Houston Rockets @ LA Clippers

24-21, 8-15 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Rockets HOU	23	24	19	25	91
Clippers LAC	19	20	30	26	95

LA ClippersClippersLAC

25-18, 14-8 Home

Houston Rockets

starters
Luis ScolaL. Scola
Chase BudingerC. Budinger
Samuel DalembertS. Dalembert
Goran DragicG. Dragic
Courtney LeeC. Lee
bench
Patrick PattersonP. Patterson
Greg SmithG. Smith
Marcus Morris Sr.M. Morris Sr.
Chandler ParsonsC. Parsons
Marcus CambyM. Camby
Derek FisherD. Fisher
Courtney FortsonC. Fortson
Kevin MartinK. Martin
Kyle LowryK. Lowry
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
37	10	4-14	0-0	2-5	11	4	2	1	0	1	10	3	-9
42	19	8-14	2-6	1-1	6	1	3	2	0	2	4	2	-3
26	8	4-5	0-0	0-0	6	0	2	0	1	2	4	5	+2
45	11	4-10	0-3	3-3	2	14	6	2	0	1	1	4	-4
40	25	9-14	4-9	3-3	5	2	0	0	0	0	5	5	-12
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
31	14	5-11	0-0	4-4	4	4	1	2	0	0	4	4	+3
2	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-2
16	4	1-3	0-2	2-2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	+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
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	-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
	91	35-72	6-20	15-18	35	25	17	7	1	6	29	25
		49%	30%	83%

LA Clippers

starters
Blake GriffinB. Griffin
Caron ButlerC. Butler
DeAndre JordanD. Jordan
Randy FoyeR. Foye
Chris PaulC. Paul
bench
Trey ThompkinsT. Thompkins
Kenyon MartinK. Martin
Bobby SimmonsB. Simmons
Ryan GomesR. Gomes
Reggie EvansR. Evans
Chauncey BillupsC. Billups
Mo WilliamsM. Williams
Travis LeslieT. Leslie
Eric BledsoeE. Bledsoe
Nick YoungN. Young
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
31	18	7-13	0-0	4-6	8	4	0	2	0	3	5	6	+6
29	11	4-15	1-6	2-2	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	+13
28	6	2-5	0-0	2-3	11	0	2	0	1	4	7	2	+23
36	15	6-17	1-6	2-2	5	4	0	1	1	2	3	1	+16
38	23	7-16	1-4	8-8	3	5	2	5	1	2	1	1	+12
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
20	7	3-5	1-1	0-2	5	1	0	1	1	2	3	3	-8
17	3	1-3	1-3	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	-4
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	1	0-1	0-0	1-4	4	0	2	0	0	3	1	1	-19
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	11	5-11	1-3	0-0	3	3	3	1	0	0	3	3	-11
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	-8
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	95	35-86	6-23	19-27	45	18	12	10	4	19	26	17
		41%	26%	70%

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

Matchups

HOU

LAC win season

3-0

LAC

Game 1@ LAC

Final

117

103

Game 2@ HOU

Final/OT

105

Game 3@ LAC

Final

Game Information

Los Angeles, CA

Referee:Joe Crawford

Referee:Leon Wood

Referee:Tre Maddox

Western Conference

Southwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	62	20	.756	-	L1
Houston	52	30	.634	10	W1
New Orleans	26	56	.317	36	L2
Dallas	26	56	.317	36	W1
Memphis	25	57	.305	37	L8

Pacific	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	53	29	.646	-	W3
Phoenix	45	37	.549	8	W1
LA Clippers	42	40	.512	11	W1
Golden State	37	45	.451	16	L3
Sacramento	22	60	.268	31	L1

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