New Orleans Pelicans vs Memphis Grizzlies Match Player Stats On Jan 21, 2019

No Anthony Davis, no problem for the New Orleans Pelicans, as the visitors routed the Memphis Grizzlies 105-85 on Monday in the first game without their injured All Star.

Davis sprained his left index finger in a loss at Portland on Friday night and is expected to miss a week or two.

Jahlil Okafor earned the start in place of Davis and made the most of it, scoring 20 points on 9-of-11 shooting and pulling down 10 rebounds. Jrue Holiday and Nikola Mirotic each scored 21 for New Orleans. Mirotic made five 3-pointers off the bench, and Holiday added 11 rebounds.

New Orleans' Julius Randle also scored 20 and had a team-high 12 rebounds.

Memphis' Marc Gasol led all scorers with 22 after missing the team's previous game with a sore back. Mike Conley added 20 in the loss.

It was tale of two halves behind the 3-point arc for the Pelicans, who hit just one 3-pointer in the first half on 12 attempts. However, they nailed eight 3-pointers in 14 attempts in the second to pull away from the Grizzlies, who lost their sixth consecutive game and 12th in the past 13.

The Pelicans, just 7-19 on the road this year, won the final game of their five-game trip to finish the trek 2-3.

The game was tied 63-63 with 6:31 remaining in the third quarter, but the Pelicans outscored Memphis 42-22 the rest of the way.

The 3-point shots started to fall for the Pelicans in the third, as they used a 17-3 run to lead 82-68 heading into the final stanza. New Orleans went 4-for-6 from beyond the period, with Mirotic connecting on three treys in the frame.

The Pelicans took a 54-50 lead into the half on the strength of a 9-2 run to end the second quarter.

Okafor led the team at the break with 13 points on 6-of-7 shooting, plus seven boards. Holiday had 12 points and Randle 10.

Conley paced the Grizzlies with 15 first-half points, and Gasol had 13 but also three fouls.

The Grizzlies led 28-21 after the first quarter on a Conley 3-pointer at the buzzer. They were on top by as much as nine.

--Field Level Media