LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 The Las Vegas Aces’ season is coming down to a winner-take-all Game 5 against the Indiana Fever on Tuesday night at Michelob Ultra Arena.<\/p>\n
After winning Games 2 and 3 to take a semifinal series lead, the Aces dropped Game 4 on the road on Sunday 90-83 as the Fever forced an elimination game.<\/p>\n
The winner between the Aces and Fever on Tuesday punches their ticket to the WNBA Finals, where they’ll face Phoenix after the Mercury eliminated the Minnesota Lynx in four games.<\/p>\n
While WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson scored a game-high 31 points, the Aces know they’ll have to clean up their defense after allowing 90 points on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
“We just gotta play their better defense,” Aces star center Wilson said after Game 4. “Make (Fever center Aaliya Boston’s) looks a little difficult, and kind of go from there.”<\/p>\n
“Just our defense,” Aces head coach Becky Hammon said regarding what led to Sunday’s road loss. “We’re better when we play out of our defense. We didn’t, we didn’t get a lot of stops.”<\/p>\n
“Defensively, we gotta be a lot better as guards in our pickup points and helping rebound,” guard Chelsea Gray said. “I gotta be better. I can’t have so many turnovers and let them go out in transition.”<\/p>\n
The Aces will try to bounce back from Sunday’s loss and continue their run at a third world title in four years. <\/p>\n
Tipoff in Vegas is set for Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 The Las Vegas Aces’ season is coming down to a winner-take-all Game 5 against…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":266650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[11043,11044,11045,11046,11047,11048,4144,11049,11050,11051,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-266649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-13-abc","9":"tag-13-action-news","10":"tag-abc-13","11":"tag-basketball-in-las-vegas","12":"tag-channel-13","13":"tag-ktnv","14":"tag-las-vegas-aces","15":"tag-las-vegas-news","16":"tag-las-vegas-sports","17":"tag-las-vegas-womens-basketball","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115293593573382687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}