while the Aces were extremely efficient on 14 of 20 shooting, especially 6 of 10 from the outside, 4 of 5 from the Wilson for 12 points, and Plum for 3 of 3 for 9 points and 3 assists.
Entering the second quarter, the libero's offensive and defensive intensity increased to open the counterattack mode, especially the single-quarter limit ace scored only 14 points, which was 24 points less than the ace in the first quarter. The Libero went on an 11-point run to win 25-14 in a single quarter, and the Libero trailed the ace 44-52 at the end of the first half. In the first two quarters, libero center Jones scored 19 points and 10 rebounds on 7-of-10 shooting, backcourt core Ionescu scored 7 points on 1-of-7 shooting, Aces core Wilson had 14 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists and Plumm had 12 points, 6 assists and 3 three-pointers.
Yibian fought again, the libero continued to be suppressed by the ace, the team's four main players except Jones remained efficient, Stewart, Lenny and Ionescu all turned on crazy iron mode. The Libertarians lost by 15 points in the first quarter 13-28 and trailed the Aces 57-80 at the end of the third quarter. In the first three quarters, Jones 22+10+3 blocks, leading the libero four to score double-doubles, but Lenny, Stewart and Ionescu all scored only 10 points on crazy shots. Ace 3 scored double-doubles, Wilson 24+11, Young 18+6+4 and Plum 17 points and 7 assists, Gray 9 points, 11 assists and 5 rebounds.
In the final quarter, the Libero withdrew the main team and gave up early, and the Ace took the lead in a wave of 10-1 offensive, and the Libero had trailed the Ace by 32 points 58-90. Due to the large gap between the two sides, the game has lost the suspense of victory and defeat in advance into garbage time, and in the end, the libero was hung by the ace and lost another game, and the total score was 0-2 behind the ace to lose the championship point, and if he lost another game, he would be swept away and lost the championship.
The New York Liberty will return home at 3 a.m. on October 16 to face the Las Vegas Aces in the G3 Finals. With the current strength gap and performance of the New York Liberty, it is unlikely that they will want to counterattack, and it is difficult for Han Xu to "lie down and win" to win the 6th championship this year.
Both sides start
Las Vegas aces: Young, Wilson, Stokes, Plume, Gray
New York Freeman: Lenny, Stewart, Jones, Ionescu, Vanderslut
(Text/Drunken Lying Float)