{"id":578582,"date":"2026-02-03T02:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/578582\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:06:25","slug":"pelicans-fall-apart-in-second-half-of-loss-at-charlotte-crescent-city-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/578582\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans fall apart in second half of loss at Charlotte \u2013 Crescent City Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><br \/>\n                    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pf-button-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770084385_386_printfriendly-pdf-button-nobg-md.png\" alt=\"Print Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\" style=\"width: 124px;height: 30px;\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the New Orleans Pelicans are playing better defense of late, the offense is another story.<\/p>\n<p>That was the case, once again, Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets raced past the Pelicans 102-95 at Charlotte. It was the seventh straight win for Charlotte, the longest win streak for the Hornets since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The game was moved up to an afternoon game because of icy roads in the area.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans started well, taking the fight to the Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans took a 30-23 lead after one quarter before expanding the advantage to 64-49 by halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans built a 22-point lead. <\/p>\n<p>Then came the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The offense disappeared. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, it was awful.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans scored just 31 points in the final two quarters.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans made just 10 of 37 field goal attempts in the second half, including going 4 of 17 from the field in the fourth quarter with two of the made shots came in the final minute with the outcome decided. <\/p>\n<p>Trey Murphy III broke out of a shooting slump, scoring 27 points on 10 of 20 field goal attempts, including a trio of 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Zion Williamson had a double-double but scored just 14 points with 11 rebounds. Williamson was just 5 of 13 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Derik Queen had 16 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans shot a dismal 39 percent from the field.<\/p>\n<p>The big differential came on the boards, where Charlotte crushed New Orleans 59-34.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans (13-39) head to Milwaukee n Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the New Orleans Pelicans are playing better defense of late, the offense is another story. That was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,6,478,470,4073,4072,675],"class_list":{"0":"post-578582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanspelicans","14":"tag-pelicans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116004258132276340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}