Cavaliers 104-102 Rockets (26 Mar, 2006) Box Score

Cleveland Cavaliers

41-29, 15-19 away

104

	1	2	3	4	OT	T
CLE	21	24	19	27	13	104
HOU	22	25	20	24	11	102

Houston Rockets

30-40, 13-23 home

102

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
Drew GoodenD. Gooden
LeBron JamesL. James
Zydrunas IlgauskasZ. Ilgauskas
Eric SnowE. Snow
Ronald MurrayR. Murray
bench
Donyell MarshallD. Marshall
Ira NewbleI. Newble
Luke JacksonL. Jackson
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao
Martynas AndriuskeviciusM. Andriuskevicius
Damon JonesD. Jones
Larry HughesL. Hughes
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
24	1-4	0-0	0-0	1	7	8	0	0	0	1	2	0	2
49	14-34	0-4	8-11	3	3	6	5	2	0	2	2	0	36
34	8-18	0-0	5-7	6	2	8	0	0	2	3	5	0	21
23	0-3	0-0	0-0	0	6	6	3	1	0	0	1	0	0
37	3-10	0-2	0-0	2	2	4	3	0	0	2	2	0	6
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
34	5-12	2-8	0-0	1	3	4	0	3	0	0	2	0	12
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
14	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	0	1	0	1	6	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	8-10	5-6	1-2	0	4	4	6	0	0	0	2	0	22
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	2-3	1-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	0	5
	41-95	8-21	14-20	14	29	43	17	10	2	9	23		104
	43.2%	38.1%	70.0%

Houston Rockets

starters
Juwan HowardJ. Howard
Yao MingY. Ming
Rafer AlstonR. Alston
Luther HeadL. Head
Keith BogansK. Bogans
bench
Stromile SwiftS. Swift
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
37	3-10	0-0	6-6	3	9	12	2	0	0	2	2	0	12
44	9-21	0-0	9-10	1	6	7	1	0	4	5	5	0	27
44	6-13	1-4	9-12	0	7	7	8	2	0	3	2	0	22
43	3-9	0-2	1-1	0	3	3	2	0	0	2	2	0	7
49	7-9	4-5	0-0	0	5	5	2	1	0	2	2	0	18
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
25	4-6	0-0	0-0	1	2	3	1	0	2	1	4	0	8
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
9	2-2	2-2	0-0	0	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	6
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
14	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	2
	35-72	7-14	25-29	5	37	42	20	3	6	17	18		102
	48.6%	50.0%	86.2%

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

Regular Season Series

Series tied 1-1

Rockets
90
Cavaliers
81

Game 1

6/1

Cavaliers
104
Rockets
102

Game 2

26/3

Toyota Center (Houston)

9:00 PM, 26 March 2006

Houston, TX

Attendance: 16,839

Referees:
Mike Callahan
Jess Kersey
Eric Lewis

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	25	4	.862	-	W4
Milwaukee	15	12	.556	9	W1
Indiana	14	15	.483	11	W4
Chicago	13	16	.448	12	L1
Detroit	12	17	.414	13	W1

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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