Houston 93, Minnesota 87

March 7, 2006

Regular Season

Target Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Attendance: 16,588

Officials: Bennie Adams, David Jones, Ken Mauer

Team Rebounds: Houston (16) Minnesota (7)

Technicals: Houston (0) Minnesota (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (28-33) 16 20 25 32 93
MIN (26-33) 25 13 29 20 87

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 94 99.4 93.0
MIN 94 93.0 99.4

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .445 0.139 0.185 0.384
MIN .414 0.086 0.209 0.172

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
12 Rafer Alston Starter PG 37:55 5-14 4-7 3-4 8.0 2 2 4 5 3 0 0 4 17
10 Keith Bogans Starter PF 31:50 2-6 2-4 1-2 8.0 0 7 7 2 0 0 0 1 7
5 Juwan Howard Starter PF 33:05 2-8 0-0 2-2 0.0 1 5 6 1 4 1 0 4 6
11 Yao Ming Starter C 34:27 11-24 0-0 8-12 20.5 3 10 13 1 5 0 4 0 30
7 David Wesley Starter SG 43:39 1-5 1-3 6-6 10.0 0 8 8 6 2 0 0 4 9
40 Ryan Bowen Bench PF 00:19 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Rick Brunson Bench PG 11:43 2-3 0-0 0-3 4.1 0 2 2 1 2 2 0 0 4
44 Chuck Hayes Bench PF 01:11 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Luther Head Bench SF 19:12 2-6 0-1 5-10 10.5 0 5 5 5 0 1 0 0 9
4 Stromile Swift Bench C 26:39 4-7 0-0 3-6 11.2 4 5 9 0 2 0 1 0 11
  Team                   16         2  
        240 29-73 7-15 28-45 88.4 10 44 70 21 18 4 5 15 93
          39.7% 46.7% 62.2%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
3 Marcus Banks Starter PG 36:54 12-19 2-4 0-1 16.4 0 2 2 5 3 1 1 2 26
30 Mark Blount Starter C 29:46 8-13 0-0 2-2 10.2 1 5 6 2 6 0 0 1 18
31 Ricky Davis Starter SF 45:52 4-16 1-2 5-6 7.2 1 4 5 4 1 1 0 1 14
21 Kevin Garnett Starter PF 39:11 6-17 0-0 3-6 23.8 4 17 21 5 2 4 2 3 15
23 Trenton Hassell Starter SG 33:08 3-7 0-1 2-2 3.2 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 8
41 Eddie Griffin Bench PF 12:07 0-1 0-0 0-0 1.0 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 0
55 Marko Jaric Bench SG 11:06 0-3 0-0 0-0 -0.2 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 1 0
1 Rashad McCants Bench SG 19:15 1-7 1-3 1-2 -1.0 0 2 2 1 5 0 1 0 4
9 Justin Reed Bench PF 12:41 0-4 0-0 2-2 2.2 3 2 5 0 3 0 1 0 2
  Team                   7            
        240 34-87 4-10 15-21 64.9 9 34 50 22 27 7 7 8 87
          39.1% 40.0% 71.4%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Rafer Alston
11.3p, 4r, 6.6a		 David Wesley
10.7p, 2.7r, 3a		 Keith Bogans
8.5p, 3r, 1.3a		 Juwan Howard
11.1p, 6.6r, 1.6a		 Yao Ming
21p, 10.1r, 1.4a
Rotation Rick Brunson
2.3p, 0.7r, 0.5a		  
 		 Luther Head
7.9p, 3.1r, 2.4a		  
 		 Stromile Swift
9.5p, 4.9r, 0.4a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		 Chuck Hayes
4.3p, 4.9r, 0.4a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		 Ryan Bowen
1.4p, 1.5r, 0.4a		  
 

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Marcus Banks
9.1p, 1.9r, 2.9a		 Trenton Hassell
9.4p, 2.7r, 2.5a		 Ricky Davis
19.7p, 4.6r, 4.9a		 Kevin Garnett
21.6p, 12.3r, 4.4a		 Mark Blount
11.2p, 4.3r, 1.4a
Rotation  
 		 Rashad McCants
6.3p, 1.4r, 0.6a		  
 		 Justin Reed
3.4p, 1.3r, 0.4a		  
 
Rotation  
 		 Marko Jaric
8.6p, 3.2r, 4.5a		  
 		 Eddie Griffin
4.9p, 5.8r, 0.5a		  
 

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