‘We Just Showed a Fight’: Paige Bueckers Praises Dallas Wings’ Grit After Las Vegas Aces Loss
Paige Bueckers saw the fight in her team, and she made sure everyone else did too. Despite trailing by 22 points entering the fourth quarter, the Dallas Wings stormed back behind Bueckers’ clutch shooting and crisp playmaking, trimming the deficit to just two with under 30 seconds left. But the comeback bid fell short in a 90–86 loss to the Las Vegas Aces during Wednesday’s WNBA action at College Park Center.
After the game, Bueckers praised the resilience her team displayed.
“Of course, just the effort—the intensity we played with, the way we pushed the pace, got into the paint and created from there,” Bueckers told DallasHoopsJournal.com. “A lot of cuts, a lot of nail kick threes. We just showed a fight. We were down 20 at the end of the third, so just to not give up and push it—we cut it to, I think, four at one point.”
Bueckers finished with 20 points, a game-high eight assists, three rebounds, and two steals in her final outing before making her All-Star debut. She scored 10 points in the final frame, assisting on several key baskets — including three dishes to Haley Jones — as Dallas outscored Las Vegas 34–18 in the fourth.
The Wings had five players score in double figures and recorded 32 assists on 34 made field goals — a franchise-record 94.1% assist rate that ranks as the second-highest by any WNBA team this season.
But for Bueckers, the fourth-quarter surge went beyond statistics.
“This is something we’ve shown all season — a fight and a willingness to never quit,” Bueckers said. “We just need to play like that for 40 minutes when we come back from the break. It shows what we’re capable of and that we can compete on any given night.”
With the WNBA All-Star break ahead, Bueckers and the Wings hope their late surge against the Aces serves as a turning point for a stronger second half.
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