Pelicans Head Coach Alvin Gentry:
On tonight’s defensive effort:
“I thought we were really good, defensively. The two guards make their team go, and they shot 12-for-30. You hold those guys to 12-for-30 and you don’t turn the ball over, you’re going to be in pretty good shape.”
On the reason for the defensive success:
“Well I think it starts individually. I thought Solomon (Hill) did a great job on CJ (McCollum) and obviously Jrue (Holiday) did a good job on Damian (Lillard). He had that little spurt there where he got going, but for the most part, we felt like we had him under control and then after that, when you get broken down, the backside of your defense has to be good and I thought we did a really good job of – even when those guys got beat, of being able to step up and take away some of the easy stuff that they usually get.