Denver 114, Phoenix 132

April 30, 1989

Opening Round - Phoenix wins 3-0

Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Phoenix, Arizona)

Attendance: 14,471

Officials: Bob Delaney, Jess Kersey, Paul Mihalak

Team Rebounds: Denver (0) Phoenix (0)

Technicals: Denver (0) Phoenix (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
DEN (44-38) 24 21 40 29 114
PHX (55-27) 30 37 35 30 132

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
DEN 106 107.5 124.4
PHX 106 124.4 107.5

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
DEN .541 0.189 0.217 0.244
PHX .505 0.066 0.227 0.409

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 21:00 3-9 1-1 0-0 7.8 1 4 5 6 5 2 0 2 7
42 Wayne Cooper Starter C 12:00 2-3 0-0 0-0 2.2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 4
2 Alex English Starter PF 40:00 15-21 0-0 6-6 19.2 2 3 5 6 2 0 0 8 36
24 Bill Hanzlik Starter SF 33:00 6-9 2-3 5-8 16.8 2 6 8 1 4 2 0 0 19
12 Fat Lever Starter PG 11:00 1-3 0-0 0-0 1.0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 2
14 Michael Adams Bench PG 36:00 8-17 6-12 3-4 17.8 4 8 12 5 4 0 0 6 25
6 Walter Davis Bench SF 31:00 6-16 0-3 5-5 1.4 0 1 1 1 5 0 0 1 17
22 David Greenwood Bench PF 14:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 4 4 0 3 0 1 1 0
35 Jerome Lane Bench SF 12:00 0-2 0-1 2-2 2.0 0 3 3 1 2 0 0 0 2
41 Blair Rasmussen Bench C 03:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 -1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
34 Danny Schayes Bench C 07:00 0-2 0-0 0-0 1.0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Elston Turner Bench SG 20:00 1-3 0-0 0-0 -0.2 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 0 2
  Team                                
        240 42-86 9-20 21-25 106.6 10 36 46 22 31 4 1 20 114
          48.8% 45.0% 84.0%                    

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 40:00 7-17 3-4 7-8 21.0 1 11 12 6 5 0 3 3 24
23 Tyrone Corbin Starter SF 15:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 6.2 1 4 5 1 2 1 0 0 2
14 Jeff Hornacek Starter SG 24:00 7-14 0-1 3-5 12.1 2 2 4 3 2 2 0 0 17
7 Kevin Johnson Starter PG 41:00 8-19 0-1 18-19 31.9 1 1 2 14 1 4 0 0 34
41 Mark West Starter C 06:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 -1.5 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 2
25 T.R. Dunn Bench SG 24:00 2-3 0-0 0-0 6.0 1 3 4 0 4 3 0 0 4
35 Armen Gilliam Bench PF 16:00 3-5 0-0 5-5 8.9 1 2 3 0 0 1 0 0 11
8 Eddie Johnson Bench SF 36:00 10-19 1-3 0-0 12.0 2 5 7 1 3 0 1 1 21
28 Andrew Lang Bench C 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Dan Majerle Bench SG 35:00 6-12 0-1 5-8 12.5 1 6 7 2 2 2 1 2 17
45 Ed Nealy Bench SF 01:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
34 Tim Perry Bench PF 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                                
        240 45-93 4-10 38-45 112.4 10 34 44 27 21 13 5 7 132
          48.4% 40.0% 84.4%                    

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 Michael Adams
18.5p, 3.7r, 6.4a
Elston Turner
4.3p, 3.7r, 1.8a
Walter Davis
15.6p, 1.9r, 2.3a
David Greenwood
7p, 6r, 1.4a
 
 
Rotation  
 
 
 
Jerome Lane
4.8p, 3.7r, 1.1a
 
 
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Danny Schayes
12.8p, 6.6r, 1.4a
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Blair Rasmussen
7.6p, 3.7r, 0.6a

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
 
 
Rotation  
 
T.R. Dunn
1p, 1.8r, 0.7a
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
Ed Nealy
0.7p, 1.8r, 0.3a
Tim Perry
4.1p, 2.1r, 0.3a
Andrew Lang
2.6p, 2.4r, 0.1a

Today's Games

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