Connecticut Sun have rough hill to climb during franchise reset

Nothing about the past six months has been easy for the Connecticut Sun.After six straight trips to the WNBA semifinals with no championship trophies to show for them, change was inevitable.But what followed was a series of blows that left Connecticut reeling.Coach Stephanie White left before her contract ended to take the same job with the Indiana Fever, the first major domino to topple this offseason.A mass exodus of players followed, with all of its regular starters and several other key players wanting out or leaving in free agency.

That left first-year general manager Morgan Tuck to pick up the pieces.“It’s time for a reset,” Tuck told The Post on Friday before the Sun played the Liberty in a preseason game at Barclays Center.“We knew things are changing, and it’s hard to go through that.

It’s hard … as a new GM and as a staff to take on so much uncertainty, but I think for us, I definitely feel like it’s gonna set us up for the future.”Tuck, at 31 the league’s youngest GM, has her work cut out for her.Right now, she’s stuck between a rock and a hard place.“I’ll be real honest: You do get overwhelmed,” Tuck said.

“There’s moments where you’re like, ‘What? Oh my God.Like, what’s happening.’ But I think you trust your work.“It might look a little crazy on the outside.

A lot of people might be saying things because they don’t really understand what’s going on.But I think for us, as long as we know that we have the vision in sight.”The Sun hired Frenchman Rachid Meziane as the team’s new head coach.

As for filling out the roster, it’s been a chore.Sign up for Madeline Kenney's Inside the Liberty, a weekly Sports+ newsletter.

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