New Orleans Hornets @ Dallas Mavericks

2-6, 1-3 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Hornets NO	20	21	24	16	81
Mavericks DAL	26	26	23	21	96

Dallas MavericksMavericksDAL

4-5, 4-2 Home

New Orleans Hornets

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

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
44	15	4-8	2-4	5-6	12	2	4	4	0	0	12	4	-16
25	10	4-8	0-0	2-2	6	2	2	0	0	2	4	4	-4
37	9	3-7	0-0	3-5	4	2	1	2	0	1	3	1	-17
38	13	4-14	1-2	4-4	7	5	3	0	0	1	6	2	-10
17	3	1-4	0-0	1-2	1	1	2	2	0	0	1	1	-9
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
28	12	3-7	0-0	6-7	3	1	2	1	0	1	2	4	-6
7	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	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	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	6	2-4	0-1	2-2	1	2	3	2	0	0	1	0	-12
17	9	3-7	3-4	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	+2
8	2	1-4	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	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
	81	26-64	6-11	23-28	39	17	21	11	0	6	33	19
		41%	55%	82%

Dallas Mavericks

starters
Dirk NowitzkiD. Nowitzki
Brendan HaywoodB. Haywood
Shawn MarionS. Marion
Delonte WestD. West
Vince CarterV. Carter
bench
Brian CardinalB. Cardinal
Lamar OdomL. Odom
Sean WilliamsS. Williams
Brandan WrightB. Wright
Yi JianlianY. Jianlian
Ian MahinmiI. Mahinmi
Jason KiddJ. Kidd
Rodrigue BeauboisR. Beaubois
Dominique JonesD. Jones
Jason TerryJ. Terry
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
30	10	2-11	0-2	6-6	2	4	0	2	0	0	2	2	+14
17	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	6	0	2	1	0	2	4	2	+5
30	6	1-6	0-0	4-4	5	2	1	0	1	0	5	0	+19
22	12	2-6	0-0	8-8	2	4	1	2	0	0	2	0	+7
26	13	5-11	1-3	2-2	3	1	2	1	0	1	2	2	+5
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
14	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	3	-1
20	9	4-9	1-4	0-0	5	2	1	1	0	1	4	5	+1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	5	2-2	0-0	1-1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	13	5-6	0-0	3-8	7	1	2	2	1	2	5	3	+11
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	11	4-10	3-5	0-0	2	2	2	2	0	0	2	2	+2
1	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	-3
31	12	5-9	2-3	0-0	0	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	+16
	96	32-74	8-19	24-29	35	22	14	12	2	6	29	21
		43%	42%	83%

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

Regular Season Series

DAL leads 1-0

Hornets
81
Mavericks
96

Game 1

8/1

Mavericks
83
Hornets
81

Game 2

22/1

Mavericks
92
Hornets
97

Game 3

3/3

American Airlines Center

2:00 AM, 8 January 2012

Dallas, TX

Attendance: 20,409

Referees:
Tony Brothers
John Goble
Eli Roe

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	22	7	.759	-	W7
Houston	17	10	.630	4	L2
Memphis	14	16	.467	8.5	W1
Dallas	12	19	.387	11	W1
New Orleans	8	23	.258	15	L1

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