Denver 103, Phoenix 104

April 28, 1989

Opening Round - Phoenix wins 3-0

Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Phoenix, Arizona)

Attendance: 14,471

Officials: Steve Javie, Eddie Rush, Bill Saar

Team Rebounds: Denver (0) Phoenix (0)

Technicals: Denver (0) Phoenix (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
DEN (44-38) 20 22 32 29 103
PHX (55-27) 23 32 22 27 104

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
DEN 110 93.8 94.7
PHX 110 94.7 93.8

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
DEN .443 0.173 0.267 0.188
PHX .429 0.228 0.274 0.365

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
1 Darwin Cook Starter SG 23:00 2-4 0-0 4-4 9.5 0 4 4 5 4 1 0 1 8
42 Wayne Cooper Starter C 15:00 1-4 0-0 0-0 3.5 2 4 6 1 5 1 0 0 2
2 Alex English Starter PF 30:00 9-19 0-0 2-4 2.5 3 1 4 0 3 1 0 5 20
24 Bill Hanzlik Starter SF 35:00 3-9 1-1 0-2 5.8 3 3 6 2 4 1 0 0 7
12 Fat Lever Starter PG 47:00 8-21 2-3 2-2 27.5 2 10 12 17 3 4 0 5 20
6 Walter Davis Bench SF 33:00 15-29 0-1 4-4 11.0 1 1 2 2 3 2 0 4 34
22 David Greenwood Bench PF 05:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -3.0 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 3 0
34 Danny Schayes Bench C 29:00 1-5 0-0 6-8 7.5 1 7 8 1 4 1 1 1 8
21 Elston Turner Bench SG 23:00 2-4 0-0 0-0 2.5 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 0 4
  Team                                
        240 41-96 3-5 18-24 102.8 12 33 45 29 30 12 1 19 103
          42.7% 60.0% 75.0%                    

Phoenix Suns

# 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 43:00 9-20 1-2 7-8 18.8 0 17 17 3 4 0 1 4 26
23 Tyrone Corbin Starter SF 20:00 0-4 0-0 1-4 0.5 2 4 6 1 0 0 0 2 1
14 Jeff Hornacek Starter SG 29:00 4-11 0-2 2-2 5.2 1 1 2 4 3 3 0 3 10
7 Kevin Johnson Starter PG 41:00 7-14 1-3 11-13 16.6 0 2 2 9 1 2 0 6 26
41 Mark West Starter C 26:00 3-5 0-0 3-4 16.0 6 5 11 2 3 3 0 1 9
25 T.R. Dunn Bench SG 06:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
35 Armen Gilliam Bench PF 26:00 4-10 0-0 6-6 11.0 6 9 15 1 4 0 0 5 14
8 Eddie Johnson Bench SF 29:00 7-17 1-4 1-2 11.2 2 5 7 4 2 3 0 3 16
28 Andrew Lang Bench C 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 0
9 Dan Majerle Bench SG 19:00 1-4 0-1 0-0 1.0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 2
  Team                                
        240 35-85 3-12 31-39 125.9 17 45 62 25 21 12 2 25 104
          41.2% 25.0% 79.5%                    

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Fat Lever
19.8p, 9.3r, 7.9a		 Darwin Cook
7.7p, 1.6r, 1.9a		 Bill Hanzlik
4.9p, 2.3r, 2.1a		 Alex English
26.5p, 4r, 4.7a		 Wayne Cooper
6.6p, 7.8r, 1a
Rotation  
 		 Elston Turner
4.3p, 3.7r, 1.8a		 Walter Davis
15.6p, 1.9r, 2.3a		  
 		 Danny Schayes
12.8p, 6.6r, 1.4a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		 David Greenwood
7p, 6r, 1.4a		  
 

Phoenix Suns Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Kevin Johnson
20.4p, 4.2r, 12.2a		 Jeff Hornacek
13.5p, 3.4r, 6a		 Tyrone Corbin
8.2p, 5.2r, 1.5a		 Tom Chambers
25.7p, 8.4r, 2.9a		 Mark West
7.2p, 6.7r, 0.5a
Rotation  
 		 Dan Majerle
8.6p, 3.9r, 2.4a		 Eddie Johnson
21.5p, 4.4r, 2.3a		 Armen Gilliam
15.9p, 7.3r, 0.7a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 T.R. Dunn
1p, 1.8r, 0.7a		  
 		  
 		 Andrew Lang
2.6p, 2.4r, 0.1a

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