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Holiday scores 37 points, Pelicans beat slumping Pistons

By DAVE HOGG (Brown) to handle by him- He hit both shots to make
Associated Press self, and even when we it 107-98, and the Pelicans
DETROIT (AP) — Alvin Gen- sent Reggie (Jackson) over held on to win.
try knew he needed Antho- to help, he still had his way TIP INS
ny Davis. with us,” Pistons coach Pelicans: New Orleans has
The New Orleans Pelicans Dwane Casey said. “We won 16 of its last 20 against
coach didn’t get his star are getting great looks on Detroit, including 12 of
at 100 percent. It was still the other end, but we’ve the last 13. ... Gentry, who
enough. got to knock them down.” coached the Pistons from
Davis left with a right hip in- Drummond had 10 offen- 1997-2000, is 16-5 against
jury after a first-quarter colli- sive rebounds for the 22nd them as a head coach.
sion with Detroit Pistons star time in his career — Tyson Pistons: Galloway has hit
Blake Griffin and missed the Chandler is second among at least four 3-pointers six
rest of the first half. active players with 15 — but times in the last 15 games.
When he came back ear- Gentry thought his defense .. Reggie Jackson missed
ly in the third quarter, he did just enough against De- his first five shots and didn’t
was moving slowly and troit’s center. score until 4:26 remained in
only scored three points, “You can block him out the game.
matching the three he had on every shot, and he’s DAVIS IN BOSTON?
before the injury. However, just going to go over you Davis went for more medi-
he also had five blocks and and get rebounds,” Gentry cal tests after the game,
nine rebounds against Grif- said. “I thought we got the and Gentry wasn’t sure if
fin and Andre Drummond big rebounds we needed he would play Monday in
to help the Pelicans win down the stretch.” Boston.
116-108. Holiday had 18 points in the “A lot of times, it is the next
“Just having Anthony on first half, and New Orleans day that these really hurt,”
the floor means every- led by 11 before the Pistons he said. “We’re not even
thing,” Gentry said. “He cut it to 56-50. 30 games into the season,
might have been closer to Davis returned at the first and we’re going to be very
50 percent than 100 per- stoppage in the third quar- cautious with this. If he’s
cent, but he was still giving ter and helped the Pelicans ready, he’ll play, but only if
us great defense and grab- take a 78-62 lead midway he’s ready.”
bing big rebounds.” through the period. He was UP NEXT
With Davis missing or inef- clearly limited on the offen- Pelicans: At Boston on Mon-
fective on the offensive sive end but was able to New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday (11) drives against day night.
Detroit Pistons guard Luke Kennard (5) in the second half of an
end, Jrue Holiday and Ju- get stops on defense. NBA basketball game in Detroit, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. Pistons: At Philadelphia on
lius Randle took over. Holi- Griffin and Galloway com- Associated Press Monday night.q
day scored 37 points on bined for 26 points in the
14-of-22 shooting and Ran- period and had the Pistons
dle added 28 points, six re- within four points until Tim
bounds and five assists. Frazier’s buzzer-beating
“We just executed our 3-pointer made it 91-84 go-
game plan,” Randle said. ing to the fourth.
“Everything was coming “We were getting a lot
extremely easily for Jrue of stops late in the quar-
and when he gets rolling, ter, and that lets me get
he doesn’t miss.” into transition and get my
Griffin scored 35 points for shots,” Galloway said. “We
Detroit, Andre Drummond just needed to keep that
had 23 points and 19 re- going.”
bounds, and Langston Gal- Detroit quickly narrowed
loway added a season- the gap to 93-91, but the
best 24. Pelicans responded with
“Even when Anthony is out, a 7-1 run to take an eight-
that’s a very solid team point lead.
with a lot of weapons,” “I think we lead the NBA
Griffin said. “We knew how in wide-open shots, but
we wanted to handle Jrue, we have to start knocking
but we didn’t execute.” them down,” Griffin said.
The Pistons have lost four Drummond missed two free
straight. throws with 4:03 left, then
“Jrue Holiday was a really fouled Randle at the other
tough challenge for Bruce end.

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