After a close loss to Indiana on Sunday, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said her team was maybe practicing too much. That her players like playing much more than practicing.

On Thursday, it often looked like a practice against Tulsa. The Lynx buried the Shock 101-71. The 30-point margin was the second largest in the team's 13-year history.

It was close for one quarter, 23-18 Lynx. Then the visitors outscored the Shock 31-12 in the second quarter to take a 54-30 lead.

"I was really happy with our transition game," Reeve said. "We were able to get stops and run-outs and I think we handled the press really well. Coming in here and getting the win is something we are really proud of." The Lynx, who had lost their last two games, are now 6-3, which equals the best start in franchise history. The Shock are 1-9. Minnesota scored a franchise record 37 points on fast breaks, Tulsa had only 14. The Lynx feasted on 27 Tulsa turnovers -- one more would have tied another franchise record, most turnovers by a Lynx opponent. Point guard Lindsay Whalen especially benefitted from the Shock turning the ball over so much and being slow to get back. She had 21 points, 19 in the first half. In the Lynx's 31-point, second quarter, Whalen scored 13 points, 10 of them on fast break layups. Whalen finished 9 of 14 from the field and had five assists. "I thought we got out and transitioned really well early," Whalen said. "They played hard, but this ended up being a really good win for us, and we are happy to be 6-3. Defensively, we started out really well. We were aggressive and attacked them. We kept the lead. The second quarter was the big quarter and we kept that going." Besides Whalen, also in double figures were Candice Wiggins with 18 points, Rebekkah Brunson and Taj McWilliams-Franklin with 12 apiece and Maya Moore with 11. Wiggins got her points off the bench. She was 5 of 7 on three-pointers, a Lynx weakness in recent games, and provided a lot of energy. "I made shots," Wiggins said. "This is what I am supposed to do, I am supposed to get in there and depend on my three-point shot and shoot with confidence. Today, I was focused on just relaxing and making shots. That's always the game plan. It's about getting good screens and getting in the flow of the game. And those threes change the momentum of the team." Her five three-pointers tied her career high. McWilliams-Franklin, for only the fourth time in 382, also came off the bench. She didn't start because she suffered a minor injury in pregame warm-ups when she stepped on a teammates foot, according the the broadcasters on wnba.com's liveaccess. But MWF was only one rebound shy of a double-double. The Lynx, who beat Tulsa 75-65 on June 7 at Target Center, outrebounded the Shock 38-24, and shot 51 percent for the game. "The game was not a very good game," Tulsa coach Nolan Richardson said. "We didn't play very well, maybe a little bit better in the second half than the first. We had only eight players on hand, when Sheryl [Swoopes] went down in the first part of the ball game, and that really limited us with spots. We turned the ball over 27 times; you can't play basketball and have a chance to win when you have those kinds of numbers in the game." Swoopes suffered a right hamstring pull. In the first Lynx-Shock game, Tulsa lost Amber Holt with a broken thumb. With the victory, the Lynx move into second place in the Western Conference, 1-1/2 games behind San Antonio (7-1).