Paige was showing out for the Hollywood crowd in LA tonight with one of those amazing games where she was making everything from everywhere, including one tough fall away, where she was fouled and issued her now familiar, “and f— one!”
Paige hit a new career high, scoring 44 pts on 17/21 shooting, along with 4 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal. She played one of her very best games ever, at any level, but it still wasn’t enough to carry the Wings to victory as they lost a heartbreaker to LA 81-80 on a last second shot by Plum.
The Wings are really not a very good team right now and they are also beat up with several players out with injuries. But so long as Paige is on the court, they are fun to watch and they hang around in games, even though they are usually overmatched.
Paige had 44 of Dallas’s 80 points, tying the WNBA rookie scoring record set by Cynthia Cooper 28 years ago, during the inaugural season in the W when Cooper was 34 years old. The true, just out of college record, for a rookie was set by Candace Parker who scored 40 pts during her rookie season.
Paige got some help from Siegrist and Geiselsoder. But aside from those 3 players, there was some truly ugly, head scratching basketball played by the rest of the Wings team.
Paige will win ROY in the W this season and then Curt Miller can overhaul his roster with a lottery pick in the draft and some veteran free agents to surround his franchise player with.