Houston 84, Minnesota 90

December 6, 2006

Regular Season

Target Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Attendance: 15,017

Officials: Leon Wood, Greg Willard, Phil Robinson

Team Rebounds: Houston (9) Minnesota (14)

Technicals: Houston (0) Minnesota (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (12-6) 25 15 25 19 84
MIN (8-9) 20 23 26 21 90

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 95 88.2 94.5
MIN 95 94.5 88.2

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .410 0.189 0.313 0.124
MIN .468 0.157 0.125 0.218

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 40:29 6-16 4-8 0-0 12.8 1 5 6 5 2 2 0 2 16
31 Shane Battier Starter SF 38:11 5-8 3-5 0-0 13.0 0 2 2 3 3 3 0 0 13
44 Chuck Hayes Starter PF 21:38 3-6 0-0 2-2 5.5 4 1 5 1 4 0 0 1 8
3 Tracy McGrady Starter SG 37:01 5-21 0-3 4-6 6.8 3 7 10 7 3 0 2 5 14
11 Yao Ming Starter C 41:11 5-19 0-0 4-5 1.4 4 4 8 4 5 0 2 7 14
2 Luther Head Bench SF 26:03 6-10 4-6 0-0 12.2 1 3 4 0 1 1 0 0 16
5 Juwan Howard Bench PF 25:11 0-5 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 9 9 1 4 0 0 2 0
55 Dikembe Mutombo Bench C 03:54 0-2 0-0 1-2 1.8 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1
10 Vassilis Spanoulis Bench SG 06:22 1-2 0-1 0-0 1.0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 2
  Team                   9            
        240 31-89 11-23 11-15 82.4 15 33 57 21 22 7 4 18 84
          34.8% 47.8% 73.3%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
30 Mark Blount Starter C 28:49 6-13 0-0 0-0 -0.8 1 0 1 0 4 0 2 4 12
31 Ricky Davis Starter SF 34:41 1-7 0-1 4-7 8.9 0 7 7 9 1 1 0 4 6
21 Kevin Garnett Starter PF 35:54 7-12 0-0 10-12 26.5 2 10 12 4 3 1 3 0 24
23 Trenton Hassell Starter SG 26:40 3-6 0-0 0-1 3.6 0 2 2 1 2 0 2 1 6
13 Mike James Starter PG 37:21 8-14 2-5 1-1 14.1 0 2 2 5 1 2 0 2 19
4 Randy Foye Bench PG 06:10 0-2 0-1 0-0 -0.8 0 3 3 0 1 0 0 1 0
41 Eddie Griffin Bench PF 04:26 0-2 0-0 0-0 0.5 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
16 Troy Hudson Bench PG 23:26 4-10 1-3 0-0 7.0 0 2 2 5 0 0 0 1 9
55 Marko Jaric Bench SG 18:43 1-4 0-2 2-2 9.2 1 6 7 1 1 4 1 2 4
35 Mark Madsen Bench C 03:54 0-0 0-0 0-0 -0.2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
9 Justin Reed Bench PF 01:18 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Craig Smith Bench PF 18:38 5-8 0-1 0-0 6.2 0 1 1 0 3 2 1 0 10
  Team                   14            
        240 35-78 3-13 17-23 87.1 5 35 54 26 18 10 9 15 90
          44.9% 23.1% 73.9%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Rafer Alston
12.2p, 3.6r, 4.5a
Tracy McGrady
18.5p, 5.7r, 6.6a
Shane Battier
8.9p, 3.8r, 2.8a
Chuck Hayes
6p, 7.7r, 0.5a
Yao Ming
25.1p, 9.6r, 2.1a
Rotation  
 
 
 
Luther Head
9.7p, 3.6r, 1.8a
Juwan Howard
3.5p, 5.4r, 0.9a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Vassilis Spanoulis
3.7p, 1r, 0.7a
 
 
 
 
Dikembe Mutombo
2p, 3.1r, 0a

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Mike James
12.2p, 2r, 4.3a
Trenton Hassell
4.9p, 2.4r, 2.1a
Ricky Davis
14p, 2.9r, 4.8a
Kevin Garnett
21.3p, 11.9r, 3.6a
Mark Blount
10.9p, 5.5r, 0.4a
Rotation Troy Hudson
6.5p, 1.4r, 1.6a
Marko Jaric
5.9p, 3.5r, 2.2a
 
 
Craig Smith
8.5p, 5.3r, 0.6a
 
 
Lim PT Randy Foye
6.1p, 1.9r, 1.5a
 
 
 
 
Eddie Griffin
1.8p, 2.2r, 0.4a
Mark Madsen
1.1p, 1.4r, 0.1a
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
Justin Reed
1.3p, 1r, 0.1a
 
 

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Indiana Pacers 94
Orlando Magic 80

Los Angeles Lakers 89
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