Mavericks 88-72 Rockets (22 Mar, 2006) Box Score

Houston Rockets

29-39, 16-17 away

	1	2	3	4	T
HOU	20	14	22	16	72
DAL	20	31	21	16	88

Dallas Mavericks

53-15, 30-5 home

Houston Rockets

starters
Juwan HowardJ. Howard
Yao MingY. Ming
Rafer AlstonR. Alston
Luther HeadL. Head
Keith BogansK. Bogans
bench
Stromile SwiftS. Swift
Chuck HayesC. Hayes
Ryan BowenR. Bowen
Dikembe MutomboD. Mutombo
Rick BrunsonR. Brunson
Bob SuraB. Sura
Tracy McGradyT. McGrady
David WesleyD. Wesley
Richie FrahmR. Frahm
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
32	4-8	0-0	3-6	1	4	5	1	0	0	3	3	0	11
38	6-15	0-0	1-2	1	12	13	0	1	1	1	3	0	13
41	4-10	2-6	3-4	1	3	4	4	0	0	5	4	0	13
45	4-10	2-4	6-6	2	5	7	3	1	2	5	3	0	16
39	1-6	1-3	3-4	0	2	2	7	1	0	1	3	0	6
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
17	5-8	0-0	0-0	3	2	5	0	0	0	1	2	0	10
3	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
4	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2
4	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
7	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0
	25-61	5-14	17-24	8	29	37	16	3	3	19	22		72
	41.0%	35.7%	70.8%

Dallas Mavericks

starters
Dirk NowitzkiD. Nowitzki
Rawle MarshallR. Marshall
DeSagana DiopD. Diop
Marquis DanielsM. Daniels
Jason TerryJ. Terry
bench
Josh PowellJ. Powell
Jerry StackhouseJ. Stackhouse
Josh HowardJ. Howard
Erick DampierE. Dampier
Pavel PodkolzinP. Podkolzin
Didier Ilunga-MbengaD. Ilunga-Mbenga
Darrell ArmstrongD. Armstrong
Devin HarrisD. Harris
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
36	10-21	1-3	7-9	2	2	4	1	2	0	3	1	0	28
17	1-4	0-0	2-2	2	1	3	0	1	0	0	2	0	4
20	2-2	0-0	1-1	0	2	2	0	0	3	0	4	0	5
40	3-8	0-1	2-2	3	4	7	4	2	1	2	3	0	8
38	5-12	2-6	0-0	0	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	0	12
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
22	3-6	0-0	0-0	1	4	5	0	0	0	0	4	0	6
26	3-11	1-2	9-10	1	3	4	5	1	0	2	0	0	16
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	3-8	0-0	3-4	4	5	9	0	0	1	1	3	0	9
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	0	1	0	1	2	0	0
11	0-1	0-1	0-0	2	2	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	30-74	4-13	24-28	15	26	41	12	8	7	12	22		88
	40.5%	30.8%	85.7%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

DAL wins 4-0

Rockets
93
Mavericks
102

Game 1

23/11

Mavericks
103
Rockets
76

Game 2

19/1

Mavericks
95
Rockets
81

Game 3

16/3

Rockets
72
Mavericks
88

Game 4

22/3

American Airlines Center

12:00 AM, 22 March 2006

Dallas, TX

Attendance: 20,283

Referees:
Bennett Salvatore
Derrick Stafford
Jason Phillips

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Memphis	20	9	.690	-	W2
Houston	19	9	.679	0.5	W2
Dallas	18	10	.643	1.5	W1
San Antonio	15	13	.536	4.5	W2
New Orleans	5	25	.167	15.5	L7

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