Denver 101, Houston 119

April 29, 1986

Conference Semi Finals - Houston wins 4-2

Compaq Center (Houston, Texas)

Attendance: 16,016

Officials: Joe Crawford, Jess Kersey

Team Rebounds: Denver (0) Houston (0)

Technicals: Denver (0) Houston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
DEN (47-35) 22 21 28 30 101
HOU (51-31) 26 27 35 31 119

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
DEN 103 98.3 115.8
HOU 103 115.8 98.3

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
DEN .435 0.146 0.302 0.215
HOU .485 0.117 0.321 0.208

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
23 T.R. Dunn Starter SG 20:00 0-2 0-0 0-0 3.8 1 5 6 1 1 1 0 1 0
2 Alex English Starter PF 29:00 4-13 0-0 3-3 1.9 0 1 1 5 2 0 0 3 11
12 Fat Lever Starter PG 24:00 6-13 2-5 2-2 11.0 1 4 5 3 3 4 0 4 16
33 Calvin Natt Starter SF 18:00 1-7 0-0 3-4 4.8 1 6 7 4 2 0 0 2 5
34 Danny Schayes Starter C 29:00 6-9 0-0 0-0 7.2 2 2 4 0 1 0 1 2 12
42 Wayne Cooper Bench C 30:00 5-12 0-0 3-4 7.5 3 6 9 1 5 0 1 2 13
5 Mike Evans Bench PG 36:00 3-10 1-4 5-6 15.5 0 3 3 7 0 2 2 0 12
24 Bill Hanzlik Bench SF 13:00 3-3 1-1 0-0 8.5 1 1 2 3 2 0 0 0 7
41 Blair Rasmussen Bench C 23:00 7-18 0-0 4-4 9.0 4 2 6 0 3 0 2 0 18
21 Elston Turner Bench SG 06:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
10 Willie White Bench SG 10:00 1-3 1-2 0-0 2.8 0 0 0 5 4 0 0 1 3
31 Pete Williams Bench SF 02:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
  Team                                
        240 38-93 5-12 20-23 91.6 13 30 43 29 23 7 6 15 101
          40.9% 41.7% 87.0%                    

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
32 Lewis Lloyd Starter PG 29:00 10-16 0-0 3-4 19.5 4 0 4 7 4 1 0 0 23
22 Rodney McCray Starter SG 35:00 4-10 0-0 4-4 17.2 1 7 8 10 0 1 0 3 12
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter PF 34:00 7-15 0-0 4-7 14.6 2 12 14 2 3 0 1 2 18
33 Robert Reid Starter SF 38:00 7-18 1-3 0-0 4.2 3 1 4 4 4 0 0 3 15
50 Ralph Sampson Starter C 39:00 9-17 0-0 9-12 29.0 1 11 12 5 2 4 4 2 27
3 Craig Ehlo Bench SF 07:00 0-2 0-0 0-0 -0.5 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
20 Steve Harris Bench SG 09:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 1.5 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
30 Allen Leavell Bench PG 01:00 1-1 1-1 0-0 2.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
8 Hank McDowell Bench PF 02:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
43 Jim Petersen Bench C 19:00 3-7 0-0 1-2 5.8 3 1 4 1 2 1 1 1 7
31 Granville Waiters Bench C 02:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
15 Mitchell Wiggins Bench SG 25:00 6-11 0-1 0-0 9.8 3 4 7 1 4 0 1 0 12
  Team                                
        240 48-101 2-5 21-29 112.9 18 38 56 31 20 8 7 12 119
          47.5% 40.0% 72.4%                    

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Fat Lever
13.8p, 5.4r, 7.5a
T.R. Dunn
5p, 4.6r, 2.1a
Calvin Natt
17.7p, 6.3r, 2.3a
Alex English
29.8p, 5r, 4a
Danny Schayes
8.2p, 5.5r, 1a
Rotation Mike Evans
9.5p, 1.3r, 2.2a
Willie White
4p, 1r, 1.2a
Bill Hanzlik
12.5p, 3.3r, 4a
 
 
Wayne Cooper
13.1p, 7.8r, 1a
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Blair Rasmussen
3.2p, 2r, 0.3a
Lim PT  
 
Elston Turner
5.1p, 2.7r, 2.3a
Pete Williams
2.8p, 2.7r, 0.3a
 
 
 
 

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Lewis Lloyd
16.9p, 4r, 3.7a
Rodney McCray
10.3p, 6.3r, 3.5a
Robert Reid
12p, 3.7r, 2.7a
Hakeem Olajuwon
23.5p, 11.5r, 2a
Ralph Sampson
18.9p, 11.1r, 3.6a
Rotation  
 
Mitchell Wiggins
6.8p, 2r, 1.3a
 
 
 
 
Jim Petersen
6.2p, 4.8r, 1a
Lim PT Allen Leavell
7.9p, 0.9r, 3.2a
Steve Harris
4.5p, 1r, 0.9a
Craig Ehlo
2.7p, 1.3r, 0.8a
Hank McDowell
3p, 2.2r, 0.3a
Granville Waiters
0.6p, 0.7r, 0.2a

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