Show Me Something <\/a>podcast, Fever guard Cunningham blasted Aces forward Wilson for dismissing Indiana\u2019s Game 1 upset as merely a bad night on her part.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Aces gave us no credit,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cThey had their media the next day, and they gave us no credit. Especially A\u2019ja, she\u2019s like, \u2018Oh I just played bad.\u2019 I\u2019m like, dude, AB had you in clamps, my girl.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilson had just been crowned MVP hours before tipoff, but Aliyah Boston held her to 16 points on 6-of-22 shooting. To Cunningham, brushing off that performance disrespected the defensive effort Boston brought to the floor.<\/p>\n
Wilson, Aliyah Boston Battle in the Paint<\/p>\n
Stat sheets do back up Cunningham in her defense of Boston. Wilson shot just 2-for-11 when directly guarded by Boston, who stayed physical without fouling. While Wilson described the matchup as \u201cno different\u201d than usual, the Fever felt they had found a way to disrupt one of the league\u2019s most dominant players.<\/p>\n
But in the second game of the series, Wilson answered to every attack rather emphatically. She poured in 25 points, nine rebounds, and five steals as the Aces managed to even the series out with a 90-68 rout.<\/p>\n
Cunningham admitted Vegas \u201cdefinitely played better,\u201d but stressed Indiana\u2019s Game 1 victory wasn\u2019t a fluke.<\/p>\n
The Fever have exceeded expectations just by making it this far, particularly with stars like Cunningham, Caitlin Clark, Sydney Colson, and Aari McDonald sidelined. Yet contributions from Kelsey Mitchell (34 points in Game 1), Lexie Hull, and Aerial Powers\u00a0have kept them alive.<\/p>\n
The two teams are now heading to Game 4 in Indiana, after the Aces have taken a 2-1 series lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Fever and Las Vegas Aces semifinal series has already been tense on the court. But the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-187652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}