{"id":22690,"date":"2023-10-15T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swishappeal.com\/wnba\/2023\/10\/15\/23914951\/wnba-finals-new-york-liberty-las-vegas-aces-breanna-stewart-courtney-vandersloot-sabrina-ionescu"},"modified":"2023-10-15T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T12:00:00","slug":"down-0-2-can-the-liberty-avoid-a-finals-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/down-0-2-can-the-liberty-avoid-a-finals-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Down 0-2, can the Liberty avoid a Finals sweep?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York\u2019s Sabrina Ionescu (right) has been thoroughly outplayed by Las Vegas\u2019 Jackie Young and the rest of the Aces\u2019 guards through two WNBA Finals games. | Photo by Jeff Bottari\/NBAE via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Things have gone about as poorly as possible for the New York Liberty thus far in the 2023 WNBA Finals. Better guard play is just one of several things the Liberty need as the series shifts back to New York for Game 3.<\/p>\n

The New York Liberty return home for Game 3 of the 2023 WNBA<\/a> Finals, and they\u2019ve got some work to do in order to stave off elimination at the hands of the defending champion Las Vegas Aces.<\/p>\n

Save for a competitive first half in Game 1, New York has been outmatched by Las Vegas in just about every department. The Aces have outscored the Liberty by a total of 45 points in just 80 minutes of basketball, with New York looking ill-equipped to handle the highly-potent Aces offense while several of its own biggest weapons have gone quiet at the worst possible time.<\/p>\n

Making matters worse for the Liberty, if they\u2019re going to pull off an improbable Finals comeback, it will eventually need to be done on the Aces\u2019 home court\u2014a location which, needless to say, has not been particularly friendly to them thus far. First, though, New York will have to take care of business in Brooklyn, and there\u2019s a laundry list of things that need to go in the Liberty\u2019s favor for that to happen.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s guards must produce offensively<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Courtney Vandersloot is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished point guards in WNBA history, but she hasn\u2019t looked like herself for much of the Liberty\u2019s playoff run.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Liberty\u2019s perimeter trio of Sabrina Ionescu, Courtney Vandersloot and Betnijah Laney is one of the most talented in the WNBA, mainly due to their collective playmaking ability. New York\u2019s guards can get blistering-hot themselves, too; Ionescu, in particular, just recorded one of the best shooting seasons in league history, shooting 44.8 percent on 7.9 3-point attempts per game.<\/p>\n

That offense has been missing in action against the Aces, though\u2014and that\u2019s something the Liberty can\u2019t afford. That\u2019s because Las Vegas also has three elite starting guards, and they\u2019ve run roughshod over New York\u2019s defense in the Finals. Jackie Young and Kelsey Plum have totaled 50 and 49 points, respectively, in two games, while point guard Chelsea Gray has dissected New York to the tune of 34 points and 20 assists.<\/p>\n

Compare that to New York\u2019s backcourt production (17 points from Ionescu, 19 from Vandersloot and 23 from Laney) and it\u2019s not difficult to see why the Liberty find themselves in a 0-2 hole in the series. New York\u2019s guards, simply put, must get it together, or there won\u2019t even be a Game 4, let alone an opportunity to make a Finals comeback.<\/p>\n

The Liberty need to close the gap in 3-point production<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Betnijah Laney shot 39.2 percent on 3-pointers during the regular season, but she\u2019s made just 2-of-12 thus far in the Finals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Can the WNBA be considered a \u201cmake or miss league?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

If so, the Liberty have decidedly been on the wrong side of such 3-point shooting variance in the Finals. No WNBA team took more of its shots from beyond the arc<\/a> than the Liberty (42.4 percent) during the regular season. But rather than carry that success onto the biggest stage, the 3-point shot has completely deserted them. New York is just 17-for-64 (26.6 percent) on 3s thus far in the Finals. Considering how dependent the Liberty are on the long ball, such inaccuracy has dug them a significant hole offensively.<\/p>\n

The Aces, in contrast, have been downright scorching shooting the ball, totaling 22-for-51 (43.1 percent) on 3-pointers. Granted, Las Vegas isn\u2019t quite as reliant on knocking down outside jumpers as New York, but every team will look better when they go in. Only one Finals squad has been able to say that in 2023.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing to say that the Liberty need to limit the Aces\u2019 3-point production and another thing entirely for them to actually do it. With the way Las Vegas spaces the floor, it\u2019s going to be difficult for New York to sufficiently contest those shots while also protecting the rim and painted area, and jumpshot defense in professional basketball oftentimes comes down to simply getting lucky. The Liberty could certainly help their own case by making a few of their own, however.<\/p>\n

Stewart has to play like the MVP she is<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Breanna Stewart (right) has been outplayed by A\u2019ja Wilson, and that needs to change if New York is going to extend the series.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Liberty forward Breanna Stewart won regular-season Most Valuable Player honors for the second time in her career in 2023, but she\u2019s looked far from the WNBA\u2019s best player in the Finals. That\u2019s been Stewart\u2019s counterpart, A\u2019ja Wilson, who has soundly outplayed Stewart on both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n

Stewart and Wilson have matched up plenty of times over the years, with each player taking turns being part of the favored team. It\u2019s rarely been a lopsided individual matchup, and it\u2019s not like Stewart is single-handedly losing the Finals for New York this time around, either.<\/p>\n

Still, we\u2019ve grown accustomed to seeing superhuman performances from Stewart in the playoffs, and she\u2019s fallen well short of that standard in the 2023 Finals. Stewart\u2019s modest 38.9 percent shooting efficiency from the floor pales in comparison to Wilson\u2019s (65.4 percent), and the pure undeniability she\u2019s shown so many times in the past hasn\u2019t been there. Fans have been waiting for Stewart to either take over a game for the Liberty or, at the very least, keep them in one, but neither has happened. If New York is to stay alive in the Finals, Stewart must at least play Wilson to a draw the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

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Game information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

No. 2 seed New York Liberty (0-2) vs. No. 1 seed Las Vegas Aces (2-0)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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When:<\/strong> Sunday, Oct. 15 at 3 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Where:<\/strong> Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY<\/p>\n

How to watch:<\/strong> ABC<\/p>\n

Liberty injury report:<\/strong> Han Xu (out; not with team)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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