New Orleans 93, Denver 108

April 22, 2009

Opening Round - Denver wins 4-1

Ball Arena (Denver, Colorado)

Attendance: 19,623

Officials: Violet Palmer, Mark Wunderlich, Joe DeRosa

Team Rebounds: New Orleans (7) Denver (9)

Technicals: New Orleans (1 (Bench)) Denver (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
NOP (49-33) 25 19 27 22 93
DEN (54-28) 27 25 29 27 108

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
NOP 85 109.2 126.8
DEN 85 126.8 109.2

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
NOP .520 0.176 0.256 0.216
DEN .552 0.059 0.333 0.151

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 33:44 4-6 4-5 0-0 6.5 0 2 2 0 3 0 1 2 12
6 Tyson Chandler Starter C 35:44 3-7 0-0 1-4 7.5 4 7 11 0 2 1 1 3 7
3 Chris Paul Starter PG 38:27 5-11 0-1 4-4 14.8 2 2 4 13 2 0 0 5 14
16 Peja Stojakovic Starter SF 28:59 5-9 4-5 3-3 6.6 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 17
30 David West Starter PF 40:26 9-20 0-0 3-3 10.6 1 9 10 2 4 0 2 4 21
12 Hilton Armstrong Bench C 04:23 0-1 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
23 Devin Brown Bench SG 08:19 2-3 0-1 0-0 3.8 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4
50 Antonio Daniels Bench PG 09:33 1-5 0-0 0-0 -1.0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
4 Sean Marks Bench C 07:54 1-2 0-1 0-0 3.2 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 2
41 James Posey Bench SF 24:57 3-8 1-3 5-6 10.8 0 8 8 2 2 0 0 0 12
32 Julian Wright Bench SF 07:34 1-2 0-0 0-0 1.5 0 2 2 1 3 0 0 0 2
  Team                   7         2  
        240 34-74 9-16 16-20 85.0 11 32 50 18 20 1 4 17 93
          45.9% 56.3% 80.0%                    

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 36:22 10-20 2-5 0-0 19.5 1 2 3 9 2 2 1 1 22
1 Chauncey Billups Starter PG 35:15 8-15 4-6 11-11 22.4 1 3 4 4 1 0 0 0 31
31 Maybyner Nene Starter C 30:04 4-13 0-0 0-2 8.2 5 3 8 4 3 1 1 1 8
30 Dahntay Jones Starter SG 19:59 5-5 0-0 1-2 7.0 1 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 11
4 Kenyon Martin Starter PF 31:24 6-12 0-0 1-2 11.8 1 4 5 6 3 0 1 1 13
11 Chris Andersen Bench PF 26:47 3-3 0-0 0-0 6.8 3 2 5 0 3 0 1 1 6
5 Anthony Carter Bench PG 21:05 1-3 0-0 0-0 5.2 0 2 2 3 2 2 0 0 2
6 Jason Hart Bench PG 00:59 0-1 0-0 0-0 -0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
43 Linas Kleiza Bench SF 08:38 0-2 0-0 0-0 1.8 0 3 3 0 0 1 0 0 0
27 Johan Petro Bench C 02:51 0-1 0-0 0-2 -0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 J.R. Smith Bench SG 26:36 6-11 3-5 0-2 7.5 0 4 4 0 3 1 0 1 15
  Team                   9         1  
        240 43-86 9-16 13-21 90.6 12 24 45 26 20 8 4 6 108
          50.0% 56.3% 61.9%                    

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  
 		  
 		 James Posey
8.9p, 4.8r, 1.1a		  
 		  
 
Lim PT Antonio Daniels
4.1p, 1r, 2.4a		 Devin Brown
5.2p, 1.9r, 0.9a		 Julian Wright
4.4p, 2.8r, 0.8a		  
 		 Sean Marks
3.2p, 3.1r, 0.2a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Hilton Armstrong
4.8p, 2.8r, 0.4a

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		  
 		 Chris Andersen
6.4p, 6.2r, 0.4a		  
 
Lim PT Jason Hart
2p, 1.2r, 1.2a		  
 		 Linas Kleiza
9.9p, 4r, 0.8a		  
 		 Johan Petro
3.3p, 3.2r, 0.3a

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