\u201cI don\u2019t want to actually die out there, but I want to feel like I\u2019m dead after the game,\u201d Bueckers told ESPN\u2019s Scott Van Pelt following the thrilling WNBA playoff clash at College Park Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The second-year guard prefaced that statement by saying she wants to put her heart and body on the line to continue what has been a historic season for the No. 7-seeded Wings<\/a>, who fell 104-80 to the No. 2 seed Valkyries on Sunday night at Chase Center before evening the best-of-three series three days later behind a record-breaking performance from Arike Ogunbowale<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ogunbowale, who hit a three with 4.1 seconds remaining to tie the game at 93-93 and force overtime, exploded for 45 points \u2014 the most ever scored in a WNBA playoff game.<\/p>\n Bueckers\u00a0\u2014 who scored 10 points on 3-of-13 shooting Wednesday, but still impacted the game in other ways \u2014 carried Dallas in Game 1 behind a 21-point performance on 9-of-10 shooting.<\/p>\n For the Wings to pull off a massive upset against the Valkyries, which swept Dallas 3\u20130 in the regular season, it will take maximum effort from Bueckers and the rest of the team.<\/p>\n Bueckers knows that. Van Pelt applauded the star for her grit, but also made a request before she goes full throttle in Game 3.<\/p>\n \u201cA lovely answer, but don\u2019t die,\u201d Van Pelt said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got way too much ball ahead of you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t want to actually die out there, but I want to feel like I\u2019m dead after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1638,89477,89478],"class_list":["post-453551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-brief","tag-tp-arike-ogunbowale","tag-tp-paige-bueckers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}