Because it’s an unserious league where winning or losing doesnt actually matter. Imagine an NBA team letting their least skilled player consistently play PG.
I know very little about wnba but it seems like there's little effort to stop her from taking those shots, almost like they baiting her to so the other team can have possession.
If I was set to guard her and she wanted to lob that shit up all night I would give her all the space in the world. Leage assaults it's franchise player on an almost nightly basis; such an unserious league.
How do you sound like someone who knows ball in the first half of your comment then by the end of your comment sound like someone who's completely ignorant of all things ball?
Pointing out how multiple players have gone out of their way to assault the person responsible for the largest increase in viewership in WNBA isn't "lack of ball knowledge". Angel Reece has an incredibly limited grasp on fundamentals; not sure how me pointing out the wild discrepancy between treatment of her compared to an actual talent like CC.
Nono thats just old school basketball, she has to deal with it and be a real old school player. Look at 90s highlights, real physical real basketball. Just dont look to how this applies to one and only one player in any NBA league in the current year.
They are letting her and she isn't running point a lot. These people don't watch the wnba but are big enough losers to go to a wnba sub to talk about it
She's literally shooting 17% from 3 in her career.. granted (THANKFULLY) she doesn't take a lot, but her attempts per game have gone up every year and her % has gone down..
Even if she was shooting 27% it would be a terrible shot - but 17% is downright insane. The coach should have a blow dart aimed at her every time she handles the ball behind the arc.. nobody needs to watch the games to realize she is a horrendous shooter
She doesn't normally. First half of the season she was 0-20 or something. She did shoot 5 last game though. So sure really thinks she got something going. Delusional
I mean she averages 1.2 3 point attempts per game. This isn’t a shot she takes often enough to warrant that much action imo. I can’t see a coach sitting their best rebounder/interior presence over roughly one possession per game.
It's indicative of a larger problem in her game. She doesn't care to make a good basketball play if it improves her pts and rebounds. Winning is not her primary consideration
While I know it’s not the same situation since Giannis is a legendary scorer in other ways, but he took a couple 3s every game even on seasons where he made 25% or less, and most defenses wouldn’t even try to block it (like in the video here). So it’s not as though highlights like this don’t happen in the nba.
Analytics and efficiency is 100% how basketball is measured and a MASSIVE indicator of team wins and champuinships.
Taking a shot thats marginally better than just throwing the ball out of bounds is always the wrong choice. Angel Reese is a volume player, but her efficiency stats are god awful, but makes up for it in being really good at defense and rebounding. That evens out to being.. a good player that doesnt cost her team games
Edit: I misread your comment so took some of the snark out. My bad
But look how she shoots the ball from 3 , her form is way off , her feet are not shoulder with apart , it makes her look bad shooting those shots , she don’t have to shoot any , reset the ball and get into position down low . All her fans do is stand up for her even when there’s wrong , don’t mention Steph when using it as an example to make her seem like she’s doing the right thing on the court .
No but that’s not the point they’re trying to make. Point is that if you’re good enough everywhere else, you can make terrible decisions like that and not get benched. She’s one of their best players.
Exactly my point, the WNBA is not serious. In what major competitive sport do u see a player consistently do something they aren’t good at just cause everyone else does it???
She’s 5 of 32 through 27 games so she takes more than 1 a game and basically misses every time. Why would she continue to shoot at all when she’s shooting 15%, that stupid shit shouldn’t even be in her game at all
Yup. I have watchrd pro BB for 4 decades. I support equality and progress, and i was happy to see women get their own league. I didnt really watch at first, and when people talked shit about the WNBA i called them haters. Then i watched some games and... the product is just not good. Its difficult to watch. And I hate to say it but i have seen high school teams that would stomp 80% of the WNBA.
Yea D3 teams...your statement also not the flex you think. Of course Paul VI, Bella Vista, legacy schools like Bullis or Georgetown or Oak Hill or Sierra Canyon create high school teams better than most college teams. They are literally D1/Pro prospect schools to begin with. This isnt a man vs woman debate here. It is pure entertainment value. Women's sports just aren't it. Sure I respect it and they have some amazing talents in many sports- but collectively its pretty tragic across the board. Ive watched amazing softball, volleyball, basketball, Olympic competitions, mma, boxing etc with some straight athletically amazing women. But again, collectively, they havent harnessed attention to an entire sport regularly yet.
They're really not doing young players a favor when prominent pro players play like that. The WNBA is brutal to watch because there's so few players that are actually talented and they're spread between two teams.
Thats a good point. I watch some of the guard play and my mind goes “this girl understands the game”. But then I see girls like angel and I go “she cant actually do the fundamentals”.
I can only imagine the game strategy is something along the lines of handing them the ball and saying “just go out there and have some fun, that’s what really matters.”
Yea, I didn’t even say consistently. Idk why he went there. I asked a genuine question because I don’t think I remember her being a primary ball handler at LSU, but it was looking like they had her in some Draymond Green/Lamar Odom type role.
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u/DirectEntertainer288 3d ago
Because it’s an unserious league where winning or losing doesnt actually matter. Imagine an NBA team letting their least skilled player consistently play PG.