Rockets 114-91 Nets (23 Dec, 2008) Box Score

Houston Rockets

19-9, 10-6 away

114

	1	2	3	4	T
HOU	29	32	25	28	114
NJ	13	27	25	26	91

New Jersey Nets

13-14, 5-10 home

Houston Rockets

starters
L. Scola F
S. Battier SF
Y. Ming C
T. McGrady SG
A. Brooks G
bench
C. Hayes PF
C. Landry PF
J. Dorsey PF
M. World Peace SF
R. Alston PG
S. Francis PG
L. Head PG
B. Barry SG
V. Wafer SG
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
28	5-7	0-0	1-6	2	2	4	4	1	1	2	2	+11	11
33	2-5	2-5	0-0	0	3	3	2	1	2	0	1	+16	6
35	8-13	0-0	8-8	4	12	16	2	0	4	3	3	+27	24
30	5-9	0-1	2-2	1	5	6	4	0	0	3	2	+21	12
37	8-14	4-7	2-2	0	3	3	6	1	0	1	4	+19	22
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
6	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	-3	0
21	5-7	0-0	3-4	0	3	3	1	0	0	1	1	+10	13
2	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-2	2
25	4-10	1-4	1-2	0	2	2	2	0	1	1	1	+10	10
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
11	2-4	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	+4	5
6	2-2	1-1	0-0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	+3	5
4	1-1	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-1	4
	43-74	9-19	19-26	7	32	39	25	4	8	14	16		114
	58.1%	47.4%	73.1%

New Jersey Nets

starters
T. Hassell SF
Y. Jianlian SF
B. Lopez C
V. Carter G
D. Harris G
bench
E. Najera PF
S. Swift PF
S. Williams PF
R. Anderson PF
B. Simmons SF
J. Hayes SF
M. Ager SF
J. Boone C
K. Dooling PG
C. Douglas-Roberts SG
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
28	4-6	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	2	-19	8
26	4-13	1-2	1-2	3	4	7	0	0	1	0	3	-10	10
30	4-11	0-0	0-0	3	6	9	1	0	2	0	0	-14	8
28	5-15	0-1	0-0	0	2	2	1	2	0	1	1	-16	10
18	2-9	0-2	6-6	0	2	2	3	1	0	1	3	-10	10
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
15	3-5	0-1	0-1	0	4	4	0	0	0	1	4	-5	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
20	1-6	0-1	5-6	4	0	4	3	2	0	1	2	-9	7
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
7	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-3	2
18	2-5	0-0	1-2	3	4	7	0	1	0	1	4	-9	5
26	6-10	2-3	3-5	0	1	1	5	0	0	1	2	-10	17
23	4-5	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	2	0	0	2	2	-10	8
	36-87	3-10	16-22	15	24	39	15	7	3	9	23		91
	41.4%	30.0%	72.7%

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

Regular Season Series

HOU leads 1-0

Rockets
114
Nets
91

Game 1

23/12

Nets
88
Rockets
114

Game 2

18/2

IZOD Center

12:30 AM, 23 December 2008

East Rutherford, NJ

Attendance: 16,303

Referees:
Tony Brothers
Violet Palmer
Sean Wright

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Dallas	50	32	.610	-	L2
New Orleans	49	33	.598	1	L1
Houston	41	41	.500	9	W2
Memphis	27	55	.329	23	L5
San Antonio	22	60	.268	28	W2

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