Chicago only won 18 games, but they lost their BEST player (Khaleah Copper who’s 3rd in the league in scoring and one of those Olympians you mentioned), their starting PG (Courtney Williams), the runner up to MIP (Alana Smith). What part of totally new roster isn’t registering with you? Angel and Kamilla are rookies learning on the fly. They only returned THREE players from last year. Elizabeth Williams started last year and this season until she got hurt and she’s out for the season. Dana Evans came off the bench last year, started this year until she was benched 4 games ago. Marina Mabrey started last year and is starting this year, but YOU said she should come off the bench. So what is this talented team the Sky is supposed to have that compares to the Fever and and all their high draft picks? Angel went 7th because they thought 6 players were better. Even many of yall in this thread didn’t think her game would translate to the pros and that she should just model. Just because she’s producing now, don’t try to act like adding her meant they would be a playoff team when most thought the Sky would be trash. ESPN only gave them one game for that reason.
There’s a reason the Fever were picked to finish around 7th because they were EXPECTED to build off last season. Meanwhile, the Sky was predicted to finish 11th-12th because they were seen as a team in a rebuild. They’re actually exceeding expectations.