I find that fascinating because I do think that from the outside you look at the aces you say yeah well you were focused on this core for and you got two titles out of this core for you've got Asia Wilson she's a three time MVP And the Liberty at this juncture,

they made these signings, they made these changes,

they rely on more than that.

And that is, of course, again, yes, the focus

of a team wanting to come back against the team that beat them.

But it also just kind of speaks to what

Las Vegas didn't do to revamp this look and play differently this year, knowing that the

competition is getting steeper.

Hello everybody and welcome to today's edition of the late sub.

I am your host Claire Watkins.

It is Thursday, October 3rd, and we are diving in. We're going to do a little bit of a deep dive into the game

two of the WMBA semi-finals. We've got a lot of kind of post-mortem coming out of these shifts in these series. We've got some big

teams who might be saying

goodbye to this weekend. I wanted to dive in both into what happened in these

games and what these head coaches had to say about it because we're seeing

some pretty serious chatter about sort of what this means for the

art season. They're going to do a little NWSL weekend preview where we

have a lot of clinching scenarios and possibly a shield which now has a handle by

the way on the line.

So let's dig in.

All right, one of the beautiful benefits

of getting to do two of these episodes a week

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