Emma Meesseman has been with Liberty for two weeks. This did not prevent him from calling his new team after another frustrating loss.
The MVP of the single WNBA final said that Liberty was fighting during the defeat of 83-71 on Sunday against the Lynx with their lack of agitation, bad execution and non-focused play.
The team’s second defeat this season against last year’s finalists resolved to the fact that the Lynx played harder and more intentionally. When the tenacity of the liberty was challenged in the second half, the champions in title conceded.
Liberty has committed 13 of their 20 reversals in the last 20 minutes. Some of these gifts were self-inflicted errors.
“Those who could certainly be avoided were fair, once again, the attention to details – went on the open side – or we were not always on the same wavelength,” said Meesseman. “These are fundamentals, really. Maybe it’s not bad to come back to the basics and how you learn when you learn when I was a child. “
Freedom is without Breanna Stewart, Kennedy Burke and Nyara Sabally, but Meesseman thinks that the biggest problems of the team have nothing to do with their absences.
“Just the discipline, attention to details, as I just said – go on the open side or cut with a goal, play with a goal, stay at the games, be careful, I have the impression that that’s right,” said Meesseman. “It doesn’t matter who we have on the field, whatever the level, the players [or] What a league, it’s all about stampede. I don’t think you can practice this. So we just have to go there and fight. »»
Meesseman, 32, knows what she is talking about. Largely considered one of the best Europeans in the game and a WNBA champion in 2019, she was also part of another team which, according to all the accounts, could have won a WNBA title but no. Meesseman played for the sky in 2022 during their defense of the title which ended with a shocking outing in the semi-finals.
Only four games with The Liberty, Meesseman still finds his place with the team.
“I’m still new in the team, so I’m still looking at the side [at] Really, how does everyone react? What does everyone need individually? Meesseman said.
The Liberty has a 20-11 sheet and tied with the dream for second place in the League classification, the two teams ensuring 6 games behind the Minnesota at the top of the league.
With 13 games to do, including Tuesday evening in Los Angeles, the gap between a first and a second seeded in the playoffs can be too large to be overcome.
Freedom is much more concerned with reaching the playoffs with a clean health beak than the playoffs.
Could the team’s advanced prospects on the playoff series really hurt him? Freedom was burned several times for their passive game, especially during a third disastrous quarter in Dallas last week.
The Liberty argued Sunday to have a better start of the second half. They wanted to strike first and unbalance the lynx. At the start of the third, that’s what Liberty did.
But the lynx has attempt with its own series while the Liberty has downgraded.
“We started it [well] But we haven’t finished it, “said Meesseman.” Once again, I think it’s more for us than on the Minnesota that forced us.
“It’s just a bit … in this league, in this game, nothing will happen by itself. You must continue to force it and demand from each other that you must play hard and discipline. And we just made bad passes and not being disciplined in this part, so yes, we have work to do. ”
