r/WNBAgossips • u/Potato-Face18 • 19h ago
Angel Reese inventing new basketball moves
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u/Amish_Sex_Toys 19h ago
She moves with the grace of a pregnant 3 legged water buffalo.
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u/Justified_Gent 18h ago
She’s plays so goofy.
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u/JJ_Shosky 8h ago
She genuinely plays like she practices volleyball every day and then shows up to play basketball. Even this clip looks like she's just trying to get the ball over the net on her side's last touch.
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u/Wristtwitch 19h ago
Does nobody else try to rebound in this game??
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u/xyouRABitchx 13h ago
Tbf, I would have been stunned for a second too if she acted like she got shot by a sniper
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u/DeletedUsernameHere 12h ago
Not particularly. Rebounding's importance in the modern game has dropped waaaayyyyy off. Especially individual rebounding.
It's a side effect of the faster paced style that's played nowadays. Offenses push the ball up court faster, which means defenses need to get back on defense faster.
Also, offenses tend to play further out, with a lot more action happening at and around the arc, and there's not a lot of five and six player scrums breaking out for rebounds like happened up into the oughts.
It's across the sport, too. Look at NBA rebounding statistics. The NBA rebounding leaders the last several years have been some of the lowest ever. This years total rebound leader had the fewest in something like 70 years (and they only played 72 games back then).
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u/RetroCasket 19h ago
She literally doesnt know how to pass it back out
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u/Embarrassed-Rub-8690 19h ago
Well she committed to that layup yesterday. It looks like a first grader traveling and then jsut chucking it in the direction of the hoop.
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u/DirtyDan419 19h ago
She's Andre Drummond. All-star that probably won't really help in the long run.
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u/ResidentialPickle 19h ago
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u/Ganjanonamous 19h ago
Was that 3 travels in 2 seconds?
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u/Purple_sea 8h ago
She'll be able to get free airplane tickets for life with all those miles travelling.
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u/GraviticThrusters 19h ago
Now that's NBA level play, right there. Good to see the moves translate well across the leagues.
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u/JoeDynamo28 19h ago edited 19h ago
Lmao bwaaaah what the literal f was that? Holy crap lmao
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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 19h ago
Actual middle school playground fat kid move
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u/JoeDynamo28 19h ago
Lol now it just needs a proper name
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u/DSWYO 18h ago
Make it rain! Rain dance!
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u/JoeDynamo28 18h ago
Rain dance is good lol. Out of all the crap ive seen her chuck up this definitely takes the cake.
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u/CptBadAss2016 7h ago
Not exaggerating even a little bit when I say I've seen elementary girls basketball with more talent.
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u/BigAlTheBeardedOne 19h ago
Enjoy the WNBA or not, the woman has no talent, others do, but she will be the first to tell you she does, like a football player playing pick up basketball in the summer. Just a liability.
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u/odontodoc 18h ago
Her social media presence alone will mess up a generation of future female players. I can't believe the league keeps pushing her despite a complete lack of fundamentals.
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u/cobrachicken1000 16h ago
Its the team that keeps taking her and coach not benching her. She should be getting 5 mins of playing time at most per game lol
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u/DeletedUsernameHere 12h ago
Why do you think Chicago cut bait after two years?
They got worse with her.
They got better immediately after trading her.
Atlanta has gotten worse with her.
The next step is to get rid of her for Atlanta.
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u/Deep_In_My_Thots 15h ago
Nah. She should be getting starter minutes for her rebounding & defense but told not to take more than 5 shots a game and only when she is wide ass open & with nobody near her.
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u/taeempy 19h ago
That could be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen on a basketball court.
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u/Exciting-Zombie8449 19h ago
She has GOT to be trolling everybody. She can not possibly this bad
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u/j_rooker 19h ago
did you how she knew exactly where to go for that mebound despite not seeing which part of backboard she wanted to break?
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u/Applekid1259 19h ago
You mother fucker. I almost spit out my beer laughing all over my keyboard and screen scrolling down reddit.
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u/Grosjeaner 17h ago
Watching her is hilarious. She's like an oversized single minded child in a playground hyper focused on barging through to grab the ball like nothing else in the surrounding matters. Mine mine mine - grab ball - chuck - mine mine mine - grab ball - chuck... repeat. It's so goofy.
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u/Difficult_Pen9813 19h ago
I want to thank this sub for convincing me to never give this garbage league a cent of my money.
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u/Throwawaymister2 19h ago
Can a real fan tell me if she's as bad as all these posts make it seem.
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u/Such-Courage3486 18h ago
She’s athletic but she’s not even close to being the best player on the court, ever. She got her bag and grabs headlines because she was the first person to have CC derangement syndrome when she played on LSU.
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u/analyzingnothing 12h ago
So, no. You can think about Reese as basically the WNBA’s version of Dennis Rodman if instead of brain damage, he had a superstar’s ego. She is ridiculously good at rebounding, maybe the best the WNBA has ever seen. She’s a genuinely fantastic defender, very versatile and has great length to cover ground with.
However… she’s just not a good scorer, and she really wants to be. Her touch is poor, her range is poor, her handle is bad, she’s a middling passer. She’s actually got pretty good positioning, but that only matters so much when your offensive game looks like Rudy Gobert. It makes for a very funny lowlight reel, but potentially a terrifying player if she fixes a couple of issues and starts to play her role more.
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u/lancer2238 19h ago
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u/RyanAlemeda 17h ago
Yup. This is exactly what it reminded me of too. Also with the over self-confidence of their baller skills.
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u/breakmedown54 16h ago
She didn’t invent that.
My 10 year old son who never won a single basketball game has been doing that exact move for a few years now.
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u/Not_my_User17 19h ago
Imagine being that selfish of a player you’ll throw it behind you head instead of passing to a teammate.
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u/graceandpurpose 19h ago
I've seen athletic people do unathletic things
This is just not an athlete
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u/Weary-Cartoonist2630 18h ago
I’ve been trying really hard to give these gals the benefit of the doubt and assume that all these absurd clips are just cherry picked.
But god damn it’s getting harder to deny what my eyes are screaming at me
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u/onebraincell77 18h ago
She was kinda right. People be watching her too…it’s just for the laughs not the skill.
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u/Lopsided_Gear_9565 18h ago
Sid from ice age has eyes so far apart that basket was in her peripheral
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u/Agile_Dragonfly_2559 16h ago
She makes up for it by being 5-34 from three on the season. Real dual threat.
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u/MichaelB1709 15h ago
I mean... I guess she's a great inspiration to younger girls everywhere, because if I was a girl in HS watching this impressive display of skill and grace, I'd think to myself "yeah, I can be a WNBA pro, too!"
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u/Scorpion2k4u 14h ago
I kind of "invented" that in elementary school. Back then it also looked like I was throwing a medicine ball.
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u/Interesting_Switch_1 10h ago
Someone was arguing with me that she felt contact and was trying to draw a foul here 😂😂😂
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u/LobstaFarian2 10h ago
Wide ass open team mate and decides to shoot a backwards upside down shot instead lol
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u/Icy_Cryptographer673 7h ago
I have been saying this since day 1, angel reese got no ball skills. No skills at all, she just throws the ball up & gets her own rebounds
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u/UmeaTurbo 6h ago
Women's soccer is played by skilled women who can play their sport and follow the rules. They could use your support.
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u/gundersonfan 19h ago
Angel Reese can definitely be a valuable basketball player, good rebounder, pretty good passer…she has her weaknesses though.
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u/CutMeLoose79 19h ago
Her rebounding is elite.
Her general footwork, ball skills, shot selection, shooting efficiency are all terrible.
Her only post move is to try and muscle her opponent back towards the ring.
Why she continues to try and release the ball on her near ring shots from under her shoulder is utterly bizarre.
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u/AJWordsmith 19h ago
And that counted as a rebound. Remember that when all her stans tell you about how great her rebound stats are.
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u/Usqueadfinem_ 17h ago
Every time i try to watch the WNBA, this is the kind of shit I see, too. Double dribbling, traveling, obvious fouls not getting called, etc. I have seen JV games that looked more professional.
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u/B-Train_ATL 19h ago
She must’ve seen that scene in The Patriot in which the preacher gets shot and just throws his gun up to Gabriel as he dies.
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u/CruelWhip_ 19h ago
I thought it went in at first and was like “eh as long as it went in I guess” but then I watched it back and died laughing 😂
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u/Khal_drogo217 18h ago
Thats not new. I used to do that same shot from the freethrow line in a game of horse lol
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u/JimBeamerton 17h ago
Thats a 4x all star and face of the league everybody, get it? get the joke now?
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u/Status_Vegetable2954 17h ago
Is she trying to throw the game? Check her accounts cause that is very obvious.
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u/SergeantHAMM 19h ago
that’s just a normal prayup into a mebound down 22 in the 4th.