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  "path": "/chicago-sky/2026/06/09/tyler-marsh-has-taken-the-blame-for-the-skys-offense-but-its-actually-complicated",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-10T00:09:11.405Z",
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  "textContent": "<p>To understand the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sky\" >Sky’s</a> struggles on offense, start by appreciating what it takes to be a top-tier offense in today's WNBA.</p><p>You have to have an elite scoring engine — an A'ja Wilson, a Paige Bueckers, a Kelsey Plum — who can take it upon herself to drop 20 a game.</p><p>Or you have to have multiple shooters consistently hitting north of 35% of their 3-pointers at significant volume. The league's top offenses — the Wings, Lynx, Valkyries, Tempo and Aces — all have at least one of the two.</p><p>The Sky have neither.</p><p>Nobody on the team is scoring more than 15 points per game, and the only player shooting 35% or better from the 3-point line is rookie Gabriela Jaquez — and that's on limited volume.</p><p>Now, what they do have: an elite point guard in Skylar Diggins, who hasn't averaged fewer than 15 points in any of her last 10 seasons. A frontcourt that can score in Azura Stevens and Kamilla Cardoso. And solid shooters in Jaquez, Stevens, Jacy Sheldon and Rachel Banham.</p><p>So while the roster's limits might keep them out of the top tier, there's no excuse for the offense ranking 13th out of 15 teams, which is where it sits today.</p><p>Coach Tyler Marsh has taken the blame publicly this season, saying he needs to be better.</p><p>Still, it's not yet clear what that actually means. Should he change the offense? Change rotations? Use his best players differently? </p><p>Marsh said Tuesday that while he and his staff are discussing big changes to the offense internally, for now they're mostly tweaking points of emphasis and fixing execution.</p><p>Cardoso agreed that execution was the problem in Toronto — and beyond.</p><p>\"We need to do a better job as players executing, doing the little details,\" Cardoso told the Sun-Times. \"We have amazing plays, and sometimes we gotta set a screen and we don't hit a body. Sometimes we gotta execute a little better and be more poised.\"</p><p>Note the direction each is pointing: Marsh says the staff has to be better, Cardoso says the players do. Both sides taking accountability is good news. The bad news is that the on-court connection has been inconsistent, and everyone's frustrated.</p><p>After the Sky lost their sixth game in seven in Toronto, Diggins <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sky/2026/06/07/skylar-diggins-says-sky-must-shed-loser-mentality-as-skid-continues\" >said she expects more maturity, leadership and effort from everyone</a> — players and staff. She clarified Tuesday that she included herself in that, and that she and Marsh are on the same page.</p><p>\"If we had a problem, I'd just come out and say it,\" Diggins said.</p><p>She said her message was well-received despite the short turnaround. And the Sky did come out much stronger in the first half Tuesday, leading the Dream 42-39, with Diggins and Cardoso each scoring 11 points.</p><p>Marsh said before the game it's on him to get Diggins more open looks and figure out how to best use her.</p><p>Diggins acknowledged she's still working out how she wants to be used to best complement her teammates — especially after Rickea Jackson's injury changed the team's trajectory.</p><p>\"I think what we imagined changed so much,\" Diggins said. \"We just had so much change, so I think a lot of our visioning is pivoting, rediscovering what that is. That's what we're in the process of doing. Maybe not how I imagined, but we don't even have the personnel that I imagined.\"</p><p>That's the unlucky part. The Sky <i>did </i>come into the season with an elite scorer in Jackson, but she tore her ACL in the fourth game. And they didn't have a backup, because that's what defines a team's best player — she can't be replaced.</p><p>When a team underachieves like the Sky have, the question is always: Is it the roster, the coaching or bad luck? With the Sky, it's all three. 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But they showed some of the fight that defined them early on.</div> <div class=\"PagePromo-byline\"><div class=\"PagePromo-date\"> <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=1780714151000 data-promo=\"true\"> <template data-date-tpl>[month] [day], [year], [hour]:[minute][ampm] [timezone]</template> <span data-date> </span> </bsp-timestamp><span class=\"dot\"></span></div> <div class=\"PagePromo-author\"> <span>By </span><strong><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/alissa-hirsh\" >Alissa Hirsh </a></strong> </div> <div class=\"PagePromo-readingTime\"> <span class=\"dot-divider\"></span> <svg class=\"PagePromo-readingTime-icon\"> <use xlink:href=\"#icon-clock-reading\"></use> </svg> <span class=\"PagePromo-readingTime-text\"> <bsp-time-to-read data-article-word-count=\"642\"></bsp-time-to-read> read </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=\"PageList-footer\"> </div> </bsp-list-loadmore><p></p>",
  "title": "Tyler Marsh has taken the blame for the Sky's offense, but it's actually complicated",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-10T00:33:13.050Z"
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