Las Vegas Aces Mid-Season Struggles: In-Depth Analysis

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00:00Now, let's get over to the Western Conference, where the story is the Las Vegas Aces getting

00:07off to such a good start, but all of a sudden, teams have caught them, Carlin, in the standings.

00:12They are not, they were not playing their best basketball just before the break, Minnesota

00:16and Seattle, now both ahead of them in the standings.

00:20And as of right now, their total is 27 and a half.

00:23I guess you'll have to tell me and inform me, what happened here with Las Vegas?

00:27Were they just simply running out of steam here before the break, or are they just not

00:31as good as we thought at the beginning of the season?

00:33Listen, they're every bit as good as we thought at the beginning of the season.

00:36The problem is here is that they're all human.

00:38And you've seen this, you know, covering sports your whole life, Craig, like there is a mental

00:42sort of toughness that needs to happen with teams to do it year in, year out, and go through

00:47these championship runs.

00:48They've been in the finals the last two years, like they had to go through these grueling

00:54long seasons.

00:55The offseason, yes, while it's there, it's not long enough, right?

00:59It's not long enough to recover and to be there mentally sharp for an entire regular

01:03season and then go to another level once we get to the playoffs and an even higher level

01:08once we get to the finals, that is extremely tough.

01:11It's a lot of pressure, as we said off the top, like these, these, these women are human,

01:15right?

01:16Like they are human beings at the end of the day, at some point, there's going to be a

01:19dip in sort of the mental, you know, aspect of the game.

01:22And I think that's what happened.

01:23You know, they got caught in a couple of nights where they probably shouldn't have

01:25lost games because they didn't come up with that intensity.

01:28Second half of the season, we might see much of the same until we get to the playoffs,

01:32right?

01:33Because a lot of their players, Wilson, Kelsey Plum, they were already, you know, had one

01:38eye on the regular season, one eye on the Olympics, trying to win a medal.

01:41Now coming back to the team, going to be a little tougher to kind of figure things out.

01:45So I would say right around that win total, I would actually go under personally for that

01:50win total, but I wouldn't take away from what they could do down the stretch in an opportunity

01:54to win the championship.

01:56But the regular season to them at this point, where they are as a team, probably not as

02:00important as it would be to someone like Minnesota.