It didn’t take long for Paige Bueckers to get deep into her bag.
The Dallas Wings‘ second-year guard was uber-efficient in their season-opening win Saturday over the Indiana Fever, and Bueckers moved around the court with her usual swagger, too.
The stats were impressive enough: Bueckers dropped 20 points on 8-for-10 from the field.
But the best moment may have come when Bueckers drove against Sophie Cunningham.
The guard from UConn powered her way through Cunningham, knocking her to the ground, before finishing on a simple move in the paint.
Bueckers wasn’t done — she put two fingers close together to signal “too small” toward Cunningham:
Paige Bueckers letting Sophie Cunningham know she too small to be in the paint pic.twitter.com/zsXagzcCR4
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The “too small” celebration is one of the most entertaining basketball maneuvers of this new era. Players have found all different ways to make the same gesture, and Bueckers showed off her version here.
Cunningham has grown into one of the league’s most well-known players since joining the Fever, which helped this clip go viral.
It also raises the question of whether this should’ve been either a block or a charge, but the refs just let them play, and so Bueckers got the last laugh on this one.
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