Pelicans Coach Alvin Gentry:
On thoughts about the game:
“I thought that Minnesota started off great with their young players getting up and down the court and scoring. I thought our transition defense wasn’t as good as it should have been early on, but I thought after the first timeout we made adjustments and we did a good job. They had 38 in the first quarter, and then I think they had 61 the rest of the way over three quarters. So I think we did a good job with that. We started to move the basketball, but the big thing was that we locked in defensively so we started running off of misses rather than running off makes.