Coach, players for Lynx say Sun played great unlike the visitors

"I thought Connecticut played great," Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said after her team's 108-79 loss to the Sun. "We played well at our place [the Lynx won by 23 points] and we have the best overall record in the league [by one-half game over Indiana] and Connecticut was really hungry.

" They made shots, our defense was nowhere near as good as it has been," Reeve was quoted as saying in a Sun postgame news release.

The 108 points was the second most that Connecticut has scored in a regulation game.The most points ever scored by the Sun team in four quarters is 110 on July 7, 2007 at Los Angeles.

The 29-point margin of victory is a season-high for the Sun. Connecticut also tied season-highs for points in a quarter with 29 in the first and field goals made in a quarter with 12.

Connecticut set a season high for points in a half with 57 in the first half. The Sun is now 11-2 at home and 13-0 when leading at halftime. The Lynx have especially found the Mohegan Sun Arena a difficult place to play; they have lost seven in a row there dating back to 2004.

"Well, I told out players after the game, I had nothing to complain about," Sun coach Mike Thibault said. "It was a real short post game talk. That was terrific basketball for us, the way we played tonight. We were unselfish, moved the basketball and they just played. It's one of those games you hope to have when you have a crowd like this and it was fun to watch."

Unless you were on the visiting bench.

Reeve said playing in Connecticut was difficult for Moore.

" I think it was incredibly tough," Reeve said. "It is already difficult playing against a really good team, and then you add to that the homecoming. I bet every UConn player has a story about coming back here for the first time and how difficult it is. Maya is young and it happens.

" She is taking it really hard. She wants our team to be really successful, and I told her it was not just her. We had across the board some difficulty with people showing up tonight. I think she has been dealing with that all season and she is well versed in the pressure being at UConn, this is just a lot different.

"At UConn, they were so dominant average winning by 25 points per game, and this is a lot different. The league is so deep, and it's a hard league and on any given night anybody can beat the other team. The road is tough and this is the first time all season that we were not in the game."
WHALEN IMPRESSED B Y SUN

"They played great, all the credit to them," Whalen said. "They moved the ball well, defensively we were not sharp, Renee [Montgomery] got in the lane a lot, Asjha [Jones] was hitting shots, Tina [Charles] was hitting the boards, so we give all the credit to Connecticut. It was not our night. We didn't play well. But the good thing is we have a game in two nights."