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With the situation completely one-sided, Lue stood up as if to say something, then sat back down.
James reacted quickly instead, raising his hand and calling a timeout.
The purpose of the timeout was to stop the Pelicans' momentum, but it did not have much effect.
The Cavaliers could not break through the defense, and the timeout was merely a superficial remedy.
In the latter half of the second quarter, the Pelicans once again put on a crushing performance.
At halftime, the score was 69-41, with the Pelicans holding a massive 28-point lead!
The game entered the half-time break.
Sharp-eyed fans noticed that Xiao Hua had already left early.
He had clearly been angered by the Cavaliers' performance.
But this was not really the Cavaliers' fault.
Tang Tian's pep talk that night had been rich and potent, and the Pelicans played the first half as if they had been injected with adrenaline, shooting over 60 percent as a team.
Even the old Warriors would have taken a beating against that.
When the second half began, the Pelicans' Shooting Percentage dipped somewhat, while the Cavaliers found their rhythm again on the offensive end.
James, Wade, and George all started firing in succession.
But that only kept the game at a stalemate.
With Tang Tian around, the Pelicans' offensive floor was simply too high.
The Cavaliers did not give up. They kept fighting until five minutes before the end of the game, when they were still down by 20+ points, before Lue finally pulled the starters.
Like the Warriors before them, they failed to battle the Pelicans into the final five minutes.
Those five minutes seemed to have become forbidden territory no one could enter against the Pelicans!
In the end, the Pelicans