Liberty Defeat Defending-Champion Aces in WNBA Showdown: Recap

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00:00I want to start with the Liberty and what they did because they eliminated the two-time

00:09defending champs and they got it done in Sin City.

00:12They lost game three, they didn't play well, but game four they handled their business.

00:17Well simply put, it was Sabrina Inescu and if you look at the series, she scored 20 points

00:22or more in every game, but game number three, that's a game that she only made one shot.

00:27So Sabrina Inescu, particularly in the first half, hitting four threes, obviously the play

00:32of Stewie getting a double-double, kind of exercising her demons, remember that 3-for-17

00:37game last year in game four of the WNBA Finals?

00:41But then you start looking at some of the other players, Jon Qualdt, 14-8, Leona Feinbich

00:45in the starting line-up with 11 points, they did some things, but to me it's more on the

00:49other side.

00:50It was the lack of shooting of Hayes, of Young, of Plum, and of Gray.

00:58The three-story shot, a combined 5-of-18 from three, I said that was going to be the issue

01:02of the series.

01:03The Liberty shoots it better, half-court basketball, you crowd the space of Aja Wilson, notice

01:08her points call was 24-and-a-half, bro, she didn't go over one time that series.

01:14So let's go back to Sabrina for a second because I noticed and I was, Chop had a game on Sunday

01:20and hit four threes, and she did it with the release, that catch-and-shoot.

01:25I saw Inescu literally catch the ball and literally shoot at the same time she caught

01:31the ball.

01:32There was no hessy on her fire after the catch.

01:36The catch-and-shoot was pure, deep corner pocket, boom, she's let it fly.

01:40On the wing, boom, let it fly.

01:42All snap net, and Chop hit four of them, two in a game.

01:47I think that she looked fantastic shooting the ball off at a pass.

01:51I thought she had it all going.

01:53I mean, when you shoot like that and you're on, they're tough to beat.

01:58They are tough to beat because now you have that presence, and I think, here's the other

02:01thing people don't realize, and let's just do it with all due respect, Kaitlyn Clark

02:06is absolutely phenomenal, but people forget that Inescu was Kaitlyn Clark before Kaitlyn

02:11Clark.

02:12This is the Inescu that in her senior year at Oregon got robbed of probably Oregon was

02:16the best team in the country, would have won the National Championship because of

02:18the COVID outbreak.

02:20She goes to the WNBA with the Liberty as the number one pick.

02:23After the third game, she hurts her ankle, misses the entire season, the rest of that

02:292021 season.

02:30It took her a while to figure it out.

02:33You saw glimpses last year, but this year she played like one of the top ten players

02:37in the world, and when you can put her, Stewie, Jaquell Jones, bro, you got three of the top

02:4312, 13 players in the world on one team.

02:46They're balanced, they're big, and they can defend, and they should win the WNBA Championship.

02:51Yeah, well they should, and how many times have they been to the final and not won it?

02:57Don't you think they finally washed that down the drain?

03:00Yeah, they are an original franchise that has never won a WNBA title, right?

03:06You got to think about the teams that have come before them.

03:08Detroit, shock, they were an original team.

03:10They won titles.

03:11The Houston Comets won three.

03:12I mean, those two teams are thrilled.

03:13Those two teams done folded already.

03:14So New York Liberty got their first, I guess, championship when they won the Commissioner's

03:20Cup last year.

03:22This is the one they want.

03:23This is an important year.

03:24That don't count.

03:25I think when the Lakers won, I think when they were celebrating, they were popping that

03:30Moet, you know, over there, when the Lakers won the NBA Cup or the in-season tournament.

03:36No one cared about that junk.

03:38This is the one they got to win, and the New York Liberty will get it done this season.

03:42That's what I'm talking about.

03:43That's what I'm talking about.

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