The WNBA season formally tipped off Friday night time with three video games throughout the league.
It most notably marked the skilled debut of former UConn star Paige Bueckers, who we’ll get to in a second.
Listed below are three takeaways from opening night time.
Rising pains for Bueckers
Bueckers’ skilled debut for the Wings didn’t go fairly in addition to she and Dallas followers hoped it could. She scored 10 factors on simply 3-of-10 capturing and had seven rebounds and two assists.
Bueckers is nicely conscious that it’s going to take a while adjusting from the collegiate degree — the place she dominated her complete profession — to the skilled degree when most of her competitors is on the identical degree.
“The primary one’s at all times the toughest,” Bueckers stated. “To not say that it gained’t get more durable, however simply with the ability to have a place to begin … after which proceed to construct off that,” per Myah Taylor of the Dallas Morning Information.
