With playoff chances dwindling, time for Sky fans to look to the future
<p>SAN FRANCISCO — With 11 games left in the season, the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sky" target="_blank" >Sky</a> are still motivated by the possibility of making the playoffs, however remote it has become. ESPN’s model gives them just <a class="Link" href="https://www.espn.com/wnba/bpi/_/view/playoffs" target="_blank" >a 0.1% chance.</a> They would have to go undefeated, or close to it, while also getting an inexplicable collapse from the teams occupying the final playoff spots: the Wings, Liberty and Mystics.</p><p>So for everyone outside the locker room, the focus can start turning toward the future, which hinges on a few big questions.</p><h3><b>How good is the Sky’s young core, really?</b></h3><p>When general managers voted on the league’s best young cores in the preseason, the Sky were nowhere to be found.
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<p>SAN FRANCISCO — With 11 games left in the season, the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sky" target="_blank" >Sky</a> are still motivated by the possibility of making the playoffs, however remote it has become. ESPN’s model gives them just <a class="Link" href="https://www.espn.com/wnba/bpi/_/view/playoffs" target="_blank" >a 0.1% chance.</a> They would have to go undefeated, or close to it, while also getting an inexplicable collapse from the teams occupying the final playoff spots: the Wings, Liberty and Mystics.</p><p>So for everyone outside the locker room, the focus can start turning toward the future, which hinges on a few big questions.</p><h3><b>How good is the Sky’s young core, really?</b></h3><p>When general managers voted on the league’s best young cores in the preseason, the Sky were nowhere to be found. For much of the season, that seemed justified. Unlike the Storm, Mystics and Wings, they still don’t have an All-Star in their mix.</p><p>But they do have some sleepers.
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- <p>SAN FRANCISCO — With 11 games left in the season, the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sky" target="_blank" >Sky</a> are still motivated by the possibility of making the playoffs, however remote it has become. ESPN’s model gives them just <a class="Link" href="https://www.espn.com/wnba/bpi/_/view/playoffs" target="_blank" >a 0.1% chance.</a> They would have to go undefeated, or close to it, while also getting an inexplicable collapse from the teams occupying the final playoff spots: the Wings, Liberty and Mystics.</p><p>So for everyone outside the locker room, the focus can start turning toward the future, which hinges on a few big questions.</p><h3><b>How good is the Sky’s young core, really?</b></h3><p>When general managers voted on the league’s best young cores in the preseason, the Sky were nowhere to be found.
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With playoff chances dwindling, time for Sky fans to look to the future
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