Suffice to say Dejounte Murray enjoyed his first game in a New Orleans Pelicans uniform a lot more than his long-awaited second.
Boos rained down from a large and initially lively Thanksgiving eve crowd as they watched the Toronto Raptors — a team that came in winless in 10 road games — take a 34-point lead in the second half.
The Pelicans have looked star crossed since Murray fractured his hand at the end of an opening night victory over Chicago on Oct. 23. With Zion Williamson and other starters still in the lineup, they managed to start 2-0. Murray missed 17 games before his return to the lineup on Wednesday, one game after McCollum had come back from a 13-game absence. Williamson, Ingram, Murphy, Jones and Alvarado all remained out of the lineup.
Murray was unsurprisingly rusty, missing his first seven shots before finishing with 14 points. McCollum scored 19 points. But that wasn't nearly enough to compensate for what coach Willie Green and McCollum suggested was soft defense against Toronto. “We allowed a team to come on our home floor and really make us look soft,” Green said. “That’s what I told our group. That can’t happen.”
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