Finally, a winning streak: Wizards 89, Rockets 87
It only took two months, but finally the Washington Wizards have a winning streak after defeating Houston Rockets.
| Final - 12.29.2008 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Wizards | 21 | 24 | 27 | 17 | 89 |
| Houston Rockets | 22 | 14 | 26 | 25 | 87 |
It only took two months, but finally the Washington Wizards have a winning streak after defeating Houston Rockets.
Wizards 89 - Rockets 87! Dancing like Matt Maloney Mark Madsen right now is entirely appropriate.
| FINAL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 21 | 24 | 27 | 17 | 89 |
| Houston | 22 | 14 | 26 | 25 | 87 |
| Washington | |||||||||||
| Player | Min | FG-A | 3PF-A | FT-A | Reb-O | Ast | Stl | TO | Blk | PF-T | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominic McGuire | 36 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 7-0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2-0 | 0 |
| Antawn Jamison | 36 | 11-23 | 0-3 | 8-8 | 12-3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2-0 | 30 |
| Andray Blatche | 35 | 6-14 | 0-1 | 4-4 | 8-2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3-0 | 16 |
| Nick Young | 23 | 6-11 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 2-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3-0 | 14 |
| Mike James | 33 | 6-15 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 1-0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3-0 | 12 |
| JaVale McGee | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0 |
| DeShawn Stevenson | 22 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 3 |
| Etan Thomas | 15 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0-0 | 2 |
| Darius Songaila | 19 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 4-1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2-0 | 7 |
| Juan Dixon | 10 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0-0 | 5 |
| Javaris Crittenton | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Caron Butler | DNP - Coach's Decision | ||||||||||
| Brendan Haywood | DNP - Injured | ||||||||||
| Gilbert Arenas | DNP - Injured | ||||||||||
| Oleksiy Pecherov | DNP - Injured | ||||||||||
| Team Totals | 36-78 | 1-11 | 16-19 | 41-6 | 24 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 16-0 | 89 | |
| .462 | .091 | .842 | Team Reb: 5 | Total TO: 0 (15 pts) | |||||||
| Houston | |||||||||||
| Player | Min | FG-A | 3PF-A | FT-A | Reb-O | Ast | Stl | TO | Blk | PF-T | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shane Battier | 25 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 5-1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3-0 | 5 |
| Luis Scola | 34 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 5-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5-0 | 16 |
| Yao Ming | 29 | 4-14 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 8-3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3-0 | 12 |
| Tracy McGrady | 32 | 6-17 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 6-1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0-0 | 15 |
| Rafer Alston | 31 | 3-10 | 1-5 | 2-2 | 1-0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0-0 | 9 |
| Ron Artest | 26 | 6-15 | 3-7 | 5-7 | 4-1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 3-0 | 20 |
| Carl Landry | 21 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2-0 | 6 |
| Aaron Brooks | 16 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 2-0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1-0 | 1 |
| Chuck Hayes | 7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Brent Barry | 15 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 3 |
| Von Wafer | DNP - Coach's Decision | ||||||||||
| Luther Head | DNP - Coach's Decision | ||||||||||
| Joey Dorsey | DNP - Injured | ||||||||||
| Team Totals | 32-80 | 7-21 | 16-19 | 39-8 | 21 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 17-1 | 87 | |
| .400 | .333 | .842 | Team Reb: 10 | Total TO: 0 (8 pts) | |||||||