New Orleans Hornets @ Houston Rockets

49-32, 21-19 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Hornets NO	22	13	11	20	66
Rockets HOU	19	28	20	19	86

Houston RocketsRocketsHOU

53-28, 33-8 Home

New Orleans Hornets

starters
David WestD. West
Peja StojakovicP. Stojakovic
Rasual ButlerR. Butler
Melvin ElyM. Ely
Chris PaulC. Paul
bench
Sean MarksS. Marks
Hilton ArmstrongH. Armstrong
Ryan BowenR. Bowen
James PoseyJ. Posey
Julian WrightJ. Wright
Tyson ChandlerT. Chandler
Antonio DanielsA. Daniels
Morris PetersonM. Peterson
Devin BrownD. Brown
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
32	14	6-15	0-0	2-2	10	0	1	0	1	3	7	1	-12
29	2	1-7	0-3	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-27
25	2	1-9	0-3	0-0	3	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	-21
19	4	2-7	0-0	0-0	5	0	3	0	0	3	2	3	-15
30	9	3-8	0-0	3-4	5	7	2	0	0	1	4	2	-13
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
21	10	5-7	0-0	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	-7
7	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	2	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	+2
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	12	5-11	2-5	0-0	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	-3
12	2	1-5	0-1	0-0	3	2	1	1	0	1	2	0	+1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	8	3-4	1-1	1-2	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	-7
6	0	0-3	0-2	0-2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	+3
17	3	1-3	1-1	0-0	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	2	-1
	66	28-81	4-16	6-10	37	15	11	4	1	12	25	14
		35%	25%	60%

Houston Rockets

starters
Luis ScolaL. Scola
Metta World PeaceM. World Peace
Shane BattierS. Battier
Yao MingY. Ming
Aaron BrooksA. Brooks
bench
Brian CookB. Cook
Chuck HayesC. Hayes
Carl LandryC. Landry
Joey DorseyJ. Dorsey
Dikembe MutomboD. Mutombo
Brent BarryB. Barry
Tracy McGradyT. McGrady
Von WaferV. Wafer
James WhiteJ. White
Kyle LowryK. Lowry
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
29	8	3-8	0-0	2-2	15	0	0	2	0	3	12	1	+13
28	9	2-13	0-4	5-5	2	5	3	0	0	1	1	2	+9
32	10	4-6	2-4	0-0	5	3	0	0	2	1	4	1	+18
31	22	8-13	0-0	6-6	7	2	3	0	2	1	6	2	+20
23	5	2-7	1-4	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	+6
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
2	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	-3
10	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	4	3	0	1	0	2	2	3	+4
23	10	5-5	0-0	0-0	7	0	3	0	0	1	6	2	+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
11	3	1-3	1-3	0-0	3	4	1	0	1	2	1	1	+7
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	13	6-11	1-3	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	+6
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	4	2-5	0-1	0-0	2	3	0	1	1	0	2	0	+14
	86	34-74	5-19	13-13	46	21	13	5	6	11	35	14
		46%	26%	100%

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

Matchups

HOU wins season

3-1

HOU

Game 1@ HOU

Final

Game 2@ NO

Final

Game 3@ NO

Final

Game 4@ HOU

Final

Game Information

Houston, TX

COXFSN-HOU

Referee:Eddie F. Rush

Referee:Jim Clark

Referee:Tommy Nunez Jr.

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

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