Miami 86, Houston 66

December 21, 1996

Regular Season

Compaq Center (Houston, Texas)

Attendance: 16,285

Officials: Leon Wood, Ron Olesiak, Jess Kersey

Team Rebounds: Miami (8) Houston (9)

Technicals: Miami (0) Houston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIA (19-7) 25 26 12 23 86
HOU (21-5) 19 19 20 8 66

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIA 81 106.4 81.7
HOU 81 81.7 106.4

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIA .474 0.186 0.294 0.169
HOU .352 0.186 0.375 0.225

Miami Heat

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
2 Keith Askins Starter SF 28:00 1-4 1-3 0-0 3.0 2 2 4 1 1 1 0 2 3
42 P.J. Brown Starter C 29:00 2-6 0-0 2-2 10.8 3 4 7 2 4 2 5 3 6
5 Sasha Danilovic Starter SG 26:00 3-9 2-6 0-1 4.9 1 4 5 2 4 0 0 0 8
10 Tim Hardaway Starter PG 39:00 7-23 2-10 2-2 9.2 0 3 3 7 0 2 0 2 18
33 Alonzo Mourning Starter PF 39:00 7-11 0-0 4-4 23.8 5 12 17 5 5 1 3 5 18
8 Ike Austin Bench C 09:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 3.2 1 3 4 0 1 0 1 1 2
23 Gary Grant Bench SG 07:00 2-3 1-1 0-0 2.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
21 Voshon Lenard Bench SG 38:00 7-15 5-11 3-3 13.1 1 4 5 0 3 1 1 1 22
31 Martin Muursepp Bench C 01:00 1-2 0-0 0-2 1.8 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
32 James Scott Bench SF 02:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.5 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
5 Mark Strickland Bench PF 02:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
40 Kurt Thomas Bench PF 20:00 0-2 0-0 2-2 -1.0 1 3 4 0 6 0 0 1 2
  Team                   8         1  
        240 31-77 11-31 13-16 82.8 15 36 59 19 25 7 10 16 86
          40.3% 35.5% 81.3%                    

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
17 Mario Elie Starter SF 46:00 5-11 1-2 2-3 1.1 1 2 3 2 4 1 0 6 13
12 Matt Maloney Starter PG 26:00 2-7 1-4 2-2 3.0 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 7
9 Tracy Moore Starter SG 32:00 2-7 1-3 3-5 2.6 1 1 2 3 2 0 0 2 8
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter PF 42:00 6-17 1-1 7-11 19.4 4 9 13 3 3 5 2 3 20
43 Kevin Willis Starter C 36:00 4-11 0-0 1-4 5.0 5 7 12 0 5 0 1 3 9
50 Matt Bullard Bench C 07:00 0-2 0-2 0-0 -0.5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
32 Othella Harrington Bench PF 18:00 3-8 0-0 0-0 1.2 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 6
3 Randy Livingston Bench SG 24:00 1-8 0-0 1-2 1.5 1 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 3
7 Sam Mack Bench SF 09:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 3.5 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                   9         1  
        240 23-71 4-12 16-27 58.9 15 25 49 12 17 8 4 16 66
          32.4% 33.3% 59.3%                    

Miami Heat Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Tim Hardaway
18.4p, 3.2r, 7.3a		 Sasha Danilovic
11.8p, 2.1r, 1.6a		 Keith Askins
3.9p, 2.3r, 0.5a		 Alonzo Mourning
18.8p, 10.7r, 1.7a		 P.J. Brown
8p, 7.6r, 1.1a
Rotation  
 		 Voshon Lenard
5.1p, 1.5r, 0.7a		  
 		 Kurt Thomas
6.7p, 6.7r, 0.6a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 Gary Grant
4.2p, 1.4r, 1.7a		 James Scott
0p, 0.6r, 0.6a		 Mark Strickland
1.2p, 1.2r, 0a		 Ike Austin
7.2p, 4.7r, 0.8a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Martin Muursepp
2p, 1r, 1a

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Matt Maloney
10.7p, 1.8r, 3.1a		 Tracy Moore
4.1p, 1.1r, 0.8a		 Mario Elie
12.1p, 2.4r, 4.3a		 Hakeem Olajuwon
22.8p, 9.5r, 2.9a		 Kevin Willis
9.2p, 6.5r, 0.7a
Rotation  
 		 Randy Livingston
3.1p, 1.2r, 1.8a		  
 		 Othella Harrington
4.3p, 2.5r, 0.3a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Sam Mack
3.1p, 1.2r, 0.7a		  
 		 Matt Bullard
5p, 1.5r, 1a

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