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
Luis ScolaL. Scola
Shane BattierS. Battier
Yao MingY. Ming
Rafer AlstonR. Alston
Tracy McGradyT. McGrady
bench
Chuck HayesC. Hayes
Carl LandryC. Landry
Metta World PeaceM. World Peace
Luther HeadL. Head
Brent BarryB. Barry
Von WaferV. Wafer
Aaron BrooksA. Brooks
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
David WestD. West
Rasual ButlerR. Butler
Tyson ChandlerT. Chandler
Chris PaulC. Paul
Devin BrownD. Brown
bench
Sean MarksS. Marks
Hilton ArmstrongH. Armstrong
Ryan BowenR. Bowen
James PoseyJ. Posey
Peja StojakovicP. Stojakovic
Julian WrightJ. Wright
Melvin ElyM. Ely
Antonio DanielsA. Daniels
Morris PetersonM. Peterson
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

HOU leads 2-1

Hornets
82
Rockets
91

Game 1

16/11

Hornets
82
Rockets
91

Game 2

16/11

Rockets
79
Hornets
88

Game 3

27/12

Rockets
79
Hornets
88

Game 4

27/12

Rockets
95
Hornets
84

Game 5

17/3

Rockets
95
Hornets
84

Game 6

17/3

Hornets
66
Rockets
86

Game 7

14/4

Hornets
66
Rockets
86

Game 8

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
Houston	11	5	.688	-	W1
Memphis	9	7	.563	2	W1
Dallas	8	7	.533	2.5	W3
San Antonio	8	8	.500	3	W2
New Orleans	4	12	.250	7	L3

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HOU leads 2-1

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