New Orleans Pelicans @ Indiana Pacers
Monday, November 25, 2024 at 7:00 PM ET
Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN | Game ID: 22400279
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
IND 29 30 28 27 114NOP 25 32 26 27 110
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Haliburton scores 34 and delivers key plays in the clutch to send Pacers past Pelicans 114-110
INDIANAPOLIS -- — Tyrese Haliburton finished with 34 points and 13 assists and made a season best nine 3-pointers on Monday night, leading the Indiana Pacers past the short-handed New Orleans Pelicans 114-100.
Haliburton's tiebreaking 3 with 3:06 to go and Bennedict Mathurin 's alley-oop dunk off Haliburton's pass with a minute left finally secured the win.
Myles Turner added 17 points, including seven straight during a fourth-quarter flurry that swung the momentum back to the Pacers.
Trey Murphy III led the Pelicans with 24 points, matching his season high. CJ McCollum added 23 points in his first action in nearly a month, and Elfrid Payton dished out a career high 21 assists — the most in an NBA game this season.
The Pelicans have lost five straight, this one with WNBA star Caitlin Clark watching inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse to the delight of some girls dressed in Clark's Indiana Fever and Iowa jerseys.
Takeaways Pelicans: With four projected opening day starters sitting out because of injuries ( Brandon Ingram , Herbert Jones , Dejounte Murray and Zion Williamson ), it's hard to read much into Monday's result. McCollum's return could be a promising sign.
Pacers: Indiana also has been less than full strength with Andrew Nembhard (knee) and Aaron Nesmith (ankle) out again. Still, it's used the first two games of a four-game home stand to pull within two games of .500.
Key moment With the score tied at 104, Haliburton knocked down a 3, followed with a layup and then fed Mathurin for the dunk that brought the crowd to its feet. The Pelicans didn't recover from that flurry.
Key stat Haliburton has scored 73 points in his last three games, his top scoring output over a three-game stretch this season. His previous high was 58.
Up next New Orleans returns home to host the Toronto Raptors while the Pacers host the Portland Trail Balzers on Wednesday night.
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
INDBM B. Mathurin
EF E. Freeman
JW J. Walker
MB M. Brown
MT M. Turner
OT O. Toppin
PS P. Siakam
QJ Q. Jackson
TH T. Haliburton
TM T. McConnell
NOPBB B. Boston
BJ Boston Jr.
CM C. McCollum
DT D. Theis
EP E. Payton
JG J. Green
JH J. Hawkins
JR J. Robinson-Earl
TM T. Murphy III
YM Y. Missi
IND/NOP the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur