L.A. Lakers 92, Houston 88

April 25, 2004

Opening Round - Los Angeles wins 4-1

Toyota Center (Houston) (Houston, Texas)

Attendance: 18,219

Officials: Bill Spooner, Joe Crawford, David Jones

Team Rebounds: Los Angeles (15) Houston (5)

Technicals: Los Angeles (0) Houston (0)

  1 2 3 4 OT Final
LAL (56-26) 21 24 24 12 11 92
HOU (45-37) 24 17 18 22 7 88

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
LAL 95 97.1 92.9
HOU 95 92.9 97.1

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
LAL .445 0.116 0.256 0.232
HOU .450 0.169 0.167 0.200

Los Angeles Lakers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
24 Kobe Bryant Starter SG 50:00 7-21 0-2 4-5 7.4 2 4 6 5 4 2 0 3 18
3 Devean George Starter SF 23:00 3-4 2-3 0-0 8.0 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 8
11 Karl Malone Starter PF 47:00 11-17 0-0 8-11 23.4 2 11 13 1 4 3 0 2 30
34 Shaquille O'Neal Starter C 47:00 7-11 0-0 3-11 15.6 2 10 12 3 5 1 2 2 17
20 Gary Payton Starter PG 45:00 5-12 1-1 2-4 13.8 3 3 6 7 2 2 0 2 13
2 Derek Fisher Bench PG 24:00 0-7 0-2 0-0 -4.0 0 1 1 3 3 0 0 1 0
17 Rick Fox Bench SF 04:00 0-0 0-0 1-2 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
14 Slava Medvedenko Bench PF 07:00 1-4 0-0 1-1 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
21 Kareem Rush Bench SG 14:00 1-4 0-1 0-0 -2.2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 2
4 Luke Walton Bench SF 04:00 0-2 0-0 0-0 -0.5 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                   15            
        265 35-82 3-9 19-34 80.2 11 32 58 20 21 9 2 11 92
          42.7% 33.3% 55.9%                    

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
13 Kelvin Cato Starter PF 44:00 5-6 0-0 2-3 15.1 4 3 7 1 3 2 1 0 12
3 Steve Francis Starter PG 52:00 6-14 1-4 4-6 11.0 0 5 5 9 6 2 0 5 17
21 Jim Jackson Starter SF 50:00 6-13 1-7 3-3 18.9 1 19 20 1 1 1 1 4 16
11 Yao Ming Starter C 34:00 7-15 0-0 2-2 5.0 3 4 7 1 6 0 0 3 16
5 Cuttino Mobley Starter SG 43:00 6-19 2-8 2-2 6.8 0 5 5 4 4 1 0 1 16
31 Mark Jackson Bench PG 04:00 0-1 0-1 0-0 0.2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
9 Bostjan Nachbar Bench SF 06:00 2-4 0-1 1-1 1.4 0 1 1 1 4 0 0 0 5
35 Scott Padgett Bench PF 01:00 0-1 0-1 0-0 -0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
52 Eric Piatkowski Bench SF 04:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -0.5 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
2 Mo Taylor Bench PF 27:00 2-6 0-0 2-2 -0.2 0 2 2 1 3 0 1 3 6
  Team                   5         1  
        265 34-80 4-22 16-19 82.9 8 40 53 19 28 6 3 17 88
          42.5% 18.2% 84.2%                    

Los Angeles Lakers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Gary Payton
14.6p, 4.2r, 5.5a		 Kobe Bryant
24p, 5.5r, 5.1a		 Devean George
7.4p, 4r, 1.4a		 Karl Malone
13.2p, 8.7r, 3.9a		 Shaquille O'Neal
21.5p, 11.5r, 2.9a
Rotation Derek Fisher
7.1p, 1.9r, 2.3a		 Kareem Rush
6.4p, 1.3r, 0.8a		  
 		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Luke Walton
2.4p, 1.8r, 1.6a		 Slava Medvedenko
8.3p, 5r, 0.8a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Rick Fox
4.8p, 2.7r, 2.6a		  
 		  
 

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Steve Francis
16.6p, 5.5r, 6.2a		 Cuttino Mobley
15.8p, 4.5r, 3.2a		 Jim Jackson
12.9p, 6.1r, 2.8a		 Kelvin Cato
6.1p, 6.8r, 1a		 Yao Ming
17.5p, 9r, 1.5a
Rotation  
 		  
 		  
 		 Mo Taylor
11.5p, 5.1r, 1.4a		  
 
Lim PT Mark Jackson
2.5p, 1.7r, 2.8a		  
 		 Bostjan Nachbar
3.1p, 1.6r, 0.7a		 Scott Padgett
3.4p, 2.4r, 0.4a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Eric Piatkowski
4.1p, 1.5r, 0.5a		  
 		  
 

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