One can’t be overly upset about an expected loss, but there was an opportunity to steal the win in Dallas.
Playing on the second night of a back-to-back without their top three scorers, the New Orleans Pelicans started incredibly slowly, scoring only 15 points in the first quarter, en route to a 127-117 loss to the Dallas Mavericks.
The Pelicans never found the right rhythm to make things really interesting with enough time left on the clock. Although they threatened to trim the deficit to single digits multiple times in the second half, they never got over that hump until there was only 1:07 left in regulation.