Houston 67, Utah 81

April 26, 2007

Opening Round - Utah wins 4-3

Delta Center (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Attendance: 19,911

Officials: Ron Garretson, Marc Davis, Joe DeRosa

Team Rebounds: Houston (9) Utah (11)

Technicals: Houston (0) Utah (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (52-30) 17 25 10 15 67
UTH (51-31) 23 25 13 20 81

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 84 79.4 96.0
UTH 84 96.0 79.4

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .375 0.225 0.209 0.297
UTH .400 0.130 0.341 0.153

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 45:03 2-5 2-4 0-0 8.8 1 6 7 5 2 1 1 5 6
31 Shane Battier Starter SF 40:44 4-10 3-7 0-0 10.2 0 5 5 1 2 1 2 0 11
44 Chuck Hayes Starter PF 28:38 0-2 0-0 0-2 1.8 3 4 7 1 4 1 0 2 0
3 Tracy McGrady Starter SG 39:07 9-23 1-5 5-8 7.0 1 3 4 3 2 1 1 4 24
11 Yao Ming Starter C 39:03 6-14 0-0 14-16 13.2 3 11 14 1 3 0 1 8 26
2 Luther Head Bench SF 24:12 0-5 0-3 0-0 -1.0 0 3 3 0 3 1 1 0 0
5 Juwan Howard Bench PF 14:18 0-5 0-0 0-0 -3.0 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0
55 Dikembe Mutombo Bench C 05:58 0-0 0-0 0-0 1.0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0
13 Kirk Snyder Bench SG 02:57 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                   9            
        240 21-64 6-19 19-26 62.8 9 34 52 11 20 6 7 19 67
          32.8% 31.6% 73.1%                    

Utah Jazz

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
5 Carlos Boozer Starter PF 34:55 10-18 0-0 2-3 19.6 5 7 12 4 2 0 0 1 22
2 Derek Fisher Starter PG 25:26 3-9 0-2 0-0 3.5 0 1 1 1 1 3 0 0 6
47 Andrei Kirilenko Starter SF 26:39 1-2 0-0 0-2 1.2 1 2 3 1 4 1 0 1 2
13 Mehmet Okur Starter C 35:54 2-12 0-6 3-3 5.9 1 2 3 1 3 4 4 1 7
8 Deron Williams Starter SG 38:54 5-18 0-5 1-1 6.9 2 5 7 8 2 2 0 5 11
31 Jarron Collins Bench C 12:06 0-1 0-0 1-2 5.5 2 2 4 2 3 2 0 0 1
10 Gordan Giricek Bench SG 22:19 4-9 2-2 0-0 3.0 0 3 3 1 3 0 0 2 10
15 Matt Harpring Bench SF 29:49 4-12 0-0 5-5 8.6 3 4 7 1 1 0 0 0 13
24 Paul Millsap Bench PF 13:59 4-4 0-0 1-2 7.5 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 1 9
  Team                   11            
        240 33-85 2-15 13-18 75.8 15 29 55 19 19 12 4 11 81
          38.8% 13.3% 72.2%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Rafer Alston
13.3p, 3.4r, 5.4a		 Tracy McGrady
24.6p, 5.3r, 6.5a		 Shane Battier
10.1p, 4.1r, 2.1a		 Chuck Hayes
5.6p, 6.7r, 0.6a		 Yao Ming
25p, 9.4r, 2a
Rotation  
 		  
 		 Luther Head
10.9p, 3.2r, 2.4a		 Juwan Howard
9.7p, 5.9r, 1.6a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 Kirk Snyder
4.9p, 2.1r, 1a		  
 		  
 		 Dikembe Mutombo
3.1p, 6.5r, 0.2a

Utah Jazz Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Derek Fisher
10.1p, 1.8r, 3.3a		 Deron Williams
16.2p, 3.3r, 9.3a		 Andrei Kirilenko
8.3p, 4.7r, 2.9a		 Carlos Boozer
20.9p, 11.7r, 3a		 Mehmet Okur
17.6p, 7.2r, 2a
Rotation  
 		 Gordan Giricek
7.8p, 2.1r, 1a		 Matt Harpring
11.6p, 4.6r, 1.3a		 Paul Millsap
6.8p, 5.2r, 0.8a		 Jarron Collins
2.5p, 2.1r, 0.7a

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