Phoenix Mercury @ Las Vegas Aces

First Round - Game 2 • LV leads series 2-0

15-21, 4-14 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Mercury PHX	30	14	15	21	80
Aces LV	34	29	30	24	117

Las Vegas AcesAcesLV

26-10, 13-5 Home

117

26-10, 13-5 Home

Phoenix Mercury

starters
Brianna TurnerB. Turner#21
Yvonne TurnerY. Turner#6
Jennie SimmsJ. Simms#25
Diamond DeShieldsD. DeShields#1
Sophie CunninghamS. Cunningham#9
bench
Reshanda GrayR. Gray#12
Kaela DavisK. Davis#33
Sam ThomasS. Thomas#14
Megan GustafsonM. Gustafson#10
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
26	6	5	2	7	3	0	0	1	3-3	100.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	2	-34
11	4	2	3	5	1	0	0	0	2-5	40.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	1	-17
33	9	1	4	5	3	0	0	1	3-9	33.3	2-7	28.6	1-5	20.0	2	-28
22	21	0	1	1	2	2	0	6	9-16	56.3	1-4	25.0	2-4	50.0	0	-20
26	3	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	1-4	25.0	1-4	25.0	0-0	0.0	2	-39
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
13	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	2-3	66.7	0-0	0.0	1-2	50.0	1	-1
30	23	0	6	6	3	1	1	2	11-19	57.9	0-3	0.0	1-1	100.0	4	-25
13	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1-2	50.0	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	0	-1
26	6	3	2	5	3	1	0	0	2-12	16.7	0-3	0.0	2-2	100.0	1	-20
	80	11	20	31	17	5	1	13	34-73	46.6	5-23	21.7	7-14	50.0	13

Las Vegas Aces

starters
Kiah StokesK. Stokes#41
A'ja WilsonA. Wilson#22
Chelsea GrayC. Gray#12
Kelsey PlumK. Plum#10
Jackie YoungJ. Young#0
bench
Theresa PlaisanceT. Plaisance#55
Kierstan BellK. Bell#1
Iliana RupertI. Rupert#21
Sydney ColsonS. Colson#51
Riquna WilliamsR. Williams#2
Aisha SheppardA. Sheppard#4
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
22	6	0	3	3	0	2	0	2	3-4	75.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	3	+37
27	17	0	4	4	6	0	1	3	7-9	77.8	1-2	50.0	2-3	66.7	2	+38
25	27	0	3	3	8	1	2	1	9-11	81.8	7-8	87.5	2-2	100.0	2	+39
24	22	1	3	4	3	0	0	1	6-10	60.0	4-6	66.7	6-6	100.0	2	+35
25	15	0	2	2	3	3	0	1	5-6	83.3	3-3	100.0	2-2	100.0	2	+24
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
12	5	0	3	3	2	1	0	1	2-3	66.7	1-1	100.0	0-0	0.0	1	+1
12	11	0	4	4	0	0	0	2	4-5	80.0	3-4	75.0	0-1	0.0	2	+3
10	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1-3	33.3	1-3	33.3	0-0	0.0	0	-5
12	0	1	1	2	4	0	0	0	0-2	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	2	+3
22	11	0	5	5	3	1	0	0	4-9	44.4	3-7	42.9	0-0	0.0	0	+7
9	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0-2	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	+3
	117	2	28	30	31	8	3	12	41-64	64.1	23-36	63.9	12-14	85.7	16

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Mercury
63
Aces
79

Game 1

8/17

Mercury
80
Aces
117

Game 2

8/20

Michelob ULTRA Arena

9:00 PM, August 20, 2022Coverage: ESPN2

Las Vegas, NV

Attendance: 9,126

Referees:
Maj Forsberg
Tiara Cruse
Matt Kallio
Clare Aubry

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Minnesota	34	10	.773	-	W1
Las Vegas	30	14	.682	4	W16
Phoenix	27	17	.614	7	L3
Seattle	23	21	.523	11	W1
Golden State	23	21	.523	11	L3
Los Angeles	21	23	.477	13	L1
Dallas	10	34	.227	24	W1

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