{"id":193026,"date":"2025-10-06T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193026\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:59:08","slug":"angel-reese-reveals-key-reason-for-struggles-in-second-wnba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193026\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Reese reveals key reason for struggles in second WNBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a spectacular first season where she set the WNBA single-season record for rebounds and received All-Star honors for her performances, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/angel-reese\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Angel Reese;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Angel Reese<\/a> suffered a dismal outing in her sophomore year with the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n<p>The start of the 2025 season told a different story, and those first nine games were a nightmare for her and the team. Other than the two wins against the bottom-dwelling <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/dallas-wings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Wings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dallas Wings<\/a> in that time, they were outscored by an average of 20 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Reese, on her part, was struggling to play her game and was scoring just 34% of her shots. In fact, it was so bad that in her 2nd game, she only posted a lowly two points despite playing 27 minutes in that matchup. To add salt to injury, Angel Reese ended up missing Chicago\u2019s final four regular-season games due to suspensions and injury, which effectively summed up her season.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Maryland native has now given some perspective into why her second year in the WNBA turned out that way.<\/p>\n<p>Angel Reese on how surgery affected her start to sophomore season<\/p>\n<p>Reese revealed that she started her second WNBA season despite not being 100% healthy for it. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/chicago-sky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Sky;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Sky<\/a> player made this known while speaking during the inaugural episode of season 2 of her podcast \u201cUnapologetically Angel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t finish the Unrivaled season, because I had to have surgery on my hand. It was a completely different surgery,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I wore a brace all (WNBA) season\u2026 I started the season off with my hand wrapped. I wasn\u2019t supposed to be ready for training camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Reese, even though her hand was not fully healed after the surgical operation, she still tried to help her team in the league. Nonetheless, she still averaged 14.7 points, 12.6 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the team this season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Now, with the Sky eliminated from the playoffs, the forward will finally have time to get back to full health ahead of next season.<\/p>\n<p>Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a spectacular first season where she set the WNBA single-season record for rebounds and received All-Star honors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[724,49,48,726,3459,43868,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-193026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-angel-reese","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-chicago-sky","12":"tag-dallas-wings","13":"tag-sophomore-season","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}