Given a rare four-day break between games and two days off from practice, the Pacers went back to work on Thursday. In a big way.
With invited military members watching them in Bankers Life Fieldhouse, they scrimmaged fullcourt in an "uncontrolled" manner, meaning they replicated game-like conditions without stopping play to instruct.
The participants included, for the first time since training camp began, Victor Oladipo, as well as two players who appear likely to return for Saturday's game against Orlando, Jeremy Lamb and T.J. McConnell.
Oladipo, still patiently rehabbing the torn quad muscle suffered in January, offered no timetable for his return to game action but playing in the fullcourt scrimmage qualified as a step forward.