“It’s always very physical, and it’s playoffs, so they let you get away with a lot of different things. But that doesn’t really change much of the game and our system. So we really just gotta continue to buckle in” said A’ja Wilson before the Aces’ Game 2 matchup against the Indiana Fever. Even after the Las Vegas Aces won the Semi-Finals series, the squad faced criticism for barely managing to do so. The fact that a Fever squad that had stars like Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham out due to injury issues took the then 2x champions to a Game 5 didn’t speak well for A’ja Wilson and co. Weeks after the series ended, Becky Hammon attempted to provide a defense.

The Las Vegas Aces head coach was recently interviewed by ‘The Ballers Magazine’. During the same, she brought up the series against the Fever by saying, “Um, it didn’t feel great leaving the arena, you know, just having barely beat Indiana. But like, when you go back and watch those games, like I didn’t feel like it was so much of us playing bad as they played great. Like, Indiana played great. They had great individual performances. Um, they…. I think they’re coached great, you know. So, like don’t sit there and be like, ‘Oh, you guys are barely beat.’ No, that was a very good team, very resilient team.”

This is a developing story.