Houston 92, L.A. Lakers 101

November 8, 1987

Regular Season

The Forum (Inglewood, California)

Attendance: 17,505

Officials: N/A

Team Rebounds: Houston (0) Los Angeles (0)

Technicals: Houston (0) Los Angeles (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (1-1) 22 19 25 26 92
LAL (2-0) 22 29 25 25 101

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 104 88.2 96.8
LAL 104 96.8 88.2

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .400 0.182 0.389 0.168
LAL .466 0.268 0.345 0.230

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
20 Steve Harris Starter SG 19:00 2-7 0-1 0-0 1.0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 4
30 Allen Leavell Starter PG 26:00 0-6 0-1 0-0 4.0 1 2 3 4 2 2 1 0 0
22 Rodney McCray Starter SF 33:00 3-11 0-0 5-6 1.2 1 1 2 0 2 1 1 2 11
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 38:00 13-22 0-0 0-2 19.2 7 4 11 2 5 4 2 5 26
50 Ralph Sampson Starter PF 37:00 6-19 1-1 3-3 5.9 1 5 6 1 3 1 3 3 16
40 Richard Anderson Bench C 02:00 1-1 1-1 0-0 2.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
7 Lester Conner Bench SG 20:00 2-5 0-0 1-2 9.5 0 2 2 4 1 5 0 1 5
21 World B. Free Bench PG 29:00 3-10 0-1 4-6 -0.2 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 10
1 Buck Johnson Bench SF 05:00 2-5 0-0 0-0 2.8 1 2 3 0 0 1 0 1 4
18 Cedric Maxwell Bench PF 19:00 1-2 0-0 2-3 0.9 2 2 4 0 4 0 0 2 4
10 Purvis Short Bench SF 10:00 4-6 0-0 0-0 9.0 1 2 3 1 0 2 0 0 8
13 Andre Turner Bench PG 02:00 0-1 0-1 1-2 -0.2 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1
  Team                                
        240 37-95 2-6 16-24 79.2 14 22 36 17 20 18 7 19 92
          38.9% 33.3% 66.7%                    

Los Angeles Lakers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
33 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Starter C 28:00 3-9 0-0 5-6 2.0 0 2 2 0 5 1 2 2 11
45 A.C. Green Starter PF 41:00 5-6 0-0 2-6 17.5 7 11 18 1 2 0 2 5 12
32 Magic Johnson Starter PG 37:00 9-18 1-2 4-5 21.4 3 7 10 12 1 1 0 7 23
4 Byron Scott Starter SG 33:00 10-17 0-3 3-3 11.4 1 3 4 1 2 1 0 2 23
42 James Worthy Starter SF 36:00 7-16 0-0 2-2 6.5 0 7 7 2 2 0 0 3 16
21 Michael Cooper Bench SG 24:00 2-9 0-3 1-1 2.9 2 2 4 5 1 1 0 4 5
3 Jeff Lamp Bench SF 02:00 0-0 0-0 2-2 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1 Wes Matthews Bench PG 02:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
18 Kurt Rambis Bench PF 11:00 2-2 0-0 0-0 2.0 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 3 4
52 Mike Smrek Bench C 09:00 0-2 0-0 1-2 2.8 1 2 3 0 1 0 3 1 1
43 Mychal Thompson Bench PF 15:00 2-7 0-0 0-0 0.8 3 2 5 0 5 0 1 1 4
20 Milt Wagner Bench SF 02:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                                
        240 40-87 1-8 20-27 109.1 19 36 55 23 21 5 8 28 101
          46.0% 12.5% 74.1%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Allen Leavell
2.5p, 3r, 5.5a		 Steve Harris
6p, 1.5r, 2.5a		 Rodney McCray
17p, 6.5r, 1a		 Ralph Sampson
14p, 6r, 2.5a		 Hakeem Olajuwon
24p, 11r, 2a
Rotation World B. Free
13p, 0.5r, 1.5a		 Lester Conner
6.5p, 2r, 2.5a		 Purvis Short
4p, 1.5r, 1.5a		 Cedric Maxwell
4p, 2.5r, 0a		  
 
Lim PT Andre Turner
1.5p, 1r, 2a		  
 		 Buck Johnson
6p, 3r, 0a		  
 		 Richard Anderson
3p, 0r, 0a

Los Angeles Lakers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Magic Johnson
24.5p, 8r, 10a		 Byron Scott
13p, 4r, 3a		 James Worthy
15p, 6.5r, 2.5a		 A.C. Green
16.5p, 15r, 1a		 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
13.5p, 4.5r, 0.5a
Rotation  
 		 Michael Cooper
10.5p, 3r, 3.5a		  
 		 Mychal Thompson
10.5p, 6r, 0.5a		  
 
Rotation  
 		  
 		  
 		 Kurt Rambis
2p, 1.5r, 0.5a		  
 
Lim PT Wes Matthews
0p, 0r, 1a		  
 		 Jeff Lamp
1p, 0r, 0a		  
 		 Mike Smrek
1p, 3r, 0a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Milt Wagner
0p, 0r, 0a		  
 		  
 

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