INDIANAPOLIS – New Orleans has used a whopping 34 different starting lineups in its 70 games during the 2015-16 regular season, but none of them have included both Omer Asik and Alexis Ajinca. That will change Thursday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, when the Pelicans (26-44) go with the pair of 7-footers against the Pacers (37-33), the Eastern Conference’s current seventh-place club.
“They’ve got a really big team,” Gentry said of the Pacers during his pregame radio interview with Sean Kelley (to hear the entire interview, tune in to the pregame show on WRNO 99.5). “It will give us a little size and a little help on the boards.