LAS VEGAS — The New York Liberty pride themselves on never getting too high or too low. Coach Sandy Brondello “never hits the panic button,” Courtney Vandersloot told ESPN on Wednesday morning, a big reason why the Liberty hadn’t dropped consecutive games all season entering the WNBA Finals, the point guard said.
Brondello wasn’t exactly hitting the panic button later that day after her team’s 104-76 blowout Game 2 loss to the Las Vegas Aces, putting them one defeat from elimination. But her bewilderment and disappointment were clear in her postgame remarks to media.
“We didn’t have any toughness.”
“Everything was too easy.”
“We had no resistance … There was no grit.”
“We’ve got to take some pride in playing better than what we did.”
Brondello’s sentiments were echoed by the players to her left and right, 2018 and 2023 MVP Breanna Stewart and 2021 MVP Jonquel Jones.
“We have to dig deeper,” Jones said.
“We need to take a look from within and figure it out,” added Stewart, a…
