LAS VEGAS — Generally, Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammon is not a screamer. She will get her point across, for sure, but if she can do it in the measured, even vocal tones she's known for, that's what she prefers.
But sometimes circumstances — in this case Game 1 of the best-of-five WNBA Finals — call for a different approach. The Aces won a Finals game for the first time in franchise history, topping the Connecticut Sun 67-64 here Sunday, and they did it with a second half fueled by a halftime torching from their coach. «Oh, I was lit,» Hammon said of her talk in the locker room with the No.
1 seed Aces. «Because everything we had talked about, we didn't do any of it. And true to form, they just step up and do it then. »I don't even yell in my real life.
But when you feel so strongly about how you have to play a certain way… and you don't execute it, it's frustrating. But at the end of the day, they know it.