Las Vegas Acesi korvpallinaiskond teenis naiste NBA-s klubi ajaloo kolmanda meistritiitli, alistades Phoenix Mercury nelja j\u00e4rjestikuse v\u00f5iduga.<\/p>\n
T\u00e4navune WNBA finaalseeria on m\u00f6\u00f6dunud tasav\u00e4giselt, aga nelja v\u00f5iduni peetavas seerias esimesed kolm kohtumist v\u00f5itnud Aces l\u00e4ks v\u00f5\u00f5rsil toimunud neljandat m\u00e4ngu avaveerandi l\u00f5puks \u00fcheksaga juhtima. Teisel veerandil paisus edu 19-punktiliseks ning kuigi Phoenix j\u00f5udis otsustaval veerandil veel kuue silma kaugusele, realiseeris Aces siiski 97:86 (30:21, 24:17, 22:24, 21:24) v\u00f5idu ja WNBA meistritiitli.<\/p>\n
1997. aastal asutatud ning 2018. aastal Vegasesse kolinud Aces on tulnud WNBA meistriks kolm korda, k\u00f5ik viimase nelja aasta jooksul. K\u00f5igis kolmes finaalseerias on parimaks m\u00e4ngijaks valitud keskm\u00e4ngija A’ja Wilson, kelle auhinnakapist leiab ka neli p\u00f5hiturniiri k\u00f5ige v\u00e4\u00e4rtuslikuma m\u00e4ngija auhinda. Kellelgi pole rohkem.<\/p>\n
“Me v\u00f5ime r\u00e4\u00e4kida Mount Rushmore’ist, aga tema seisab \u00fcksinda Everesti tipus,” \u00fctles Acesi peatreener Becky Hammon. “Teist temasugust ei ole.”<\/p>\n
29-aastane Wilson tegi t\u00e4navuses finaalseerias kolmes m\u00e4ngus kaksikduubli, otsustavas m\u00e4ngus j\u00e4i ta sellest \u00fche lauapalli kaugusele. V\u00f5\u00f5rsil m\u00e4ngitud kolmandas ja neljandas m\u00e4ngus skooris Wilson 34 ja 31 punkti, kolmandas m\u00e4ngus tabas ta vahetult enne l\u00f5pusireeni v\u00f5iduviske.<\/p>\n
Mullu poolfinaalis tulevase meistri New York Liberty vastu kaotanud Acesi hooaeg ei olnud kerge, naiskond oli augusti alguses v\u00f5itnud 14 m\u00e4ngu ja kaotanud sama palju. “Me saime aru, et meil on riietusruumis piisavalt talenti, aga pidime \u00fcksteisse uskuma ja ise peeglisse vaatama. Seda me ka tegime,” s\u00f5nas Wilson.<\/p>\n
Nii oli: Las Vegas ei kaotanud alates 4. augustist p\u00f5hiturniiril enam \u00fchtki m\u00e4ngu ning 16-m\u00e4nguline v\u00f5iduseeria t\u00f5i neile l\u00e4\u00e4nekonverentsis teise koha. Play-off’is alistati Seattle Storm kaks-\u00fcks, siis Indiana Fever kolm-kaks ning esmakordselt WNBA ajaloos nelja v\u00f5iduni peetud finaalseeria l\u00f5ppeski nelja m\u00e4nguga.<\/p>\n
“Iga meistritiitli taga on erinev teekond. Me tahame alati siia j\u00f5uda, aga seda on t\u00f5esti nii keeruline teha,” \u00fctles Wilson. “Aga kui see raske t\u00f6\u00f6 vilja kannab ja sa saad seda tiitlit hoida, saad aru, kui eriline see on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Acesi korvpallinaiskond teenis naiste NBA-s klubi ajaloo kolmanda meistritiitli, alistades Phoenix Mercury nelja j\u00e4rjestikuse v\u00f5iduga. T\u00e4navune…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[10492,26,27,37,33,35,34,36,31,32,21,6875,28,29,19,25,23,24,22,20,30,6874],"class_list":["post-17002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uldised-uudised","tag-aja-wilson","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-ee","tag-eesti","tag-eesti-keel","tag-estonia","tag-estonian","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-news","tag-populaarseimad-lood","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-uldised-uudised","tag-uudised","tag-viimased-uudised","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}