The Las Vegas Aces trainer Becky Hammon started the performance of her team in the 81: 54 defeat on Thursday evening against the fever of Indiana and described it as “one of the worst games I've ever seen”.
The fever, which achieved a victory against the Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday against the Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday, broke a 16-game defeat against the stripes covered from 2019. For the fourth game in a row, Indiana was without a guard Caitlin Clark.
It was the opposite for Las Vegas that shot 26.2%. A'ja Wilson was the only asset player who achieved 29 points in double -digit numbers. Her next scorer was Jackie Young with six points. Wilson was 9 out of 18 from the field, but the rest of the aces was combined 7 of 43.
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“This is a complete lack of professionalism to come here with this effort,” said Hammon about the aces, which are fifth with 8: 9 in the Western Conference. “You played much better in practice yesterday. I don't know how to step onto the floor with 20,000 people in the stands. It is the worst offensive night I have ever seen [since] I have been here in the past four years. “
Hammon was not happier with the defense of the aces, which was a problem all the season. When asked what is most problematic, Hammon quoted the abundance of layups that the team allowed.
“They were in color [getting] The entire night shot, “said Hammon.” I have no answers for you. The effort and the focus were simply not there. I thought they grab and hold us, so it's a rugby match. My team doesn't want to play rugby, so we let our ass kick. There must be a setback if you allow this type of physicality. My team has to combine this physicality, period.
“A team is moody and a team is not. A team is three steps behind them, a team is not. They have all 50/50 balls. They broke us in every way. There are only no bones about it. It is one of the worst games that I have ever seen.”
Wilson, the reigning MVP of the league, recognized the defensive inconsistency of the Aces.
“The offensive will be crap here. “But the defense must be something that we really have to understand and understand deeply. Our defense must be 10 times better.
“We will return to the film. The nice thing about our league is that we have another day, another game to make it better. We show size in a few nights. Sometimes we show crap. These are not what championship teams are. So we have to get back on the track.
Hammon and the aces talked about how they were up and down all season. On Sunday, the aces ended the six-game winner of the Phoenix Mercury, which was the hottest team in the league. Las Vegas scored at least 80 points in the five games before Thursday and scored 3: 2 in these games.
“If I knew which one comes, I could prepare a little better,” said Hammon about the personality of her team from game to game. “We go to Phoenix. That was the best team in the league that night and we put together a solid quarter. Tonight we put together a third quarter and. [other than] That, three quarters of garbage. The crime was garbage. The defense was garbage. And at some point you have to say that this is a little more because it happened [against] Several opponents.
“They only wanted it more than we do, and I think that is the most worrying when people want it more than them. Because the effort is and that's heart.”
The aces won in 2022 and 2023 WNBA titles, Hammon's first two seasons in Las Vegas. Last season they went into the semi -finals, where they lost to the later WNBA champion New York. But this season was a roller coaster ride.
Six of the nine defeats of the Aces this season were double digits, including a defeat against 27 points against the Valkyries of the Golden State on June 7th and a defeat against the storm in Seattle on May 25th.
Hammon was asked what the aces can do to improve their consistency.
“Maybe we have to shake up and shake the starting line -up,” said Hammon. “It is really difficult to know as a trainer which team you get in a certain evening. If I know which buttons I should press to ensure that our efforts were appropriate every evening, I would press these keys.
“It's not a button that I have to press when I have to [start] Your engine. You have to start with your engine … with the accelerator pedal down. We would have won five or six more games if we had only played harder. This is a way to allow a season away. If we only tried, we would win more games. “
