WNBA finals are starting on Sunday night! The best regular season team Las Vegas Aces is going to play against third-seeded Connecticut Sun. It wasn't an easy road for both teams to the finals. Aces stormed in the first round against Phoenix Mercury but a matchup against Seattle Storm wasn't so easy. Las Vegas lost in the first game but came in the second. The third game could be one of the all-time greatest in WNBA history. Aces had a lead, but Seattle came back and took it. In the last seconds of regulation, Sue Bird hit a three-pointer but the Aces were able to tie the game while there were only 0.8 seconds left on the clock. In the overtime, the Aces dominated and took the victory. Game 4 was very close again but in the second half Aces took the lead and didn't give it away.

Connecticut Sun started well first round versus Dallas Wings but they lost one game, which led to the deciding Game 3 where Sun dominated. In the semi-finals, Sun played against last season's champs Chicago Sky. Connecticut won the first game but Chicago won the second. The third game also went to the Sky and it looked like the series could be over. Candace Parker dominated and looked excellent but Sun found ways how to stop her. Game 4 was a blowout which led to Game 5. After three quarters, Chicago was up by 10 points but Sun scored 18 points in a row which allowed them to win the series although the team faced two elimination games.

Let's talk about finals Game 1. In the regular season, the Sun allowed the second-fewest points per game (77.8). However, that number has dropped even lower in the postseason, with the Sun stifling the opposition and holding the Wings and Sky — two of the four highest-scoring regular season offenses in the WNBA — to just 72.8 points per game.

The Aces score in a variety of ways. They play at the fastest pace in the league, they also led the league in three-point field goal percentage and took the third-most threes in victories. Las Vegas also finished third in both free throws attempted and fastbreak points. The Sun defense is dominant in all three of those areas. Only one team (the Storm) allowed fewer fastbreak points to their opposition or surrendered a lower percentage from beyond the arc. When it comes to not fouling their opponents, only the Storm and Sky handed out fewer free throws per game.

The Sun led the league in several offensive categories this season: points off turnovers, second-chance points and fastbreak points, second in free throw attempts per game as well as points in the paint and two-point field goal percentage, and third in three-point field goal percentage. Las Vegas allowed the fewest points off turnovers in the league, the second-fewest second-chance points, third-fewest points in the paint and the fourth-fewest fastbreak points. However, they were middle of the pack when it came to overall two-point defense and when it comes to opponent three-point shooting, they were actually third-worst in the league.

Overall, teams match up very well on the defense. It is the first game of the finals and the scoring should be lower. Connecticut won the series against Chicago because of great defense. This should be the case today and I'm predicting that teams will score less than 168.5 points.

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WNBA总决赛将于周日晚上开始!常规赛最好的拉斯维加斯王牌队将对阵第三号种子康涅狄格太阳队。两队进入决赛都不是一件容易的事。ace在第一轮对凤凰水星队的比赛中猛攻，但对西雅图风暴队的比赛就不那么容易了。拉斯维加斯队在第一场比赛中输了，但在第二场比赛中获胜。第三场比赛可能是WNBA历史上最伟大的比赛之一。王牌队一度领先，但西雅图队反败复胜。在比赛结束前的最后一秒，苏·伯德命中三分，但王牌队在比赛还剩0.8秒时扳平了比分。在加时赛中，王牌队占据了上风，取得了胜利。第四场比赛双方再次势均力敌，但在下半场ace取得领先，并没有让对方失去优势。

康涅狄格太阳队在第一轮对阵达拉斯翼队的比赛中开局不错，但他们输掉了一场比赛，这导致了决定性的第三场比赛，太阳队占据了优势。在半决赛中，孙杨对阵上赛季的冠军芝加哥天空队。康涅狄格州赢了第一场，但芝加哥赢了第二场。第三场比赛也到了天空队，看起来系列赛可能要结束了。坎迪斯·帕克占据了上风，看起来很出色，但孙杨找到了阻止她的方法。第四场是一场大比分的胜利，这也导致了第五场的胜利。三节过后，芝加哥队领先10分，但孙杨连得18分，让他们在面临两场淘汰赛的情况下赢得系列赛。

让我们来谈谈总决赛第一场。在常规赛中，太阳场均失分(77.8分)排在倒数第二。然而，这一数字在季后赛中下降得更低，太阳队压制了对手，并将WNBA常规赛四支得分最高的球队中的两支——Wings和Sky——压制到了场均72.8分。

a的得分方式多种多样。他们的速度是全联盟最快的，他们的三分命中率也是全联盟第一，他们的三分命中率也是全联盟第三多。赌城在罚球和快攻得分上都排名第三。太阳防御系统在这三个领域都占主导地位。只有一支球队(风暴队)让对手的快攻得分更少，或者在三分线外的快攻命中率更低。在不犯规方面，只有风暴和天空队场均罚球次数更少。

太阳队本赛季在几个进攻指标上领先联盟:失误得分，二次机会得分和快攻得分，场均罚球次数第二，内线得分和两分命中率，三分命中率第三。拉斯维加斯是全联盟失误得分最少的球队，第二少的二次机会得分，第三少的内线得分和第四少的快攻得分。然而，他们在整体两分防守上处于中游位置，而在对手的三分投射上，他们实际上是联盟第三差的。

总的来说，球队在防守端的配合非常好。这是决赛的第一场比赛，比分应该会低一些。康涅狄格凭借出色的防守赢得了对芝加哥的系列赛。这应该是今天的情况，我预测球队得分将低于168.5分。