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Michael Voepel
WNBA all-star twice Angel Reese On Wednesday night said that he apologized to him Chicago sky Team partner for He commented for Chicago Tribune Which was published in the first day. In the newspaper article, he expressed concern between another necklace season, saying that he could “have to move in a different direction and what is the best for me” if the team did not improve its talent level for the future.
After the sky 88-64 home victory Above Connecticut sun On Wednesday, Reese was asked if she was really disappointed with the organization. The sky, which went 10–30 in the season, has ended with the playoffs for the second consecutive year. They are 3–15 since the all-star break in July.
“I’m probably disappointed [with] Now, “Reese said at the PostGem News Conference.” I think the language has been excluded from reference. I really did not mean to deliberately keep my peers down, as they have been with me through it throughout the year. He has exposed his ass, just as I have exposed my ass. They have shown me through thick and thin, and when no one could see anything in the locker room.
“So, I want to apologize to my colleagues, which I already have about the article and what was said, how it was done wrongly. And I just have to be better with my language. Because I know that this message is not, it is not the messenger. And understand that what I say can be taken in any way. So, I have to be better.”
Reese expressed concern in the Tribune article how this season has gone, how Tyler Marsh has coached and what the sky intends to do to avoid similar results in 2026.
Reese told the tribune, “I am not settling for the same S — we did this year.” “We have to get good players. We have to get a great player. It is a non-pervantic to me. I am ready and want to play with the best. And although I can help get the best here, that’s what I am going to do this offsen.
“So it’s going to be very important, to ensure that we draw the best, because we do not have this year.”
His response to Reese’s comment in the tribune was asked by Marsh at the Postgeam News Conference. He said that he was not present for apology for the team, but he spoke to Reese before the game.
“He will live between me and the fairy,” said Marsh. “But I think everyone had their opportunities to speak. And we will leave it on it.”
He addressed the question whether he feels that he needs a coach for “hard” players, as Reeses suggested in the article.
“I think everyone deserves to feel how they feel,” said Marsh. “The most important thing for me, the most important thing that I am and whoever translates, is authentic and real to translate into it.
“But I think the overroaching theme is that none of us is happy where we are in our record.
Reese, which is a team-high 14.7 points and a WNBA-Best 12.6 rebound average this season, Wednesday’s victory had 18 points and 13 rebounds. He also raised his eighth technical dishonesty of the late season in the second quarter, which means an automatic suspension for Friday’s game Indiana fever As long as the league saves technical dishonesty.
Marsh said that Akash is contesting elections with technical dishonesty and will ask the League to review it.
Regarding the clarification of the referee for the technical dishonesty of Reese, Marsh said, “He told me that it was a dead ball foul.” “That he had an option to go with a technical or a major. I asked him, why not, no real response was given. We would clearly like for a foam, unlike a technology.”
The 23-year-old Reese, a standard three-year-old WNBA is completing the second season of a stalled contract, with a team option for the fourth year. Number 7 pick in 2024 draft was runner -up for Reese Indiana Cetleen Clarke Last season in the Ruki of the Year race, when Akash finished 13–27 and removed coach Teresa Weather Sampoon only after one season.
Reese expressed disappointment on social media at that time about Vedarspoon firing. Marsh, A Las vegas ekka The assistant was hired to replace the Weather Spoon, but the season has deteriorated for Chicago in terms of win and defeat.
In the Tribune article, Reese questioned the talent on Sky’s current roster and made it clear that he expects the team’s front office to be active in a free agency.
“I am very vocal about what we want and what I want,” he told the Tribune. “I want to be here for my career, but if things do not go out, obviously I may have to go in a different direction and what is the best for me. But when I am here, I am going to try to be open -minded about what I can do here.”
Reese also said that she was particularly concerned about Sky’s point guard position. Sky point guard for a long time Kurtney wandershaloot WNBA returned to Chicago this year after winning the title New York Liberty Last year. But Wanderslut was hurt by season-ending ACL on 7 June in Chicago’s seventh game. The Vandershaloot will be 37 years old before the next season.
Reese told the Tribune that she does not look at the vendorslut or anyone else on the roster of Sky as the point guard Chicago can build longer.
“We can’t trust courtney to come back to that age,” Reese said. “I know he will be a big property for us, but we cannot trust him. We probably need to make someone a little shorter with some experience, someone who is playing the game and is ready to compete for a championship and is also done before.”
As Chicago, who won the 2021 WNBA title, can return as a championship-caliber team, which can draw after attracting free agents, Reese said that it is to be seen and the sky will have to explain that the organization is going in the right direction.
“It will be a leap of a great, great player to come here and show that it is something they want to be a part and [that] We can bring that championship mentality, “Reese said.
Marsh said that his focus is possible for the remaining four matches along with playing on the sky, “so we can continue to pursue the foundation in this way where this is the season [behind] We … so we continue that next step. ,
