Sky fall – After a stretch that had suggested a breakthrough, the Connecticut Sky were run out of Mohegan Sun Arena, falling 92-63 to a rebuilding Sun team coming in on a seven-game skid. The loss deepened their slide to 4-12 as they now brace for a brutal stretch ahead.
UNCASVILLE, Conn. — The Sky didn’t just need to win Monday against the Sun. They needed a statement game—one that made clear they weren’t simply stuck in the same spot as last-place opponents.
Instead, the disconnect from the opening minutes never left. The Sun entered the matchup 2-15. on a seven-game losing streak and in the middle of a franchise transition that has them experimenting with young players. Their season is ending in Connecticut before the team prepares to move next year to Houston.
The result felt like a mismatch with the wrong script. At Mohegan Sun Arena, the Sky were run out 92-63, a blowout that matched the score too closely to ignore. The game never offered the kind of resilience that close losses sometimes do—no sustained surge, no real swing of momentum.
“We were in a hole, and we just kept going down,” Sky guard Sydney Taylor said.
For much of the season’s recent weeks, the Sky had been carrying something that looked like momentum. They had pushed the Dream to the brink, taken the Fever to overtime, and almost knocked off the Liberty—along with having beaten the Wings until they didn’t.
Those nearly-moments had helped suggest the Sky were approaching something better. Monday made it harder to believe.
Against the Sun, the ball movement vanished and the shot-making dried up. In their previous four games, the Sky had shot 40% from three-point range. On Monday, they hit 13.3% from beyond the arc and finished at 23.3% from the field overall.
Skylar Diggins, the Sky’s leading scorer, didn’t make a shot. Kamilla Cardoso, who picked up a second gear Saturday with 26 points against the Wings, got tagged with two early fouls and spent the rest of the night playing catch-up.
But even that wasn’t the full story. The Sky didn’t just struggle on offense; they never managed the kind of coherent stretch that could change how a game felt. They didn’t even build a brief spurt to soften what was happening.
By the end of the third quarter, the Sun led 70-44. The Sky had as many turnovers as made baskets.
“We’ve just got to be better,” Cardoso said. “We’ve got to punch first. I feel like today they punched us first, so we’ve got to be more aggressive and punch them first.”
Coach Tyler Marsh has spent much of this season emphasizing the small. correctable things—execution. ball movement. cleaning up the glass—details that often decide games when margins are tight. Monday wasn’t a loss that felt limited to any one fix. It played like a broader collapse, the kind that swallows the habits you can’t easily patch between possessions.
The record now reflects how quickly the Sky’s recent momentum disappeared. They fell to 4-12, losing six straight games and 11 of their last 12.
They still have games this month, but the schedule isn’t giving them the luxury of letting one night define the season and moving on. Their remaining games this month are against the expansion Fire twice and the Aces.
There are three more chances for the Sky to prove Monday was an anomaly before the month turns and the schedule gets more difficult. After the way they looked against the Sun, though, the breakthrough everyone hoped for is suddenly harder to see. They looked instead like a team bottoming out.
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