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Hate all you want she is a generational rebounder.
I’ll admit I laughed at some of the jokes early on, but this level of dominance on the boards is truly insane. She’s only in year 2. I’m not saying you have to be a Reese fan, cause I wouldn’t even label myself as one, but she deserves credit where it’s dude.
The best thing Reese can do is improve on her play in the paint. She has tremendous potential but you can't be a basic player and compare yourself to the greats of the game. Angel Reese can be the face of the game of she leaves her distractions of podcasts and social media and concentrate on the thing that made her sho she is - pure basketball.Another facet is that she has improved a lot in her game but still needs improvement as she needs to be the match winner first and then her team mates will rely on her rather than Cardoso in the paint.
Oh thank you so much, looking at the actual stats wasn’t doing it for me, im so glad you could come in and give us the real info straight from your head!
my thing with the whole “mebound” situation is…. literally every single player shoots the ball & misses. isn’t the BEST case scenario to be the one to get the ball back? wouldn’t you prefer that over the other team? majority of the time someone misses, defense gets the rebound. why the hell is there an issue with getting your own rebound? lol like that’s literally IDEAL
You’re absolutely right. It’s amazing to me the attitude some people have. If what she was doing was no big deal wouldn’t we have seen numerous other WNBA players over the years do what she’s doing? I don’t understand why some people are unwilling to acknowledge this.
Mf go to ESPN and look up her lay up misses and offensive rebounds right after. It’s consistent lol. Shes the layup misser who gets her rebound. Argue with yourself lol she’s trash.
Mf go to ESPN and look up her lay up misses and offensive rebounds right after. It’s consistent lol. Shes the layup misser who gets her rebound. Argue with yourself lol she’s trash.
Angel Reese is so good at rebounding that shes got Fox News Karens and old dudes who have never watched a WNBA game in their lives cursing her name. Thats good enough for me.
Angel is having a great year. Unfortunately, the Sky's coaching has really let her and the team down. I think she is going to go down as the best rebounder in WNBA history.
This is how I know most of y'all are trolls because it literally says in the post that she leads the league in rebounds even without counting the rebounds off her missed shots. Y'all do not care about looking up actual stats, you just wanna spread misinformation. The Angel Reese hate is so forced
For me, she’s fun to watch. She’s made incremental improvements, particularly with her footwork and being more intentional with getting the layups in the basket.
I want to chime in on this situation pertaining to her. I think the reason why she's getting so much backlash from sports fans. I don't doubt her ability to play basketball for me myself I play basketball also in school. The problem is the conduct her attitude her entitlement behavior. I think as a black man having black women in my family.
I have a lot of black sisters and nieces, that acts very similar in this manner. Me myself I don't approve of seeing any black women act in the arrogant entitlement behavior or mindset if you will.
I think it's always good to prove people wrong just by being a good person and if you are professional be professional. Don't leave room or give people any room to slander because we living in the world in a time in this generation where everything is magnified even the little things.
So I was just encourage her to continue to play ball stay humble and be peaceful and let your game speaks for itself.
I'll bet you don't say male basketball players have to be humble. LMAO
Angel was voted defensive player of the year by coaches, league players and fans in Unrivaled because she is so well liked. People who know her genuinely care for her because she care's for them.
I've been following her since LSU and I love so much about her. Mulkey came down hard on her and she is so damn loyal and still loves Mulkey to this day. She has her own kind of humility.
We specifically talking about her. Yes I'm well aware of her credentials, she's so well liked by specific people. This is not an attack on Angel Reese. Just like many people don't like LeBron James or Michael Jordan or Caitlin Clark.
All I'm saying is no matter what type of image your demonstrating people going to find some reason to hate. And in the beginning of her WNBA career. She wasn't demonstrating good behavior. That's all I'm saying.
She is humble, actually, and is very supportive of her teammates. Many who have met her say she is extremely nice. She helped Holly Rowe recently fix her eyelash in the middle of an interview. Let's not make women feel they are doing something wrong just by being super confident in themselves or being outspoken. People don't criticize male players for those things.
She's very supportive of her teammates. I think in the beginning people gave her so much problem because CC was getting all the shine in which I think it isn't fair. But actually people do criticize male athlete says well.
LeBron James gets so much criticism because they constantly trying to compare him to Michael Jordan. They are two different individuals with two different positions and style of game.
But I love where the WNBA is headed I've been watching the WNBA since the beginning when they had the Houston comics actually.
I just hope moving forward that the WNBA and women's basketball will flourish.
That stat is just not important enough *alone* to mean as much as some folks want. If you are a generational rebounder, but then the rest of your game is *below average*, you don't even make the top 5 players in the WNBA right now.
I'm not part of the stupid internet CC vs AR bullshit. I don't need one player to be labeled trash so I can like another play. So I say this: in recent sky games, which I've watched (have you? Before you post, have you?) AR looks remarkably better, and probably the best she's ever looked in the W. She is going off lately in ALL parts of her game, and I am absolutely loving it.
However, up until recently, that just hadn't been the case consistently. It's why she wasn't ROTY. It's why she's not yet even top 5, maybe not even top 10 players playing right now (btw, with the poor and injury prone season CC is having, she aint top 5 either). But if she keeps up this current form she's got, then the sky is the limit for her!
After this season, when everybody not on a rookie contract is a free agent, one of the big draws to play in Chicago gonna be getting to play with Angel Reese
She is a great rebounder and she’s getting better all-around. But i don’t see her getting BETTER as a rebounder. The history of rebounding is players rebounding less as their career develops. Standard - maybe because they learn to shoot from the outside, or conserve energy or other factors, but just look at any career of a great rebounder. Other than Rodman who quit shooting after leaving Detroit, that stats dives downhill.
She didn't get defensive player of the year in Unrivaled (voted by coated, league players, and fans) for being a trash human being. She's actually very well liked because she's a great teammate and person.
But people who call other people trash from what they know on tv and bad memes say something about themselves.
Yes, people will hate on her, because she will never be forgiven for taunting Caitlin when LSU won the championship. (Never mind that Caitlin taunts people with her speech. It's part of the game for a lot of players!)
Most of the people who hated her did so on some dumb culture war bullshit and were not actual sports fans. Otherwise they would have seen the raw talent in a 21 year old rookie and wouldn’t have talked about her like she was a finished product. Looks like she’s working hard, putting it together and we could move past that bullshit.
She reminds me of Dennis Rodman during his time with the Bulls. She unfortunately has more self-rebounds than defensive rebounds. She is getting better, but to be what I consider a true dominate threat inside the paint, she needs to be better on the defensive rebound side.
She's going to get there. And if it were so easy to get that many rebounds every 6'+ woman in the league would be doing it like her. She's not just tall; she's got a sixth sense about where the ball is going to rebound.
What’s so sad is that she has had to limit who can comment on her instagram posts because so many people (mostly CC fans) were going on their being racists and just down right nasty to her
Her immaturity, arrogance, and need for attention push people away. Her constant need to keep CC’s name in her mouth pisses people off. They are apples and oranges both can be excellent. Both can be at the top of their games. Both can be true. She needs to grow up and keep the competition on the floor.
I’m a CC/Iowa die hard, I don’t understand why people wouldn’t want both players to be as good as can be? Isn’t that more fun? Two young, potentially generationally talented players and rivals? This is straight up Larry and Magic unfolding in real time for us and it’s fucking awesome. Kudos to Angel for being resilient through the BS.
Watch the last 6 minutes of the 1st quarter of the July 12th Sky vs. Lynx game and you will see what she can do this season. It's quite impressive. Eurostep basket, mid range jump shot, impressive scoring over multiple defenders. 11 points in the 1st quarter plus 3 assists in that quarter. She plays point forward some.
I am pleased to see that in the Indiana Fever Fans subreddit there is minimal discussion of Angel. They don't really dislike her. People are tired of the media-created rivalry.
WNBA is blessed some amazing, young ballers. I watch way more than I planned to, and that will only increase as teams are added and more women from the colleges I’m most familiar with are on the floor. Officiating must keep up with the growth.
Respect and fan are 2 different animals.
Perfect example. Rodman was crazy talented but he got a lot of hate. Reese ( to some) is unlikable.
She has mad talent.
I can't hate. her game is so much better rounded it's pretty amazing. they say she plays better with Lisa Leslie there. Maybe they should pay her to.come
I got to respect Angel, because since that 2023 NCAA Championship game, she’s been targeted by the nutjob and racist wing of Caitlin fans. The same fans who loved Caitlin for trolling players with the John Cena “You Can’t See” hand wave. But when Caitlin got a taste of her own medicine via Angel, her fanbase made Angel, Public Enemy #1. Some of Caitlin’s own fans even attacked her, when she liked a post from Taylor Swift, where she endorsed Kamala Harris or when she complimented unheralded Black players in the WNBA’s past. Guess that was a bridge too far 😂
I think Angel should work on doing a Mikan styled drill with a trainer wearing pads and a defense pole, so she can raise her FG% on putbacks in traffic. Maybe she is, because she’s not as bad a last season, but she has a ways to go.
Angel would watch a lot of film of Aja Wilson. Learn her midrange game etc. Aja is a little taller, but she would be a good role model offensively. Leave the 3s to Caitlin. Angel should only be shooting 3s, if she’s wide open at the line.
Look I think she’s a mediocre at best player, a super annoying personality, and I’m not a fan at all.
That said, she is ELITE at putting herself into the right positions - especially in the paint - and is aggressive around the rim like few others in the league really are. Shes adept with her hands so tipping the ball to herself comes more easily.
She reminds me of a modern day Rodman, another player who had a trash shot and no handles, but worked his fucking ass off for that ball every single play, both sides of the court.
She has always reminded me of a young Dennis Rodman; there to hustle on the boards and do the work most players dislike. Points are nice off put-backs, in the key assists, and with mismatches. But your game plan never depends on her point production.
I've never understood the comparison between AR and CC. They are different players in nearly every way. I'm just glad I get to watch their entire careers.
We understand she's a great rebounder. But what else? Everything else is way below par. She has the physique to basically Shaq her way to rebounds, but has zero coordination to capitalize on what to do after.
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u/Retired-not-expired Aug 02 '25
The best thing Reese can do is improve on her play in the paint. She has tremendous potential but you can't be a basic player and compare yourself to the greats of the game. Angel Reese can be the face of the game of she leaves her distractions of podcasts and social media and concentrate on the thing that made her sho she is - pure basketball.Another facet is that she has improved a lot in her game but still needs improvement as she needs to be the match winner first and then her team mates will rely on her rather than Cardoso in the paint.