New Orleans Pelicans Grades:

For the second time in two nights, the New Orleans Pelicans started out strong only to have the lead slowly eroded.

The New Orleans Pelicans played almost the exact same game two nights in a row. Just like against Memphis, the Pelicans started out extremely well by playing efficient offense and stifling defense. The cracks started to show in the second quarter and the Rockets pulled ahead and didn’t look back in the second half. Even though the Pelicans outrebounded the Rockets by a wide margin, the advantage granted by that was negated by the overwhelming amount of turnovers.

Ryan Anderson led the cliff dive, in terms of turnovers, with six while Tyreke Evans and Norris Cole both chipped in…