Aces Basketball…

On A Friday Night…

Great pizza ahead of time, then the game. 40th sold-out arena in a row.

Stunningly frustrating game. The Aces have maybe, by a distance, the best team in the WNBA on sheer talent of every player. They have four of the Olympic team. But since they won the second straight championship in 2023, they flat seem to have forgotten how to win. (Or flat don’t care which worries me more than anything.)

Tonight they were playing the Storm from Seattle, a good team, sure, but no where near the level of talent of the Aces.

And it showed. At one point at the start of the third the Aces were 19 points ahead and instead of the old killer instinct of putting the other team away, they screwed around and let the Storm back into the game, at one point with three minutes left it was dead even. Seriously?

The Storm players clearly cared. Our players were napping on the sidelines I think, from the best I could tell.

Most disgusting run of basketball by top players I have seen in some time. Just awful. Seemingly no pride, no killer instinct, no real desire to win.

The Aces managed to scrape out a win in the last minute by mostly luck, but wow was that stupid.

Like last year, if they don’t figure out what is wrong and fix it, they are not going very far in the playoffs. The Liberty, the Lynx, and a couple other teams will just make laughing stocks of the best group of players in the league, because the Liberty and the Lynx know how to win. The Aces have fogotten.

Sure is a good lesson that talent means little if you don’t have the drive and the attitude.