Denver 116, Portland 112

April 24, 1986

Opening Round - Denver wins 3-1

Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Portland, Oregon)

Attendance: 12,666

Officials: Hue Hollins, Jack Madden

Team Rebounds: Denver (0) Portland (0)

Technicals: Denver (0) Portland (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
DEN (47-35) 24 28 37 27 116
POR (40-42) 33 30 30 19 112

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
DEN 101 114.8 110.8
POR 101 110.8 114.8

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
DEN .478 0.148 0.354 0.304
POR .517 0.139 0.302 0.211

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
23 T.R. Dunn Starter SG 35:00 2-6 0-0 3-4 15.5 5 6 11 3 4 4 0 0 7
2 Alex English Starter PF 40:00 8-22 0-0 4-5 7.6 2 0 2 8 2 0 0 3 20
12 Fat Lever Starter PG 40:00 12-20 2-2 4-5 18.1 2 2 4 4 3 0 0 1 30
33 Calvin Natt Starter SF 34:00 6-14 0-0 10-12 8.0 0 6 6 1 3 0 0 3 22
34 Danny Schayes Starter C 40:00 4-9 0-0 2-2 9.2 1 7 8 1 1 0 3 3 10
42 Wayne Cooper Bench C 13:00 5-7 0-0 3-3 7.1 1 2 3 0 2 0 0 1 13
5 Mike Evans Bench PG 09:00 1-2 0-1 2-2 1.5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 4
41 Blair Rasmussen Bench C 16:00 3-7 0-0 0-1 6.4 4 6 10 1 5 0 0 1 6
21 Elston Turner Bench SG 13:00 2-5 0-0 0-0 3.0 2 1 3 4 4 0 0 2 4
  Team                                
        240 43-92 2-3 28-34 100.5 17 31 48 22 24 4 3 15 116
          46.7% 66.7% 82.4%                    

Portland Trail Blazers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
34 Kenny Carr Starter SF 39:00 6-13 0-0 2-2 21.5 4 14 18 6 3 1 0 2 14
20 Steve Colter Starter PG 29:00 2-7 0-0 0-0 10.8 1 2 3 8 3 3 1 1 4
22 Clyde Drexler Starter SG 36:00 5-8 0-0 6-6 13.0 1 3 4 6 6 0 2 3 16
43 Mychal Thompson Starter C 36:00 8-16 0-0 7-12 10.5 1 4 5 4 2 1 0 4 23
55 Kiki Vandeweghe Starter PF 36:00 12-19 0-1 0-0 8.8 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 24
27 Caldwell Jones Bench C 22:00 5-8 0-0 0-0 10.2 3 5 8 0 3 0 1 0 10
25 Jerome Kersey Bench SF 11:00 3-6 0-0 0-0 1.5 2 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 6
4 Jim Paxson Bench SF 16:00 5-12 1-3 4-6 9.0 1 1 2 4 1 1 0 1 15
30 Terry Porter Bench SG 15:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 2.5 0 1 1 4 3 1 0 1 0
  Team                                
        240 46-90 1-4 19-26 105.8 13 30 43 33 27 7 5 14 112
          51.1% 25.0% 73.1%                    

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Fat Lever
13.8p, 5.4r, 7.5a
T.R. Dunn
5p, 4.6r, 2.1a
Calvin Natt
17.7p, 6.3r, 2.3a
Alex English
29.8p, 5r, 4a
Danny Schayes
8.2p, 5.5r, 1a
Rotation  
 
Elston Turner
5.1p, 2.7r, 2.3a
 
 
 
 
Blair Rasmussen
3.2p, 2r, 0.3a
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wayne Cooper
13.1p, 7.8r, 1a
Lim PT Mike Evans
9.5p, 1.3r, 2.2a
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Portland Trail Blazers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Steve Colter
8.7p, 2.2r, 3.2a
Clyde Drexler
18.5p, 5.6r, 8a
Kenny Carr
11.1p, 8.9r, 1.3a
Kiki Vandeweghe
24.8p, 2.7r, 2.4a
Mychal Thompson
14.7p, 7.4r, 2.1a
Rotation  
 
Terry Porter
7.1p, 1.5r, 2.5a
Jim Paxson
13.1p, 2r, 3.7a
 
 
Caldwell Jones
4.7p, 4.4r, 0.9a
Rotation  
 
 
 
Jerome Kersey
8.5p, 3.7r, 1.1a
 
 
 
 

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