Paige Bueckers and the Dallas Wings dropped to 0-3 on the young 2025 WNBA season, falling to Napheesa Collier and the Minnesota Lynx 85-81 in Minneapolis on Wednesday night.
Bueckers, the No. 1 pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft, finished the night with 12 points on 3-of-11 shooting and 10 assists, her first double-double of her professional career.
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Through three games, Bueckers has recorded 20 total assists and seven turnovers. In comparison, last season’s No. 1 pick, Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, tallied 17 assists and 21 turnovers through her first three WNBA games.
Clark’s turnover habit became a concern during her first year, smashing the WNBA record for most turnovers in a single season with 223.
StatMuse on X shared the assist-to-turnover ratios for Bueckers and Clark from their first three WNBA games.
However, while Bueckers had the better assist-to-turnover ratio through the first three games, Clark held the edge in scoring, posting 51 points to Bueckers’ 41 over that stretch.
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WNBA fans took notice of the key statistic being left off the above post, taking to social media to leave their thoughts.
“Since we are doing this- CC had 51 points… in her first 3 regular season games, last year vs. Connecticut Sun and the NY Liberty 2x. Paige has put up 41 points… vs. the Seattle Storm and the Minnesota Lynx x2,” one fan wrote.
“Now do points,” added another.
“Show us points and who they played. Lame,” said a third.
“This is lame where’s the points,” commented a fourth.
“Now do points and who got blitzed and triple teamed,” posted a fifth.
“Now do points,” added a sixth.
Dallas Wings guard Paige Bueckers and Indiana Fever guard Caitlin ClarkVincent Carchietta, Grace Hollars-Imagn Images
While Clark averaged 5.6 turnovers per game in 2024, her former Indiana coach, Christie Sides, thought some of her teammates may have been at fault for a few of them.
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“She sees things as they’re happening, and sometimes before the player that’s gonna get the ball even realizes it,” Sides said on July 9.
Bueckers will continue to seek her first WNBA win, facing the Atlanta Dream in the Wings’ next game on Saturday. It took Clark six games to secure her first.
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