SACRAMENTO – While winning six of their last eight games, highlighted by wins over Denver, Houston and Indiana, the New Orleans Pelicans (12-24) have looked like a much more cohesive team on the court, displaying the kind of chemistry that develops when players gain familiarity with each other. That everyone-on-the-same-page feel also seemed to carry over to the locker room following Saturday’s 117-115 thriller in Sacramento, with two Pelicans delivering virtually identical quotes about the current state of their team.
“Good teams win games like this,” said guard Lonzo Ball, who notched his third straight game of 20-plus points.