With both teams playing on the second night of a back-to-back, in the high altitude of Salt Lake City, Utah no less, most expected tonight’s matchup to be more of the grit and grind variety than the beautiful basketball we’ve only managed to hear about here in New Orleans through second-hand accounts.
To be honest, this game would have probably made the Memphis Grizzlies cringe in fear. The Pelicans and Jazz combined for 39 turnovers and a 38.2 field goal percentage. Jrue Holiday and Solomon Hill were so ineffective early that Alvin Gentry didn’t even bother going back to either of them for the entirety of the fourth quarter.