New Orleans holds a 2-0 series lead and comes home to face the Portland Trailblazers in Game 3 of the first-round series on Thursday at the Smoothie King Center.
“We’ve got a ton of confidence,” Davis said after the Pelicans Game 2 victory. “We had confidence coming in. We’re a great road team and we know that. We’re satisfied that we got both of these wins, but we know that the series isn’t over.”
Why wouldn’t he have belief in his team’s chances? New Orleans and its underestimated backcourt should be overwhelmed with confidence after taking a shocking 2-0 series lead on the road, but it wasn’t ‘stolen’ as many tend to say.