Denver 93, New Orleans 95

April 25, 2009

Opening Round - Denver wins 4-1

Smoothie King Center (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Attendance: 17,489

Officials: Derrick Stafford, Bennett Salvatore, Tom Washington

Team Rebounds: Denver (10) New Orleans (7)

Technicals: Denver (1 (Bench)) New Orleans (1 (Coach), 1 (Bench))

  1 2 3 4 Final
DEN (54-28) 26 21 25 21 93
NOP (49-33) 21 29 27 18 95

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
DEN 90 102.9 105.1
NOP 90 105.1 102.9

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
DEN .466 0.155 0.227 0.324
NOP .486 0.166 0.200 0.406

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 37:43 10-24 1-2 4-8 13.8 3 5 8 5 2 1 0 2 25
1 Chauncey Billups Starter PG 39:25 3-10 2-4 8-10 13.5 0 7 7 6 3 1 0 2 16
31 Maybyner Nene Starter C 32:58 1-4 0-0 0-0 5.0 4 4 8 1 6 3 0 2 2
30 Dahntay Jones Starter SG 16:42 1-3 0-1 5-6 4.5 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 7
4 Kenyon Martin Starter PF 37:39 5-8 0-0 2-3 7.1 3 7 10 2 6 1 0 6 12
11 Chris Andersen Bench C 15:08 1-1 0-0 1-2 3.2 0 3 3 1 3 0 0 0 3
5 Anthony Carter Bench PG 14:58 0-2 0-1 1-2 0.8 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 1
43 Linas Kleiza Bench SF 20:36 4-8 2-4 3-4 5.8 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 1 13
5 J.R. Smith Bench SG 24:51 5-14 4-9 0-0 4.8 0 5 5 0 3 0 0 1 14
  Team                   10            
        240 30-74 9-21 24-35 84.4 10 34 54 19 29 7 1 14 93
          40.5% 42.9% 68.6%                    

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 40:34 5-8 3-4 4-4 13.0 1 4 5 0 3 1 0 0 17
6 Tyson Chandler Starter C 17:43 1-1 0-0 0-0 -1.2 1 2 3 0 6 0 0 2 2
3 Chris Paul Starter PG 45:47 11-20 2-6 8-9 23.9 0 5 5 12 1 1 0 6 32
16 Peja Stojakovic Starter SF 32:10 1-9 0-4 2-2 -2.2 0 3 3 0 4 2 0 1 4
30 David West Starter PF 40:36 7-18 0-0 5-8 6.0 3 6 9 1 6 1 0 3 19
50 Antonio Daniels Bench PG 14:28 0-2 0-1 0-0 1.0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0
4 Sean Marks Bench C 26:04 3-5 0-0 2-3 9.9 3 3 6 0 3 1 2 0 8
41 James Posey Bench SF 22:38 2-6 2-5 7-9 6.4 0 9 9 0 5 0 0 3 13
  Team                   7         1  
        240 30-69 7-20 28-35 82.6 8 32 47 16 29 6 2 16 95
          43.5% 35.0% 80.0%                    

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

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		  
 		 James Posey
8.9p, 4.8r, 1.1a		  
 		 Sean Marks
3.2p, 3.1r, 0.2a

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