Houston Rockets @ Washington Wizards

3-1, 1-0 Away

159

3-1, 1-0 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Rockets HOU	35	41	35	48	159
Wizards WSH	34	43	40	41	158

Washington WizardsWizardsWSH

1-3, 0-1 Home

158

1-3, 0-1 Home

Houston Rockets

starters
P.J. TuckerP.J. Tucker#17
Danuel House Jr.D. House Jr.#4
Clint CapelaC. Capela#15
Russell WestbrookR. Westbrook#0
James HardenJ. Harden#13
bench
Ryan AndersonR. Anderson#33
Thabo SefoloshaT. Sefolosha#18
Tyson ChandlerT. Chandler#19
Austin RiversA. Rivers#25
Ben McLemoreB. McLemore#16
Eric GordonE. Gordon#10
Gary ClarkG. Clark#6
Chris ClemonsC. Clemons#3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
33	9	3-7	1-4	2-2	5	4	0	3	0	2	3	5	+9
29	16	5-9	4-7	2-2	7	1	1	2	1	3	4	1	-2
30	21	9-13	0-0	3-7	12	3	1	1	2	5	7	1	-1
35	17	7-16	1-5	2-4	10	12	4	2	1	4	6	2	+2
38	59	18-32	6-14	17-18	3	9	4	1	0	1	2	3	+6
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
4	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-4
10	3	1-3	1-3	0-0	3	1	2	0	1	3	0	2	-6
4	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
20	11	4-6	3-5	0-0	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	4	-13
8	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	+13
30	15	5-13	5-13	0-0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	4	+1
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	159	55-103	23-54	26-33	44	34	13	10	5	19	25	24
		53%	43%	79%

Washington Wizards

starters
Rui HachimuraR. Hachimura#8
Thomas BryantT. Bryant#13
Ish SmithI. Smith#14
Bradley BealB. Beal#3
Isaac BongaI. Bonga#17
bench
Moritz WagnerM. Wagner#21
Troy Brown Jr.T. Brown Jr.#6
Davis BertansD. Bertans#42
Isaiah ThomasI. Thomas#4
Justin RobinsonJ. Robinson#5
Jordan McRaeJ. McRae#52
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
36	23	9-15	3-3	2-2	5	0	1	0	0	2	3	2	-12
34	13	5-10	0-1	3-4	12	5	1	1	4	1	11	1	-6
23	6	3-6	0-2	0-2	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	-7
41	46	14-20	7-12	11-12	6	8	5	3	0	2	4	4	+8
25	6	3-4	0-0	0-0	3	2	2	0	0	2	1	5	-16
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
14	12	5-8	0-1	2-3	5	1	3	1	0	2	3	2	+5
17	14	5-7	2-4	2-2	3	0	1	0	0	1	2	2	+12
27	21	7-10	6-9	1-1	3	2	0	0	0	0	3	4	+4
24	17	6-11	2-4	3-3	2	10	5	1	0	1	1	5	+7
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-MALLET FINGER
	158	57-91	20-36	24-29	40	31	19	6	4	11	29	27
		63%	56%	83%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

HOU

HOU wins season

1-0

WSH

159

Game 1@ WSH

Final

158

Game Information

Washington, DC

Referee:James Capers

Referee:Jason Goldenberg

Referee:Kevin Scott

Western Conference

Southwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	62	20	.756	-	L1
Houston	52	30	.634	10	W1
New Orleans	26	56	.317	36	L2
Dallas	26	56	.317	36	W1
Memphis	25	57	.305	37	L8

Eastern Conference

Southeast	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Atlanta	46	36	.561	-	L1
Orlando	45	37	.549	1	L1
Charlotte	44	38	.537	2	W1
Miami	43	39	.524	3	W2
Washington	17	65	.207	29	L10

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