Houston 85, Cleveland 75

November 25, 1989

Regular Season

Richfield Coliseum (Richfield, Ohio)

Attendance: 17,139

Officials: Bennett Salvatore, Ken Mauer, Paul Mihalak

Team Rebounds: Houston (0) Cleveland (0)

Technicals: Houston (0) Cleveland (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (7-6) 24 29 19 13 85
CLE (5-6) 21 20 10 24 75

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 87 97.7 86.2
CLE 87 86.2 97.7

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .412 0.126 0.333 0.052
CLE .359 0.057 0.294 0.098

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
1 Buck Johnson Starter SF 24:00 1-7 0-0 0-0 1.8 3 2 5 3 5 0 1 1 2
10 John Lucas Starter PG 33:00 3-9 1-3 0-0 11.5 1 5 6 8 1 1 0 2 7
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 27:00 9-14 0-0 3-4 21.0 3 6 9 3 3 1 4 2 21
33 Otis Thorpe Starter PF 29:00 6-18 0-0 2-2 9.8 6 4 10 2 2 1 0 1 14
15 Mitchell Wiggins Starter SG 22:00 6-13 0-0 0-0 8.2 3 6 9 0 1 1 0 2 12
25 Anthony Bowie Bench SF 26:00 5-10 0-0 0-0 6.0 1 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 10
44 Adrian Caldwell Bench PF 06:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 1.8 0 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0
3 Derrick Chievous Bench SF 04:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 -1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
9 Byron Dinkins Bench PG 15:00 1-4 0-0 0-0 2.2 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 2
21 Sleepy Floyd Bench PG 21:00 5-14 1-3 0-0 -0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11
13 Larry Smith Bench PF 27:00 2-5 0-0 0-0 12.8 4 12 16 1 3 0 0 0 4
42 Mike Woodson Bench SG 06:00 1-3 0-0 0-0 -0.5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2
  Team                                
        240 39-97 2-6 5-6 85.0 21 42 63 21 17 4 5 11 85
          40.2% 33.3% 83.3%                    

Cleveland Cavaliers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
3 Craig Ehlo Starter SG 31:00 6-17 0-2 0-0 4.0 1 5 6 2 0 1 0 3 12
31 Randolph Keys Starter SF 23:00 2-6 0-0 3-4 4.8 2 5 7 0 2 0 0 1 7
44 Paul Mokeski Starter C 19:00 3-7 0-0 0-0 5.2 3 2 5 1 2 0 0 0 6
25 Mark Price Starter PG 24:00 4-13 0-2 0-0 4.5 0 1 1 5 1 1 0 0 8
18 Hot Rod Williams Starter PF 34:00 5-12 0-0 3-4 15.5 1 8 9 2 0 2 2 0 13
20 Winston Bennett Bench SF 16:00 3-4 0-0 1-2 8.5 5 1 6 1 1 0 0 1 7
52 Chucky Brown Bench SF 17:00 2-4 0-0 1-1 2.9 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 5
24 Chris Dudley Bench C 26:00 1-7 0-0 1-5 8.4 3 6 9 1 0 0 4 0 3
4 Steve Kerr Bench SG 19:00 4-11 1-3 0-0 6.8 0 2 2 5 1 0 0 0 9
23 John Morton Bench SG 10:00 0-3 0-2 0-0 -0.2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
2 Reggie Williams Bench SF 21:00 2-8 1-2 0-0 3.2 0 3 3 0 2 1 2 0 5
  Team                                
        240 32-92 2-11 9-16 57.5 15 36 51 19 11 5 8 5 75
          34.8% 18.2% 56.3%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters John Lucas
5.9p, 2.5r, 5.7a
Mitchell Wiggins
21.2p, 5.4r, 1.2a
Buck Johnson
13.2p, 4.6r, 2.1a
Otis Thorpe
16.8p, 8.9r, 3.1a
Hakeem Olajuwon
18.9p, 11.8r, 2.6a
Rotation Sleepy Floyd
9.8p, 2.5r, 5.6a
 
 
Anthony Bowie
5.6p, 2.6r, 2a
Larry Smith
2.8p, 8r, 1.2a
 
 
Rotation Byron Dinkins
4.3p, 1.4r, 2.9a
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Mike Woodson
3.9p, 0.9r, 0.9a
Derrick Chievous
4.3p, 1.5r, 0.6a
Adrian Caldwell
1.3p, 1.8r, 0.2a
 
 

Cleveland Cavaliers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Mark Price
19p, 1.7r, 7.7a
Craig Ehlo
15.7p, 5.4r, 4.5a
Randolph Keys
12p, 3.8r, 1.2a
Hot Rod Williams
18.4p, 9.5r, 1.9a
Paul Mokeski
7.2p, 4.1r, 0.7a
Rotation  
 
Steve Kerr
8p, 1.9r, 4.4a
Reggie Williams
9.9p, 2.9r, 1.5a
 
 
Chris Dudley
3p, 3.8r, 0.3a
Rotation  
 
John Morton
5.7p, 1.3r, 4a
Chucky Brown
6.4p, 3.8r, 0.5a
 
 
 
 
Rotation  
 
 
 
Winston Bennett
4p, 3r, 0.4a
 
 
 
 

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