The Las Vegas Aces may have had some close calls against weak teams earlier in the season, but back-to-back 18-point wins against the next-two-best teams in the WNBA after them and a 15-1 record have them looking historically good.
The Aces defeated the 12-5 Connecticut Sun 102-84 Saturday afternoon at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas after defeating the 10-4 New York Liberty 98-81 Thursday in Vegas. The Liberty are of course the other “super team” in the league, featuring Breanna Stewart, Jonquel Jones, Sabrina Ionescu, Courtney Vandersloot and Betnijah Laney. The Sun are without one of their big four in Brionna Jones for the rest of the season (Achilles), but are the only team to have defeated the Aces this season and still have MVP candidate Alyssa Thomas, who has experience leading teams to overachievement and from a whom a triple-double is now almost expected every game. Yet, A’ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray, Jackie Young, Kelsey Plum, Candace Parker and the Aces beat both these teams by 18 in the span of three days.
Plum, who was announced as an All-Star reserve before the game, was 4-of-4 from three with a game-high 25 points on Saturday. Wilson added 23 points, 13 rebounds and five assists while Candace Parker was good for 15 points, eight helpers and three…
