of chicago sky I know this position very well. down in the game. catch up in the series. Keep the seeds underneath. All of it.
“That’s what MO has been like for the last two years. It’s always found a way to bounce back.” Azurah StevensSky’s sixth player said less than a year after Sky won the championship as the sixth seed after their Game 1 loss.
Sky, currently the No. 2 seed in the WNBA playoffs, put up a strong rebound to tie the semi-final series 1-1. 85-77 Runaway victory over No. 3 Connecticut Sun At the Wintrust Arena in Chicago. Game 3 of the Best of 5 Series is Sunday in Connecticut (1pm on ESPN2).
Chicago aims to become the first repeat team since Los Angeles Sparks 2001-02. The Game 1 loss matched his four wins against the Suns in the regular season.But Wednesday night’s win was dominant and quickly got out of hand on the next big outing candace parkerRather than fall for the physical paint-pushing Connecticut they played in victory, Sky played their style.
With all five Chicago starters in double digits, the team shot 50.8% overall and 40% from 3-point range. This is a number in line with their standard game. Head coach James Wade emptied the bench in the final minutes as The Sun won the MVP with his game-high 23 points. jonkel jones.
How Sky won game 2
Chicago found their normal pace and played from the jump. They moved the ball well, found a cutter and finished off good looks to lead 15 and head into his break at halftime.
All starters were involved in a more fluid attack. courtney vanderthroat Although averaging 11.8 points per game in the regular season, she didn’t score until the fourth quarter of the first meeting of the series. Finished at 10 on a night. And after her two highly uncharacteristic assists, she easily found her game-high eight of her 22 assists on the team in the paint.
Allie Quigley (11.4 ppg) scored all five points in the first quarter and nearly matched their overall Game 1 output. A more immediate concern was that the four-time 3-point winner of her All-Star contest missed all of her 5 of her 3-point attempts in that her 5-point loss. On Wednesday, she went 3-for-6 (she went 4-10 overall) and scored 13 points.
Parker has kept the engine and accelerator for Sky’s semi-finals so far.next absolute monster game 1 She made the first five shots, including two 3-pointers. It wasn’t until the 1:26 mark in the second quarter that she missed her first field goal attempt.
Parker scored 22 points shooting 8/13 and 3/4 from 3-point range. She added 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 blocks, 1 steal and just 1 turnover.Her one problem in her 24-minute line was Free throws were her 7-for-3 night from her line.
caria copper 12 points and Emma Miesmann Added 14 to 6 vs 8 shooting nights.
how the sun bounces in game 3
The Sun have never been short of big players in their last few semi-finals, but they have been short of a backcourt to step up when needed. It may still be an obvious problem.
Head coach Kurt Miller and guard Courtney Williams Natisha Heidemann They scored a total of 11 points in Game 1. Williams had a rough shooting day (3 of 12) that day, missing all four field goals in the first quarter on Wednesday. She was 3-for-5 in her second, but it wasn’t enough for her to really make a move and she scored six points (3-for-10) in the 19th minute. Hiedeman said she was 5/9 with 12.
Miller chose to go with Dijonay Carrington, Odyssey Sims The game stretches long in the second half with 20 points out of reach. Together, they went 6-for-8 on 13 shots. Jones (10 of 17 games) is the only Sun-his player to achieve a shooting percentage of over 40%.
Neither Alyssa Thomas (7p, 10r) nor Dewana Bonner, who made two free throws at 0-6, failed to make enough breakthroughs to keep the Sun in the lead. The defense had to be Connecticut’s calling card, and it wasn’t enough to jam the skies early on.
WNBA semifinal schedule
Game 1: sun 68, sky 63
Game 2: Sky 85, Sun 77 (series even, 1-1)
Game 3, Sunday: Chicago in Connecticut, 1pm ET, ESPN2
Game 4, Tuesday, September 6: Chicago in Connecticut, 8 PM, ESPN2
Game 5*, Thursday, September 8: Connecticut, Chicago, 8 PM, ESPN2
*If necessary
