Cleveland Cavaliers Opening Day Rosters

2005-2006 Cleveland Cavaliers Opening Day Roster

Player Pos HT WT Birth Date Age Pre-Draft Team YOS Draft Status
Martynas Andriuskevicius C 7-2 240 Mar 12, 1986 19 Zalgiris (Lithuania) 0 2005 2nd Rnd, #44, Orlando Magic
Drew Gooden PF/C 6-10 250 Sep 24, 1981 24 Kansas 3 2002 1st Rnd, #4, Memphis Grizzlies
Zendon Hamilton C 6-11 250 Apr 27, 1975 30 St. John's 6 1998 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Alan Henderson F-C 6-9 235 Dec 2, 1972 32 Indiana 10 1995 1st Rnd, #16, Atlanta Hawks
Larry Hughes PG/SG 6-5 184 Jan 23, 1979 26 Saint Louis 7 1998 1st Rnd, #8, Philadelphia Sixers
Zydrunas Ilgauskas C 7-3 260 Jun 5, 1975 30 BC Aisciai-Atletas (Lithuania) 9 1996 1st Rnd, #20, Cleveland Cavaliers
Luke Jackson F-G 6-7 215 Nov 6, 1981 23 Oregon 1 2004 1st Rnd, #10, Cleveland Cavaliers
LeBron James SF/PF 6-9 250 Dec 30, 1984 20 St. Vincent St. Mary High School (Ohio) 2 2003 1st Rnd, #1, Cleveland Cavaliers
Damon Jones PG 6-3 185 Aug 25, 1976 29 Houston 7 1997 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Donyell Marshall PF 6-9 245 May 18, 1973 32 UConn 11 1994 1st Rnd, #4, Minnesota Timberwolves
Ira Newble G-F 6-7 220 Jan 20, 1975 30 Miami (OH) 6 1997 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Sasha Pavlovic SG/SF 6-7 235 Nov 15, 1983 21 Buducnost (Montenegro) 2 2003 1st Rnd, #19, Utah Jazz
Eric Snow PG 6-3 190 Apr 24, 1973 32 Michigan State 10 1995 2nd Rnd, #43, Milwaukee Bucks
Anderson Varejao C/PF 6-10 273 Sep 28, 1982 23 Barca (Spain) 1 2004 2nd Rnd, #30, Orlando Magic
Mike Wilks PG 5-10 185 May 7, 1979 26 Rice 4 2001 NBA Draft, Undrafted

New Orleans 87, Cleveland 109

November 2, 2005

Regular Season

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (Cleveland, Ohio)

Attendance: N/A

Officials: Kevin Fehr, Jack Nies, Jim Clark

Team Rebounds: New Orleans (0) Cleveland (0)

Technicals: New Orleans (0) Cleveland (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
NOP (1-1) 19 28 21 19 87
CLE (1-0) 35 31 25 18 109

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
NOP 88 98.8 123.7
CLE 88 123.7 98.8

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
NOP .436 0.136 0.303 0.244
CLE .630 0.182 0.209 0.319

New Orleans Hornets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
42 P.J. Brown Starter C 26:11 2-7 0-0 0-0 2.0 3.0 1 4 1 3 0 0 0 4
10 Bostjan Nachbar Starter SF 19:14 0-5 0-2 0-0 0.5 0.0 1 1 6 5 2 0 2 0
3 Chris Paul Starter PG 29:20 5-11 1-4 2-2 8.5 1.0 4 5 3 1 2 0 4 13
23 J.R. Smith Starter SG 23:57 5-11 3-4 2-2 12.0 0.0 2 2 4 1 1 1 1 15
30 David West Starter PF 25:03 4-6 0-0 3-3 10.9 3.0 2 5 0 4 1 2 0 11
12 Chris Andersen Bench PF 26:30 5-7 0-0 1-3 10.1 2.0 6 8 0 4 0 3 2 11
33 Brandon Bass Bench PF 06:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 1.2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
45 Rasual Butler Bench SG 18:52 2-8 0-1 0-0 -1.2 0.0 3 3 0 1 0 0 1 4
5 Speedy Claxton Bench PG 24:47 4-8 0-0 8-9 8.1 0.0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 16
6 Arvydas Macijauskas Bench SG 06:00 0-2 0-1 0-0 -0.8 0.0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 Desmond Mason Bench SF 21:50 2-9 0-0 2-4 0.8 1.0 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 6
4 Jackson Vroman Bench PF 12:16 2-3 0-0 1-2 1.2 0.0 1 1 0 3 1 0 1 5
  Team                                
        240 32-78 4-12 19-25 65.4 10 23 33 17 24 8 6 12 87
          41.0% 33.3% 76.0%                    

Cleveland Cavaliers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
90 Drew Gooden Starter PF 28:18 3-3 0-0 1-2 13.0 2.0 6 8 1 1 1 2 1 7
32 Larry Hughes Starter SG 30:52 2-9 0-0 6-6 5.2 0.0 3 3 6 4 2 1 5 10
11 Zydrunas Ilgauskas Starter C 25:22 5-10 0-0 2-4 7.2 2.0 5 7 2 5 1 0 2 12
23 LeBron James Starter SF 33:23 9-16 6-7 7-8 20.0 1.0 2 3 4 3 2 0 3 31
20 Eric Snow Starter PG 20:22 0-0 0-0 0-0 6.0 1.0 2 3 4 3 1 0 0 0
31 Zendon Hamilton Bench C 05:23 1-1 0-0 0-0 3.5 0.0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 2
44 Alan Henderson Bench PF 14:20 3-5 0-0 1-2 4.2 1.0 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 7
33 Luke Jackson Bench SF 05:23 2-2 1-1 0-0 2.0 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 5
19 Damon Jones Bench PG 23:51 4-8 2-4 2-2 7.5 0.0 3 3 2 2 0 0 1 12
24 Donyell Marshall Bench PF 22:37 6-9 3-6 3-6 14.2 2.0 7 9 0 0 1 0 3 18
3 Sasha Pavlovic Bench SG 22:22 2-4 1-2 0-0 3.0 0.0 2 2 1 3 0 0 0 5
29 Mike Wilks Bench PG 07:48 0-2 0-1 0-0 -2.0 0.0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0
  Team                                
        240 37-69 13-21 22-30 110.0 9 34 43 22 27 8 3 16 109
          53.6% 61.9% 73.3%                    

New Orleans Hornets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chris Paul
13p, 6.5r, 3.5a
J.R. Smith
17p, 3.5r, 3.5a
Bostjan Nachbar
2.5p, 1.5r, 4.5a
David West
9.5p, 8r, 1a
P.J. Brown
12p, 7r, 1.5a
Rotation Speedy Claxton
16.5p, 0.5r, 3a
Rasual Butler
3p, 3r, 0a
Desmond Mason
3.5p, 3r, 1a
Chris Andersen
5.5p, 7r, 0.5a
 
 
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
Jackson Vroman
4.5p, 1.5r, 0.5a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Arvydas Macijauskas
1p, 0.5r, 0a
 
 
Brandon Bass
2p, 0.5r, 0a
 
 

Cleveland Cavaliers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Eric Snow
0p, 3r, 4a
Larry Hughes
10p, 3r, 6a
LeBron James
31p, 3r, 4a
Drew Gooden
7p, 8r, 1a
Zydrunas Ilgauskas
12p, 7r, 2a
Rotation Damon Jones
12p, 3r, 2a
Sasha Pavlovic
5p, 2r, 1a
 
 
Donyell Marshall
18p, 9r, 0a
 
 
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
Alan Henderson
7p, 2r, 1a
 
 
Lim PT Mike Wilks
0p, 0r, 1a
 
 
Luke Jackson
5p, 0r, 0a
 
 
Zendon Hamilton
2p, 3r, 0a