Paige at Dallas Press live now
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RockyMTblue2
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They stuffed way too much into the press conference. Sounded like a corporate annual meeting and made the players seem an afterthought. Couldn't figure out how to get all 5 players on the podium at once. Audio made me think of a UConn presser.
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Yea Haw!
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Another example of Dallas ineptitude. tried watching the presser live. a real joke, little to no sound. The feed showed a lot of the floor and who knows what. The whole show was a joke. Hope they treat Paige and Co. better than they treated potential fans. On the plus side Paige did get a cowgirl hat.
It was poorly organized. The five players looked as if they were about to fall down the podium. And those hats, I hate to say it, made them look stupid.
Paige stood there and must have thought to herself, “God, why did I declare for the draft this year?!”.
Paige stood there and must have thought to herself, “God, why did I declare for the draft this year?!”.
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Bueckers 'excited' to be part of Wings' new era
No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers said she is "super excited" for her future with a Dallas Wings organization that has a new general manager and head coach.
Paige talks about her new start...her teammates/the city....and her new wardrobe.
She sounds absolutely ready to go.
Sorry I did not see the earlier thread....could the moderators merge this post with those?
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On a positive note, there was considerable enthusiasm from the mayor and the city manager regarding women's athletics and the Wings in particular. I thought the athletes acquitted themselves well, and I liked the vision of the Wings Curt Miller was selling. Also, Paige appears to have caught up on some of the sleep she lost during the couple of weeks following the tournament, victory celebrations, and WNBA draft, when some of us noted how exhausted she looked. 
One interesting note from the press conference that I wanted to share with those who may not have watched it: A reporter asked Curt Miller if he was ever worried Paige might not sign her rookie-scale contract. He said that he wasn't. He explained that he has a lot of respect for and a longstanding working relationship with Paige's agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, as well as Geno and Chris. He had been in touch with them and had a clear understanding throughout the NCAA season that Paige's sole focus was on her team and winning a national championship. He trusted that Paige and her representatives were acting in good faith and would come to the table when the season was done. As they did.
One interesting note from the press conference that I wanted to share with those who may not have watched it: A reporter asked Curt Miller if he was ever worried Paige might not sign her rookie-scale contract. He said that he wasn't. He explained that he has a lot of respect for and a longstanding working relationship with Paige's agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, as well as Geno and Chris. He had been in touch with them and had a clear understanding throughout the NCAA season that Paige's sole focus was on her team and winning a national championship. He trusted that Paige and her representatives were acting in good faith and would come to the table when the season was done. As they did.
There's really no excuse with modern technology for anything to be posted or broadcast without adequate sound. Yet you hear (or don't hear) it constantly.
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I love Paige and her game so much but man, i just don’t like seeing her in Dallas! Just breaks my heart seeing her there.
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mostly i don't like to see her burdened with arike as a teammate. maybe -- hopefully -- arike has grown up, and i'm confident paige will do her best to make it work.
i don't like it however. arike's 'hero ball' approach is a turnoff (it's always a turnoff, not just when a.o. is the perpetrator), but the real beef i have with her is this:
i'll never forget or forgive her childish, dangerous stunt in one of the irish v. good guys games in which arike got pissed/frustrated by one of her team's failures and decided she would get revenge on a uconn guard who was leading a charge up court (i think it was chrystal, but maybe it was christyn -- my memory is failing) and purposefully and deliberately tripped said husky guard in a blindside. it was awful and a lousy example of the abandonment of the idea of sportsmanship and loss of control.
it reminded be of a prior incident when tennessee's lorrie moore, a star in the making, was chopped down by a duke superstar who was declared a better player than DT that year. (i forget her name, now -- what a joke!)
i don't like it however. arike's 'hero ball' approach is a turnoff (it's always a turnoff, not just when a.o. is the perpetrator), but the real beef i have with her is this:
i'll never forget or forgive her childish, dangerous stunt in one of the irish v. good guys games in which arike got pissed/frustrated by one of her team's failures and decided she would get revenge on a uconn guard who was leading a charge up court (i think it was chrystal, but maybe it was christyn -- my memory is failing) and purposefully and deliberately tripped said husky guard in a blindside. it was awful and a lousy example of the abandonment of the idea of sportsmanship and loss of control.
it reminded be of a prior incident when tennessee's lorrie moore, a star in the making, was chopped down by a duke superstar who was declared a better player than DT that year. (i forget her name, now -- what a joke!)
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It’s the responsibility of Chris Koclanes to define the roles of every player on the roster and to insure that every player meets his expectations. Arike has been absolutely joyful about the prospect of playing together with Paige. If she is serious, she has to realize that means she will play off the ball more often, with Paige running the show.
If Arike can’t or won’t accept that role, then I would expect that she will be playing somewhere else as Paige is clearly going to be the face of the Dallas franchise going forward.
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Arike did it twice and the refs looked the other way.
I think that she is going to transcend the Dallas franchise and she will be idolized!
This is just a starting place for that program. She has this year, and then next season they will have Paige, Maddie Siegrist and eight other players, all free agents.
This is just a starting place for that program. She has this year, and then next season they will have Paige, Maddie Siegrist and eight other players, all free agents.
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No braid!
She had mentioned in an interview that the braids are now a thing of the past. As a professional she is going to have a different style.
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Dallas has been bad for a long time, and I think Areke sees this as a chance to get a championship.
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A championship isn’t going to happen in Dallas anytime soon. It will take a few years to build a championship roster, even with Paige running the show. The challenge for Arike, who has been the best player on a bad team for a number of years, is to have patience with the plan and resist the urge to play hero ball.