Do the Liberty take it all? Plus a recap of NWSL news this week in preparation for playoffs

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Claire ponders another Sun postseason exit, and the risks and rewards of blowing things up in the pursuit of playoff glory. She then previews the finals between the Lynx and the Liberty, with one key element she believes will earn one of the teams a title. She closes with some of the NWSL news of the midweek, which feels destined to shape the postseason and beyond.

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0:00.0	The Liberty can afford to have a player or two with an off day and still grind out a result.
0:04.8	We saw that against the aces, we saw that in the first round, we saw that in the regular season.
0:08.9	Their depth is very impressive. Their length is very impressive and they can you know they can they can beat you up inside and
0:16.6	out right I don't know if I see the same problem-solving ability from the links on any given day
0:21.6	especially if the other team like the Liberty
0:24.3	are playing as well as you know that they can.
0:27.0	Hello everybody and welcome to today's edition of the late sub I am your
0:34.3	host Claire Watkins it is Thursday October 10th and we have no time to waste the
0:39.1	W MBA finals start tonight we do a post-mortem on the Connecticut Sun, a wonderful team
0:45.0	that we lost in the semi-finals. We preview the Minnesota Links versus the New York
0:49.2	Liberty and we catch up on some NWSL news that I believe is going to sort of reshape not only the end of the regular season, but what comes next in the post season and beyond.
0:59.0	Let's jump in.
1:00.0	All right, the WNBA finals are set. They will be between the New York Liberty and the Minnesota
1:09.6	Links. I said earlier this week that we're going to do a little bit of a deep dive into the second
1:13.5	semi-final that led the links to the finals for the first times is 2017 and we're going to do that now because
1:19.6	we said goodbye to another heavy hitter another perennial contender in the WMBA, the Connecticut Sun, in a way that almost felt like something ending.
1:30.0	We talked about this with the aces, right, about how possibly this was the last time we were going to see this current era of the aces when they bowed out of their semi-final.
1:39.0	I want to do the same here for the Connecticut Sun because this has been a significant team for a number of years
1:44.6	deep deep into the post season every single year without finally getting a title and I do think that
1:51.3	their failure here to reach the finals is significant for a number of reasons.
1:55.0	I want to talk about it before we preview this WMA finals, which I do think are going to be fantastic.
2:00.0	So the sunfall in game five against the Minnesota Links and it is not particularly close.
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