The master coach has beaten her apprentice as the GIANTS maintained their unbeaten start with a 67-60 home victory over the Queensland Firebirds.
Decisive surges in the second and third quarters at Sydney's Ken Rosewall Arena set up the GIANTS third win from as many games.
The Firebirds dropped to 1-2 after losing the first away game of their campaign.
It was the GIANTS' highest score of the season after tallying 66 in each of their first two wins.
First-season Firebirds coach Megan Anderson played in multiple premiership-winning Sydney Swifts teams under current GIANTS head coach Julie Fitzgerald.
On Sunday they pitted their wits against each other for the first time in a competition game.
There was little between the side in the first 23 minutes, with the scores level at quarter time and neither side leading by more than two, until the GIANTS made their move.
A second quarter 17-6 run in favour of the home team gave them a 10-point lead, which was down to seven by halftime.
The visitors got back to within four before they were out-scored 10-1 in the last six minutes of the third quarter, with the Firebirds missing all four of their Suncorp Super Shot attempts, while the GIANTS made two.
That 13-point margin at three-quarter time proved insurmountable for Queensland, though a late surge allowed them rescue the margin to single digits.
Jo Harten finished with 47 points for the GIANTS.
GIANTS midcourters Jamie-Lee Price and Maddie Hay supplied English international Harten and shooting colleague Sophie Dwyer with plenty of accurate ball.
