After they had merged a three-game extraction streak, the Golden State Valkyries could not keep up with their momentum and took a bad loss from 80-71 to last place Dallas Wings on the Road.
The Valkyries were surpassed with 40-27 and turned the ball over 16 times in the defeat.
In her first start, Center Monique Billings had a season-high 18 points to go with eight rebounds. Wing Kayla Thornton scored 17 points on 5-of-11 shooting. Guard Tiffany Hayes returned after missing the last four games and came from the bank, scored 10 points.
Dallas Wings Rookie Sensation Paige Bueckers amounted to a total of 20 points, four rebounds and four steals to break the seven-game losing streak of the wings.
The former UConn star and the first overall choice in the April design came in the match of Tuesday with an average of 17.4 points, 6.1 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 1.9 steals per match while 46.8% shoot out and 41.7% from outside the bow.
Dallas guard Arike Ogunbowale was a total of 19 points.
Dallas took a lead from one point to the fourth quarter. The two teams exchanged baskets to start the last period, but Dallas’s attack began to break into the middle point.
The Valkyries scored only one point in the last five minutes of the quarter and could not stop the wings on the glass or in the paint.
The Valkyries were short -handed, but did not choose to play newly signed players Kaitlyn Chen, Chloe Bibby and Aerial Powers.
The Valkyries struggled most of the first half, but were worn by several timely baskets of Billings and Thornton. Dallas led with no less than 10 in the first half and was attacking because the wings 11 in 13 had made baskets.
Thornton and Billings combined for 23 points and six rebounds in the first half. After two quarters, Dallas led 39-36, and only marked the third time this season that it led during the break.
A sloppy first quarter in which the Valkyries committed five turnover and left only 4 out of 10 shots Golden State early. With the help of a 7-0 run to close the period, Dallas led after the first quarter with 23-16-the first time that the wings had a lead after the first 10 minutes of a match this season.
The Valkyries ended with a record of the Commissioner with a 3-3 record.
Golden State returns home on Thursday to play Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.
Thornton wins player of the week
Prior to the match on Tuesday, the WNBA announced that Thornton won the Western Conference player of the week after she had an average of 20 points and 11.5 rebounds in two wins at the Los Angeles Sparks and the Seattle Storm. She shot 43.8% of the field in that piece.
Thornton won the prize for the first time in her career and became the first player in the history of Valkyries who did this.
Atlanta Dream Forward Allisha Gray won player of the week in the Eastern Conference.
Former Bay Area Preps Star plates with wings
The Dallas wings signed former Archbishop Mitty Striking Haley Jones on Tuesday morning a hardship contract.
Jones was a healthy scratch of Tuesday’s game.
Jones has had a hard time since he was generally prepared by the Atlanta Dream in 2023 from Stanford. Jones was cut by Atlanta last month and signed a hardship contract with the Phoenix Mercury on 1 June. She was abandoned by Phoenix a week later and now lands in her third team this year.
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