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SAN FRANCISCO – In essence, neither team came away overly pleased after Saturday’s Game 1 of the Pelicans-Warriors series: Golden State forward Draymond Green graded his club’s performance to the San Francisco Chronicle as a “B-minus or C-plus,” while New Orleans players rued a shaky first-half showing that put them in a huge hole they ultimately couldn’t erase.
Despite 20 fourth-quarter points from Anthony Davis alone and a 33-22 late-game surge by the Pelicans, it came too late to get any closer than four points of the lead vs. the Western Conference’s top-seeded team.