Seattle 98, Houston 96

May 5, 1989

Opening Round - Seattle wins 3-1

Compaq Center (Houston, Texas)

Attendance: 16,611

Officials: Bill Oakes, Jack Madden, Earl Strom

Team Rebounds: Seattle (0) Houston (0)

Technicals: Seattle (0) Houston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
SEA (47-35) 29 22 25 22 98
HOU (45-37) 27 26 26 17 96

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
SEA 99 98.7 96.7
HOU 99 96.7 98.7

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
SEA .475 0.232 0.321 0.275
HOU .482 0.181 0.235 0.207

Seattle SuperSonics

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
3 Dale Ellis Starter SF 38:00 9-21 4-4 4-7 12.9 3 3 6 1 2 3 0 3 26
53 Alton Lister Starter C 17:00 1-4 0-0 2-2 1.5 0 3 3 0 4 0 1 0 4
34 Xavier McDaniel Starter SG 38:00 7-18 0-1 3-4 8.5 4 6 10 4 4 0 0 4 17
31 Derrick McKey Starter PF 38:00 6-11 0-3 3-4 10.5 2 7 9 4 4 1 1 6 15
10 Nate McMillan Starter PG 34:00 1-4 0-0 4-4 11.2 2 3 5 10 3 3 1 7 6
44 Michael Cage Bench PF 33:00 5-10 0-0 2-6 9.0 4 3 7 0 1 2 0 1 12
0 Olden Polynice Bench C 21:00 3-5 0-0 0-0 9.0 2 9 11 0 4 0 1 1 6
4 Sedale Threatt Bench PG 21:00 4-7 0-0 4-5 11.9 0 2 2 6 3 2 0 1 12
  Team                                
        240 36-80 4-8 22-32 112.5 17 36 53 25 25 11 4 23 98
          45.0% 50.0% 68.8%                    

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
21 Sleepy Floyd Starter PG 41:00 5-14 3-6 1-2 9.0 0 1 1 7 3 2 0 2 14
1 Buck Johnson Starter SF 29:00 2-7 0-1 1-2 3.2 3 1 4 3 3 0 0 1 5
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 40:00 11-17 0-0 2-5 20.9 1 12 13 2 3 4 1 4 24
33 Otis Thorpe Starter PF 35:00 5-7 0-0 1-2 9.2 0 3 3 4 6 4 0 3 11
42 Mike Woodson Starter SG 33:00 4-13 0-2 7-8 11.8 1 2 3 7 2 3 0 2 15
6 Walter Berry Bench PF 11:00 2-5 0-0 1-2 -1.0 1 2 3 0 2 0 0 3 5
3 Derrick Chievous Bench SF 10:00 1-3 0-0 2-2 1.2 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 4
15 Frank Johnson Bench PG 07:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 2.8 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 2 0
30 Allen Leavell Bench PG 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
40 Tim McCormick Bench C 14:00 2-4 0-0 2-2 3.2 0 2 2 0 3 0 1 0 6
52 Chuck Nevitt Bench C 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Purvis Short Bench SF 18:00 6-12 0-1 0-0 4.2 1 1 2 1 3 0 0 0 12
  Team                                
        240 38-82 3-10 17-25 96.6 8 26 34 27 26 14 2 18 96
          46.3% 30.0% 68.0%                    

Seattle SuperSonics Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Nate McMillan
7.1p, 5.2r, 9.3a		 Xavier McDaniel
20.5p, 5.3r, 1.6a		 Dale Ellis
27.5p, 4.2r, 2a		 Derrick McKey
15.9p, 5.7r, 2.7a		 Alton Lister
8p, 6.6r, 0.7a
Rotation Sedale Threatt
8.6p, 1.9r, 3.8a		  
 		  
 		 Michael Cage
10.3p, 9.6r, 1.6a		 Olden Polynice
2.9p, 2.6r, 0.3a

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Sleepy Floyd
14.2p, 3.7r, 8.6a		 Mike Woodson
12.9p, 2.4r, 2.5a		 Buck Johnson
9.6p, 4.3r, 1.9a		 Otis Thorpe
16.7p, 9.6r, 2.5a		 Hakeem Olajuwon
24.8p, 13.5r, 1.8a
Rotation  
 		  
 		 Purvis Short
7.4p, 2.8r, 1.6a		 Walter Berry
8.8p, 3.9r, 1.1a		 Tim McCormick
5.2p, 3.2r, 0.7a
Rotation  
 		  
 		 Derrick Chievous
9.3p, 3.2r, 1a		  
 		  
 
Lim PT Frank Johnson
4.4p, 1.2r, 2.7a		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Chuck Nevitt
1.5p, 1.5r, 0.1a
Lim PT Allen Leavell
3.3p, 1r, 2.3a		  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 

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