Angel Reese fiercely defends her poor shooting percentage in online debate with X user

WNBA prima Angel Reese was not having it connected Tuesday. 

The Chicago Sky rookie went retired of her mode to respond to a idiosyncratic with little than 300 followers connected X aft helium mocked her for missing layups. 

Reese brought up her 39% shooting percent arsenic thing to brag astir successful her impassioned clapback to the fan. 

"Do you recognize I got drafted seventh successful my people portion ‘missing layups’ arsenic a ROOKIE shooting 39% connected the twelvemonth and was STILL an All-Star and that was the worst you’ll ever spot me?" Reese wrote. "Or you conscionable laid up with your canine astatine location hating Adam?"

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Angel Reese attends a crippled betwixt the Minnesota Lynx and the New York Liberty during Game Five of the 2024 WNBA Finals connected Oct. 20, 2024 successful Brooklyn, New York. (Melanie Fidler/NBAE via Getty Images)

Reese's effect drew mixed responses connected societal media. Some fans praised her for lasting up for herself, taking pridefulness successful her show and expressing assurance astir her future. 

"[Angel Reese] = person + rival + large teammate …scary her champion is yet to come!" 1 instrumentality wrote.

Meanwhile, immoderate critics connected societal media mocked her adjacent further for boasting astir shooting 39%. 

"I’m truly not trying to hatred astatine each but 39% arsenic a station subordinate is absurd work," a captious idiosyncratic wrote successful response. 

Reese's shooting quality was not considered a spot of her crippled going into the WNBA aft her title assemblage vocation astatine LSU. At 6 feet, 3-inches tall, Reese was considered a premier defender and rebounder. She lived up to that estimation arsenic a rookie, portion proving the doubters of her shooting quality precise right. 

She averaged 13.1 rebounds per crippled successful 2024 and became the archetypal subordinate successful WNBA past with 3 consecutive 20-plus rebound games. Reese astatine 1 constituent adjacent broke the WNBA single-season assistance grounds connected Sept. 1. However, season-ending wrist country a fewer weeks aboriginal prevented her from holding the record, arsenic eventual MVP A'ja Wilson broke the grounds for herself connected Sept. 11. 

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Angel Reese, #5 of the Chicago Sky, plays defence during the crippled against the Las Vegas Aces connected June 27, 2024 astatine the Wintrust Arena successful Chicago. (Randy Belice/NBAE via Getty Images)

As a shooter, Reese did not conscionable sprout 39% from the field, but besides changeable 18.8% from 3-point scope and conscionable 73.6% astatine the free-throw line. She missed layups connected aggregate occasions successful her archetypal year.

However, the wounded and the mediocre shooting has not stopped Reese from putting herself retired there this twelvemonth arsenic a young pro sports star. 

Her willingness to prosecute straight with low-profile societal media users is resemblent to the infamous habits of NBA seasoned superstar Kevin Durant. 

In summation to predominant feisty societal media exchanges with fans, Reese has go a podcast big and is adjacent starting to marque her sanction successful the hip-hop industry. 

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Angel Reese, #5 of the Chicago Sky, looks connected during the crippled against the Phoenix Mercury connected Aug. 18, 2024 astatine Footprint Center successful Phoenix. (Kate Frese/NBAE via Getty Images)

Reese precocious made an quality connected "Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'n Out," a sketch drama and conflict rap improv show. 

She launched her ain podcast "Unapolagetically Angel" earlier she was adjacent done with her rookie play and has kept releasing episodes each week, adjacent aft her WNBA play ended aboriginal owed to a wrist wounded successful aboriginal September. 

The podcast has stirred contention aggregate times, including the precise archetypal occurrence erstwhile she spoke retired against fans of rival subordinate Caitlin Clark, alleging they had sent her decease threats and made explicit AI images of her and sent them to her family. In her astir caller episode, Reese interviewed the ex-girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce astir their past relationship. This interrogation brought astir a flurry of criticism, peculiarly from fans of Kelce's caller girlfriend, Taylor Swift. 

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