Seattle 111, Denver 91

May 1, 1988

Opening Round - Denver wins 3-2

McNichols Sports Arena (Denver, Colorado)

Attendance: 17,022

Officials: Jack Nies, Bill Oakes, Jake ODonnell

Team Rebounds: Seattle (0) Denver (0)

Technicals: Seattle (0) Denver (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
SEA (44-38) 34 32 25 20 111
DEN (54-28) 22 19 23 27 91

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
SEA 98 113.2 92.8
DEN 98 92.8 113.2

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
SEA .516 0.153 0.269 0.137
DEN .333 0.112 0.357 0.344

Seattle SuperSonics

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
24 Tom Chambers Starter PF 36:00 7-16 0-0 4-4 11.5 0 8 8 5 4 1 0 3 18
3 Dale Ellis Starter SG 32:00 11-20 2-3 0-0 15.8 2 5 7 5 4 0 0 2 24
53 Alton Lister Starter C 06:00 1-3 0-0 0-1 1.9 2 0 2 1 3 0 1 0 2
34 Xavier McDaniel Starter SF 40:00 11-19 0-1 1-1 24.1 6 11 17 5 1 0 0 3 23
10 Nate McMillan Starter PG 24:00 4-9 0-0 1-1 10.1 3 3 6 6 4 0 0 1 9
45 Clemon Johnson Bench C 06:00 2-2 0-0 1-2 5.2 0 2 2 0 2 1 1 0 5
31 Derrick McKey Bench PF 21:00 4-8 0-1 2-3 5.6 0 3 3 1 1 1 1 2 10
0 Olden Polynice Bench C 06:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 1.8 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
40 Russ Schoene Bench C 05:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 0.5 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 2
4 Sedale Threatt Bench PG 22:00 3-10 0-0 2-2 2.2 0 2 2 3 2 0 0 1 8
30 Kevin Williams Bench PG 16:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 -0.5 0 0 0 1 4 1 0 1 2
22 Danny Young Bench SG 26:00 3-4 0-0 2-2 7.5 0 3 3 3 2 1 0 2 8
  Team                                
        240 48-95 2-5 13-16 109.8 14 38 52 30 29 6 3 15 111
          50.5% 40.0% 81.3%                    

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
14 Michael Adams Starter PG 31:00 2-11 1-6 7-7 13.4 1 5 6 5 1 4 1 2 12
2 Alex English Starter SF 39:00 6-18 0-0 4-6 2.0 2 3 5 0 3 0 0 1 16
12 Fat Lever Starter SG 39:00 5-20 0-4 1-2 9.5 5 7 12 3 2 0 2 0 11
41 Blair Rasmussen Starter C 09:00 3-4 0-0 0-0 3.2 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 2 6
34 Danny Schayes Starter PF 23:00 2-7 0-0 4-6 5.5 3 2 5 1 3 0 1 0 8
35 Michael Brooks Bench SF 02:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 T.R. Dunn Bench SG 15:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 1 1 2 1 2 0 0 1 0
5 Mike Evans Bench PG 32:00 6-14 1-4 3-3 9.9 0 4 4 4 1 1 0 2 16
24 Bill Hanzlik Bench SF 21:00 0-5 0-2 4-4 2.2 1 0 1 4 3 0 1 1 4
11 Maurice Martin Bench SF 04:00 1-2 0-1 2-2 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4
30 Jay Vincent Bench SF 23:00 4-9 0-0 6-6 8.2 1 3 4 0 2 1 1 1 14
42 Wayne Cooper Bench C 02:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                                
        240 29-90 2-17 31-36 63.8 15 27 42 18 19 6 7 11 91
          32.2% 11.8% 86.1%                    

Seattle SuperSonics Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Nate McMillan
7.6p, 4.1r, 8.6a		 Dale Ellis
25.8p, 4.5r, 2.6a		 Xavier McDaniel
21.4p, 6.6r, 3.4a		 Tom Chambers
20.4p, 6r, 2.6a		 Alton Lister
5.6p, 7.6r, 0.7a
Rotation Sedale Threatt
6.9p, 1.2r, 2.3a		 Danny Young
3.2p, 1r, 2.8a		  
 		 Derrick McKey
8.5p, 4r, 1.3a		  
 
Rotation Kevin Williams
6.3p, 1.6r, 1.2a		  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Clemon Johnson
1.6p, 2.4r, 0.2a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Olden Polynice
4.1p, 4r, 0.4a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Russ Schoene
6p, 2.4r, 0.7a

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Michael Adams
14p, 2.7r, 6.1a		 Fat Lever
18.8p, 8.1r, 7.7a		 Alex English
25p, 4.7r, 4.7a		 Danny Schayes
13.9p, 8.2r, 1.3a		 Blair Rasmussen
12.7p, 5.5r, 1a
Rotation Mike Evans
6.1p, 0.9r, 1.4a		 T.R. Dunn
2.2p, 2.9r, 1.1a		 Jay Vincent
15.4p, 4.2r, 2a		  
 		  
 
Rotation  
 		  
 		 Bill Hanzlik
4.5p, 2.2r, 2.2a		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Maurice Martin
2.2p, 0.9r, 0.5a		  
 		 Wayne Cooper
6.4p, 6r, 0.7a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Michael Brooks
2.7p, 2.8r, 0.8a		  
 		  
 

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