Houston 113, Denver 132

December 16, 1987

Regular Season

McNichols Sports Arena (Denver, Colorado)

Attendance: 13,834

Officials: N/A

Team Rebounds: Houston (0) Denver (0)

Technicals: Houston (0) Denver (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (11-9) 35 23 29 26 113
DEN (13-7) 37 35 33 27 132

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 106 106.7 124.6
DEN 106 124.6 106.7

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .469 0.132 0.357 0.240
DEN .531 0.132 0.308 0.286

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
21 Sleepy Floyd Starter SG 23:00 5-10 0-1 4-4 5.8 1 1 2 4 6 0 0 2 14
30 Allen Leavell Starter PG 23:00 6-8 2-2 0-0 9.0 0 0 0 3 4 1 0 1 14
22 Rodney McCray Starter SF 29:00 2-12 0-0 2-4 4.2 1 7 8 3 1 1 0 1 6
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 31:00 4-13 0-0 3-6 8.0 5 8 13 2 4 0 0 2 11
43 Jim Petersen Starter PF 24:00 4-7 0-0 2-3 5.9 3 1 4 1 5 1 0 1 10
2 Joe Barry Carroll Bench C 26:00 4-9 0-0 1-2 8.0 3 4 7 3 1 0 0 2 9
7 Lester Conner Bench SG 08:00 2-4 0-0 2-2 3.8 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 6
21 World B. Free Bench PG 12:00 4-8 3-4 4-4 7.5 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 15
1 Buck Johnson Bench SF 14:00 2-5 0-1 0-0 1.0 0 3 3 1 1 0 0 2 4
18 Cedric Maxwell Bench PF 15:00 1-3 0-0 3-3 2.6 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 5
33 Robert Reid Bench PF 10:00 3-4 1-1 0-0 4.5 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 7
10 Purvis Short Bench SF 25:00 5-13 0-0 2-3 1.9 0 3 3 1 3 1 0 2 12
  Team                                
        240 42-96 6-9 23-31 88.1 15 27 42 21 31 5 1 14 113
          43.8% 66.7% 74.2%                    

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
14 Michael Adams Starter PG 34:00 9-14 2-6 4-4 19.8 0 3 3 7 3 2 1 3 24
42 Wayne Cooper Starter PF 23:00 3-8 0-0 0-1 4.4 2 5 7 0 2 0 3 3 6
2 Alex English Starter SF 26:00 9-14 0-0 2-2 14.2 0 2 2 6 2 0 0 1 20
12 Fat Lever Starter SG 30:00 8-13 0-0 5-6 18.2 5 5 10 4 3 1 0 3 21
34 Danny Schayes Starter C 22:00 1-7 0-0 2-2 2.0 1 4 5 2 2 1 0 2 4
23 T.R. Dunn Bench SG 25:00 1-3 0-0 4-4 9.8 1 4 5 0 1 2 2 0 6
5 Mike Evans Bench PG 07:00 1-2 0-1 0-0 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2
24 Bill Hanzlik Bench SF 18:00 0-1 0-0 3-4 5.0 2 5 7 1 3 0 0 1 3
41 Blair Rasmussen Bench C 23:00 9-16 0-0 2-3 12.6 3 3 6 2 3 0 0 0 20
22 Otis Smith Bench SG 04:00 2-4 0-0 1-1 2.1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 5
30 Jay Vincent Bench SF 28:00 8-16 0-0 5-6 17.0 2 5 7 7 3 0 0 1 21
  Team                                
        240 51-98 2-7 28-33 122.1 16 36 52 30 24 7 6 14 132
          52.0% 28.6% 84.8%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Allen Leavell
11.3p, 2.1r, 6.4a		 Sleepy Floyd
20.8p, 4.9r, 9.6a		 Rodney McCray
13.2p, 6.9r, 3.7a		 Jim Petersen
10p, 5.4r, 0.4a		 Hakeem Olajuwon
19.2p, 11r, 1.9a
Rotation World B. Free
11.9p, 1.5r, 1.6a		  
 		 Purvis Short
10p, 2.8r, 1.9a		 Cedric Maxwell
5.2p, 3r, 0.9a		 Joe Barry Carroll
15.1p, 6.7r, 1.5a
Rotation  
 		  
 		 Buck Johnson
3.9p, 1.9r, 0.6a		 Robert Reid
2.2p, 1.2r, 0.4a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 Lester Conner
2.9p, 0.9r, 1.4a		  
 		  
 		  
 

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Michael Adams
10.9p, 2.3r, 6.3a		 Fat Lever
18.1p, 7.8r, 8.6a		 Alex English
23.9p, 4r, 4a		 Wayne Cooper
9.1p, 7.1r, 1.2a		 Danny Schayes
12.1p, 7.7r, 1.3a
Rotation  
 		 T.R. Dunn
3.1p, 2.9r, 1.6a		 Jay Vincent
14.1p, 3.9r, 1.4a		  
 		 Blair Rasmussen
12.4p, 7r, 1.4a
Rotation  
 		  
 		 Bill Hanzlik
3.6p, 1.6r, 1.7a		  
 		  
 
Lim PT Mike Evans
3.7p, 0.8r, 1.8a		 Otis Smith
6.8p, 2.1r, 0.8a		  
 		  
 		  
 

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