Sabrina Ionescu was arguably the best player over the first two games of the semifinal series between the New York Liberty and Las Vegas Aces, as she led her team to a 2-0 lead. That was decidedly not the case on Friday night,

In 2023, the three-headed monster of Chelsea Gray, Jackie Young and Kelsey Plum was an unstoppable unit most nights, culminating in a WNBA Finals series when the perimeter trio convincingly outplayed its New York Liberty counterparts, even without Gray in the closeout win.

The Las Vegas Aces host the New York Liberty on Friday for game three in the WNBA semifinals as the back-to-back world champions look to come back from a 2-0 deficit.

The Las Vegas Aces did not play their best basketball on Sunday, but they did enough to get past the Seattle Storm in Game 1 of their first-round series. After a slow start, the Aces worked their way back into the game,

But on Tuesday night, after the Aces lost to the New York Liberty 88-84 — a defeat which pushed Las Vegas to 0-2 in the series and to the brink of elimination — coach Becky Hammon crafted another slogan: “It was Aces vs. Aces tonight. We were beating ourselves.”

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