Aces coach Becky Hammon made a proclamation last week that should probably strike some fear into the rest of the WNBA as the playoffs are set to begin Sunday.

“We’re not where we want to be,” the league’s unquestioned best coach said of her team that had won 13 consecutive games at the time. “We haven’t tapped out to our potential, especially offensively. We’re probably operating at 75 percent. If we can get to 90 percent, we’ll be really dangerous.”

A week later her team extended that win streak to 16 games by making a regular season WNBA-record 22 3-pointers in the season finale against the Los Angeles Sparks on nearly 50 percent shooting.

Uh-oh.

It wasn’t necessarily that the shots were falling. That can often be fools’ gold with good shots missing and bad shots falling at times.

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