The Sky are new, but I’m not sure they are improved

He used the words ‘‘put a plan together,’’ ‘‘we needed to improve dramatically’’ and ‘‘we wanted a new identity,’’ all damn near in the same sentence. Letting the world — or the very chosen few who cared to listen or cared at all — know that this new was going to be different from the last new.And the other new he inherited when he got here.Sky general manager Jeff Pagliocca also went on to say, in this first week of the post-Angel Reese life of the team he blew up (for the second time in his three-year tenure), only to piece back together again: ‘‘We landed our targets.’’Dope. Now the target — mainly because of their trade of Reese — is openly on them.Finally the talking points, corporate-speak and daily media-generated filibustering have come to an end. The here is now. And this iteration of this new version — and ‘‘new-look,’’ as some have poured into calling them — of the Sky in unrivaled theory has stepped forth with hope that we believe their sale of ‘‘things will no longer be the same.’’It’s a hard sell, one many of the franchises in Chicago have been gaslighting their fans — both sustained and lost — with to lure us into their pretense that way more often than not turns out to be false. But with those others, their new has been incremental, a slow burn to resurrection. The Sky? This is GLP-1 on Ozempic.Getting ‘‘All Gas’’ Gabriela Jaquez with the No. 5 overall pick; getting Azura Stevens back; getting Skylar Diggins and Rickea Jackson; getting Ajsa Sivka (the No.10 overall pick last year who decided to stay and finish high school and further develop in the Spanish league) to come to America to hoop; getting ‘‘Sloot’’ (the great Courtney Vandersloot) back...