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Paige Buueckers She yelled on Friday on Friday.
Former Ucon Huskies star had 10 points at 3 out of 10 from seven rebounds and two assists against Minnesote Lynx. However, Dallas wings They reduced them in their first game of the season, 99-84.
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Dallas Wings Guardian Paige Bueckers (5) talks to Chief Coach Chris Koclanes, to the right, in the first half of the WNBA basketball game against Minnesote Lynx, on Friday, May 16, 2025, at Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)
Bueckers suggested that she sighed after a first career game was over.
“The first is always the hardest, usually,” Buueckers said. “Not to say that it will not become harder, but just be able to have the starting point and continue to build it. And then there are no more questions about what will be for your first WNBA game. Now you have started it.”
The main coach of Wings Chris Koclanes spoke brilliantly about Bueckers and said that Novajlija was able to bear the hype and pressure that would come with the first season at W.
“She was fantastic. She is special in the way she can deal with such grace,” Koclanes said. “As a team, like a real preaching, a lot of attention to the evolution of our mental game and just dealing with everything else, all external expectations, external noise and really tries to expose them and give them all kinds of different ways to remain present.
The Dallas Wings Guardian Paige Bueckers warms up before the WNBA Basketball match against Minnesota Lynx, on Friday, May 16, 2025, at Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Richard Rodriguez)
“The credit for Paige, she comes individually with an incredible amount of personal attention to it and already lives that way,” Koclanes said. “It matched well with our style and what we try to create with the kind of person who is already.”
Arike Ogunbowale had 16 points to run the wings. The newly arrived Dijonai Carrington had 15 points in his debut in Dallas.
Napheesa Collier had 34 points to run Ris. Courtney Williams had 25 points and nine assists.
The Minnesota Lynx Courtney Williams (10) guide the ball next to the Dallas Wings guard, Arike Ogunbowale (24) in the second half of WNBA’s basketball game on Friday, May 16, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)
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Trim Lost in the WNBA final last season from New York Liberty. They finished 30-10 years.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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