New Orleans 84, Denver 113

April 19, 2009

Opening Round - Denver wins 4-1

Ball Arena (Denver, Colorado)

Attendance: 19,536

Officials: Marc Davis, Monty McCutchen, Sean Corbin

Team Rebounds: New Orleans (7) Denver (8)

Technicals: New Orleans (0) Denver (2 (Bench))

  1 2 3 4 Final
NOP (49-33) 25 22 22 15 84
DEN (54-28) 27 28 32 26 113

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
NOP 92 91.1 122.6
DEN 92 122.6 91.1

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
NOP .429 0.174 0.286 0.218
DEN .580 0.184 0.245 0.347

New Orleans Pelicans

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
45 Rasual Butler Starter SG 27:00 3-6 2-3 0-0 3.5 0 2 2 0 5 0 1 0 8
6 Tyson Chandler Starter C 27:20 2-2 0-0 2-2 3.5 2 3 5 0 5 1 0 3 6
3 Chris Paul Starter PG 34:27 7-19 2-5 5-5 17.1 2 3 5 11 2 2 0 4 21
16 Peja Stojakovic Starter SF 29:29 5-10 3-6 0-1 4.9 1 1 2 1 4 0 0 1 13
30 David West Starter PF 32:25 4-16 0-0 4-4 4.2 1 5 6 1 2 2 0 1 12
12 Hilton Armstrong Bench C 18:06 3-7 0-0 0-4 -1.5 0 1 1 0 5 2 0 1 6
23 Devin Brown Bench SG 12:17 0-2 0-1 2-2 -2.0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 2
50 Antonio Daniels Bench PG 13:33 1-3 1-2 2-3 6.4 1 1 2 4 0 0 1 2 5
4 Sean Marks Bench C 07:01 1-1 0-0 0-0 2.2 1 2 3 0 3 0 0 0 2
9 Morris Peterson Bench SG 08:43 1-4 1-2 2-2 5.2 1 2 3 1 1 1 0 0 5
41 James Posey Bench SF 20:56 1-5 0-2 0-0 -0.5 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 2 2
32 Julian Wright Bench SF 08:43 1-3 0-0 0-0 2.0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 2
  Team                   7         1  
        240 29-78 9-21 17-23 71.1 10 25 42 19 29 8 3 17 84
          37.2% 42.9% 73.9%                    

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 26:30 4-12 0-0 5-6 5.5 2 5 7 2 4 0 1 3 13
1 Chauncey Billups Starter PG 34:23 10-15 8-9 8-8 32.0 0 1 1 8 1 2 0 0 36
31 Maybyner Nene Starter C 32:57 5-8 0-0 2-3 17.4 4 10 14 3 2 0 1 2 12
30 Dahntay Jones Starter SG 21:10 3-4 1-1 0-0 2.2 0 3 3 0 2 1 0 4 7
4 Kenyon Martin Starter PF 29:17 2-5 0-0 0-0 4.8 0 4 4 3 3 1 0 1 4
11 Chris Andersen Bench C 22:45 2-4 0-0 5-9 13.4 1 5 6 2 2 1 4 0 9
32 Renaldo Balkman Bench SF 03:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -0.2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
5 Anthony Carter Bench PG 14:27 0-1 0-0 0-0 3.2 1 2 3 2 1 0 1 1 0
6 Jason Hart Bench PG 03:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 -0.2 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 0
43 Linas Kleiza Bench SF 23:58 4-6 2-4 3-3 15.4 3 2 5 2 1 1 1 0 13
27 Johan Petro Bench C 04:27 0-1 0-0 0-0 0.5 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
5 J.R. Smith Bench SG 24:06 8-18 0-7 3-4 3.2 1 3 4 1 2 1 0 5 19
  Team                   8            
        240 38-75 11-21 26-33 115.1 12 37 57 25 22 8 8 17 113
          50.7% 52.4% 78.8%                    

New Orleans Pelicans Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chris Paul
22.8p, 5.5r, 11a		 Rasual Butler
11.2p, 3.3r, 0.9a		 Peja Stojakovic
13.3p, 4.3r, 1.2a		 David West
21p, 8.5r, 2.3a		 Tyson Chandler
8.8p, 8.7r, 0.5a
Rotation Antonio Daniels
4.1p, 1r, 2.4a		 Devin Brown
5.2p, 1.9r, 0.9a		 James Posey
8.9p, 4.8r, 1.1a		  
 		 Hilton Armstrong
4.8p, 2.8r, 0.4a
Lim PT  
 		 Morris Peterson
4.4p, 2r, 0.4a		 Julian Wright
4.4p, 2.8r, 0.8a		  
 		 Sean Marks
3.2p, 3.1r, 0.2a

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chauncey Billups
17.7p, 3r, 6.4a		 Dahntay Jones
5.4p, 2.1r, 1a		 Carmelo Anthony
22.8p, 6.8r, 3.4a		 Kenyon Martin
11.7p, 6r, 2a		 Maybyner Nene
14.6p, 7.8r, 1.4a
Rotation Anthony Carter
5.3p, 2.6r, 4.7a		 J.R. Smith
15.2p, 3.7r, 2.8a		 Linas Kleiza
9.9p, 4r, 0.8a		  
 		 Chris Andersen
6.4p, 6.2r, 0.4a
Lim PT Jason Hart
2p, 1.2r, 1.2a		  
 		 Renaldo Balkman
5p, 3.8r, 0.6a		  
 		 Johan Petro
3.3p, 3.2r, 0.3a

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