Liberty Down 0-2 to Aces, Head Back to New York For Game 3
For the New York Liberty they can’t wait to get back to Las Vegas.
The Liberty face an 0-2 deficit in their best of five WNBA Finals series with the Las Vegas Aces after a 104-76 loss on Wednesday night. The Liberty must win Sunday afternoon to extend what has been a brilliant season.
Las Vegas dominated Game 2 from the outset. A 24-foot three-pointer from Kelsey Plum gave Vegas the early 3-0 lead. Before New York could blink it was 9-2 when Plum and Kiah Stokes hit a pair of long distance jumpers. Finally A’Ja Wilson rolled one in at the eight minute mark to make it 11-2.
Offensively, the Liberty just couldn’t get set. They were 1-for-11 to start the game from the floor, and with 5:19 to go in the opening quarter found themselves down 19-2.
Overall the Liberty connected on 36 percent of their shots from the floor, with only 22 percent coming from downtown. Compared to the Aces, who were on point all night. Las Vegas shot 53 percent from the floor in Game 2, and were a perfect 17-for-17 from the charity stripe.
Leading the way for New York was Jonquel Jones who powered the Liberty with 22 points and 10 boards.
It was a fairly quiet night for superstar Sabrina Ionescu who had 10 points on a 2-for-10 shooting night. In the two games combined, Ionescu is averaging eight points a game and is 4-for-17 shooting (23.5 percent).
Meanwhile for the Aces, A’Ja Wilson dropped down 26 points for Vegas; Jackie Young netted 24 points and Plum 23 points in the victory.
SERIES COMES TO NEW YORK
The series Shifts to Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. In a way it will be a home coming of sorts for Aces coach Becky Hammon who began her WNBA career as a point guard for the Liberty back in 1999. The former San Antonio Spurs assistant, who has been in the running for NBA Head Coaching jobs in recent years, was ironically, in the running for the Liberty job two years ago.
Now, she gets a chance to win her second WNBA title as head coach of the Aces on the Big Apple stage.
How to Tell If You're in the 'Xennial Generation'
You remember the Challenger tragedy..but barely
Space Shuttle Challenger explosion and tragedy took place in January 1986. If you’re a Xennial, you might have very faint memories of this happening, but you were very young. Xennials would be somewhere between the ages of 3 and 9 when this happened, whereas, Millennials would be 2 or younger or not born yet. Consequently, Gen X would be older than 9 so have much more distinct memories of the event.
UNSPECIFIED LOCATION – NOVEMBER 11: (FILE PHOTO) Space Shuttle Challenger crew members gather for an official portrait November 11, 1985 in an unspecified location. (Back, L-R) Mission Specialist Ellison S. Onizuka, Teacher-in-Space participant Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Payload Specialist Greg Jarvis and mission specialist Judy Resnick. (Front, L-R) Pilot Mike Smith, commander Dick Scobee and mission specialist Ron McNair. The Challenger and its seven member crew were lost seventy three seconds after launch when a booster rocket failed. (Photo by NASA/Getty Images)
You remember the fall of the Berlin Wall..but barely
If you were a child during the fall of the Berlin Wall, then you might be a Xennial. The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989. Xennials would be somewhere between the ages of 6 and 12. So, you were perhaps too young to understand or really comprehend what was going on, but you knew it was going on.
BERLIN, GERMANY – NOVEMBER 09: A young woman peers through concrete slats among flowers left by other visitors at the Berlin Wall memorial at Bernauer Strasse on the 26th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. On November 9, 1989, East German border guards opened barriers at the Berlin Wall and allowed thousands of East Germans to cross into West Berlin, symbolically heralding the end of the division of Europe and the conclusion of the Cold War. Today politicians across Europe, even in Germany, are debating erecting border barriers of their own in order to stem the influx of migrants. According to the latest estimates Germany could receive up to 1.5 million migrants seeking asylum by the end of the year. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
You remember a time with no cell phone..but you've had one most of your life
The first cell phones came out Xennials were in their 20s or even late teens. So, Xennials remember a time with rotary phones and phone booths. But, most of their lives, they’ve had cell phones.
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You aren't an optimist or a pessimist
In general, Gen X is regarded as being a fairly pessimistic generation, while Millennials are optimistic. But, Xennials have both traits. At the very least, they have both their pessimistic and optimistic moments, but don’t sway one way or another.
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You weren't born into an era with computers or Facebook, but you had them early on
Xennials got computers as young as in their elementary and middle school years. But, these computers were very primitive, and this was long before Facebook or, ha, MySpace. So, Xennials tend to be pretty tech-savvy, having grown up with tech, but they come from a different perspective, since their first experiences with technology were nothing like the tech of today.
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