Rockets 97-95 Nuggets (10 Mar, 2009) Box Score

Houston Rockets

42-23, 15-17 away

	1	2	3	4	T
HOU	18	27	29	23	97
DEN	27	13	22	33	95

Denver Nuggets

40-25, 23-8 home

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
Kyle LowryK. Lowry
Brent BarryB. Barry
Tracy McGradyT. McGrady
Von WaferV. Wafer
James WhiteJ. White
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
32	2-7	0-0	0-0	4	11	15	3	0	1	5	6	-7	4
37	8-20	4-9	2-6	1	5	6	2	4	0	0	1	0	22
37	2-5	2-5	2-2	2	5	7	2	1	0	0	1	+5	8
27	5-11	0-0	5-6	1	6	7	2	0	3	3	6	+8	15
25	7-13	2-2	3-5	0	1	1	3	0	0	1	4	+3	19
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
7	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	4	5	1	1	0	0	2	+6	0
29	5-9	0-0	2-5	2	3	5	0	0	1	1	1	-2	12
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
24	1-5	0-1	5-7	0	2	2	5	0	0	2	1	-2	7
8	1-2	1-1	0-0	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	+4	3
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	3-7	0-2	1-4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	-5	7
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	34-80	9-20	20-35	11	39	50	19	7	5	13	24		97
	42.5%	45.0%	57.1%

Denver Nuggets

starters
Carmelo AnthonyC. Anthony
Kenyon MartinK. Martin
Nene N. Hilario
Chauncey BillupsC. Billups
Dahntay JonesD. Jones
bench
Chris AndersenC. Andersen
Linas KleizaL. Kleiza
Renaldo BalkmanR. Balkman
Steven HunterS. Hunter
Johan PetroJ. Petro
Anthony CarterA. Carter
Jason HartJ. Hart
JR SmithJ. Smith
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
39	8-21	2-4	3-3	2	5	7	3	0	0	4	5	-1	21
24	3-6	0-0	0-0	2	5	7	0	1	1	1	2	-7	6
38	4-15	0-0	2-4	2	6	8	2	2	1	1	6	-11	10
44	9-21	3-7	7-7	2	5	7	5	1	0	2	3	+4	28
13	1-3	0-1	3-4	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	3	+2	5
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
22	1-4	0-0	0-0	2	5	7	1	0	2	1	3	+3	2
21	2-3	0-1	2-2	0	6	6	1	0	1	1	2	+8	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
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
4	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-8	2
33	3-10	3-4	6-6	0	3	3	4	0	0	1	4	0	15
	32-84	8-17	23-26	11	35	46	17	5	5	12	28		95
	38.1%	47.1%	88.5%

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

Regular Season Series

HOU wins 3-1

Rockets
94
Nuggets
104

Game 1

1/12

Nuggets
96
Rockets
108

Game 2

17/12

Nuggets
113
Rockets
115

Game 3

19/1

Rockets
97
Nuggets
95

Game 4

10/3

Ball Arena

1:00 AM, 10 March 2009

Denver, CO

Attendance: 16,020

Referees:
Monty McCutchen
James Capers
Tony Brown

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Houston	12	6	.667	-	L1
Memphis	11	7	.611	1	W3
Dallas	10	8	.556	2	W1
San Antonio	9	8	.529	2.5	W3
New Orleans	4	14	.222	8	L5

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	13	4	.765	-	W2
Denver	9	7	.563	3.5	L1
Minnesota	8	8	.500	4.5	L2
Portland	7	11	.389	6.5	L1
Utah	4	12	.250	8.5	W1

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