Fever vs. Sky: Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark's Rookie Campaigns

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00:00And matchups between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky.

00:07Three matchups this year between these two franchises, all three decided by a single

00:11point.

00:12Two of the three, or all three decided by single digits.

00:16Two of the three by a single point, including this past Sunday and what a game it was in

00:21the Shy.

00:22Between the Sky and the Fever, Angel Reese, 25 points, 16 boards.

00:25Kaitlin Clark, 17 points, 13 dimes.

00:28We showed you the stats this year for Kaitlin Clark, the hefty favorite to be Rookie of

00:32the Year in the W at minus 9.50.

00:35If anybody is going to catch her, it seems it will be Angel Reese.

00:39Eight consecutive double-doubles here for the Chicago Sky on this run.

00:44That's the most we've ever seen in a row by a rookie in WNBA history, 25 points, 16 boards

00:50on Sunday.

00:51The first 25.15 rebound performance by a rookie in the WNBA since Asia Wilson back in 2018.

00:59Donnie asked you, is Kaitlin Clark matching the extremely high expectations in her rookie

01:04campaign?

01:05Miles, same exact question for Angel Reese.

01:08Yeah, so I think that not only has Angel Reese exceeded my expectations, I think she's exceeded

01:14the expectations of a majority of the front offices around the WNBA.

01:19She dropped to 7 in the draft.

01:21And I think it won't be very long before we look back at that as a big mistake.

01:26All that being said, my questions going into this were not her motor.

01:30It was not her rebounding ability.

01:32It was her ability to finish.

01:34And she has been lower on the field goal percentage size, but she makes up for that with just

01:40her grit, her hustle, everything that she was able to do in college, shooting from these

01:45weird angles and getting it to fall.

01:47But we've also seen growth.

01:49And I think that's credit to Teaspoon and to her staff, is that Angel was not just looking

01:54to draw fouls the other day.

01:56She was making post moves.

01:57She was going around contact.

01:59And I think that that's that sign of growth that we're seeing now.

02:03Like you said, eight straight double-doubles.

02:04She's now second in the WNBA behind Asia Wilson with 11.1 rebounds per game.

02:09This has been amazing just to witness.

02:12And if Chicago can make a playoff push, then that plus 600 odds that you were talking about

02:18doesn't feel as long as they would have before the season.