The New Orleans Pelicans played their first game since firing head coach Willie Green on Saturday when they faced the Golden State Warriors on Sunday night in the Smoothie King Center.

Vice president of basketball operations Joe Dumars said he hadn’t seen any signs of what the Pelicans’ identity is when he explained Green’s dismissal.

Interim head coach James Borrego said he wanted to see his team play with “joy, effort and aggression” as it tried to make a fresh start.

It was just the first game, and there are 69 more to be played, but the performance in a 124-106 loss to the Warriors demonstrated little if any of what Dumars and Borrego were looking for.

Golden State (9-6) raced to a 16-point lead at the end of the first quarter and New Orleans (2-11) lost its fifth consecutive game.

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