{"id":6396,"date":"2025-07-13T09:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T09:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6396\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T09:56:04","slug":"minnesota-lynx-fall-to-chicago-sky-for-second-loss-of-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6396\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx fall to Chicago Sky for second loss of road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">CHICAGO \u2013 You could hear them before you saw them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Plastic wrap crinkled and ice bags rustled as Napheesa Collier and Kayla McBride walked into the media room at Wintrust Arena after the Lynx fell to the Sky 87-81 on Saturday afternoon. Ice bags were strapped to both of Collier\u2019s knees, another on McBride\u2019s left. Both sat slowly, gingerly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">If the Lynx looked a little tired, it\u2019s probably because they were. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">They had faced another tight turnaround \u2014 their 11th game in 21 days \u2014 and a bruising Chicago frontcourt. Following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-lynx-phoenix-mercury-courtney-williams-napheesa-collier-alyssa-thomas\/601336908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-lynx-phoenix-mercury-courtney-williams-napheesa-collier-alyssa-thomas\/601336908\">loss to the Phoenix Mercury on Wednesday<\/a>, it marked their second loss on a four-game road trip. It\u2019s also their first time dropping two of three all season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t play, just didn\u2019t bring the effort that we needed to today,\u201d said Collier, who acknowledged the difficult schedule but pointed out \u201cthat\u2019s not the narrative that we have for why we lost at all. We have to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Minnesota (18-4) gave up a season-high 57 first-half points. The fatigue showed on the boards, where the Lynx allowed 45 rebounds, equaling their season high. Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso combined for 26 of those for Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cThey were getting a lot of points in the paint,\u201d said Collier, who finished with 26 points, eight rebounds, five assists, three blocks and three steals. Asked what led to that, she offered these words: \u201cRebounding and second-chance points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">After trailing by as many as 15, the Lynx trimmed the deficit to two with a 13-2 run that began in the third quarter. But just as they seemed poised to take control, they unraveled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2013 You could hear them before you saw them. Plastic wrap crinkled and ice bags rustled as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-6396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}