Pelicans Head Coach Alvin Gentry:
On what went wrong tonight:
“It’s a pattern. All you have to do is look at the assists and the turnovers and the points off of turnovers. We turn the ball over 15 times, they get 26 points, which is telling me that they’re all live turnovers and they’re running down and they’re getting easy baskets. This is not a fast-break team but we turn the ball over and they get 22 fast-break points because most of them come off our turnovers. Until we take care of that problem right there, we’re going to continue to be standing there doing this on a lot of nights. You can’t give up 26 points on turnovers and turn the ball over 15 times. That means that every single time we score, we turned the ball over, almost every single time they scored. You can’t play a team, any team, especially a team like this that has talented players, where you turn the ball over 15 times for 26 points and think you’ll have a chance to win.”
Pelicans Forward Dante Cunningham:
On turning point in fourth quarter:
"At that point. We had some bad possessions on our end. They hit shots, we didn’t. All the clichés you can come up with, they capitalized on them."
On the turnovers:
“We had live ball turnovers. Live balls, they pretty much scored on all of them. It’s hard to get your defense set when they’re running back two on one and three on two, things like that.”