Things are looking up for the Silver Stars, who beat the Comets in Houston to open both teams' seasons. Rookies Zolman and Young lit up the scoreboard with (respectively) five treys and a double-double.

Fans showed up-- over, 10,000-- but the Comets' interior players didn't; the Comets looked especially bad on the boards.

Coach Van: ""I'd like to apologize to every Comets fan who's ever watched us play, who's ever put on one of our T-shirts and who ever said with a lot of pride that they were Comets fans. San Antonio outplayed us and outcoached us in every phase of the game."