The New York Liberty return home for Game 3 of the 2023 WNBA Finals, and they’ve got some work to do in order to stave off elimination at the hands of the defending champion Las Vegas Aces.
Save for a competitive first half in Game 1, New York has been outmatched by Las Vegas in just about every department. The Aces have outscored the Liberty by a total of 45 points in just 80 minutes of basketball, with New York looking ill-equipped to handle the highly-potent Aces offense while several of its own biggest weapons have gone quiet at the worst possible time.
Making matters worse for the Liberty, if they’re going to pull off an improbable Finals comeback, it will eventually need to be done on the Aces’ home court—a location which, needless to say, has not been particularly friendly to them thus far. First, though, New York will have to take care of business in Brooklyn, and there’s a laundry list of things that need to go in the Liberty’s favor for that to happen.
New York’s guards must produce offensively
