Boston 97, Miami 117

December 5, 1997

Regular Season

Miami Arena (Miami, Florida)

Attendance: 14,937

Officials: James Capers, Blaine Reichelt, Don Vaden

Team Rebounds: Boston (9) Miami (8)

Technicals: Boston (0) Miami (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
BOS (7-11) 24 17 28 28 97
MIA (12-5) 29 30 32 26 117

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
BOS 99 98.2 118.5
MIA 99 118.5 98.2

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
BOS .383 0.152 0.471 0.224
MIA .536 0.172 0.275 0.337

Boston Celtics

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
20 Tyus Edney Starter PG 13:00 1-4 0-0 1-2 2.5 2 1 3 1 1 1 0 1 3
40 Travis Knight Starter C 34:00 5-16 0-1 3-4 6.2 4 3 7 2 3 3 0 3 13
0 Walter McCarty Starter PF 35:00 3-10 1-4 10-11 14.6 5 3 8 4 4 0 0 0 17
5 Ron Mercer Starter SG 20:00 1-9 0-0 0-0 0.0 2 1 3 2 2 2 0 1 2
88 Antoine Walker Starter SF 38:00 11-26 0-6 4-10 9.8 6 6 12 1 3 1 0 4 26
13 Dana Barros Bench PG 13:00 1-4 0-1 2-2 2.8 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 4
4 Chauncey Billups Bench PG 23:00 6-10 3-4 2-2 8.8 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 2 17
12 Bruce Bowen Bench SF 21:00 4-7 1-1 0-0 6.5 3 1 4 1 4 1 0 1 9
7 Dee Brown Bench PG 21:00 1-7 0-3 0-0 4.5 1 5 6 2 0 2 0 1 2
45 Andrew DeClercq Bench C 16:00 2-3 0-0 0-0 2.8 1 4 5 0 4 1 0 2 4
9 Greg Minor Bench SF 06:00 0-2 0-0 0-0 1.2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
  Team                   9         1  
        240 35-98 5-20 22-31 89.6 24 27 60 16 23 14 0 16 97
          35.7% 25.0% 71.0%                    

Miami Heat

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
8 Ike Austin Starter C 28:00 7-16 0-0 2-3 12.4 4 2 6 2 2 1 4 2 16
42 P.J. Brown Starter PF 29:00 5-7 0-0 1-4 14.2 4 8 12 1 4 0 2 1 11
10 Tim Hardaway Starter PG 35:00 6-12 0-4 6-6 22.8 0 6 6 10 3 4 1 2 18
21 Voshon Lenard Starter SG 24:00 4-8 1-3 2-3 6.6 2 1 3 3 2 1 0 3 11
24 Jamal Mashburn Starter SF 33:00 6-12 0-1 6-6 12.8 1 8 9 4 4 0 0 3 18
9 Dan Majerle Bench SG 27:00 3-4 3-4 0-0 8.5 0 2 2 1 0 1 1 2 9
6 Terry Mills Bench PF 17:00 1-5 0-1 0-0 1.0 0 5 5 0 2 0 0 0 2
5 Eric Murdock Bench PG 28:00 2-8 0-1 5-6 9.0 0 1 1 6 1 4 0 2 9
3 Charles Cornelius Smith Bench SG 03:00 1-1 1-1 0-0 3.0 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 3
5 Mark Strickland Bench PF 16:00 7-10 0-0 6-6 16.0 3 3 6 1 1 0 1 1 20
  Team                   8            
        240 42-83 5-15 28-34 122.2 14 37 59 29 21 12 9 17 117
          50.6% 33.3% 82.4%                    

Boston Celtics Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Tyus Edney
7.4p, 1.8r, 3.4a		 Ron Mercer
13.1p, 3.6r, 1.9a		 Antoine Walker
22.2p, 10.3r, 3.7a		 Walter McCarty
10.9p, 5.2r, 2.6a		 Travis Knight
9.8p, 7.2r, 1.9a
Rotation Chauncey Billups
8.8p, 1.5r, 3.4a		  
 		 Bruce Bowen
7.4p, 2.6r, 1.4a		  
 		 Andrew DeClercq
3.2p, 2.6r, 0.5a
Rotation Dee Brown
6.9p, 1.8r, 1.6a		  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 
Rotation Dana Barros
6.7p, 1.7r, 2.1a		  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Greg Minor
4.5p, 1.5r, 1.1a		  
 		  
 

Miami Heat Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Tim Hardaway
19.5p, 4.5r, 8.6a		 Voshon Lenard
9.4p, 3.3r, 1.8a		 Jamal Mashburn
17.3p, 4.9r, 2.4a		 P.J. Brown
10.1p, 8.9r, 0.9a		 Ike Austin
19p, 9.3r, 1.6a
Rotation Eric Murdock
7.7p, 1.9r, 2.5a		 Dan Majerle
5.8p, 2.8r, 1.1a		  
 		 Terry Mills
6.1p, 3.5r, 0.6a		  
 
Rotation  
 		  
 		  
 		 Mark Strickland
6.6p, 4.7r, 0.6a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 Charles Cornelius Smith
0.8p, 0.8r, 0.2a		  
 		  
 		  
 

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