Sports commentator Jason Whitlock labeled Angel Reese as “arguably the most overrated athlete in all of sports,” stating she is among the least skilled players in the WNBA. He criticized her movement, describing her lower body as “disconnected from her upper body,” and called her “incredibly unathletic,” adding that she lacks post-game skills.

Reese has been one of the best players in the women’s game for a while now, yet she still has plenty of critics. Many of those happen to be Caitlin Clark fans, with Whitlock a detractor who reckons she’s jealous of the Indiana Fever star.

Despite winning a national championship with LSU and averaging a double-double in the pros, Reese appears to have much more to do before she can win some folks over.

Angel Reese and Jason Whitlock (Photos via Getty Images & @WhitlockJason/X)

Whitlock took some shots at the former Lady Tigers star on Tuesday, suggesting she must get laughs out of Candace Parker.

He also criticized the entire WNBA, suggesting that Reese is as unskilled as any player in the league.

“She is awkward… Her lower body seems to be disconnected from her upper body. She’s incredibly unathletic. She has no skill, no postgame. I’m sure Candace Parker watches her and laughs.” Whitlock said.

Check him out in the video below:

“That’s the difference between you and Candace Parker she doesn’t look and laugh she loves her sisters,” one of the comments read. “It’s one thing to point out flaws in someone’s game but why do it with so much disdain? Someone hurt you bad!”

“She brings fans and is unique she is def not someone to hate on like this.” another pointed out.

Angel Reese Is Adjusting To The WNBA Like Every Other Rookie

While Angel Reese isn’t as efficient as she hoped she would be in the WNBA, she holds her own on the court and remains a rebounding machine.

Of course, there is a learning curve in the pros, and she’s still adjusting to the WNBA, as is Caitlin Clark.

Jason Whitlock went way too far with this one, but Reese has time on her side and will be looking to prove all of her critics wrong in the coming years.

Jason Whitlock: “People on social media are ‘praying’ for Angel Reese’s mental health because she’s cracking under the pressure. She got into it with a Chicago Sun Times reporter, gave him a bunch of one and two-word answers, and told him at one point that she ‘CAN’T TRUST NONE OF YA’LL BECAUSE YA’LL TWIST MY WORDS.’ So she’s backing away from the media and claiming some victim status, and everybody goes to social media like ‘WE PRAYING FOR YOU ANGEL! WE JUST HOPE YOU SURVIVE MENTALLY!’… Angel Reese wore Joker shoes, and at one point said she ‘embraced being the villain’… My issue with Angel Reese is she needs to get into an honest place. She doesn’t want to be a villain, she should quit trying to be a villain, and she needs to get off Caitlin Clark coattails and just play basketball and leave Caitlin Clark alone. Her mental health would improve. 

Angel Reese when she was at LSU and when she was at Maryland, the media who covered her basketball career, it wasn’t that they looked like her, but they were all champions of women’s sports. They were going to cover Angel Reese and the game in a certain way that they were always going to be trying to sell the women’s game, sell the women’s players, and put the best face on everything. She’s used to fawning coverage but now that Caitlin Clark has attracted others – like Jason Whitlock, like Dave Portnoy – and other people that cover and talk about sports. We’re not sitting around like ‘HEY, HOW CAN WE BUILD UP WOMEN’S BASKETBALL AND MAKE EVERY WOMEN’S PLAYER SOUND LIKE MOTHER TERESA AND THE GREATEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN?!’… So, she has stepped into reality now. It’s like a hot girl, she rarely ever gets told the truth. Then all the sudden she runs into a guy like ‘nah, I’m gonna tell you the truth,’ and she folds. ‘WE’LL, I’VE NEVER BEEN TREATED THIS WAY! PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY HOLDING ME ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT I SAY AND DO??’… If you want to sit there and say you’re also the reason why this audience is showing up, there are going to be people like me and others saying ‘well, I’m not really sure because without Caitlin Clark no one knows or cares anything about you, Angel Reese’…

Angel Reese is perhaps the most overrated player in all of sports and now people are putting together clips helping me make my points. She’s incredible unskilled. She was a great college player because she was taller and a bit more athletic than most of the players she faced. Now she’s in the WNBA facing equal competition and she’s getting exposed as really, really unskilled. That’s why she hates Cailtin Clark because Caitlin Clark is actually very, very skilled and Angel Reese has none. She’s an energy player, that’s it. She’s not a skilled basketball player, people are starting to point that out, and she’s not going to like it.”

Reese ranks 2nd in the league in rebounding but is shooting just 38.9% from the field on the season, the lowest of any forward or center in the league, and has just 2 blocks in 14 games.

Here were Whitlock’s comments earlier the week about Reese being ‘one of the most unskilled player in the WNBA.’

“Angel Reese is arguably the most overrated athlete in all of sports. She is as unskilled as any player in the WNBA. She is awkward – and none of this gets talked about – look at the way she runs. Her lower body seems to be disconnected from her upper body. She’s incredibly unathletic. She has no skill, no post-game. Candace Parker I’m sure watches her and laughs and thinks like ‘THEY THINK THIS WOMAN IS GOING TO BE ME??’ This woman is a rebounder and that’s it. She has no other skill, and that’s why she hates Caitlin Clark so much. If Charles Barkley or someone else would make that point, the world would melt. Anybody can watch her in the post and see how she just throws the ball up and a lot of times it gets swatted away.”