Green criticises Pelicans' 'soft mentality' towards Booker

Devin Booker scored 50 points for the third straight game against Willie Green's New Orleans Pelicans.

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00:00 You know, you don't want to take credit from these guys when they go out and have a performance

00:04 like he did.

00:05 He hit some shots that we gave him and he also hit some tough shots.

00:11 We have to do better.

00:12 I mean, there's no excuse to get 50 put on us twice.

00:17 And so, our mentality coming out, especially in the first quarter, because both games,

00:23 it's been the first half where he's really done some damage against us.

00:28 And, you know, quite frankly, we were soft guarding him.

00:30 We just had a soft mentality when it came to being physical on him.

00:35 And he's a great player.

00:36 You can't allow him to be comfortable.

00:37 And that's what we did tonight.

00:38 It just came out with a lot of pace, a lot of energy.

00:43 He hit some tough shots, but also we contributed to it a little bit as well.