Baby steps.

James Borrego knew that's what it was going to take to get the New Orleans Pelicans pointed in the right direction.

Entering Saturday night’s game against the Golden State Warriors, the Pelicans had won just one of its first seven games since Borrego took over after Willie Green was fired on Nov. 15.

“It’s not going to happen overnight,” Borrego said the day he got the interim tag. “There’s not going to be some magic wand I wave and we have this magic identity. It’s a process, day by day. It starts with me having clarity and giving directions.”

The wins haven’t come, but there has been some progress. And yes, winning is the only thing that matters, but the losses for the most part haven’t been quite as bad. The Pelicans lost four of the 12 games under Green by at least 20 p

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