New Orleans Hornets @ Houston Rockets

21-45, 10-23 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Hornets NO	20	22	29	6	77
Rockets HOU	12	21	30	21	84

Houston RocketsRocketsHOU

34-32, 22-11 Home

New Orleans Hornets

starters
Jason SmithJ. Smith
Lance ThomasL. Thomas
Al-Farouq AminuA. Aminu
Jerome DysonJ. Dyson
Marco BelinelliM. Belinelli
bench
Carl LandryC. Landry
Gustavo Alfonso AyonG. Ayon
Trevor ArizaT. Ariza
Chris KamanC. Kaman
Emeka OkaforE. Okafor
Darryl WatkinsD. Watkins
Greivis VasquezG. Vasquez
Xavier HenryX. Henry
Jarrett JackJ. Jack
Eric GordonE. Gordon
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
5	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	4	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	+9
46	11	2-6	0-0	7-8	8	0	2	1	2	2	6	3	-11
44	11	4-13	2-3	1-3	10	3	0	0	0	0	10	3	-14
41	15	6-14	0-3	3-6	2	1	4	3	1	1	1	3	-19
16	9	4-8	1-2	0-0	4	2	0	1	1	0	4	0	+16
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
7	8	4-5	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	+13
--	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
42	13	3-6	0-0	7-13	10	1	4	3	1	1	9	4	-15
39	8	3-14	2-7	0-0	3	6	4	2	0	1	2	1	-14
--	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
	77	27-68	5-15	18-30	44	15	15	10	5	5	39	14
		40%	33%	60%

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.
Diamon SimpsonD. Simpson
Chandler ParsonsC. Parsons
Marcus CambyM. Camby
Earl BoykinsE. Boykins
Courtney FortsonC. Fortson
Kevin MartinK. Martin
Kyle LowryK. Lowry
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
27	0	0-7	0-0	0-0	3	2	1	0	1	1	2	2	-3
42	27	10-18	5-9	2-3	4	0	3	0	0	0	4	2	+14
18	11	3-6	0-0	5-6	11	0	0	0	0	6	5	4	+4
35	8	3-10	0-5	2-2	5	13	3	2	1	2	3	3	+8
33	10	4-14	2-6	0-0	6	2	2	1	1	1	5	2	+3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
31	9	4-16	0-1	1-1	11	1	1	1	1	3	8	3	+6
20	8	4-6	0-0	0-0	10	1	0	1	0	3	7	2	+7
21	7	3-10	1-5	0-0	5	1	0	1	1	0	5	3	-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
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	4	1-4	1-2	1-2	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	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
	84	32-91	9-28	11-14	56	21	11	7	5	16	40	21
		35%	32%	79%

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

Matchups

HOU wins season

2-1

HOU

Game 1•@ HOU

Final/OT

105

Game 2•@ NO

Final/OT

Game 3•@ HOU

Final

Game Information

Houston, TX

Referee:Tommy Nunez Jr.

Referee:Dan Crawford

Referee:Sean Wright

Western Conference

Southwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	28	13	.683	-	W1
Houston	24	15	.615	3	W1
Memphis	17	23	.425	10.5	L1
Dallas	16	26	.381	12.5	W1
New Orleans	10	34	.227	19.5	L1

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