Approaching the midway point of the second quarter Saturday, Dallas had drained 10 3-point shots. The Lynx had made eight baskets.
A rough first-quarter stretch was too much to overcome as the Lynx fell 95-77 on the road to the Wings.
Crystal Dangerfield and Napheesa Collier led Minnesota with 17 points each. Kayla McBride had 13 and Damiris Dantas 10.
Minnesota (5-7) continues to be inconsistent. The Lynx lost their first four games, won four of their next five, lost 105-89 at home to Chicago on Tuesday but responded by winning 85-73 in Dallas on Thursday.
“This path we’re on is not going to lead to success, so we have to be able to string together wins, especially back-to-backs like this on the road,” Collier said.
Coach Cheryl Reeve said consistency issues affect most teams, and a key now will be for Minnesota to bounce back Tuesday in Atlanta, a team the Lynx beat by 20 on June 6.
“Can we find some physical toughness? Can we go toe to toe and blow for blow? That’s what we’re looking for. I was hoping for that tonight and we didn’t get that early enough,” she said.
Minnesota was 5 for 20 from the field in the opening quarter and trailed 29-14 after the Wings finished on a 19-5 run. The Lynx trailed by as many as 25 points in the second quarter before getting within 55-35 at intermission.
“The fact we came out so soft allowed them to really get going, and it was hard to kind of stop the bleeding after that,” Collier said.
“The majority of their made shots were threes, so that’s hard to come back and negate,” Dangerfield said.
After missing all eight shot attempts Thursday, Marina Mabrey led Dallas (6-7) with a career-high 28 points off the bench, including five 3-pointers. The Wings made a season-high 17 shots from outside the arc, also the most allowed by Minnesota.
“I’ve been a part of games where all it takes is one person to get hot and all of a sudden the basket looks really, really big,” Reeve said.
Lynx guard Rachel Banham hit the most exciting 3-pointer: a more than half-court heave at the first-half buzzer.
She and Dangerfield each hit a pair of third-quarter 3-point shots, and the Lynx committed just one turnover in outscoring Dallas 27-19, yet the deficit was a dozen points going to the fourth quarter.
“We just dug ourselves such a deep hole, and at that time were just kind of trading baskets like we shoot a three and they would get a two and the next time it’d be vice versa,” Collier said.
Minnesota committed 14 turnovers, about two below its average, but Dallas scored 23 points off those. Minnesota scored 16 points off 15 miscues by the Wings.
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