{"id":17215,"date":"2022-10-18T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wnba-offseason-las-vegas-aces-to-return-aja-wilson-entire-core\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T13:28:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:28:41","slug":"wnba-offseason-las-vegas-aces-to-return-aja-wilson-entire-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wnba-offseason-las-vegas-aces-to-return-aja-wilson-entire-core\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Offseason: Las Vegas Aces to return A\u2019ja Wilson, entire core"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the WNBA Finals and World Cup over, it\u2019s time to take a look back at what each WNBA team did this season and forward at what their offseason goals should be. Here is the final installment in our series: the No. 1 seed and champion Las Vegas Aces.<\/p>\n
Analysis of statistical rankings\/offseason goals<\/strong><\/h4>\n
For a team that finished tied for the best record in the regular season, the Aces didn\u2019t dominate a ton of statistical categories. They were basically just a really good shooting offense, played at a fast pace and got that extra point by taking a lot of threes. They also took care of the ball better than anybody in the WNBA, but didn\u2019t do well on the other side of that category (forcing turnovers). Same thing goes for rebounds. They got a lot of them, but surrendered a lot of them too. That\u2019s because there were just so many possessions for both sides in their games.<\/p>\n
The Aces were ninth in scoring defense, which isn\u2019t that concerning because they were sixth in defensive rating \u2014 again, because of the high volume of possessions. They were about average when it came to overall defense and rebounding despite having A\u2019ja Wilson who is one of the best in the world at both. They were also average when it came to turnover margin, as mentioned. <\/p>\n
The only glaring weakness for Vegas was 3-point percentage defense, a category in which it was 10th (35.6 percent). Giving up the most 3-point attempts in the league, which the Aces did, is somewhat unavoidable because teams know they have to fire away from deep in order to keep up with your offensive firepower. But you would hope to have better disruptive defense on the perimeter so that a good percentage of those threes don\u2019t go in.<\/p>\n
The Aces have their core under contract for 2023 and they just won the championship with that core. They\u2019re not going to be making any changes to their core to improve any weaknesses. But perimeter defense is an area they can try to get the players they do have to improve in. And they could look for good perimeter defenders for their last couple roster spots. However, they may look to versatile bigs to fulfill that need because they have six guards under contract and only three frontcourt players.<\/p>\n