Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon tackles Kelsey Plum during a heated timeout confrontation

Las Vegas Aces star Kelsey Plum was insulted by her head coach Becky Hammon during the team's second straight loss to the New York Liberty.

In a video circulating on social media, Hammon, 47, took direct aim at Plum, 30, and pointed the finger during a heated timeout in Game 2 of their second-round series against the Liberty on Tuesday, Oct. 1 Plum's face Aces lost 88-84 and trailed 0-2 in their best-of-five series.

Plum finished the game 2-for-9 from the floor, with the two-time defending WNBA champions scoring just six points in 27 minutes of play.

While it's not clear what Hammon called out to Plum from the bench, she made it clear what she thought of her team's performance after the game.

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“Honestly, we haven’t been ahead all year,” Hammon told reporters. “We found it in the last month, I feel like we've made up a lot of ground. But the feeling was different than the jump and that’s why it’s hard to hit a three-pointer, let’s be honest.”

No team has won three consecutive WNBA championships since the Houston Comets in 1999. Led by Cynthia Cooperthe Comets won the title in the league's first four years of existence, from 1997 to 2000.

In her post-match comments, Hammon criticized her players for wasting their time and attention on off-field activities since winning their title last season.

“The whole league has been pissed off for the last eight months and my players are in commercials and this and that and fucking celebrities,” Hammon argued. “You get distracted. That’s why it’s difficult because human nature is distracting.”

Hammon also lamented her team's tendency to turn the ball over in Game 2. Plum committed three turnovers, a team-best effort.

“I don’t think it’s even close if we stop passing it to the other team and handing it over,” Hammon said. “They had 20 points at halftime because of our turnovers. The number of layups we gave up was obscene. Looked like a lay clinic. This stuff is our fault.”

The interaction with her head coach was Plum's second controversial incident in as many games.

During the first game of the series on Sunday, September 29, Plum got into a verbal back and forth with Spike Leewho sat courtside at Barclays Arena in Brooklyn.

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The interaction between Plum and the famous director and die-hard New York sports fan went viral — but Plum played the whole thing off after the game.

“I can't say exactly what was said, but I told him to speak up,” Plum said. “But it was nice and fun and really cool that he was here. Even in the last lap it was really cool that he was here.”

She continued: “I know he's a huge sports fan, so it says a lot that he's in the building and respects the sport. So yeah, I was just having fun.”

The series between the Aces and Liberty moves to Las Vegas for Game 3 on Friday, October 4th.