Down by 12 points on the road with 7:30 left in the third quarter, it looked like the Las Vegas Aces wouldn’t have enough to win. Playing essentially only six players due to injuries to starting point guard Chelsea Gray, starting center Kiah Stokes and Candace Parker, who has been out since July 25, a Game 5 in Vegas appeared inevitable.
Then A’ja Wilson got to work.
So with 5:05 left in the third quarter, the Aces are down 8, A’ja Wilson is 4/11 from the field and she just got blocked pretty bad by Jonquel Jones.
Wilson proceeds to make 7 of her last 10 shots and Vegas wins the title. Total takeover mode, look at these buckets pic.twitter.com/6AKMMHTfVG
— Ethan Fuller (@ethman43) October 19, 2023
She boxes out Breanna Stewart and grabs a defensive board. She gets blocked by Jonquel Jones, but then hits a jumper to cut the lead to six. She grabs another defensive rebound on a Sabrina Ionescu miss and converts a layup on the other end of the floor. Later in the quarter, she had another offensive outburst, scoring five-consecutive Las Vegas points. The 12-point deficit is erased and the Aces entered the fourth quarter with a two-point edge.
This turning point in the game, which led to a 70-69 Las Vegas Aces win, was just a vignette in the myriad of moments where…
