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Red-hot Minnesota star Maya Moore poured in 40 points, but the suddenly inconsistent defending-champion Lynx lost to Eastern Conference bottom-feeder Connecticut in overtime on Thursday.Minnesota will look to rebound from that disappointing loss Saturday, when the Dallas Wings visit Target Center.The Wings could be without star forward Glory Johnson, who injured her right foot in the fourth quarter of Dallas 95-90 overtime loss at Atlanta on Friday.After opening the season with a record 13 straight wins, the Lynx (15-4) have gone 2-3, including Thursdays surprising loss to the Sun (5-13). Minnesota led by 11 with two minutes to play, but allowed Connecticut to rally back and force overtime.We have to be smarter with the ball down the stretch and understand how to close out games consistently, Moore told reporters after the loss to Connecticut.Moore scored 38 of her 40 points in the second half and overtime. She had 33 points in her previous outing, an 87-82 win over the Chicago Sky.The Wings (9-11) will miss Johnson, if she cant go. She leads the team in rebounding and is third in scoring. She was on pace for her second straight 20-rebound game, before going down after a collision with Atlantas Elizabeth Williams. Johnson did not return to the game and appeared to be in pain on the bench.Dallas is second in the league in scoring, but second to last in points allowed.The Wings have lost four of six overall.Minnesota beat Dallas 80-63 on June fourth and has won nine of the last 10 meetings with the Wings franchise, which relocated to Texas from Tulsa, Oklahoma this season.All five starters for the Lynx scored in double figures in the June win over Dallas, led by Sylvia Fowles with 16 points.Aerial Powers scored 20 points off the bench for a short-handed Dallas squad in the loss.Johnson and Skylar Diggins missed the first meeting with the Lynx. 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The way I play, I just leave it out on the floor, so I cant control myself when that stuff happens. Its just instinctive. I just go out there and play as hard as I can. If it happened again tomorrow, Id probably do it again, to be honest.Davis was initially designated in the second quarter as questionable to return. Following the X-rays, the Pelicans medical staff performed treatment on the knee in an effort to get Davis back on the court.After missing the entirety of the second and third quarters, Davis checked back into the game to start the fourth quarter, with the Pelicans leading the Hawks 95-71. Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry said the decision to reinsert Davis into a blowout was largely to determine how the Pelicans star might perform in Wednesday nights game against the Minnesota Timberwolves in New Orleans (ESPN, 9:30 p.m. ET).He came back out and said he could go, and so we stuck him in the game for a few minutes, Gentry said. We wanted to see if hed be OK for [Wednesday].Davis showed no ill effects, scoring seven points in 10 minutes in the fourth qquarter.dddddddddddd He finished the game with 13 points, on 6 for 12 shooting, and added three rebounds and three blocks in 19 total minutes. Following the game, Davis pulled a compression sleeve over his right leg and the bloodied, quarter-sized wound atop his knee.Davis suffered a right thigh contusion on Nov. 15 in a home victory over the Boston Celtics that forced him to sit out the Pelicans loss to the Orlando Magic two days later. It was his only missed game this season.Despite playing much of the game without Davis, the Pelicans turned in one of their most impressive performances of the season in only their second road win. New Orleans, which at one juncture in the third quarter led Atlanta by 35 points, notched its third consecutive victory and shot above 50 percent for the second time this season.The streak has coincided with the return of guard Jrue Holiday, who scored 15 points and contributed four assists in 27 minutes on Tuesday, after missing the Pelicans first dozen games. Tim Frazier led all scorers with 26 points -- matching a career high -- and added a career-high 14 assists.?Terrence Jones, who was battling an illness prior to the game, contributed 17 points.For us, we just have to do all the little things, Davis said. You know, diving on the floor -- obviously not into the stands -- but rebounding the basketball, boxing out, all the little things that matter.ESPNs Justin Verrier contributed to this report.? ' ' '