Cleveland Cavaliers @ Houston Rockets

44-12, 18-11 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Cavaliers CLE	11	29	10	24	74
Rockets HOU	19	26	23	25	93

Houston RocketsRocketsHOU

37-21, 24-6 Home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
Ben WallaceB. Wallace
LeBron JamesL. James
Zydrunas IlgauskasZ. Ilgauskas
Mo WilliamsM. Williams
Delonte WestD. West
bench
Lorenzen WrightL. Wright
Darnell JacksonD. Jackson
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao
JJ HicksonJ. Hickson
Eric SnowE. Snow
Wally SzczerbiakW. Szczerbiak
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
Daniel GibsonD. Gibson
Tarence KinseyT. Kinsey
Trey JohnsonT. Johnson
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
17	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	4	1	1	1	0	2	2	2	-7
34	21	7-21	2-5	5-6	1	0	3	1	2	0	1	4	-14
29	11	5-12	0-0	1-2	13	0	1	0	2	6	7	4	-9
33	21	8-18	3-7	2-2	4	4	1	2	0	0	4	2	-14
29	4	2-8	0-1	0-0	3	1	3	0	1	0	3	0	-17
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	-1
29	0	0-4	0-0	0-0	5	2	1	2	2	3	2	1	-5
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-4
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	11	3-8	1-2	4-4	4	0	0	1	0	1	3	2	-14
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	4	1-5	0-2	2-2	6	2	0	0	1	1	5	0	-6
4	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-4
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	74	27-80	6-17	14-16	41	10	12	7	8	14	27	16
		34%	35%	88%

Houston Rockets

starters
Luis ScolaL. Scola
Metta World PeaceM. World Peace
Shane BattierS. Battier
Yao MingY. Ming
Aaron BrooksA. Brooks
bench
Brian CookB. Cook
Chuck HayesC. Hayes
Carl LandryC. Landry
Joey DorseyJ. Dorsey
Dikembe MutomboD. Mutombo
Luther HeadL. Head
Brent BarryB. Barry
Tracy McGradyT. McGrady
Von WaferV. Wafer
Kyle LowryK. Lowry
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
35	14	5-7	0-0	4-4	9	2	1	0	0	2	7	3	+17
37	15	5-15	2-4	3-3	4	3	2	1	0	0	4	2	+23
39	3	1-3	0-1	1-2	5	3	1	0	4	1	4	1	+11
40	28	13-15	0-0	2-4	8	0	5	0	1	1	7	4	+23
30	3	1-7	1-3	0-0	4	7	0	1	0	1	3	2	+17
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
2	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
9	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	-9
--	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	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	3	1-4	1-3	0-0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	+3
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	19	5-10	4-6	5-5	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	3	+8
20	6	3-6	0-1	0-0	3	7	1	2	0	0	3	3	+2
	93	35-71	8-19	15-18	39	25	13	4	6	5	34	20
		49%	42%	83%

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

Matchups

CLE

Season tied

1-1

HOU

Game 1•@ CLE

Final

Game 2•@ HOU

Final

Game Information

Houston, TX

Referee:Monty McCutchen

Referee:Luis Grillo

Referee:Violet Palmer

Eastern Conference

Central	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	37	12	.755	-	W3
Cleveland	31	21	.596	7.5	W2
Chicago	24	27	.471	14	L2
Milwaukee	20	29	.408	17	W2
Indiana	13	38	.255	25	L2

Western Conference

Southwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	34	16	.680	-	W2
Houston	31	18	.633	2.5	L1
Memphis	20	29	.408	13.5	W2
Dallas	19	31	.380	15	L5
New Orleans	13	40	.245	22.5	L3

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