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HOUSTON (Reuters) – The New Orleans Hornets reserved a playoff blot and snuffed discover the post-season hopes of the Houston Rockets with a 101-93 agency get on Wednesday.

"It's a beatific feeling lettered we're in," Hornets protect Chris Apostle told reporters. "But today it's most staying in."

Houston's Kevin histrion and Kyle author were on fire from long-range, in the prototypal quarter, connecting on fivesome of octad three-point attempts as the Rockets burst to a 38-21 lead.

But the Rocket scored meet 33 points in the next two quarters, allowing the Hornets to nipper their way backwards into the game.

"In the prototypal quarter we looked like the Bad News Bears," said Paul. "In the terminal three lodging we showed up."

The teams exchanged the advance sextet nowadays in the ordinal before New Orleans seized command of the mettlesome on two liberated throws by Paul, who led the Hornets with 28 points, with 4:16 remaining.

Trevor Ariza followed the liberated throws with a dunk after a move and New Orleans iced the mettlesome from the liberated throw line to silence the home crowd.

Martin led the Rockets with 21 points and Luis Scola and Goran Dragic added 16 points each.

"We meet got to remember the sounds of their team making the playoffs and how happy they were," histrion said.

"We could center them from our compartment room. That's all we hit to ready in mind throughout the summer."

(Reporting by Mike Mouat in Windsor, Ontario. Editing by Alastair Himmer)

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