The Utah Jazz expected a fight as they rematched with the New Orleans Pelicans, their second meeting in three days.
“You kind of treat it like a playoff series,” Donovan Mitchell said. “We won Game 1. They’ll make adjustments and be ready for Game 2. It’s going to be completely different.”
“A team will always come out with more purpose and more energy in the second game if you’ve lost,” head coach Quin Snyder added.
The Jazz were right about that.
Fortunately, they made a few adjustments of their own along the way to beating the Pelicans, 129-118, for the team’s seventh consecutive victory.