Phoenix 102, Denver 81

December 20, 1997

Regular Season

McNichols Sports Arena (Denver, Colorado)

Attendance: 12,120

Officials: Monty McCutchen, Terry Durham, Tommie Wood

Team Rebounds: Phoenix (6) Denver (8)

Technicals: Phoenix (0) Denver (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
PHX (15-8) 23 34 22 23 102
DEN (2-22) 26 12 26 17 81

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
PHX 89 114.4 90.9
DEN 89 90.9 114.4

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
PHX .483 0.168 0.375 0.167
DEN .396 0.191 0.306 0.333

Phoenix Suns

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
3 Rex Chapman Starter SG 30:00 6-14 0-3 0-0 9.2 1 3 4 3 1 1 1 0 12
32 Jason Kidd Starter PG 35:00 2-6 1-2 2-2 16.0 5 7 12 7 2 4 0 6 7
14 Antonio McDyess Starter C 17:00 6-11 0-0 1-1 3.4 1 4 5 0 6 0 0 2 13
30 Cliff Robinson Starter SF 25:00 5-12 0-0 4-7 9.1 3 3 6 2 5 1 1 0 14
18 Hot Rod Williams Starter PF 25:00 1-3 0-0 0-0 5.0 2 5 7 1 3 0 0 0 2
1 Cedric Ceballos Bench SF 26:00 3-12 1-3 5-5 9.9 4 5 9 2 4 2 1 2 12
15 Danny Manning Bench PF 27:00 6-8 0-0 3-4 13.2 3 3 6 3 3 2 1 4 15
21 George McCloud Bench SF 18:00 1-4 0-1 0-0 2.5 0 4 4 0 1 0 1 0 2
20 Marko Milic Bench SF 04:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 1.2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2
13 Steve Nash Bench PG 29:00 9-17 2-5 0-0 18.2 1 0 1 9 2 1 1 0 20
4 Brooks Thompson Bench SG 04:00 1-2 1-1 0-0 2.2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
  Team                   6         1  
        240 41-90 5-15 15-19 108.1 21 35 62 27 27 11 6 16 102
          45.6% 33.3% 78.9%                    

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
4 Tony Battie Starter PF 31:00 4-11 0-0 6-7 6.9 1 5 6 1 2 1 2 4 14
20 LaPhonso Ellis Starter SF 22:00 1-7 0-1 1-2 -0.5 1 2 3 2 2 2 0 3 3
21 Dean Garrett Starter C 29:00 1-7 0-0 3-6 9.0 5 4 9 0 1 0 5 1 5
13 Bobby Jackson Starter PG 29:00 3-12 0-1 5-6 13.5 1 7 8 5 1 3 1 1 11
14 Eric Washington Starter SG 33:00 5-11 2-4 2-2 9.2 1 3 4 2 2 0 1 1 14
3 Harold Ellis Bench SG 10:00 2-5 0-0 2-2 3.0 1 2 3 1 2 0 0 1 6
15 Danny Fortson Bench PF 22:00 1-4 0-0 2-2 0.2 1 2 3 1 5 0 1 2 4
1 Kiwane Garris Bench SG 09:00 1-1 1-1 0-0 4.2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3
5 Anthony Goldwire Bench PG 19:00 4-6 1-2 0-0 4.0 0 0 0 3 3 1 0 3 9
30 Priest Lauderdale Bench C 08:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
22 Johnny Newman Bench SF 24:00 3-6 1-2 3-4 4.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 10
17 Joe Wolf Bench C 04:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 2.2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
  Team                   8         1  
        240 26-72 5-11 24-31 68.6 11 25 44 18 19 8 10 18 81
          36.1% 45.5% 77.4%                    

Phoenix Suns Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Jason Kidd
10.8p, 5.9r, 8.9a
Rex Chapman
14.6p, 2.4r, 2.5a
Cliff Robinson
10.9p, 4.7r, 1.8a
Hot Rod Williams
4.2p, 4.4r, 0.7a
Antonio McDyess
13.5p, 6.3r, 0.9a
Rotation Steve Nash
9.9p, 1.9r, 3.5a
 
 
Cedric Ceballos
8.6p, 3.5r, 0.7a
Danny Manning
15.3p, 6.4r, 1.8a
 
 
Rotation  
 
 
 
George McCloud
8.5p, 4.6r, 1.9a
 
 
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Brooks Thompson
3.2p, 0.6r, 0.2a
Marko Milic
2.6p, 1.1r, 0.8a
 
 
 
 

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Bobby Jackson
13.3p, 5.8r, 5.2a
Eric Washington
9.9p, 2r, 0.7a
LaPhonso Ellis
9.5p, 4.8r, 2.9a
Tony Battie
10.3p, 6.6r, 1.3a
Dean Garrett
8.3p, 10.2r, 1a
Rotation Anthony Goldwire
5.9p, 1.3r, 2.6a
Harold Ellis
5p, 1r, 0.3a
Johnny Newman
13.4p, 1.6r, 1.6a
Danny Fortson
11.1p, 6.3r, 0.9a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Kiwane Garris
3.8p, 1r, 0.6a
 
 
 
 
Priest Lauderdale
4.6p, 2.8r, 0.6a
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Joe Wolf
1.5p, 2.4r, 0.4a

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