The Las Vegas Aces N ° 2 beat the Phoenix Mercury 91-78 n ° 4 in match 2 of the WNBA 2025 final to increase 2-0 in the series.
Jackie Young collected 32 points while the four times the MVP A’ja Wilson collected 28 points and 14 rebounds.
Despite a silent score performance, Alyssa Thomas adopted Courtney Vandersloot to become the leader of all time of the WNBA assists, with 386.
Here’s what you need to know about everything that happened on Sunday. The seven-seven-year series goes to Phoenix for match 3 Wednesday (8 p.m. he, ESPN).
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How have won
The three talls of Las Vegas d’A’ja Wilson, Jackie Young and Chelsea Gray played together for five seasons. This experience and this connectivity really showed when Las Vegas took control of the game with an advantage of 22-10 quarter and then essentially buried the Mercury by scoring 30 points in the third, when Young had 21 points, a record of the WNBA final for a quarter.
Gray was the quintessence of his nickname “Point Gawd” on Sunday with 10 assists, as well as 10 points and eight rebounds. She knows so much to find Wilson and Young in the court, anticipating their movements. Once the aces started clicking, the mercury looked at a step behind the rest of the game.
The aces will always say that their offense is based on defense, and it showed in the second quarter when the Mercury had trouble obtaining one of the looks they wanted. Then, even when Phoenix started to create better opportunities, it was too late to count.
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Chelsea Gray loves Jackie Young happens through Mercury for a bucket
Jackie Young rolls in the track and obtains a difficult basket for AS.
How the mercury lost
They couldn’t keep Wilson without Alyssa Thomas to get big troubles, and they couldn’t keep Young at all. That said, they started the strong match and had an advance of 27-24 after the first quarter. Even then, however, he had the impression that Phoenix was in trouble because the offensive was so dependent on Kahleah Copper, who finished with 23 points.
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Sutou Sabally makes the aces of turnover pay with a bucket and 1 bucket
Sutou marks Sabally and draws a fault in transition for Mercury.
Sutou Sabally had 22 points, but she took a few shots too early in the stopwatch, which the Aces were able to transform into transition points. Phoenix has also obtained little from his bench. And the Mercury – After having made 14 3 points in a tight defeat of match 1 – was 5 out of 28 of the Arc Arc on Sunday. Whenever Phoenix was starting to run a little race, Las Vegas was able to answer and close all hope that the Mercury had to come back.
What could decide the game 3?
The mercury must ask themselves what to do when the aces won the first two games in different ways. Las Vegas rallied to steal the match 1 89-86 behind a large bench production, with 39 points from Dana Evans and Jewell Loyd. Wilson (21 points, 10 rebounds) and Young (10 points, 5 assists) were good in this match on Friday, but they were great on Sunday in an eruption. Meanwhile, Gray managed the two games well, even if Sunday had much less suspense. Until now, it has 20 assists in the final.
The Mercury will get a boost at home for matches 3 and 4, but they must also understand how to slow down the offensive from the AS perimeter. At this stage, keep Wilson below 30 points is positive, and the mercury did it in the two games. But they allowed the AS guards to decide on the results: they knew 56 points combined on Sunday after 57 years on Friday.
The challenge for Phoenix is twofold: disturbing the distribution of Gray’s ball and the notation of other AS guards. They have a few days to try to understand how. – Michael Voepel
