Denver 115, Phoenix 118

March 23, 2009

Regular Season

Talking Stick Resort Arena (Phoenix, Arizona)

Attendance: 18,422

Officials: Bill Spooner, Rodney Mott, Ed Malloy

Team Rebounds: Denver (8) Phoenix (12)

Technicals: Denver (0) Phoenix (1 (Coach))

  1 2 3 4 Final
DEN (45-26) 22 38 32 23 115
PHX (39-31) 29 34 25 30 118

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
DEN 98 117.5 120.5
PHX 98 120.5 117.5

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
DEN .506 0.143 0.364 0.341
PHX .545 0.204 0.326 0.442

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
15 Carmelo Anthony Starter SF 38:23 8-20 3-5 10-12 12.2 1.0 1 2 2 4 2 0 1 29
1 Chauncey Billups Starter PG 38:25 5-13 4-6 6-6 14.5 2.0 2 4 8 4 0 0 3 20
31 Maybyner Nene Starter C 21:11 5-9 0-0 0-0 6.2 2.0 2 4 2 5 1 0 1 10
4 Kenyon Martin Starter PF 34:43 6-12 0-0 6-7 14.9 1.0 8 9 2 5 4 2 4 18
5 J.R. Smith Starter SG 32:50 4-11 2-6 4-4 2.5 1.0 1 2 0 5 1 0 2 14
11 Chris Andersen Bench C 26:21 5-6 0-0 2-2 10.8 1.0 2 3 0 3 2 2 1 12
32 Renaldo Balkman Bench SF 13:50 1-2 0-0 1-2 5.0 2.0 1 3 1 5 3 0 0 3
5 Anthony Carter Bench PG 17:48 3-5 0-1 0-0 8.0 0.0 1 1 4 0 1 0 0 6
30 Dahntay Jones Bench SG 06:58 0-2 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0
43 Linas Kleiza Bench SF 09:31 1-5 1-3 0-0 3.5 2.0 3 5 1 0 0 0 1 3
  Team                   8         1  
        240 38-85 10-21 29-33 97.6 12 21 41 22 32 15 4 15 115
          44.7% 47.6% 87.9%                    

Phoenix Suns

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
22 Matt Barnes Starter SF 27:09 1-8 1-5 0-0 -1.0 0.0 6 6 2 3 1 0 4 3
33 Grant Hill Starter PF 34:48 9-19 0-0 5-7 14.1 4.0 6 10 5 3 2 0 6 23
13 Steve Nash Starter PG 35:02 5-10 1-1 4-4 17.2 0.0 3 3 9 2 1 0 0 15
32 Shaquille O'Neal Starter C 24:08 6-8 0-0 7-8 17.5 3.0 4 7 2 5 1 3 2 19
23 Jason Richardson Starter SG 38:50 7-13 1-5 7-9 14.6 2.0 3 5 1 1 2 1 2 22
17 Lou Amundson Bench PF 19:54 3-4 0-0 1-4 10.8 4.0 3 7 2 4 2 3 3 7
1 Goran Dragic Bench PG 12:58 2-4 2-3 2-2 6.2 0.0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 8
3 Jared Dudley Bench SF 29:20 3-5 1-2 5-6 10.5 2.0 6 8 1 4 0 0 1 12
15 Robin Lopez Bench C 03:53 1-1 0-0 2-2 2.0 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4
4 Stromile Swift Bench C 04:48 0-0 0-0 0-0 -2.5 0.0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0
29 Alando Tucker Bench SF 09:10 2-5 0-0 1-2 2.5 0.0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 5
  Team                   12            
        240 39-77 6-16 34-44 118.0 15 31 58 26 26 10 7 20 118
          50.6% 37.5% 77.3%                    

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chauncey Billups
18.3p, 2.9r, 6.3a		 J.R. Smith
14.4p, 3.9r, 2.8a		 Carmelo Anthony
22.2p, 6.9r, 3.3a		 Kenyon Martin
11.9p, 6.2r, 2.1a		 Maybyner Nene
14.6p, 7.8r, 1.4a
Rotation Anthony Carter
5.3p, 2.7r, 4.7a		  
 		 Renaldo Balkman
5.5p, 4.3r, 0.6a		  
 		 Chris Andersen
6.4p, 5.9r, 0.5a
Lim PT  
 		 Dahntay Jones
5.6p, 2.2r, 1a		 Linas Kleiza
9.7p, 4r, 0.8a		  
 		  
 

Phoenix Suns Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Steve Nash
15.3p, 3.1r, 9.6a		 Jason Richardson
17.5p, 4.5r, 2.1a		 Matt Barnes
10.3p, 5.3r, 2.7a		 Grant Hill
11.2p, 5r, 2.3a		 Shaquille O'Neal
18.2p, 8.6r, 1.6a
Rotation Goran Dragic
3.8p, 1.7r, 1.8a		  
 		 Jared Dudley
4.5p, 2.7r, 0.8a		 Lou Amundson
4.1p, 3.3r, 0.4a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Alando Tucker
4.9p, 1r, 0.4a		  
 		 Stromile Swift
2.9p, 2.8r, 0.2a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Robin Lopez
2.8p, 1.6r, 0.1a

Denver Nuggets Leaders

MPG Allen Iverson 41.0
FG% Jason Hart .667
3P% Dahntay Jones .538
FT% Chucky Atkins 1.000
ORPG Maybyner Nene 2.4
DRPG Maybyner Nene 5.4
RPG Maybyner Nene 7.8
SPG Kenyon Martin 1.5
APG Allen Iverson 6.7
BPG Chris Andersen 2.3
PPG Carmelo Anthony 22.2

Phoenix Suns Leaders

MPG Amar'e Stoudemire 36.8
FG% Shaquille O'Neal .614
3P% Raja Bell .468
FT% Sean Singletary 1.000
ORPG Shaquille O'Neal 2.5
DRPG Shaquille O'Neal 6.1
RPG Shaquille O'Neal 8.6
SPG Leandro Barbosa 1.2
APG Steve Nash 9.6
BPG Shaquille O'Neal 1.5
PPG Amar'e Stoudemire 21.4

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