Same story, different day.
The New Orleans Pelicans led for a good deal of a second half, got overtaken in a fourth quarter and then watched an opponent make more positive plays during the final few minutes of a game. Tonight’s result: a 122-119 loss to the Dallas Mavericks.
“It’s kind of a duplicate of what we’ve been going through where we play good basketball and now we have all kinds of trouble closing games,” said Alvin Gentry after the defeat. “{We} have a couple of defensive mishaps, but then when you really, really need to make a shot, we didn’t make them and they did.