The New Orleans Pelicans’ winning streak was in jeopardy for much of their game Monday night.

Former Pelican Anthony Davis and sharp-shooting Klay Thompson led the Dallas Mavericks to a nine-point halftime lead and a double-figure lead early in the fourth quarter.

But the Pelicans gradually slowed down Davis, shut out Thompson after halftime and rode a superior team effort with six double-figure scorers to surge past the Mavericks, 119-113, in the Smoothie King Center to extend their longest winning streak since the 2022-23 season to five games.

New Orleans (8-22) plays at Cleveland at 6:30 p.m. CST on Tuesday before returning home for back-to-back games against Phoenix on Friday and Saturday.

“This group believes in one another,” Pelicans interim head coach James Borrego said. “They trust one another. They play for one another. We don’t know whose night it’s going to be, but we trust that someone is going to come through.”

A lot of Pelicans came through as Zion Williamson scored 24, Derik Queen had 19 points and 11 rebounds, Saddiq Bey scored 19, Jordan Poole had 14, Jeremiah Fears 12 and Trey Murphy III 11.

“Everybody is doing what they’ve got to do to help the team win,” Williamson said.

Herb Jones, who missed the second half of the Pelicans’ 128-109 victory over Indiana on Saturday, returned to the starting lineup and scored nine points but left the game for good in the second quarter after suffering a sprained right ankle.

Davis got the better of the 20-year-old Queen early on and finished with a season-high 35 points and 17 rebounds, but he had just 13 points and five rebounds after halftime.

“(Davis) is a problem down low,” Borrego said. “As the game went along Derik found some footing with him. We were swarming to (Davis) in the second half and we started double-teaming him late. We probably should have gone to that earlier.”

Thompson scored all 20 of his points in the first half, rookie forward Cooper Flagg, the No. 1 overall pick in the draft, finished with 16 and former Pelican Naji Marshall scored 15 for the Mavericks (11-19).

The Pelicans used a 30-9 run during a stretch of 7:34 of the fourth quarter to turn a nine-point deficit into a 10-point lead.

“We were getting stops, rebounding and trusting each other, just executing and finishing plays,” Queen said.

Poole scored the first seven points of the surge, Williamson had six of the final 10, and in between Queen chipped in six, Bey had five and Poole three more to put the Pelicans in control while the Mavericks offense collapsed.

“We had a great response defensively,” Borrego said. “It was great the way (Poole) closed on both ends of the floor.”

New Orleans tied its season-high for fourth-quarter points when it outscored Dallas, 40-26.

Marshall and Flagg scored five points each as Dallas extended its six-point halftime lead to 83-73 midway through the third quarter. Jose Alvarado made consecutive 3-pointer for New Orleans before the Mavericks took an 87-79 lead at the end of the period.

Dallas pushed the lead to 11 points early in the fourth quarter, but Poole triggered an 18-4 run that gave the Pelicans a 101-98 lead midway through the period,

The lead changed hands twice and the score was tied once before Williamson keyed a 10-0 run that gave New Orleans a 113-103 lead.

The Mavericks crept within four points in the final seconds, but didn’t score again.

Bey and Jones scored seven points each and three teammates scored as the Pelicans raced to a 22-11 lead. They led by 11 twice more, but Thompson had seven points during an 11-0 run that tied tie the score. Williamson’s dunk gave New Orleans a 36-34 lead at the end of the first quarter.

Thompson scored 14 points and Davis added 10 in the period while the Pelicans spread their scoring more evenly among eight players.

The score was tied six times in the second quarter before Thompson’s 3-pointer gave Dallas the lead, which it would hold for the rest of the half. Davis’ 3-pointer gave the Mavericks their biggest lead of nine points.

Queen made a free throw and Williamson had a dunk to trim Dallas’ lead to 63-57 at halftime.