Powers would go on to describe a household with brothers and sisters going through the typical growing pains associated with family life. In fact, video games are really the catalyst as to how me and my brother started getting along.” “Literally since the Nintendo 64 days, My entire family plays. “Video games have been in my life forever,” Powers said. And while teams and players were starting to get restless, Powers found a way to cope–video games.
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Professional sports has been beset by the COVID-19 pandemic which has seen entire leagues such as the WNBA, NBA, and MLB put into quarantine in order to even have a season. Today, Powers tells The Esports Observer about her own personal journey and how she came to look at esports and video games as something that transcends just “playing a game.” Well, she is playing several things–basketball and video games. Normally, announcements surrounding such talented basketball players as Powers revolve around who she is going to sign with to play. This article was written using the television broadcast and video interviews before and/or after the event.When it was revealed that Washington Mystics small forward and WNBA superstar Aerial “PowerzSurge” Powers would be represented by the gaming and esports division of Ford Models, some people may have been confused. The Star Tribune did not travel for this event. "And so, I think them knocking down shots on the perimeter helped me inside." "AP is coming along and playing her game very well," Fowles said. She was encouraged by Powers' play Thursday. But if I have to do it, I have to do it because a foul is a foul."įowles finished with 20 points of her own, many coming on nice high-low connections inside with Powers.
But I guess I need to start throwing my head and folding and screaming, which is so out of my comfort zone. "I guess because it's not getting impacted or I'm still getting the shot up, they don't consider it a foul. "I try to hold my composure as much as possible because I know when I flip my wig, it kind of takes me out of the game, but it does get frustrating not to get calls," center Sylvia Fowles said. Lynx guard Evina Westbrook received a flagrant foul for contact against Young midway through the fourth quarter as one of those 21 fouls, while Las Vegas finished with 15. So, you always need some breaks, which they certainly got." "We're not a team that fouls, and at halftime we had just eight fouls. "It's games like these, you need the officiating to be a little more balanced," Reeve said. Reeve pointed to the foul disparity for Minnesota's failure to take a lead. Kayla McBride, who sparked Minnesota's first win of the season on Tuesday with 24 points straight off the plane from Turkey, scored no points and committed four personal fouls in 21 minutes. Powers helped the Lynx continue to crawl back from those large deficits, again making it a one-point game early in the fourth quarter but never got enough help to close the gap. And then just those plays that kind of broke our back, whether it was a call or whether it was our own doing." "You're on the road, and you're playing against a really good offensive team, and we were hanging in there. "At key times where I thought we had some momentum, momentum got taken away," Reeve said. The Aces went up as many as 11 points in the first quarter, one of 10 separate double-digit leads Las Vegas built, but Powers' offensive emergence sparked a 12-3 to pull the Lynx within one at the end of the frame.
She punctuated the Aces' 11-2 run off the tip with a timeout-forcing step-back three in front of a scrambling Minnesota defense. Young fueled the surge for Las Vegas, scoring 10 points on perfect shooting in the first quarter.
Las Vegas hit its first nine shots of the game, including four from beyond the arc, for a new franchise record to start a game. However, Powers' breakthrough game wasn't enough to get past the high-octane Aces. "And when I talked to MJ, he was just like, 'relax. "Every miss just felt heavier and heavier," Powers said. She hit all four of her three-point attempts against the Aces. Through the first five games of the season, Powers had shot 24.6% on field goals and 13.3% from three-point range. Her scoring outburst tied the Aces' Jackie Young for the most points on the court on an efficient 9-of-21 (42.9%) from the floor. "He said, 'stop pressing, relax more and let the game come to you,'" Powers said. I'm shooting before practice, I'm shooting after practice, I'm shooting at shootaround, I'm just shooting extra shots, it's not like I'm not getting reps.' I've never been in a shooting slump before. "It's funny because I texted Michael Jordan last night," Powers said.
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