Pistons @ Pelicans

Who will WIN this matchup?

Detroit Pistons (9-14)

@ New Orleans Pelicans (6-17)

Current odds:

Detroit Pistons: (-105)

New Orleans Pelicans (-115)

• The line for this game is Pelicans by 1 point.

• The New Orleans Pelicans dropped their eighth consecutive game on Saturday and seem to be getting further away from the win column. The Pelicans will try to bounce back from the 130-84 loss at Dallas when they return home to host the Detroit Pistons on Monday. “Obviously, we’ve got to be better than that,” New Orleans coach Alvin Gentry told reporters. “I don’t think we competed. When they got separation, I didn’t think we competed. I think that’s the worst thing in the world to do, to stop competing. We started offensively to try to do it on our own. That doesn’t work either. We’re a pass-first team, and we started to run too much isolation stuff. So, it’s a terrible game, a poorly played game, a poorly coached game, (and) all of us got to take responsibility.” Saturday marked the fourth time during the losing streak that the Pelicans allowed at least 128 points and marked their lowest-scoring effort of the season.

• The Pistons are winners of three of their last four games and bounced back from a rough loss to the Milwaukee Bucks by outlasting the Indiana Pacers 108-101 on Friday. “We stuck together,” Detroit coach Dwane Casey told reporters. “Like I told the team just now, it’s never always going to be pretty. Some are going to have to be grind-it-out games. So, we had to make sure we stayed with our nose to the grind. We could’ve easily taken a step back and relaxed a little bit, but everybody that went in the game kept the foot to the pedal and did their job.”

• Andre Drummond collected 25 points and 22 rebounds on Friday as Detroit dominated the boards 63-41. “We were great on the boards tonight. I think me and Dre combined for like 24, 25,” forward Blake Griffin, who grabbed three rebounds, joked with reporters. “When he’s rebounding it like that, that level, he’s getting balls out of his area, offensive rebounds, missed shots, getting us another chance. As a team, I think we did a good job of keeping their bigs off of the boards.” The performance was the fifth 20-20 effort of the season for Drummond, who leads the league at an average of 17 rebounds.

• New Orleans is still awaiting the debut of No. 1 overall pick Zion Williamson (knee) and is looking for some improvement from the rest of the team before he returns – possibly later this month. “To be honest with you, Zion is not coming in as the cavalry,” Gentry told reporters. “We’ve got to play good basketball regardless of what he comes in and does when he’s ready to play, and it’s unacceptable the way we’re playing right now. It’s just unacceptable.” The Pelicans shot 36 percent from the floor on Saturday, including 3-of-32 from 3-point range.

• Pelicans PG Lonzo Ball was held to two points on 1-of-9 shooting Saturday after scoring a season-high 20 on Thursday.

• Pistons F Markieff Morris (neck) sat out Friday and is day-to-day.

• The road team took the last three in the series, with Detroit earning a 98-94 victory at New Orleans last season