Minnesota 96, Cleveland 108

December 30, 1996

Regular Season

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (Cleveland, Ohio)

Attendance: 16,587

Officials: Bennie Adams, Jess Kersey, Don Vaden

Team Rebounds: Minnesota (5) Cleveland (14)

Technicals: Minnesota (0) Cleveland (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIN (12-18) 16 22 18 40 96
CLE (19-10) 27 28 32 21 108

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIN 88 109.5 123.2
CLE 88 123.2 109.5

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIN .522 0.228 0.257 0.348
CLE .629 0.125 0.212 0.286

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
21 Kevin Garnett Starter PF 36:00 4-7 0-0 3-3 12.6 1 4 5 2 0 1 3 2 11
24 Tom Gugliotta Starter SF 35:00 5-13 2-3 5-6 6.0 2 6 8 1 3 0 1 6 17
3 Stephon Marbury Starter PG 28:00 3-12 1-4 6-6 8.2 1 0 1 5 1 2 1 2 13
11 Stojko Vrankovic Starter C 09:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 3.8 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 1 2
5 Doug West Starter SG 22:00 1-6 0-0 0-0 2.2 0 3 3 4 1 0 0 1 2
43 Chris Carr Bench SG 26:00 3-6 1-4 4-5 9.6 1 4 5 3 2 0 0 1 11
22 Dean Garrett Bench C 09:00 0-0 0-0 2-2 1.2 0 2 2 0 5 1 0 0 2
10 Shane Heal Bench PG 11:00 2-7 2-4 0-0 -0.8 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 6
42 Sam Mitchell Bench SF 22:00 2-3 0-0 1-1 4.9 2 2 4 0 2 2 0 2 5
44 Cherokee Parks Bench C 23:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 0.8 1 3 4 2 6 0 0 2 2
30 Terry Porter Bench SG 09:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 -3.5 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 3 2
26 James Robinson Bench PG 10:00 7-9 6-7 3-3 16.4 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 23
  Team                   5            
        240 30-69 12-22 24-26 87.5 9 26 40 19 31 8 7 20 96
          43.5% 54.5% 92.3%                    

Cleveland Cavaliers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
1 Terrell Brandon Starter PG 29:00 10-12 3-3 8-10 22.2 0 2 2 5 3 1 0 2 31
35 Danny Ferry Starter C 33:00 5-10 3-5 4-4 13.0 1 2 3 3 1 1 0 1 17
32 Tyrone Hill Starter PF 16:00 1-2 0-0 2-2 4.2 0 6 6 0 4 0 0 0 4
24 Chris Mills Starter SF 37:00 5-10 3-4 1-2 14.8 1 2 3 4 3 3 1 0 14
14 Bobby Phills Starter SG 33:00 4-9 2-3 2-4 13.2 1 4 5 7 1 1 0 2 12
2 Reggie Geary Bench PG 05:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 -1.0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2
21 Antonio Lang Bench PF 12:00 2-3 0-0 1-4 3.2 1 2 3 0 1 1 0 1 5
13 Donny Marshall Bench SF 18:00 1-5 1-4 1-4 -3.0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 1 4
52 Vitaly Potapenko Bench C 15:00 4-6 0-0 1-1 7.1 3 2 5 0 1 0 0 1 9
3 Bob Sura Bench SG 21:00 3-7 2-2 0-2 10.8 0 3 3 8 1 1 0 2 8
30 Carl Thomas Bench SG 06:00 1-3 0-2 0-0 -1.0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 2
41 Mark West Bench C 15:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 0.5 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 0 0
  Team                   14            
        240 37-70 14-23 20-33 102.1 7 26 47 28 25 8 2 11 108
          52.9% 60.9% 60.6%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Stephon Marbury
15.8p, 2.7r, 6.7a
Doug West
8.9p, 2.1r, 2a
Tom Gugliotta
22p, 8.6r, 3.5a
Kevin Garnett
14.9p, 8.8r, 3.2a
Stojko Vrankovic
4.5p, 3.9r, 0.4a
Rotation Shane Heal
2.7p, 0.4r, 0.7a
Chris Carr
4.9p, 2r, 0.9a
Sam Mitchell
10.5p, 4.9r, 1.4a
 
 
Cherokee Parks
3.6p, 2.8r, 0.5a
Rotation James Robinson
7.1p, 1.4r, 2.1a
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Terry Porter
7p, 2.2r, 3a
 
 
 
 
Dean Garrett
3.5p, 4.3r, 0.3a

Cleveland Cavaliers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Terrell Brandon
20.7p, 4r, 6.6a
Bobby Phills
12.6p, 3.5r, 4a
Chris Mills
13.1p, 5.8r, 2.2a
Tyrone Hill
12.3p, 9.5r, 1.4a
Danny Ferry
10.1p, 3.8r, 1.8a
Rotation  
 
Bob Sura
9.2p, 3.9r, 4.5a
Donny Marshall
1.5p, 0.7r, 0.4a
Antonio Lang
3.1p, 1.9r, 0.6a
Mark West
3.7p, 2.6r, 0.3a
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Vitaly Potapenko
5.6p, 2.6r, 0.5a
Lim PT Reggie Geary
0.9p, 0.4r, 0.9a
Carl Thomas
1.4p, 0.8r, 0.5a
 
 
 
 
 
 

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