It just kind of particularly clumsy about it or they did something in a ways where other

teams kind of got notice of it and felt it was worthy of a complaint.

Kind of fascinating to see this for Angel City as a team who is still struggling to get above the play offline.

It's a bummer to get hit for circumvention of the rules and then also kind of look at what you were getting out of the

circumvention of the rules and not kind of seeing the dividends of even that, right?

Hello everybody and welcome to today's edition of The Late Sub. I am your host Claire Watkins. It is Monday

October 7th. We have one team in the WMBA final shout out to the New York Liberty

for getting the job done. We do a big post-mortem on the Las Vegas

Aces as they bow out.

Minnesota, Connecticut is going to go to five,

so we'll talk about that a little bit later in the week.

And then we just had kind of a lot to discuss in the end of USL

some high highs and some low lows this week in the league and kind of reckoning with what that means for the

parity of the entire NWSL going forward. Let's dig in.

All right, so we got to jump in right away into W NBA playoffs perhaps as prophesied we talked about this quite a bit last week the aces are out on Friday they did take game three handily they blow out the liberty in game three they do not get swept on their home floor

But maybe it turns into a little bit more of what they call in the NBA a gentleman

team at home,

liberty team in game four on Sunday.

We're gonna get into the deep dive a little bit on the ace

is kind of wrap that season up

because I think, you know, out of every team, this is a very significant moment for them as an inflection point for a team that has been kind of coinciding with dominance over the last couple of years. I do think them bowing out is a little bit more of a shrug shoulders. I think it's interesting to focus in on them, but to kind of talk about the game itself, you know, you just kind of talk about how determined that the Liberty were to get the win. You saw the advantage that the Liberty had

going into the part of the series that happened in Vegas. Of course they have history on their side. No team has ever

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