Oklahoma City at New Orleans

New Orleans has won nine of 12 and the Pelicans are in the same position as last year when they had to win two play-in games to advance to the regular playoffs. They won both against the Spurs and Clippers and tonight's winner will play Minnesota on Friday. Once again, the Pelicans will have to do it without Zion Williamson again although they are getting used to it and it obviously hasn't affected them much. Brandon Ingram averages 24.7 points, CJ McCollum adds 20.9 and the Pelicans allow opponents only 33.9 percent shooting from 3-point range on 12.2 made per game. Oklahoma City is just 2-8 ATS its past 10 games and 1-5 ATS on the road while New Orleans has covered five of six following a loss and 8-3-1 ATS its past 12 games overall. The young Thunder squad has little experience in postseason play comapred to what the Pelicans went through last year. The Thunder are 7-2 UNDER their past nine versus teams with winning records and the Pelicans are 20-7 UNDER their past 27 overall and 19-7 UNDER playing with two days rest. Take the Pelicans as my Play-In GOY, and make it a Max Play on the UNDER.