Houston 117, Denver 126

April 18, 1987

Regular Season

McNichols Sports Arena (Denver, Colorado)

Attendance: 17,022

Officials: N/A

Team Rebounds: Houston (0) Denver (0)

Technicals: Houston (0) Denver (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (42-40) 26 31 38 22 117
DEN (37-45) 31 28 38 29 126

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 109 107.3 115.6
DEN 109 115.6 107.3

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .483 0.147 0.325 0.333
DEN .509 0.128 0.328 0.170

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
30 Allen Leavell Starter PG 30:00 3-9 0-1 4-5 9.4 1 0 1 7 2 0 1 0 10
22 Rodney McCray Starter SG 35:00 5-11 0-0 8-9 18.6 0 3 3 7 0 3 0 0 18
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 22:00 8-10 0-0 9-10 22.2 1 4 5 4 3 0 3 1 25
43 Jim Petersen Starter PF 16:00 7-8 0-0 2-2 7.8 1 4 5 0 3 0 0 4 16
33 Robert Reid Starter SF 31:00 3-11 1-4 1-2 3.0 0 4 4 2 4 0 2 1 8
40 Richard Anderson Bench C 07:00 0-3 0-1 0-0 -0.2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
5 Dave Feitl Bench C 08:00 1-4 0-0 0-2 0.0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 2
20 Steve Harris Bench SG 15:00 4-8 0-0 1-4 3.5 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 9
1 Buck Johnson Bench SF 13:00 3-5 0-0 0-0 3.0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 6
18 Cedric Maxwell Bench PF 15:00 0-2 0-0 2-6 1.0 2 5 7 0 4 0 0 1 2
10 Dirk Minniefield Bench SG 20:00 1-2 0-1 0-0 4.8 1 1 2 5 1 0 0 2 2
50 Ralph Sampson Bench C 28:00 8-17 0-1 3-4 10.8 3 4 7 3 2 1 1 4 19
  Team                                
        240 43-90 1-8 30-44 101.8 13 27 40 31 21 6 7 16 117
          47.8% 12.5% 68.2%                    

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
42 Wayne Cooper Starter PF 28:00 6-9 0-0 4-7 13.6 2 6 8 2 5 1 1 1 16
2 Alex English Starter SF 29:00 5-16 0-0 3-4 11.5 1 2 3 9 1 1 0 0 13
12 Fat Lever Starter PG 36:00 7-15 0-0 2-2 20.0 4 4 8 10 0 2 0 3 16
41 Blair Rasmussen Starter C 27:00 9-16 0-0 4-5 21.4 4 9 13 4 3 0 0 0 22
- Darrell Walker Starter SG 30:00 8-14 0-0 4-6 18.8 2 4 6 8 1 2 1 4 20
32 Mark Alarie Bench PF 17:00 4-11 0-1 0-0 2.8 1 6 7 0 3 0 0 1 8
23 T.R. Dunn Bench SG 26:00 3-5 0-0 0-0 8.0 3 3 6 1 3 1 1 1 6
5 Mike Evans Bench PG 18:00 6-11 0-3 0-0 5.2 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 2 12
11 Maurice Martin Bench SF 12:00 5-7 0-0 0-0 2.5 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 1 10
34 Danny Schayes Bench C 17:00 1-2 0-0 1-1 5.6 2 4 6 3 5 0 0 1 3
  Team                                
        240 54-106 0-4 18-25 131.4 19 39 58 39 26 9 3 14 126
          50.9% 0.0% 72.0%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Allen Leavell
7.8p, 1.2r, 4.2a		 Rodney McCray
14.4p, 7.1r, 5.4a		 Robert Reid
13.7p, 3.9r, 4.3a		 Jim Petersen
11.3p, 6.8r, 1.5a		 Hakeem Olajuwon
23.4p, 11.4r, 2.9a
Rotation  
 		 Dirk Minniefield
6.9p, 1.9r, 4.7a		 Buck Johnson
3.8p, 1.5r, 0.7a		 Cedric Maxwell
10p, 5.4r, 2.4a		 Ralph Sampson
15.6p, 8.6r, 2.8a
Rotation  
 		 Steve Harris
8.3p, 2.3r, 1.4a		  
 		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Dave Feitl
3.7p, 1.9r, 0.4a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Richard Anderson
2.8p, 1.5r, 0.6a

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Fat Lever
18.9p, 8.9r, 8a		 Darrell Walker
12.2p, 4r, 3.5a		 Alex English
28.6p, 4.2r, 5.1a		 Wayne Cooper
8p, 6.8r, 1a		 Blair Rasmussen
9.5p, 6.3r, 0.8a
Rotation Mike Evans
10.1p, 1.6r, 2.3a		 T.R. Dunn
3.4p, 3.3r, 1.8a		 Maurice Martin
3.4p, 1r, 0.8a		 Mark Alarie
7.9p, 3.3r, 1.2a		 Danny Schayes
8.5p, 5r, 1.1a

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