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Michael Voepel
Las vegas ekka Coach Becky Hamon left his team’s performance for the 81-54 defeat on Thursday night Indiana feverI have ever seen it “one of the worst games.”
The fever, with a win over Minnesota in the commissioner’s cup final on Tuesday, broke the 16-game losers against the aces returning in 2019. Indiana was without guard Cetleen Clarke (Waist injury) for the fourth consecutive game, but led by its crime, Kelsey michelle25 points were still fast.
It was opposite to Las Vegas, who shot 26.2%. A’aza Wilson The only ACES player score in double figures with 29 points; His next biggest scorer was Jackie Young With six digits. Wilson was 9–18 from the ground, but the rest of the aces was a joint 7–43.
“It is a complete lack of professionalism to come here with the effort,” Hamon said about Aces, which ranks fifth in the Western Conference in 8-9. “They played better in a lot of practice yesterday. I don’t know how you step on the floor with 20,000 people and perform in this way. This is the worst aggressive night that I have ever seen [since] I have gone here in the last four years. ,
Nobody was happy with the protecting the Hamon Aces, which has been a concern in all seasons. Asked what was the most problematic, Hamon cited the abundance of the team allowed.
“They were in paint [getting] Downhill all night, “Hamon said.” I really have no answer to you. Efforts and attention were not just there. I felt that they were catching us and catching us, so it is a rugby match. My team does not want to play rugby, so we kick our ass. If they are going to allow that kind of materiality then some battle should be returned. My team matches that materiality, period.
“One team is fickle, and not a team. A team is three steps behind, not a team. They got all 50/50 balls. They busted our ass in every way. There are not just bones about it. It is one of the worst sports I have ever seen.”
Wilson, the ruling league MVP, accepted the defensive incompatibility of the aces.
Wilson said, “Crime is going to be nonsense here and there, it is just a part of the game,” there was an ice bag on his right (non-photoing) shoulder during the Postgame News Conference. “But defense should be something that we really have to understand and do deep excavations to do. Our defense must be 10 times better.
“We are going back to the film. The beautiful thing about our league is that we have another day, there is another game to try to do better. Some nights we show greatness, sometimes we show nonsense. What are the championship teams. So we have to go back to the track. We are not really more thin.
Hamon and Aces have talked about all the season how and below. On Sunday, Aces ends the winning line of six-game Phoenix mercuryWhich was the hottest team in the league. Las Vegas scored at least 80 points in five matches before Thursday, going 3–2 in those games.
“If I knew which one was coming, I could prepare myself a little better,” Hamon said to the game of his team’s personality. “We go out for Phoenix. It was the best team in the league that went to that night, and we put a solid four quarters together. Tonight, we put together in the third quarter together and [other than] He, three -fourth of waste. Crime was garbage, rescue was garbage. And at some point you have to say that it’s a little more, because it has happened [against] Many opponents.
“They just wanted it more than us, and I think it’s the most annoying thing when people want it more than you. Because it is an attempt and it’s heart.”
Aces won the WNBA titles in 2022 and 2023, the first two sessions of Hamon in Las Vegas. In the last season, he reached the semi -finals, where he lost to the last WNBA champion New York. But this season has been a roller coaster.
This season, six of the nine losses of the aces are in double digits, including a 27 -point defeat to Golden State Volcaries on 7 June and a loss of 20 points to Seattle Storm on 25 May.
Hamon was asked what aces could do to improve their stability.
“Maybe we have to move something, shake the initial lineup,” Hamon said. “This is actually difficult to know as a coach that you are getting to the night given to the night. If I knew that our effort was appropriate every night, to make sure that I would pursue those buttons.
“This is not a button I want to push, if I have to do [start] Your engine. You have come with the onset of your engine … down with a gas pedal. If we only play hard then we must have won five or six more games. This is a way to overcome a season. If we tried more now, we will win more games. ,
