Rockets 96-71 Nets (28 Dec, 2006) Box Score

Houston Rockets

17-12, 9-9 away

	1	2	3	4	T
HOU	18	31	22	25	96
NJ	12	27	17	15	71

New Jersey Nets

11-18, 8-10 home

Houston Rockets

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

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
29	5-7	0-0	2-3	3	8	11	2	0	1	1	3	0	12
41	8-16	7-12	0-0	2	7	9	2	1	1	4	2	0	23
20	2-3	0-0	0-0	2	8	10	0	0	1	1	2	0	4
31	5-13	2-4	2-2	2	5	7	5	3	0	1	2	0	14
35	4-16	1-4	8-8	1	2	3	6	1	1	5	1	0	17
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
29	1-3	0-0	6-6	1	4	5	1	2	0	2	4	0	8
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	2-7	2-5	0-0	1	4	5	4	3	0	5	1	0	6
1	2-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4
27	4-7	0-0	0-2	2	2	4	2	2	2	5	5	0	8
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	33-74	12-25	18-21	14	40	54	23	13	6	24	20		96
	44.6%	48.0%	85.7%

New Jersey Nets

starters
Richard JeffersonR. Jefferson
Mikki MooreM. Moore
Jason CollinsJ. Collins
Jason KiddJ. Kidd
Vince CarterV. Carter
bench
Clifford RobinsonC. Robinson
Bostjan NachbarB. Nachbar
Antoine WrightA. Wright
Hassan AdamsH. Adams
Nenad KrsticN. Krstic
Mile IlicM. Ilic
Josh BooneJ. Boone
Jeff McInnisJ. McInnis
Marcus WilliamsM. Williams
Eddie HouseE. House
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
28	5-15	0-0	1-1	1	2	3	0	2	0	1	4	0	11
28	1-2	0-0	2-2	0	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	4
21	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	3	4	1	2	0	0	1	0	0
32	2-9	1-6	6-7	1	2	3	5	6	1	4	3	0	11
32	4-16	0-1	4-6	2	3	5	5	0	0	2	1	0	12
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	4-9	2-6	2-2	1	4	5	1	1	2	1	2	0	12
6	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
24	5-7	0-0	3-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	13
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
18	1-2	0-0	2-2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	1-5	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	4	0	0	2	2	0	2
12	1-5	0-2	0-0	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	2
	24-73	3-16	20-23	8	24	32	19	14	3	15	17		71
	32.9%	18.8%	87.0%

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

Regular Season Series

HOU leads 1-0

Rockets
96
Nets
71

Game 1

28/12

Nets
91
Rockets
112

Game 2

10/3

IZOD Center

12:30 AM, 28 December 2006

East Rutherford, NJ

Attendance: 18,373

Referees:
Bernie Fryer
Gary Zielinski
Derek Richardson

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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