It went about as well as everyone expected.
When the 2016-17 NBA schedule was released, many New Orleans Pelicans fans groaned at seeing games two and three. Those two games saw the Golden State Warriors in the Smoothie King Center one night and the San Antonio Spurs at the AT&T Center the next. It is a brutal stretch for any team that seemed especially cruel considering the Pelicans won 30 games the previous year. No one expected this to go well for New Orleans, and that is exactly what ended up happening.
The first half saw a few bright spots.