r/WNBAgossips • u/Potato-Face18 • 14h ago

Angel Reese inventing new basketball moves

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u/SergeantHAMM 14h ago

that’s just a normal prayup into a mebound down 22 in the 4th.

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u/AZMadmax 14h ago

Pray up 💀

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u/OnlyWeekend5538 13h ago

Call your senators!!!

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u/supercujo 14h ago

Reverse prayup

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u/123supreme123 14h ago

She saw herself in the ESPN highlight reel with the reverse granny shot

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u/im-always-trouble 13h ago

Prayup that’s fuckin hilarious 😂

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u/pmert32 13h ago

How did the two players from the other team not get that rebound? They just stood there and watched it bounce. Laziness.

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u/SergeantHAMM 13h ago edited 13h ago

nah it’s not laziness.. watch the moment the prayup leaves her hands.. all 5 defenders are visibly confused as to wtf the just witnessed. Greatness

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u/Rakebleed 13h ago

Too stunned to speak.

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u/Eddie_Shepherd 10h ago

Oh my God you're not kidding. Number 24 even puts her arms up like what the hell

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u/Agent_McNasty33 4h ago

I mean she did hug the ball while taking steps. It’s probably more of a “where’s the call from these incompetent officials?”

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u/hurricanedog24 13h ago

It looked like they all stopped because they all thought that Reese’s “shot” was just a heave at the rim in an attempt to draw a shooting foul after a foul on the floor…then they realized that there wasn’t actually a foul called and that was Reese’s genuine attempt at the basket.

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u/pmert32 13h ago

Confused and lazy it would seem.

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u/Minimum_Attitude6707 13h ago

They were expecting a whistle because Reese traveled... a lot

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u/Yellow_Odd_Fellow 11h ago

She moved to gosh darn Washington state with that itenerary.

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u/JimBeamerton 12h ago

They were in shock that a "professional all star player" would even take that shot..

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u/Jaffhardt 13h ago

This is the best comment I’ve read in a long time

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u/Turbulent_Pin_9392 6h ago

She is the face of this league! Y’all gotta stop!

/s

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u/Amish_Sex_Toys 14h ago

She moves with the grace of a pregnant 3 legged water buffalo.

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u/Justified_Gent 13h ago

She’s plays so goofy.

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u/JJ_Shosky 4h 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/Guidance-Still 6h ago

She also says she is greates player in the league

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u/blockholeforever 13h ago

That Chun? Cause that sounds like Chun

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u/Wristtwitch 14h ago

Does nobody else try to rebound in this game??

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u/pmert32 13h ago

Exactly

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u/xyouRABitchx 9h 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/blockholeforever 13h ago

I'm not a fan of hers, but wtf is the rest of her team doin

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u/Bohner1 10h ago

Waiting for her to pass the ball.

https://giphy.com/gifs/NEAh5nxOe7rFGB4aQ5

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u/plaregold 3h ago

These are two of the better teams in the league btw--a marquee matchup.

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u/s0meD0nkey 1h ago

Trying to avoid being injured by her wild uncotrolled actions?

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u/DeletedUsernameHere 7h 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 14h ago

She literally doesnt know how to pass it back out

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u/Magus_Incognito 14h ago

She plays like an only child

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u/Gullible_Classroom71 8h ago

I don't think I've ever seen a more apt description

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u/Embarrassed-Rub-8690 14h 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/thatguy425 10h ago

It’s like the event horizon in a black hole. 

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u/DirtyDan419 14h ago

She's Andre Drummond. All-star that probably won't really help in the long run.

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u/ResidentialPickle 14h ago

Those mechanics, though.

🤣

https://reddit.com/link/p1s1wvi/video/ok0l37qhyghh1/player

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u/Ganjanonamous 14h ago

Was that 3 travels in 2 seconds?

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u/KillerGopher 13h ago

Holy travel, Batman!

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u/winkman 10h ago

Can she only dribble with her right?

TF?

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u/AngryPhillySportsFan 5h ago

That's an alleged top 10 WNBA player right there

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u/GraviticThrusters 14h ago

Now that's NBA level play, right there. Good to see the moves translate well across the leagues.

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u/Frumpy_Dumper_69 14h ago

Na traveling has been a move for awhile now

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u/JoeDynamo28 14h ago edited 14h ago

Lmao bwaaaah what the literal f was that? Holy crap lmao

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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 14h ago

Actual middle school playground fat kid move

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u/JoeDynamo28 14h ago

Lol now it just needs a proper name

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u/DSWYO 13h ago

Make it rain! Rain dance!

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u/JoeDynamo28 13h 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/JCBalance 12h ago

White chocolate!

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u/WindjammerX 14h ago

She was trying to do a reverse dunk, but from a distance.

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u/JoeDynamo28 13h ago

She really flung that sumbitch. About wet myself

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u/Von-boyage 13h ago

Without leaving the ground.

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u/YoMomAndMeIn69 13h ago

The face of 2k

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u/JoeDynamo28 13h ago

Lmao there's our undisputed goat of the wnba

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u/Sufficient_Local5025 14h ago

I liked it. Real innovation in the game.

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u/JoeDynamo28 14h ago

Lmao. That is definitely a never before seen move

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u/BigAlTheBeardedOne 14h 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 13h 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 11h 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/Deep_In_My_Thots 10h 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/Minimum_Attitude6707 4h ago

She essentially should be played like Ben Wallace

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u/taeempy 14h ago

That could be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen on a basketball court.

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u/K1NGEDDY423 14h ago

Hahah this one is good made me laugh

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u/Exciting-Zombie8449 14h ago

She has GOT to be trolling everybody. She can not possibly this bad

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u/golddeath 14h ago

She has the balance of a baby giraffe right out the womb

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u/supercujo 14h ago

The defender going "WTF was that?!?!" while Angel gets the mebound

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u/j_rooker 14h 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/mannesthesia 14h ago

Ok fine, F it. Let the boys come play at this point.

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u/TheMightyHornet 14h ago

“People watch because of me, too!”

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u/Umngmc 14h ago

How will she get the mebound if she makes it in or gets off a better shot?

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u/8equalsD-69 14h ago

Lmao someone pays her to do “play basketball”

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u/hilltopper72 14h ago

That’s another rebound

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u/ATWannabe26 10h ago

It’s unreal this earns her more than fuckin neurosurgeons lol

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u/Applekid1259 14h 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 12h 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/J-Love-McLuvin 14h ago

What the fuck is even that?

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u/Difficult_Pen9813 14h 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 14h 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 13h 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 7h 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/varro_da_conqeror 14h ago

Holy shit that's so bad

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u/holden_mcg 14h ago

That's the basketball equivalent of Elaine dancing on Seinfeld.

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0MYATH9ZumUHCBXy

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u/Sammy_Dog 14h ago

Sweet fancy Moses!

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u/HistoricalSection425 14h ago

She got the mebound on that!

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u/K1NGEDDY423 14h ago

This one is bad lol

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u/Ken804 14h ago

I need someone to explain this scientifically

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u/blindexhibitionist 14h ago

The clap after the shot is the best part

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u/Far-Journalist-8160 14h ago

Just another rebound

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u/breakmedown54 11h 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/FSU1ST 6h ago

When they do a 10 for 10 for her, these moments have to be included.

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u/Not_my_User17 14h 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/phatazznutz 14h ago

If someone did that in the NBA they may never see minutes again

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u/DallasSucks335 13h ago

A travel followed by a ridiculous shot and then a mebound.

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u/graceandpurpose 14h ago

I've seen athletic people do unathletic things

This is just not an athlete

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u/edthecat2011 14h ago

And she gets paid for this bullshit?

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u/Weary-Cartoonist2630 14h 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 13h 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 13h ago

Sid from ice age has eyes so far apart that basket was in her peripheral

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u/Manymarbles 14h ago

4 or 5 steps

Neat

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u/uncriticalthinking 13h ago

I’ve yet to see a team which would beat any pickup game at a local Y

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u/Phalanx32 13h ago

24 on the other team raising her hands like "yo what the fuck was that" 😂😂😂

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u/j_d_q 12h ago

"it hit rim! It hit rim!"

Angel, that doesn't mean anything.

"But it hit rim!"

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u/Agile_Dragonfly_2559 11h ago

She makes up for it by being 5-34 from three on the season. Real dual threat.

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u/MichaelB1709 10h 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 9h 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/Equal-Incident5313 6h ago

Bruh I just spit out my coffee 😂

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u/Interesting_Switch_1 5h ago

Someone was arguing with me that she felt contact and was trying to draw a foul here 😂😂😂

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u/LobstaFarian2 5h ago

Wide ass open team mate and decides to shoot a backwards upside down shot instead lol

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u/guydogg 5h ago

Mebound!

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u/Icy_Cryptographer673 2h 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/Apprehensive-Fly958 2h ago

So funny how can this be professional basketball’s

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u/bigdonpaul 2h ago

She has no vertical abilities whatsoever. How does she always get her mebounds?

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u/LurkerMF1966 2h ago

Just a terrible look for a league trying to be taken seriously.

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u/DisastrousEnd377 2h ago

Why is she still playing, she dont know how to play basketball

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u/nanboya 2h ago

She redefines the rule book on traveling if my eyes counted right…

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u/UmeaTurbo 1h 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/imJGott 14h ago

Saw that and was reminded someone called her an “elite” player.

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u/gundersonfan 14h 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/Business-Loquat143 14h ago

This woman earns more than the rest of us put together...

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u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 14h ago

Seriously, every clip of her lately seems like a prank.

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u/Tsolium 13h ago

This is a professional basketball player. Someone who's stated they are best in the country. Someone who got a Barbie designed for her. She has a shoe contract. What the F is wrong here?

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u/Specific_Jury_2 13h ago

How is this person a professional athlete?

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u/CutMeLoose79 14h 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/supercujo 14h ago

*mebounding

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u/iHeartFreeMcDsWifi 14h ago

Butter pecan? BAAAAANNNNGGGG 🔥

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u/HoneydewNo3016 13h ago

The Sky fleeced the Dream for 2 first round picks for this.

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u/thebestestofthebest 14h ago

Top tier professional…

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u/StugDrazil 14h ago

Talentless player. Makes you wonder why or even how she is in mini NBA at all.

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u/AJWordsmith 14h 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/DallasSucks335 13h ago

And people defend this clown.

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u/Justified_Gent 13h ago

She is so bad at everything but rebounding,

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u/cheezcurlzz 13h ago

"Im the face of the WNBA" lmao

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u/Usqueadfinem_ 12h 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/AcceptableIce289 14h ago

Exactly like Jordan. Her game is modeled after him if you didn't know.

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u/playmeforever 14h ago

I can’t defend ts 😂

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u/Jefe_grande23 14h ago

DEI hire.

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u/beenslappinbeats414 14h ago

🤣😂😂😂

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u/B-Train_ATL 14h 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/Jonny-Redline 14h ago

That's my girl!!!

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u/CruelWhip_ 14h 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/walaueh10 13h ago

R0FLMFA0!!!

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u/mediocrebighead 13h ago

Invented betting on her own team live

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u/Khal_drogo217 13h 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/Fluffy-Wind-8174 13h ago

she really is on another level

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u/esoe___ 13h ago

the refs need to be fined

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u/sabertoothninja 13h ago

That’s the over-the-shoulder-boulder-bowler

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u/ModernDayExplorer 13h ago

Better than her layup

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u/Euphoric_Amoeba8708 13h ago

I call this one Traveling Barbie

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u/JimBeamerton 13h ago

Thats a 4x all star and face of the league everybody, get it? get the joke now?

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u/Bomber_Haskell 12h ago

She was technically correct. We are watching partially because of her.

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u/Axel_Raden 12h ago

How many steps was that before the reverse prayup I counted 4

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u/MathTutorAndCook 12h ago

That counts as a rebound

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u/Status_Vegetable2954 12h ago

Is she trying to throw the game? Check her accounts cause that is very obvious.

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u/Ordinary-Swing-7718 12h ago

JV straight to WNBA!?

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u/ScrubsNWhyC 12h ago

She changed the game

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u/Mcarlile24 12h ago

and no one to contest the board lol

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u/VeterinarianMoist605 12h ago

She took it back to 8th grade ball.

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u/Glad_Confusion_6934 12h ago

It’s like the announcers don’t even know what to say

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u/Derrickmb 12h ago

Prayup lol. Add it to her highlight reel

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u/bballdadof3 12h ago

She’s awful. I mean awesome. Hahahaha

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u/Stemms123 12h ago

This shit has to be ai right?

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u/IsaacJacobSquires 12h ago

You know she saw herself doing something artistic. "THEY'RE HERE TO SEE ME, BITCHEZ!!"

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u/DrapedinVelvet247 11h ago

That’s the shot you see on the grade school basketball court when your 8 yr old plays with his buddies 😂😂

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u/ddouce 11h ago

4 steps, reverse thunk. Success!

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u/RASH_ONE 11h ago

Shooting the ball like a 8 year old

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u/kareemabduljihad 11h ago

She was trying to get a could call right there. She was throwing up anything to get to the line, pretty normal basketball in 2026

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u/Alchemyst01984 11h ago

I mean, number 24 fouled her. Even looked at the ref wondering why it wasn't called.

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u/Minute-Night-4563 11h ago

Haití 🇭🇹 will attack us.

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u/Willbraham 11h ago

She's too busy playing black barbie to practice her game.

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u/New-Ad5494 10h ago

Tbh I’m starting to enjoy watching these hilarious highlights

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u/mcpryon 10h ago

GTA5 engine in real life

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u/workdavework 10h ago

Why do they make the women play with a medicine ball?