Houston 109, Boston 126

March 31, 1989

Regular Season

Boston Garden (Boston, Massachusetts)

Attendance: 14,890

Officials: Eddie Rush, Hank Armstrong, Hugh Evans

Team Rebounds: Houston (0) Boston (0)

Technicals: Houston (0) Boston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (39-31) 27 19 36 27 109
BOS (37-33) 33 27 29 37 126

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 97 112.3 129.8
BOS 97 129.8 112.3

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .468 0.155 0.447 0.223
BOS .522 0.103 0.354 0.371

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
6 Walter Berry Starter SF 26:00 3-4 0-0 2-2 6.2 1 2 3 2 3 1 0 2 8
21 Sleepy Floyd Starter PG 40:00 7-20 2-4 3-4 18.8 3 3 6 13 2 3 0 4 19
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 37:00 11-24 0-0 5-8 19.0 3 6 9 1 3 2 7 3 27
33 Otis Thorpe Starter PF 40:00 11-21 0-0 4-4 15.2 4 4 8 3 5 1 1 3 26
42 Mike Woodson Starter SG 24:00 2-7 0-2 1-2 0.8 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 5
3 Derrick Chievous Bench SF 07:00 2-4 0-0 3-3 5.4 3 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 7
1 Buck Johnson Bench SF 22:00 2-5 0-0 0-0 3.8 2 2 4 1 2 0 0 0 4
30 Allen Leavell Bench PG 15:00 0-3 0-0 2-2 0.8 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 1 2
40 Tim McCormick Bench C 06:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
52 Chuck Nevitt Bench C 04:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 -0.5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
10 Purvis Short Bench SF 19:00 4-5 0-0 1-2 2.0 0 2 2 0 4 0 0 2 9
  Team                                
        240 43-94 2-6 21-27 86.1 17 21 38 24 26 7 8 15 109
          45.7% 33.3% 77.8%                    

Boston Celtics

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
3 Dennis Johnson Starter PG 37:00 11-17 0-1 0-0 12.8 0 0 0 4 1 2 0 2 22
53 Joe Kleine Starter C 31:00 4-9 0-0 8-9 17.6 6 5 11 4 2 0 0 1 16
35 Reggie Lewis Starter SF 42:00 9-16 0-0 2-2 18.2 3 6 9 3 3 2 2 2 20
54 Ed Pinckney Starter PF 31:00 3-10 0-0 9-9 12.1 4 4 8 2 4 1 0 0 15
20 Brian Shaw Starter SG 36:00 3-11 0-0 2-2 15.2 1 5 6 10 1 2 1 1 8
12 Otis Birdsong Bench SG 06:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 4.5 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 2
34 Kevin Gamble Bench SG 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 Ronnie Grandison Bench SF 08:00 0-2 0-0 4-6 1.2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 4
32 Kevin McHale Bench PF 30:00 11-19 0-0 8-10 16.2 2 5 7 2 5 2 1 4 30
7 Kelvin Upshaw Bench PG 18:00 4-4 1-1 0-0 10.2 0 3 3 3 2 0 0 0 9
  Team                                
        240 46-89 1-2 33-38 120.2 17 31 48 30 20 9 4 10 126
          51.7% 50.0% 86.8%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Sleepy Floyd
14.7p, 3.7r, 8.5a		 Mike Woodson
13.4p, 2.4r, 2.6a		 Walter Berry
8.6p, 3.8r, 1.1a		 Otis Thorpe
15.9p, 9.6r, 2.4a		 Hakeem Olajuwon
24.9p, 13.4r, 1.7a
Rotation Allen Leavell
2.8p, 0.8r, 2a		  
 		 Buck Johnson
9.7p, 4.2r, 2a		  
 		  
 
Rotation  
 		  
 		 Purvis Short
8.1p, 2.9r, 1.8a		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Derrick Chievous
9.6p, 3.2r, 0.9a		  
 		 Tim McCormick
5.7p, 3.5r, 0.7a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Chuck Nevitt
1.4p, 1.5r, 0.1a

Boston Celtics Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Dennis Johnson
9.8p, 2.6r, 6.5a		 Brian Shaw
8.4p, 4.3r, 5.5a		 Reggie Lewis
18.1p, 4.4r, 2.5a		 Ed Pinckney
11.9p, 5.9r, 1.5a		 Joe Kleine
6.8p, 5.3r, 0.9a
Rotation Kelvin Upshaw
6.7p, 1.7r, 3.8a		  
 		  
 		 Kevin McHale
22.3p, 8.3r, 2.1a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 Otis Birdsong
2p, 1.5r, 1.5a		 Ronnie Grandison
2.6p, 1.4r, 0.6a		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 Kevin Gamble
1.3p, 0.3r, 0.1a		  
 		  
 		  
 

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