This is one performance Angel Reese would prefer to forget.
She struggled in one of the worst games of her rookie season Sunday afternoon in a game between the Sky and the two-time defending champion Aces at Chicago’s Wintrust Arena.
Reese, the Sky’s No. 7 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft after a successful career at LSU, finished with 11 points and three turnovers on a dominant 4-of-16 shooting from the field.
She also had 22 rebounds, 10 of which came on the offensive end.
However, many of those offensive rebounds came from her own mistakes.
At one point in the fourth quarter, Reese grabbed three consecutive offensive rebounds off his own misses before being fouled.
Still, Reese became the first WNBA player to record 20 or more rebounds in three consecutive games.
Reese has totaled 62 rebounds over his last three games after recording 20 in each of his previous two games.
Reese missed his only three-point shot, a miss that became a talking point online afterward.
She posted on social media after the match about her tough performance.
“If it were easy, everyone would be doing it,” Reese says. I wrote to X“We’re fine!”
The Sky overcame a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter to tie the game at 75-75 on a Chennedy Carter 3-pointer with one second left.
But A’ja Wilson caught a beautiful inbounds pass from Chelsea Gray and made a layup as time expired to give the Aces the win.
Carter led all scorers with 25 points, while Wilson led the Aces with 20 points.
With the loss, the Sky (11-18) saw their lead over the Dream for the final playoff spot shrink to half a game.
Reese’s shooting slump has been getting a lot of attention recently.
Over the past eight games, including Sunday’s loss, she made 35 of 111 shots but shot just 31.5 percent from the field.
