Disregarding the adjustments she will likely need to make to adjust to the new level, Paige Bueckers should become a true scoring machine for the Wings.
Bueckers averaged 32 minutes per game in her NCAA career, and last season she increased it to 36.1 minutes per game. Undoubtedly, her work rate is very high, which is always welcome by any coach.
Bueckers led the WNBA in assists in two of the four seasons she played college basketball. She finished her career with 561 assists, an average of 4.6 per game. With that record, she would have finished in the top 10 of the WNBA in this stat for the 2024 season.
Despite not being one of the tallest players (5’11”) and being a star scorer, Bueckers will also have an important impact on the Wings’ defense. Suffice it to say that she averaged 4.1 defensive rebounds per game in her college basketball career, which would place her in the top 20 in the WNBA in 2024.
Bueckers is one of the most popular women’s basketball players in the world, with over 2.4 million followers on Instagram (Caitlin Clark, for example, is followed by 3.1 million Instagrammers).
