Like the Spurs' 2014 championship team, Becky Hammon wants her Aces to continue to be unselfish and rally around one another in the WNBA Finals.
Michael Voepel covers the WNBA, women's college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women's basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.are the core of the Aces, the defending WNBA champions driven in their quest to repeat their title this year.
"I see lots of similarities in the character of the teams," Hammon said."The care factor that 2014 team had, the unselfishness, the commitment to whatever it takes to win, no matter who gets the credit."That's what I wanted from us going into this postseason. I told them, 'You have the character to do it. There are going to be some games where we have to win with defense and unselfishness.'"99-82 on Sunday in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals.
Soccer is frequently referred to as"the beautiful game," but basketball the way it was played by the 2014 Spurs at their best was just as stunning. It was like a symphony of passing. The Spurs could work the ball around as if they were magicians doing sleight-of-hand tricks until they had the best look, possession after possession., the Spurs returned their core players and went 62-20 in 2013-14.
"That's us, too. We know we are fully capable of being individual stars. But we can't reach our overall goal without each other. We hold each other accountable, we'll make sacrifices. They were very disciplined, and so are we."In the regular season, the Aces led the WNBA in scoring average , field goal percentage , offensive rating and defensive rating and were second in assists as they went 34-6.
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