Pelicans Surge Late, But Warriors Hold Them Off to Take Game 1

For much of the first three quarters, the Warriors exposed all of the weaknesses that every Pelicans fan already knew this team had. In the first half, the Warriors scored 28 points off of layups or dunks, and the Pelicans didn’t do much to remedy that problem in the third quarter, giving up 3 more dunks and 2 more layups. Add to that some stretches where the ball just wouldn’t move and the perimeter players missed wide open jumpers, and we saw the worst of the Pelicans for much of the first 36 minutes. But then, things began to change.