Two teams who lose their season-opening game are hunting for their first win, when the Las Vegas Aces faces connecting flax in Uncasville, Conn on Tuesday night.
Surya led Most of the routes on Sunday in coaching Washington Mistics in coaching and falling from 90–85 in coaching.
A day earlier, the aces was dropped while losing 92–78 to hosts New York Liberty.
Initial results disappointed Las Vegas coach Becky Hamon.
“We just have a lot of work to do. Plain and simple,” Hamon said. “I felt that New York played well. They were better teams. They originally beat us in every field.”
Three-time league MVP A’aja Wilson made a good start with 31 points and 16 rebounds for his 100th career double-dobbing. He ranks sixth in WNBA history in that category.
Personal performance means very little in a game for Wilson, in which the Las Vegas trail was seen as 17 points.
“There is not a good outing for us,” Wilson said. “This means that we have a lot of work that we need to do, something that I can go back to the drawing board and find it. … It’s just the beginning.”
The prized Aces of Offsen Acquisition Jewel Lloyd struggled with just five points on 2 -10 shooting.
Sun reached the semi -finals in the last season before losing to Minnesota Links and then rebuating the roster. The stars were from Alyssa Thomas and Devanna Bonor departure, as the companions were Briya Jones, Dijonai Carrington and Tyya Harris.
Coach Stephanie White also came out to coach Indiana fever, causing a connecting reconstruction on the fly.
Holdover Olivia Nelson-Ododa moved into the initial lineup and Washington had 18 points and eight rebounds.
“I think because everyone is so new, I think we are hungry, and so I think it’s something you can really teach,” Nelson-Ododa said. “And so, just knowing that people are the same with the same goal, we really want to win. We want to get out of there and play as hard as possible.”
Mezian liked this effort, but would have preferred that his club protected an initial lead of 15 points.
“It’s not how we want to start our season, but sometimes, a losing game, I do not want to say that it is a good foundation, but it’s something that we can use to change small things,” said Mezian.
Tina Charles is back to the second tour of duty with Surya and led 23 points and 10 rebounds to extend all her time-riddled double-dobbal count to 195.
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