Chelsea Gray averaged 21.7 PPG and 7.0 APG — while shooting 61.1% from the field — during the LVAces playoff run to the WNBA title. It was a must-watch tear rarely witnessed in sports and The Athletic’s WNBA best performance of the year. ✍️ darcangel21
“Throughout the 2022 playoffs, Chelsea had an unbelievable knack of making tough, contested shots, which put her in rare air,” says former Sun coach Curt Miller, who was recently hired by the. “For us, we tried numerous different coverages, including a variety of different types of defenders within our roster on her. And she just continued to make tough contested shots.”
Miller says he was pleased with the Sun’s overall defensive effort against Gray, forcing her into difficult and challenging shots. But when a player is that locked in and doesn’t miss no matter how many hands are up, there’s no way to defend it. “At one point in our series, she hadn’t made an uncontested shot,” Miller says. “So you’re almost like — the analytics say, don’t guard her. Because when we were guarding her, she made every one. It was just an uncanny run for her.”Gray averaged 18.3 points and six assists while shooting 58 percent from the field against the Sun, but it was her overall play in the 3-1 series that helped secure the Aces’ first WNBA championship in franchise history, and the first Finals MVP award of her career.
“Classic,” said ESPN women’s college basketball and WNBA analyst Debbie Antonelli. A “one-for-the-ages performance where underdog mentality leads to work ethic, opportunity and production on the greatest stage in the WNBA playoffs. She was motivated, had the skill set and opportunity, and she produced at the biggest moment.”once dubbed Gray the “Point Gawd.”
During the 2016 finals, when Parker and Gray were teammates with Los Angeles, Gray was instrumental in a decisive Game 5 against the. She reeled off 11 consecutive points late in the third quarter and early into the fourth, helping the Sparks keep pace with the Lynx down the stretch to ultimately come away with the WNBA championship. Both teams met again in the 2017 finals. In Game 1, Gray scored a then-career-high 27 points, hitting a last-second shot to give the Sparks a one-point win.
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