After the Aces shut down Ionescu in Game 3, the star guard led New York past its rival and back into the Finals.
Olaf Lange has spent enough time with Sabrina Ionescu to know when she is clicking. The New York Liberty assistant coach warms up the guard before each game, and he’s been instrumental in how she has, coaching her in driving more to the rim and developing a more delicate touch from midrange. And on Sunday, before Game 4 of the WNBA semifinals against the Las Vegas Aces, Lange was confident.“You just know,” Lange says. “She doesn’t speak more or less. It’s just the way she goes about it.
The Finals will begin in New York on Thursday with the Liberty facing either the Minnesota Lynx or the Connecticut Sun. That semifinal will be decided with a Game 5 on Tuesday. This is where the roster has developed the most this year—the way in which the Liberty are most different from who they were last season—yet the defense in Game 3 felt reminiscent of how it had unsuccessfully played the Aces in 2023.
They did not repeat those mistakes for Game 4. The Liberty held the Aces to their lowest scoring output of the year, with a tough, gritty defense that shone especially in the fourth quarter. New York entered the period up by just two. Jones had sat much of the third quarter with four fouls, and so had 6' 4" rookie Leonie Fiebich, putting two of its most effective defenders on the bench for a crucial stretch.
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