Houston 117, Denver 120

November 4, 1988

Regular Season

McNichols Sports Arena (Denver, Colorado)

Attendance: 14,876

Officials: Hue Hollins, Tommie Wood, Tommy Nunez

Team Rebounds: Houston (0) Denver (0)

Technicals: Houston (0) Denver (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (0-1) 30 34 30 23 117
DEN (1-0) 26 23 42 29 120

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 115 102.0 104.6
DEN 115 104.6 102.0

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .467 0.244 0.347 0.337
DEN .490 0.183 0.380 0.184

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
21 Sleepy Floyd Starter PG 35:00 7-14 0-0 2-2 10.0 0 3 3 8 2 2 0 6 16
1 Buck Johnson Starter SF 30:00 1-8 0-0 3-4 -3.0 2 2 4 2 4 1 0 5 5
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 34:00 14-23 0-0 11-17 27.6 6 13 19 0 5 3 0 4 39
33 Otis Thorpe Starter PF 38:00 11-15 0-0 6-6 20.0 5 2 7 1 2 2 0 3 28
42 Mike Woodson Starter SG 36:00 6-15 0-1 4-4 6.0 0 3 3 4 3 2 0 4 16
3 Derrick Chievous Bench SF 18:00 4-7 0-0 1-2 5.0 2 2 4 0 1 0 0 1 9
30 Allen Leavell Bench PG 13:00 0-4 0-2 1-3 -3.6 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1
40 Tim McCormick Bench C 14:00 0-2 0-0 1-2 -1.8 0 4 4 0 5 1 0 2 1
52 Chuck Nevitt Bench C 09:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 0.2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
25 Bernard Thompson Bench SF 13:00 0-3 0-0 2-2 -0.2 1 1 2 1 2 0 0 1 2
  Team                                
        240 43-92 0-3 31-42 116.2 17 32 49 17 26 11 0 28 117
          46.7% 0.0% 73.8%                    

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
14 Michael Adams Starter PG 43:00 6-13 3-7 0-0 16.5 2 3 5 7 0 2 0 2 15
42 Wayne Cooper Starter PF 19:00 4-7 0-0 0-0 7.5 4 7 11 0 5 0 0 2 8
2 Alex English Starter SF 40:00 18-31 0-0 3-3 14.4 2 3 5 3 5 1 0 6 39
12 Fat Lever Starter SG 43:00 10-18 0-0 7-7 26.6 3 7 10 9 3 4 0 4 27
34 Danny Schayes Starter C 23:00 4-7 0-0 6-8 5.5 1 3 4 0 5 1 0 2 14
6 Walter Davis Bench SF 22:00 4-11 0-0 2-2 1.0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 10
43 Wayne Englestad Bench PF 04:00 1-1 0-0 1-2 -1.5 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 3
1 Eddie Hughes Bench PG 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
35 Jerome Lane Bench SF 08:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 -1.0 0 2 2 0 4 0 0 1 2
41 Blair Rasmussen Bench C 12:00 1-6 0-0 0-0 2.0 1 4 5 0 1 1 0 0 2
21 Elston Turner Bench SG 25:00 0-7 0-0 0-0 0.8 6 2 8 1 5 0 0 0 0
  Team                                
        240 49-103 3-7 19-22 113.8 19 31 50 22 32 10 0 21 120
          47.6% 42.9% 86.4%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Sleepy Floyd
16p, 3r, 8a		 Mike Woodson
16p, 3r, 4a		 Buck Johnson
5p, 4r, 2a		 Otis Thorpe
28p, 7r, 1a		 Hakeem Olajuwon
39p, 19r, 0a
Rotation Allen Leavell
1p, 1r, 1a		  
 		 Derrick Chievous
9p, 4r, 0a		  
 		 Tim McCormick
1p, 4r, 0a
Rotation  
 		  
 		 Bernard Thompson
2p, 2r, 1a		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Chuck Nevitt
0p, 2r, 0a

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Michael Adams
15p, 5r, 7a		 Fat Lever
27p, 10r, 9a		 Alex English
39p, 5r, 3a		 Wayne Cooper
8p, 11r, 0a		 Danny Schayes
14p, 4r, 0a
Rotation  
 		 Elston Turner
0p, 8r, 1a		 Walter Davis
10p, 0r, 2a		  
 		 Blair Rasmussen
2p, 5r, 0a
Lim PT Eddie Hughes
0p, 0r, 0a		  
 		 Jerome Lane
2p, 2r, 0a		 Wayne Englestad
3p, 0r, 0a		  
 

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