On most nights, the teams in the NBA follow the norms that they have established for themselves. The Warriors will make a ton of threes. The Sixers will be awful. The Spurs will quietly dominate and so on and so forth.
Some nights, like tonight, things get a little fluky in the good way. Tonight was one of those nights for the New Orleans Pelicans.
New Orleans shot the lights out of the Smoothie King Center. In the first quarter of the game, the Pelicans shot 60 percent from the field; they went into halftime shooting 65 percent and had a season high 72 points to their name.