3 hot takes from the first 3 days of the 2025 WNBA season

the WnbaThe twenty -ninth season started this weekend, which led to a list full of exciting games. Although this victory and the initial losses are not exaggerated in its reaction, especially now after W to 44 games, there are still a few fast food.

Let’s dive into three of the most importants they take after the weekend:

Paij Pueckers has some serious competition

Paij Bueckers has entered its rising season as WNBA as a newly carrier NCAA champion and the first selection in the draft. While she was heading to Dallas to start her season with wings, Speculation of the year rising He was already at a temperature.

On paper, it seems that the sowing (and they will continue) in a strong condition: it’s amazing shooter, passers -by and basketball mind in a team in which it will immediately affect. It was the best talent in the draft, given that it was unanimously dropped as the first possibility before it was finally chosen. But is it a rising lock of the year? Perhaps, but some other beginners proved this week that it may not be a dry vote at the end of the season.

All eyes were in Washington this week, when the Sufis went 2-0 in the first two games. It is widely expected as one of the lottery teams in the league this season, it was surprising to some that they could not win, but both match to open the season. The first was against Atlanta, when they got the best in the new dream in a narrow game. After that, they managed to overcome the sun of Contect in their weekends. What has emerged in both games, though, the play was a Sufi junior.

Washington, Sonia Citron, 3, Kiki Ervin No. 4, and Georgia Amoor, No. 6 in the first round of the draft last month. Unfortunately, amoon He suffered from ACL injury Just days in the training camp and you will not play this season, but Citron and Evian are already affecting. In their game against the dream, Citron scored 19 points and held 2 counterattacks to go with 2 passes while he was just one rotation. It launched 2-2 of the distance and 6-7 (85.7 %) of the field. I followed this in the Sunday game by performing 15 points, adding 3 decisive passes, stealing 2, one bounce and one bloc.

While IRIAFEN scored only 4 points in its first appearance in WNBA against Atlanta, who was getting out of the game (as it is common among the players in the court who adhered to the WNBA mode), followed it with a great match against The Sun. On Sunday, IRIAFEN achieved 17 points 14, bounces, and one mass during the shooting by 70 % of the field. With the minutes, these Sufi youths will be able to play this season, given the Washington State list, any player can win a dangerous place in the excellent conversation.

Now, it’s not as if the seeds did not have for the first time good. 10 points were recorded with the addition of 7 rebound balls, 2 passes and one bloc against Minnesota on Friday. It is only shot 3-10 of the field, but it is difficult to rule harshly in the first match. You have not yet played a second game like mystics, but Wings’ team makeup also varies slightly. We hope that their new coach Chris Kulainis will test things at the present time, but in the end, the crime should be more through seeds, Eric Oujunbo and Madi Sigritist instead of how things went against Minnesota.

It is early, but guessing that Citron, IRIAFEN and Puckers will all be in the excellent conversation this season does not seem to be much extension.

Naphesa Collier can win MVP

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Another race can be tight this season for the MVP Award. Last season, Aja Wilson He fled with her by June or JulyBut in a year in which the historical legendary hoops were not playing, Coller would have been there. Now, Wilson could definitely continue playing at the same level that she played last year when an average reached 26.9 points in the league for each game. However, Naphesa Collier can also rise to this level, and gives Wilson some competition for the best player in Wnba.

In the first match of Minnesota against Dallas, Coller scored 34 points at 10-18 shooting from the field, and added 4 rebound balls and 4 assists. Minnesota won in that game 99-84 In a very dominant way. In their second match against Los Angeles, Coller scored 23 points at 12-21 shooting with 6 rebound balls, 1 help, 2 theft and one mass, Help the icon win 89-75 Above sparks. Las Vegas did not have only one game so far this season, but Wilson scored 31 points at 11-22 points, along with 16 rebounds, 3 passes, stealing 2 and one bloc. However, a landing is overwhelming I lost that match against New York92-78.

If Coller and Wilson are close when the time is to vote for MVP, their team’s records may be turned on. Voters tend to resort to victories and losses such as a tie brokers when determining who must be voted in favor of it, which may give Coller an advantage if she and Lynx continued for them Range season retaliation.

New York Freedom is better or another than last season

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Talking about New York’s freedom that overcomes touches … Freedom looks good. Like, perhaps better than last season, good. In 2024, freedom spent most of the season at the top of the league standings, and reached the final of the Commissioner’s Cup, and of course he won the WNBA Championship. Other than its season, they were circulated with Natasha Claude and returned Marine Johannes after missing the 2024 season (among some other moves).

Unfortunately, freedom misses a piece of its essence this season as Betnijah Laney-Hamilton has come out of an injury, but they are still struck an incredibly strong team to defend their cup.

The cloud seems to be a large part of this batch for successive rings, and it brings a lot of energy to freedom inside and outside the court. We know that players tend to play more freely when they are in an environment they enjoy, and a boy, is the cloud that you have in Brooklyn. Fans also loved her, and they were very loud for her in her first appearance with freedom. 22 points to go with 6 rebound balls, 9 passes, 3 theft and two blocks in Liberty’s victory over Aceses.

It seems that Breanna Stewart is in good condition after she underwent a range of her knee in March, and it is good to see her able to play without pain. Stewart scored 25 points at 10-14 shooting from the stadium, and caught 8 counterattacks to go with 3 decisive passes on Saturday’s victory.

The overwhelming ready -to -win meals against Acess is that freedom seems renewed. The energy was high in the team, and it showed. Their defense was also great, and their approach appears to be something like “Good, we may not be able to stop Wilson 30 pieces, so let’s stop anyone else.” It has succeeded well, due to the next top scorer after Wilson Jackie Young was 16 years old, and the other other touches were in dual characters, Chelsea Gray with 12 and Dana Evans off the bench with 10.

If this is the way freedom is played against a team like Acess, they may be on the right path to control Wnba again this season.