And all this hard work over the last few years comes together in this moment to be back in the Finals.” “For us to be back, I know that veteran group that’s been there in the past is just excited. “We were so close and you realize when you don’t make it there, it just magnifies how difficult it truly is,” Miller told Yahoo Sports. They won two elimination games to book a trip to their first Finals since losing the deciding Game 5 to the Washington Mystics in 2019. Bonner said it’s important for them to forget about that type of stuff. Some teams can do that serious thing, but not us.”Ĭonnecticut has the most wins in playoff history without winning a championship and the talk all postseason has been about their window closing. Once you start kind of having fun, that’s what you saw in Game 4 of the. This is only a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. “You kind of get in that mindset you get too serious,” Bonner told Yahoo Sports. DeWanna Bonner, who won titles with the Phoenix Mercury in 20, asked Miller to call off film review ahead of a must-win Game 4 and met with her teammates to tell them to have fun with it.
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The Sun certainly earned their return berth with a stunning comeback in Game 5 of the semifinal series in Chicago on Thursday. When you’ve put the work in, you see the rewards coming out, you see everyone reaping the benefits of what you put in, what we put in.” “It’s a good feeling when you feel it when you’ve earned it. “Here, I feel like I’m supposed to be here,” Wilson, who won her first MVP in 2020, told reporters after practice on Saturday. They’ll likely dominate the All-WNBA team to be announced this week. That isn’t the case now in their locker room, which boasts the MVP (Wilson), Coach of the Year (Becky Hammon), Most Improved Player (Jackie Young) and Defensive Player of the Year (Wilson). “Oh, great, that’s cute” she said of how others might have viewed their run to runner-up. That team was swept by a dominant Seattle Storm squad and looking back, Wilson said she felt then like she was just happy to be there. Much of this group has been here before, though they weren’t able to hold Finals games at home in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sydney Colson, one of the Las Vegas' Aces most fun players, with Chelsea Gray and Riquna Williams at the IX Awards at Allegiant Stadium in June. She delivered with bags of her Ruffles chips last month. Teammates have consistently called on Wilson to get them gifts every time she earns a big honor. There was that time a prank war between Dearica Hamby and Kelsey Plum resulted in a police officer showing up to practice. The team has hit social media gold jumping to “I Think I Love Her” by Gucci Mane on Instagram in July. Gray shoots the side-eye, and Colson is ready: “That loving look! She can’t resist us!” “No, we’re not,” Gray proclaims in the middle of her own interview, clearly having heard this idea before. They raise their voice to make clear they’re telling a reporter there are plans for Colson and Gray to get best friends tattoos on their fingers so when they point at each other, it reads out. Plaisance and Colson, who later drew a nasty and iconic side-eye from Chelsea Gray, are the clowns at center stage on Saturday. 3 Sun needed to tap back into to oust the reigning champion Chicago Sky and make it here. There's something to be said about the ability to have levity in high-stakes moments. It’s clear the Aces and Sun, both chasing their first championships in franchise history, are focused but relaxed less than 24 hours before tipoff of Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, which is expected to be another highly competitive and close series.
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