{"id":692286,"date":"2026-06-08T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692286\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:23:09","slug":"wings-pg-paige-bueckers-embracing-facilitator-role-in-second-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692286\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings PG Paige Bueckers embracing facilitator role in second season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShe could\u2019ve got it,\u201d said Ogunbowale, whom Bueckers tied for the record. \u201cWe actually had a lot of missed layups from her passes, but I think she\u2019ll break it at some point soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers said jokingly in response: \u201cIn the locker room, I was going down the whole entire line of teammates letting them know that they smoked one for me. But I think it was all planned to be able to share that with Arike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the star guard&#8217;s career-high in assists, she also scored 18 points and committed one turnover against the Sparks. For the 7-3 Wings, currently 2\u20130 in Commissioner&#8217;s Cup play, Bueckers is averaging 18.3 points, 3.6 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game. She\u2019s shooting 49.3% from the field and 40.9% from 3.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers, embracing the point guard role in her sophomore season, ranks eighth in the WNBA in points per game and eighth in assists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Paige is such a great decision maker,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/wings\/2025\/10\/27\/who-is-jose-fernandez-five-things-to-know-about-the-new-dallas-wings-head-coach\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wings coach Jose Fernandez<\/a> said Friday after the win over the Sparks. \u201cPaige is going to get everybody\u2019s best defender night in, night out. Now, she\u2019s playing primarily at the point guard spot. \u2026 She just makes really, really good reads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassing is something she\u2019s phenomenal at, she\u2019s been good at since I met her in high school,\u201d Fudd said Sunday after practice in Arlington. \u201cShe has some of the best court vision [and] basketball IQ of anyone that you\u2019ll ever meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least for me, she knows where I\u2019m going to be before I even get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as is customary for Bueckers, she credits her teammates for her playmaking abilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy teammates just did a really good job of getting people open, of screening, of cutting, of moving without the ball and just making the game easy for me,\u201d Bueckers said after her record performance against the Sparks. \u201cAnd they hit really tough shots too. Assists just means giving to your teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShe could\u2019ve got it,\u201d said Ogunbowale, whom Bueckers tied for the record. \u201cWe actually had a lot of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,249343,248032,248033,434],"class_list":["post-692286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-tp-dallas-wings","tag-tp-arike-ogunbowale","tag-tp-paige-bueckers","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}