REPOST: Moving Paige Bueckers to Point Guard Has Transformed the Dallas Wings
A simple but key strategy has fueled the recent success of the Dallas Wings, by putting the ball in the best player's hands.
The decision to move Paige Bueckers to the point guard position is paying immediate dividends for the Dallas Wings. Over the last five games, Bueckers has been the primary playmaker and elevated the team’s overall performance. During that stretch, she is averaging 20.4 points, 6.8 assists and 4.4 rebounds while shooting 52.5% from the floor (16.0 field goal attempts) and 37% from three-point range (5.4 attempts per game). Dallas went 4-1 in those contests and lineups featuring Bueckers and Azzi Fudd this season have posted a +7.4 plus-minus, picking up where they left off in college.
Bueckers talked about it after the win against Mercury.
“Eight plus years of playing together. Playing with each other, playing against each other and having that chemistry. Like you see, from our entire team of us playing together, us learning each other and our tendencies, where we like to be on the floor, me and Azzi already have that.” Bueckers ended jokingly, “Every time I pass it to her, I tell her to shoot it so she gets me the assist.”