For two WNBA seasons, the knock on Angel Reese was always the same: she couldn’t shoot.

Critics pointed to her finishing around the rim, her midrange jumper, and especially her free-throw shooting — a career 73.5 percent clip from the line that never looked like the stroke of a star. The rebounding was elite. The defense was elite. The shot was the question mark.

Wednesday night, the 24-year-old answered it in the biggest moment of her career.

With the Atlanta Dream holding a two-game series lead against the New York Liberty in the semifinals, Reese delivered 23 points on 50 percent shooting from the field, plus seven rebounds, two assists, two blocks and a steal in Atlanta’s 101-98 overtime win. Then she did the thing she supposedly couldn’t do: she went 6-for-6 from the free-throw line, including two ice-cold makes with 4.3 seconds left in overtime to seal it.

Six of her team’s 13 overtime points. A perfect night at the stripe. In a game where the Dream needed every single one.

The performance continued a stunning postseason run for the newly crowned WNBA Defensive Player of the Year. Through the playoffs, Reese has paired her usual glass-eating dominance with a scoring punch that has made Atlanta genuinely dangerous — and she has done it all while guarding the opposing team’s best players.

The timing could not be better. Reese missed the postseason entirely in her first two seasons with the Chicago Sky, watching from home. Now, in her first playoff run with the Dream, she is showing up exactly when her team needs her most — and doing it with the part of her game everyone said would hold her back.

The Dream are chasing their first WNBA Finals appearance since 2013 and the first championship in franchise history. If Reese keeps shooting like this, the critics will need a new talking point.