Indiana @ New Orleans preview

Last Meeting ( Mar 21, 2018 ) Indiana 92, New Orleans 96

The Indiana Pacers and the New Orleans Pelicans have some things in common, namely that they're both missing their All-Star leading scorers. The Pacers are just beginning to move past the loss of Victor Oladipo and will try to take advantage of the Anthony Davis-less Pelicans when they meet in New Orleans on Monday.

The Pacers earned their first win since Oladipo went down with a season-ending knee injury, snapping a four-game slide with a 95-88 triumph at the Miami Heat on Saturday. "We have a great group of guys in this locker room that can put up numbers, too," Indiana guard Bojan Bogdanovic told reporters after the victory. "Without Victor we have to be better defensively, and we executed that tonight. It's a mental thing and this win was important to us." The Pelicans are apparently moving on from Davis after he demanded a trade last week, though officially he is out of the lineup due to a sprained finger. "Nothing has really changed," New Orleans point guard Jrue Holiday told ESPN. "It's just that people keep asking us the question: 'Is it weird?'"

TV: 8 p.m. ET, FS Indiana, FS New Orleans

ABOUT THE PACERS (33-19): Bogdanovic scored 31 points on 13-of-19 shooting in Saturday's win and is expected to take over as the team's top scoring option with Oladipo out. "I told him before the game to allow the game to come to him," Indiana coach Nate McMillan told reporters of Bogdanovic. "I thought that he did that tonight. We did a good job of screening and freeing him up. When he gets good looks at the basket, he normally knocks down those shots. It was good to see the ball fall for him tonight." Point guard Darren Collison is stepping up as well and collected 20 points and six assists in Saturday's triumph.

ABOUT THE PELICANS (23-30): New Orleans dropped five of its last six games but is still playing hard and fell to the Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs in the last two games by an average of 5.5 points. "We never give up," Holiday told ESPN. "I feel like people think we're shorthanded or maybe that we're going to get blown out, but we haven't had many blowouts this year, and that's because we're always going to fight until there's zero on the clock, no matter who is playing." Holiday was held to 15 points on 6-of-16 shooting in Saturday's 113-108 loss at the Spurs but scored 20 or more points in seven of the previous eight contests.

BUZZER BEATERS

1. Pacers PF Domantas Sabonis is 2-of-16 from the floor over the last two games.

2. Pelicans PF Julius Randle (ankle), PG Elfrid Payton (ankle) and SG E'Twaun Moore (quad) are all questionable for Monday.

3. New Orleans took both meetings last season.

PREDICTION: Pacers 115, Pelicans 112