Rockets 98-93 Nets (27 Dec, 2009) Box Score

Houston Rockets

18-12, 10-8 away

	1	2	3	4	T
HOU	27	30	13	28	98
NJ	20	31	18	24	93

New Jersey Nets

2-28, 1-12 home

Houston Rockets

starters
Chuck HayesC. Hayes
Luis ScolaL. Scola
Shane BattierS. Battier
Trevor ArizaT. Ariza
Aaron BrooksA. Brooks
bench
Brian CookB. Cook
Carl LandryC. Landry
Joey DorseyJ. Dorsey
Mike HarrisM. Harris
Chase BudingerC. Budinger
Yao MingY. Ming
David AndersenD. Andersen
Kyle LowryK. Lowry
Tracy McGradyT. McGrady
Jermaine TaylorJ. Taylor
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
17	1-3	0-0	0-2	1	3	4	0	2	0	0	1	+8	2
32	7-16	0-0	3-4	1	7	8	1	0	0	1	2	+3	17
36	3-4	2-3	0-0	0	2	2	2	1	1	0	2	+12	8
43	5-17	1-8	2-2	3	8	11	8	0	0	1	3	+9	13
36	5-13	2-3	5-7	3	4	7	3	0	1	1	1	+6	17
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
31	9-14	0-0	8-11	5	4	9	3	0	0	4	3	-3	26
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
16	3-6	2-3	0-0	2	3	5	3	0	0	1	2	+1	8
24	1-9	1-2	4-6	1	3	4	5	1	0	1	3	-7	7
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	-4	0
	34-82	8-19	22-32	16	35	51	25	4	2	10	17		98
	41.5%	42.1%	68.8%

New Jersey Nets

starters
Trenton HassellT. Hassell
Yi JianlianY. Jianlian
Brook LopezB. Lopez
Devin HarrisD. Harris
Courtney LeeC. Lee
bench
Eduardo NajeraE. Najera
Sean WilliamsS. Williams
Bobby SimmonsB. Simmons
Jarvis HayesJ. Hayes
Tony BattieT. Battie
Josh BooneJ. Boone
Rafer AlstonR. Alston
Keyon DoolingK. Dooling
Chris Douglas-RobertsC. Douglas-Roberts
Terrence WilliamsT. Williams
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
14	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	-6	0
36	6-13	0-2	5-6	0	6	6	0	1	0	1	4	-7	17
36	7-11	0-0	3-4	2	9	11	3	3	3	3	2	-15	17
40	9-22	1-5	0-0	0	4	4	6	1	0	3	5	-10	19
42	3-8	1-2	3-4	0	5	5	2	0	0	0	1	-6	10
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
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	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	+2	2
21	4-6	0-0	0-0	2	2	4	1	0	2	0	3	+10	8
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	4-12	2-7	1-1	1	6	7	6	0	0	0	2	+11	11
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	4-5	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	3	-4	9
	38-81	4-16	13-17	6	33	39	22	6	6	8	22		93
	46.9%	25.0%	76.5%

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

Regular Season Series

HOU leads 1-0

Rockets
98
Nets
93

Game 1

27/12

Nets
108
Rockets
116

Game 2

14/3

IZOD Center

12:30 AM, 27 December 2009

East Rutherford, NJ

Attendance: 13,374

Referees:
Sean Wright
John Goble
Ed Malloy

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Memphis	20	9	.690	-	W2
Houston	19	9	.679	0.5	W2
Dallas	18	10	.643	1.5	W1
San Antonio	15	13	.536	4.5	W2
New Orleans	5	25	.167	15.5	L7

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