'I don't even know if we found that confidence at all in the playoffs until we won that Game 4, and then it was like, 'All right, let's go,'' Bonner said. The meeting rekindled an air of levity and belief that saved Connecticut's season and propelled the Sun to their first Finals appearance since 2019 and continuing to play that way remains critical for the Sun to overcome a 0-1 deficit in the Finals and win the franchise's first WNBA championship. Facing elimination in the semifinals, veteran forward Bonner called a players-only meeting following their crushing Game 3 home loss to the Chicago Sky on Sept. The confidence the Sun channeled Sunday didn't come out of nowhere. Hammon 'lit' a fire in Aces in time for Game 1 winĪs Jonquel Jones added, 'Ultimately, I'm happy with the game that we played, and we gave ourselves a good opportunity to come out there with a win, and it just didn't go our way.I think we are very confident, and we know that all you need is one and then there's two games at our place.' Editor's Picks 'I mean, this is a three-point game, and we had a chance to tie. 'After this game, we have to have a lot of confidence,' Thomas said. Instead, the players' tone in the postgame news conference was composed.

It would have been easy for the Sun to fixate on what could have been: snatching a coveted road win in front of a boisterous, adversarial crowd, especially after controlling the majority of the first half and leading by as many as eight points early in the third quarter. The Sun had a chance to tie the score coming out of a timeout with 13.4 seconds to play, but DeWanna Bonner misfired a 3-point attempt, allowing the Aces to come away with the win. Outside of the first few minutes, it was the sort of game played to Connecticut's liking stylistically - more defensive slog than high-scoring affair. Jonquel Jones, Alyssa Thomas and Brionna Jones sat at the podium following the Connecticut Sun's 67-64 loss at the Las Vegas Aces on Sunday in Game 1 of the 2022 WNBA Finals.

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