Hornets 97-78 Celtics (29 Dec, 2011) Box Score

Boston Celtics

0-3, 0-3 away

	1	2	3	4	T
BOS	18	21	24	15	78
NO	24	24	24	25	97

New Orleans Hornets

2-0, 1-0 home

Boston Celtics

starters
Kevin GarnettK. Garnett
Jermaine O'NealJ. O'Neal
Rajon RondoR. Rondo
Ray AllenR. Allen
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
bench
Chris WilcoxC. Wilcox
Brandon BassB. Bass
JaJuan JohnsonJ. Johnson
Paul PierceP. Pierce
Mickael PietrusM. Pietrus
Greg StiemsmaG. Stiemsma
Keyon DoolingK. Dooling
Avery BradleyA. Bradley
Marquis DanielsM. Daniels
E'Twaun MooreE. Moore
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
27	4-10	0-0	0-0	2	5	7	4	0	2	0	2	-7	8
21	1-6	0-0	0-0	4	2	6	0	0	1	0	4	-2	2
34	5-8	1-1	2-4	1	1	2	6	1	0	4	3	-8	13
30	5-10	4-8	1-1	0	2	2	3	1	0	3	3	-4	15
19	3-6	1-2	0-0	0	4	4	0	2	2	1	1	-9	7
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
24	4-13	0-0	3-4	1	3	4	0	0	1	0	1	-21	11
3	1-2	0-0	2-2	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	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	1-2	0-0	0-0	2	2	4	0	0	6	0	3	-9	2
23	2-6	1-4	5-5	1	2	3	0	0	0	3	4	-15	10
6	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	-8	0
25	3-12	0-1	0-2	2	1	3	1	0	0	1	1	-7	6
8	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	-4	0
	29-78	7-17	13-18	13	24	37	16	4	12	13	22		78
	37.2%	41.2%	72.2%

New Orleans Hornets

starters
Carl LandryC. Landry
Trevor ArizaT. Ariza
Emeka OkaforE. Okafor
Jarrett JackJ. Jack
Marco BelinelliM. Belinelli
bench
Gustavo Alfonso AyonG. Ayon
Jason SmithJ. Smith
Lance ThomasL. Thomas
DaJuan SummersD. Summers
Al-Farouq AminuA. Aminu
Chris KamanC. Kaman
Greivis VasquezG. Vasquez
Carldell JohnsonC. Johnson
Trey JohnsonT. Johnson
Eric GordonE. Gordon
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
29	6-9	0-0	8-8	5	6	11	0	0	1	2	5	+20	20
40	2-8	1-4	3-4	1	5	6	4	2	1	0	1	+11	8
27	6-9	0-0	1-2	1	5	6	0	0	5	3	2	+8	13
38	8-17	0-2	5-5	0	4	4	9	1	2	1	1	+10	21
35	4-6	3-4	2-3	2	4	6	0	1	0	2	3	+15	13
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
10	1-5	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	2
2	0-1	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-2	1
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	+14	0
27	6-15	0-0	0-0	3	6	9	1	1	3	1	3	+14	12
15	3-8	0-2	0-0	0	3	3	2	1	0	0	0	+9	6
2	0-0	0-0	1-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2	1
2	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	36-79	4-12	21-25	12	36	48	16	7	12	12	20		97
	45.6%	33.3%	84.0%

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

Regular Season Series

NO leads 1-0

Celtics
78
Hornets
97

Game 1

29/12

Celtics
78
Hornets
97

Game 2

29/12

Smoothie King Center

1:00 AM, 29 December 2011

New Orleans, LA

Attendance: 17,802

Referees:
Scott Foster
Josh Tiven
Tony Brown

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Boston	12	3	.800	-	W3
New York	9	6	.600	3	W4
Brooklyn	6	9	.400	6	W1
Toronto	4	12	.250	8.5	W2
Philadelphia	2	12	.143	9.5	L5

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