Minnesota 89, Boston 93

January 2, 1998

Regular Season

TD Garden (Boston, Massachusetts)

Attendance: 18,624

Officials: Derrick Stafford, Tom Washington, Joe Borgia

Team Rebounds: Minnesota (9) Boston (7)

Technicals: Minnesota (0) Boston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIN (15-15) 25 22 22 20 89
BOS (15-14) 24 21 22 26 93

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIN 91 97.7 102.1
BOS 91 102.1 97.7

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIN .438 0.209 0.277 0.342
BOS .409 0.099 0.340 0.239

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
43 Chris Carr Starter SG 38:00 6-13 2-3 0-1 11.6 4 7 11 3 3 0 1 4 14
21 Kevin Garnett Starter PF 43:00 4-8 0-0 3-4 16.5 2 8 10 5 2 0 1 0 11
3 Stephon Marbury Starter PG 41:00 4-15 0-4 4-6 3.5 0 4 4 9 4 0 0 5 12
42 Sam Mitchell Starter SF 35:00 7-14 0-0 7-7 9.4 1 6 7 0 4 1 0 3 21
44 Cherokee Parks Starter C 18:00 4-6 0-0 2-3 5.6 2 1 3 0 3 0 0 0 10
20 Tom Hammonds Bench PF 25:00 2-5 0-0 3-4 2.2 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 7
30 Terry Porter Bench SG 19:00 3-7 0-2 1-2 1.0 2 2 4 1 1 0 0 4 7
53 Stanley Roberts Bench C 09:00 1-2 0-0 1-3 0.6 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 1 3
5 Doug West Bench SF 08:00 0-2 0-0 2-2 0.5 1 1 2 1 4 0 0 0 2
4 Micheal Williams Bench PG 04:00 0-1 0-0 2-2 1.5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
  Team                   9            
        240 31-73 2-9 25-34 86.5 13 34 56 20 23 1 2 19 89
          42.5% 22.2% 73.5%                    

Boston Celtics

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
4 Chauncey Billups Starter PG 29:00 5-12 0-3 0-0 6.5 0 0 0 4 1 3 0 1 10
12 Bruce Bowen Starter SG 27:00 2-5 0-1 2-3 9.1 2 2 4 5 3 2 0 1 6
45 Andrew DeClercq Starter C 14:00 1-3 0-0 0-0 2.0 3 1 4 0 3 1 1 2 2
0 Walter McCarty Starter PF 31:00 1-6 0-1 8-8 9.0 2 2 4 3 4 2 1 1 10
88 Antoine Walker Starter SF 44:00 11-21 3-4 2-4 26.2 2 16 18 3 3 2 0 1 27
13 Dana Barros Bench PG 20:00 2-9 1-5 0-0 0.2 0 2 2 1 1 1 0 1 5
7 Dee Brown Bench PG 05:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0
29 Pervis Ellison Bench PF 22:00 2-5 0-0 4-8 12.8 3 6 9 2 4 2 2 0 8
40 Travis Knight Bench C 08:00 2-3 0-0 0-0 2.8 1 4 5 0 4 0 0 1 4
5 Ron Mercer Bench SF 37:00 7-22 0-0 5-6 4.8 4 0 4 1 3 1 0 0 19
99 Roy Rogers, Jr. Bench C 03:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
  Team                   7         1  
        240 34-88 4-14 21-29 83.4 17 33 57 20 27 14 4 10 93
          38.6% 28.6% 72.4%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Stephon Marbury
18.6p, 2.6r, 8.7a		 Chris Carr
11.9p, 3.6r, 2a		 Sam Mitchell
9.4p, 3.4r, 1.1a		 Kevin Garnett
17.5p, 9.2r, 4a		 Cherokee Parks
7p, 5.6r, 0.7a
Rotation  
 		 Terry Porter
4.8p, 1.6r, 2.5a		  
 		 Tom Hammonds
4.1p, 3.4r, 0.5a		  
 
Lim PT Micheal Williams
2.8p, 0.5r, 1a		  
 		 Doug West
4.3p, 2.1r, 0.9a		  
 		 Stanley Roberts
4.1p, 4.6r, 0.2a

Boston Celtics Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chauncey Billups
10.2p, 1.9r, 3.8a		 Bruce Bowen
6.7p, 3.5r, 1.8a		 Antoine Walker
21.8p, 10.4r, 3.7a		 Walter McCarty
11.7p, 5.1r, 2.4a		 Andrew DeClercq
3.8p, 3.5r, 0.6a
Rotation Dana Barros
6.6p, 1.7r, 2.1a		  
 		 Ron Mercer
13.6p, 3.4r, 1.7a		 Pervis Ellison
3.3p, 3.2r, 1a		  
 
Lim PT Dee Brown
5.7p, 1.5r, 1.4a		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Travis Knight
9.1p, 6.5r, 1.8a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Roy Rogers, Jr.
1.4p, 1r, 0.2a

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