Denver 96, Houston 108

December 16, 2008

Regular Season

Toyota Center (Houston) (Houston, Texas)

Attendance: 17,737

Officials: John Goble, Bennett Salvatore, James Capers

Team Rebounds: Denver (10) Houston (5)

Technicals: Denver (0) Houston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
DEN (17-8) 25 36 18 17 96
HOU (16-9) 30 26 29 23 108

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
DEN 83 116.0 130.5
HOU 83 130.5 116.0

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
DEN .512 0.157 0.457 0.146
HOU .625 0.133 0.263 0.171

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
15 Carmelo Anthony Starter SF 37:35 8-19 3-6 3-3 8.9 1 1 2 3 1 1 0 3 22
1 Chauncey Billups Starter PG 35:25 3-10 1-4 1-2 1.8 0 0 0 6 2 0 0 3 8
31 Nene Hilario Starter C 34:57 5-14 0-0 0-0 4.8 6 1 7 1 5 1 0 1 10
30 Dahntay Jones Starter SG 14:16 1-3 0-0 0-0 -1.0 1 1 2 0 3 0 0 1 2
4 Kenyon Martin Starter PF 26:14 3-6 0-0 0-0 4.5 2 6 8 0 3 0 0 2 6
11 Chris Andersen Bench C 17:06 3-4 0-0 5-6 9.2 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 11
5 Anthony Carter Bench PG 22:18 3-5 1-2 0-0 10.8 1 2 3 4 0 1 0 0 7
43 Linas Kleiza Bench SF 21:24 5-7 3-5 0-0 12.0 1 3 4 2 2 0 0 0 13
5 J.R. Smith Bench SG 30:45 6-14 2-5 3-6 10.5 2 3 5 4 2 2 0 3 17
  Team                   10            
        240 37-82 10-22 12-17 87.4 16 19 45 20 18 5 0 13 96
          45.1% 45.5% 70.6%                    

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
31 Shane Battier Starter SF 33:58 3-7 2-4 0-0 8.8 0 0 0 5 4 1 2 0 8
0 Aaron Brooks Starter PG 42:17 6-13 2-6 4-4 14.0 1 1 2 6 1 2 0 2 18
3 Tracy McGrady Starter SG 37:18 8-17 3-5 1-2 27.0 2 12 14 10 3 1 3 3 20
11 Yao Ming Starter C 37:25 13-19 0-0 6-7 20.6 3 4 7 1 3 1 2 3 32
4 Luis Scola Starter PF 24:34 2-5 0-0 0-0 4.2 2 4 6 1 4 0 0 0 4
96 Metta World Peace Bench SF 28:48 7-12 4-9 2-4 13.8 1 3 4 1 0 1 0 1 20
44 Chuck Hayes Bench PF 06:16 0-0 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 0
2 Luther Head Bench SF 05:43 0-0 0-0 0-0 2.0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
14 Carl Landry Bench PF 23:41 3-3 0-0 0-0 4.5 1 3 4 0 3 0 0 1 6
  Team                   5         2  
        240 42-76 11-24 13-17 101.6 10 28 43 26 20 6 7 13 108
          55.3% 45.8% 76.5%                    

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chauncey Billups
17.7p, 2.5r, 7a		 Dahntay Jones
5.7p, 2r, 0.9a		 Carmelo Anthony
21.3p, 8r, 3.6a		 Kenyon Martin
12.3p, 6.8r, 2.2a		 Nene Hilario
14.2p, 7.2r, 1.3a
Rotation Anthony Carter
6p, 3.2r, 4.5a		 J.R. Smith
13.1p, 4r, 2.4a		 Linas Kleiza
9.3p, 4.1r, 0.8a		  
 		 Chris Andersen
5.6p, 5r, 0.5a

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Aaron Brooks
10.7p, 1.7r, 2.2a		 Tracy McGrady
16.5p, 5.1r, 4.6a		 Shane Battier
8.2p, 3.8r, 2.3a		 Luis Scola
11.1p, 7.6r, 1.1a		 Yao Ming
19.7p, 9.9r, 1.5a
Rotation  
 		  
 		 Metta World Peace
16p, 6r, 3.2a		 Carl Landry
9.2p, 5.3r, 0.8a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Luther Head
4.8p, 1.5r, 1.7a		 Chuck Hayes
1.3p, 3.8r, 0.6a		  
 

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Houston Rockets 108
Denver Nuggets 96
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Los Angeles Lakers 116
New York Knicks 114
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Memphis Grizzlies 84
New Orleans Pelicans 91
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Oklahoma City Thunder 88
Los Angeles Clippers 98
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Portland Trail Blazers 109
Sacramento Kings 77
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