Houston Rockets @ Charlotte Bobcats

13-6, 5-5 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Rockets HOU	31	21	25	15	92
Bobcats CHA	17	14	15	16	62

Charlotte BobcatsBobcatsCHA

5-14, 3-7 Home

Houston Rockets

starters
Chuck HayesC. Hayes
Shane BattierS. Battier
Yao MingY. Ming
Rafer AlstonR. Alston
Tracy McGradyT. McGrady
bench
Juwan HowardJ. Howard
Scott PadgettS. Padgett
Steve NovakS. Novak
Dikembe MutomboD. Mutombo
Bob SuraB. Sura
Vasileios SpanoulisV. Spanoulis
Luther HeadL. Head
John Lucas IIIJ. Lucas III
Bonzi WellsB. Wells
Kirk SnyderK. Snyder
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
16	2	0-2	0-0	2-2	5	0	2	0	0	2	3	4	0
31	6	3-7	0-2	0-0	3	3	2	3	0	0	3	1	0
26	21	8-16	0-0	5-5	6	1	4	0	1	2	4	4	0
30	10	4-12	2-4	0-0	4	3	1	1	0	0	4	3	0
27	23	9-13	0-1	5-6	5	5	1	2	0	2	3	1	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
29	12	6-11	0-0	0-0	6	0	0	1	1	1	5	2	0
9	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
10	2	0-2	0-1	2-2	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0
17	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	10	0	0	0	2	3	7	4	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	4	2-5	0-0	0-0	2	3	3	0	0	0	2	2	0
23	8	3-8	2-5	0-1	3	2	1	1	0	0	3	0	0
6	0	0-3	0-1	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
	92	37-84	4-16	14-16	51	17	14	8	4	10	41	23
		44%	25%	88%

Charlotte Bobcats

starters
Gerald WallaceG. Wallace
Adam MorrisonA. Morrison
Primoz BrezecP. Brezec
Emeka OkaforE. Okafor
Raymond FeltonR. Felton
bench
Othella HarringtonO. Harrington
Walter Herrmann HeinrichW. Heinrich
Jake VoskuhlJ. Voskuhl
Melvin ElyM. Ely
Sean MayS. May
Ryan HollinsR. Hollins
Brevin KnightB. Knight
Derek AndersonD. Anderson
Matt CarrollM. Carroll
Bernard RobinsonB. Robinson
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
19	2	0-5	0-1	2-4	2	0	4	1	0	1	1	0	0
30	2	1-11	0-2	0-0	4	1	5	0	0	0	4	2	0
12	4	2-6	0-0	0-0	6	1	0	1	0	4	2	3	0
16	8	3-9	0-0	2-2	6	0	2	0	0	2	4	2	0
36	16	6-13	1-2	3-5	4	6	2	2	0	1	3	2	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
12	2	1-4	0-0	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0
19	8	3-9	0-2	2-2	3	1	0	1	0	0	3	2	0
12	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	3	1	3	0
16	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
24	7	1-6	0-0	5-6	6	1	2	1	0	1	5	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
22	3	1-6	1-4	0-0	4	1	4	1	2	0	4	1	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	2	1-5	0-0	0-0	3	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	0
	62	23-81	2-11	14-19	46	13	21	8	4	14	32	20
		28%	18%	74%

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

Matchups

HOU

HOU leads season

1-0

CHA

Game 1•@ CHA

Final

104

Game 2•@ HOU

Final

Game Information

Charlotte, NC

Referee:Dan Crawford

Referee:Jason Phillips

Referee:Courtney Kirkland

Western Conference

Southwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	44	17	.721	-	W1
Houston	38	22	.633	5.5	W1
Memphis	23	38	.377	21	L2
Dallas	21	40	.344	23	L4
New Orleans	19	44	.302	26	L2

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