For a team assembled to beat the Aces, the Liberty have so far disappointed and failed to compete.
LAS VEGAS — The good news for the New York Liberty after Wednesday night’s Game 2 shellacking at the hands of the is that they boarded a charter airplane to fly back East less than two hours after the final buzzer sounded. If that’s the good news, then what’s the bad news? Well … just about everything else.
They felt confident knowing that they rebounded from a 1-0 series deficit to the Connecticut Sun in the semifinals. How do they feel now? “We had no resistance, and that’s what I’m disappointed about,” Brondello said. Just under 90 minutes before tipoff, Ionescu jogged onto the Michelob ULTRA Arena floor to begin her warmup. She dapped up general manager Jonathan Kolb and assistant general manager Ohemaa Nyanin before high-fiving assistant coach Olaf Lange.