TORONTO - No DeMar DeRozan, no Kyle Lowry. No problem for the Toronto Raptors.

With DeRozan, Lowry and Luis Scola taking the night off to rest, the Raptors downed the Indiana Pacers 111-98 on Friday, in a potential first-round playoff preview.

Raptors rookie Norman Powell scored a career-high 27 points, while Delon Wright added 19, and Cory Joseph finished with 18 points and nine assists. Terrence Ross chipped in with 14 points for Toronto (53-26), while Jonas Valanciunas had 10.

Joseph played in a facemask, looking like something out of "Mad Max," after being in the face by an accidental Jonas Valanciunas elbow the previous night.

Monta Ellis led the Pacers (42-36) with 17 points.

With just three games left in the regular season, and the Raptors' playoff spot secure, coach Dwane Casey opted to rest his two all-stars, plus Scola, a night after the trio played major minutes in a 95-87 loss at Atlanta.

But the Raptors' motto all season has been "Next man up," and it might as well have been written for Friday's game.

Despite a mixed bag of a starting lineup — Valanciunas was the only regular starter — the Raptors raced out to a 20-15 lead to end the first quarter, and then took a 50-46 advantage into the halftime break.

Indiana crept back to within six points in the third, but Toronto took an 82-66 lead into the fourth quarter against a Pacers squad still fighting for post-season positioning. Indiana arrived in Toronto just a half-game ahead of Detroit for the No. 8 seed in the East, and could have booked its post-season spot with a victory at the Air Canada Centre.

But it was the Raptors who dominated all night long, and when Powell drilled a three-pointer with just under seven minutes to play, the long bomb put Toronto up by 19 points. They cruised to an easy victory.

DeMarre Carroll also sat out the game for precautionary reasons. Carroll, who will be a key piece in the playoffs, had played the previous night, his first action since missing 41 games due to knee surgery.

"I thought he came through (the game) pretty well, considering he's been off how many games," Casey said. "Came in, wanted to play more, but he was on minutes restriction. Once he hit that number, we took him out."

The Raptors play Sunday in New York, are back to host Philadelphia on Tuesday, then cap their regular-season Wednesday in Brooklyn.

And with the Raptors secure in the second spot, Casey was asked about the impact Toronto is having on other teams, like Indiana, who are still duking it out for post-season positions.

"I don't want to have an impact, I want to go out and worry about us," he said. "Losing (Thursday) night helped somebody, I don't know who it was, but it wasn't us, so it doesn't matter.

"We've got to go and continue to work on things."