Vegas Aces' Struggles: More Worrisome Than Fever's Record?

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00:00figuring out what's more concerning the fever who threw the first 20 games 10 and 10 or the

00:06vegas aces who threw their first 20 games are 9 and 11 so jy i ask you more concerning fever's

00:13first 20 or the aces first 20 it's the aces first 20 because number one the aces have had uh obviously

00:19a championship team and a championship pedigree for a long time and if you really look at the

00:24way that the vegas aces are playing you know i want people to understand this and this i want

00:28to say this right now this is not a knock on some of their players but statistically it's not adding

00:34up look at asia wilson who i consider to be you know one of the what three best players in the world

00:42well asia wilson's at 20.7 points per game that's her lowest since 2022 uh her rebounds are 8.7 per

00:49game that's the least since 2020 her um her shooting splits up 45.3 percent the previous three previous

00:57three years 51.8 55.7 50.1 the only thing that she's doing is shooting better from the free throw

01:04line so to me when i look at asia wilson she's not playing as well but it's not because of asia

01:10it's because of the fact that jackie young is jackie young chelsea gray continues to go downhill

01:17jewel lloyd trade has not worked out and oh by the way in the last three years they've lost

01:22kate martin darika hamby and alicia clark all to their bench there's not enough players on that

01:29roster and becky hammond is not adjusting and then there's a small little thing the small little thing

01:35that becky hammond's top assistant went to the valkyries and what do you know the valkyries have

01:42a better record i do believe than the aces awesome and the valkyries are the best story by the way give

01:47that lady the coach of your award right now they had a win total of eight and a half before the season

01:51and that team's ascending to make the playoffs so to me i they're more of a concern to me

01:57than indiana because for me my indiana they had to get the wanna bonner off the team shot up to

02:03wanna bonner got the 200 000 bag and got up out of here and got to go play with her fiance only in

02:08america or only in the wmba of course uh but then you know obviously caitlin clark's got to play

02:14better and play different that's real quick with i'm gonna say this about indianics before i give it back

02:18kevin well let me let me talk and we'll go to indiana just quickly vegas because for those that

02:24don't know i picked vegas to win the title i thought they would be the best team in the wmba

02:27and i've been trying to figure out like what is going on what is going on like how is it this bad

02:32like i understand they're not the best team but like how how is it this bad and the more i look into

02:37it it is a team that is going to be their top four are so much better than everybody else to give you

02:45an idea the uh like the on off so how much better you are with this player on than when they're not

02:50on aja plus 21.1 jackie young plus 12.7 chelsea gray 15.6 and jewel lloyd plus 7.6 what they are

03:02disastrous when those four are not out there but the real problem is none of those four players

03:08are playing as good as i thought they would none of them i thought jewel lloyd would have a bounce

03:13back season win shares per 48 her worst since her rookie year jackie young i have found to be an

03:20ascending player at only the age of 27 why would that not continue to tick up it's ticked down

03:26chelsea gray who we knew last year took a step back but prior to that was one of the best guards

03:32in this league and was very encouraging in the unrivaled i thought it would go up it's not and

03:37aja you have to understand the bar is the bar that she set but that's the bar her prior two seasons

03:47are the two all-time single season records for win shares in a single wnba season she set the record in

03:582023 and topped it in 2024 and that's not who she's been she's been one of the eight most impactful

04:06players easily in this league i was banking on aja wilson being the best player in this league

04:13can it turn around because i think they are all so talented it could but they're going to be fighting

04:20from behind all season i worry about their vibes quite massively you're we only have about 30 seconds

04:26left but i wanted to get that out there talk to me on the fever quickly kaylin clark's got to change

04:30her game okay they have enough people with kelsey mitchell with obviously with a leo boston at pick

04:35and roll obviously you've seen the improvement of lexie hall and sophie cunningham she does not have

04:40to be a 25 point a game score what she needs to be as a 10 assist player be more of a halliburton

04:48less of a james harden when shoots the ball too much if she does that and adjust their office is a lot

04:54more dangerous

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