Pelicans Head Coach Alvin Gentry:
On tonight’s close loss:
“I thought we played really hard. I thought we gave ourselves an opportunity. It comes down to making plays at the end. They made a couple of shots and a couple of plays and we didn’t. In a game like that you just have to step up and you’ve got to be the team that makes the stops and makes the shots. They were able to do it and we weren’t.”
On the two points scored in the last eleven Pelicans’ possessions and the cause of the drought:
“I thought we did a good job of moving the basketball.