Hornets 88-79 Rockets (27 Dec, 2008) Box Score

Houston Rockets

19-11, 10-8 away

	1	2	3	4	T
HOU	18	26	20	15	79
NO	23	23	20	22	88

New Orleans Hornets

17-9, 10-4 home

Houston Rockets

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

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
35	3-9	0-0	4-4	1	7	8	0	2	0	1	5	-10	10
29	2-6	1-5	0-0	1	3	4	0	0	0	0	1	-14	5
34	6-13	0-0	7-8	3	9	12	1	0	0	2	5	-11	19
31	1-10	1-5	0-0	0	2	2	3	0	0	1	3	-11	3
34	2-11	0-3	7-9	0	5	5	4	0	0	3	1	-11	11
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
7	0-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	+5	0
21	4-5	0-0	1-2	2	2	4	0	0	0	2	3	-2	9
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	2-6	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	+3	5
21	2-4	2-4	2-2	1	1	2	1	1	0	1	0	+4	8
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	4-6	1-2	0-0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	+2	9
	26-72	5-19	22-27	9	30	39	13	5	0	13	22		79
	36.1%	26.3%	81.5%

New Orleans Hornets

starters
D. West F
R. Butler SF
T. Chandler C
C. Paul PG
D. Brown SG
bench
S. Marks PF
H. Armstrong PF
R. Bowen SF
J. Posey SF
P. Stojakovic SF
J. Wright SF
M. Ely C
A. Daniels PG
M. Peterson SG
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
43	8-19	0-0	7-9	1	5	6	2	1	0	1	3	+13	23
42	6-9	1-2	0-0	1	6	7	2	2	1	0	2	+9	13
31	7-11	0-0	0-1	5	7	12	0	0	1	0	4	+6	14
37	8-18	2-3	8-8	1	3	4	10	2	0	4	4	+14	26
18	0-6	0-4	0-0	1	4	5	1	0	0	0	1	+7	0
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
6	0-2	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	-3	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
30	1-3	0-2	4-6	0	5	5	0	0	0	2	3	+2	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
16	2-3	0-0	0-0	1	3	4	2	1	0	2	4	+2	4
11	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	2	-5	2
6	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
	33-74	3-14	19-24	11	36	47	18	6	2	13	23		88
	44.6%	21.4%	79.2%

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

Regular Season Series

Series tied 1-1

Hornets
82
Rockets
91

Game 1

16/11

Rockets
79
Hornets
88

Game 2

27/12

Rockets
95
Hornets
84

Game 3

17/3

Hornets
66
Rockets
86

Game 4

14/4

Smoothie King Center

1:00 AM, 27 December 2008

New Orleans, LA

Attendance: 18,326

Referees:
Monty McCutchen
Tony Brown
Olandis Poole

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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