New Jersey Nets Opening Day Rosters

2004-2005 New Jersey Nets Opening Day Roster

Player Pos HT WT Birth Date Age Pre-Draft Team YOS Draft Status
Travis Best PG 5-11 182 Jul 12, 1972 32 Georgia Tech 9 1995 1st Rnd, #23, Indiana Pacers
Rodney Buford G-F 6-5 189 Nov 2, 1977 27 Creighton 4 1999 2nd Rnd, #53, Miami Heat
Jason Collins C 7-0 255 Dec 2, 1978 25 Stanford 3 2001 1st Rnd, #18, Houston Rockets
Richard Jefferson SF 6-7 233 Jun 21, 1980 24 Arizona 3 2001 1st Rnd, #13, Houston Rockets
Jason Kidd PG 6-4 210 Mar 23, 1973 31 California 10 1994 1st Rnd, #2, Dallas Mavericks
Nenad Krstic C 6-10 255 Jul 25, 1983 21 KK Partizan (Serbia) 0 2002 1st Rnd, #24, New Jersey Nets
Ron Mercer G-F 6-7 210 May 18, 1976 28 Kentucky 7 1997 1st Rnd, #6, Boston Celtics
Alonzo Mourning C 6-10 240 Feb 8, 1970 34 Georgetown 12 1992 1st Rnd, #2, Charlotte Hornets (1988)
Zoran Planinic G-F 6-7 210 Sep 12, 1982 22 Khimki (Russia) 1 2003 1st Rnd, #22, New Jersey Nets
Brian Scalabrine C-F 6-9 241 Mar 18, 1978 26 USC 3 2001 2nd Rnd, #34, New Jersey Nets
Jabari Smith C 6-11 250 Apr 12, 1977 27 LSU 4 2000 2nd Rnd, #45, Sacramento Kings
Awvee Storey F-G 6-6 222 Apr 18, 1977 27 Arizona State 0 2002 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Jacque Vaughn PG 6-1 190 Feb 11, 1975 29 Kansas 7 1997 1st Rnd, #27, Utah Jazz
Aaron Williams F-C 6-9 220 Oct 2, 1971 33 Xavier 10 1993 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Eric Williams PF 6-8 220 Jul 17, 1972 32 Providence 9 1995 1st Rnd, #14, Boston Celtics

Miami 100, New Jersey 77

November 3, 2004

Regular Season

Izod Center (East Rutherford, New Jersey)

Attendance: 17,260

Officials: Jason Phillips, Michael Smith, Bernie Fryer

Team Rebounds: Miami (8) New Jersey (13)

Technicals: Miami (0) New Jersey (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIA (1-0) 29 17 28 26 100
NJN (0-1) 15 26 15 21 77

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIA 87 115.2 88.7
NJN 87 88.7 115.2

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIA .562 0.127 0.238 0.247
NJN .392 0.161 0.222 0.257

Miami Heat

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
45 Rasual Butler Starter SF 43:00 6-13 3-6 1-2 9.5 0.0 6 6 3 3 0 1 3 16
40 Udonis Haslem Starter PF 24:00 5-9 0-0 0-0 8.2 2.0 6 8 1 3 0 0 1 10
6 Eddie Jones Starter SG 31:00 2-9 2-5 4-4 12.8 0.0 8 8 6 2 1 0 1 10
32 Shaquille O'Neal Starter C 21:00 7-9 0-0 2-7 10.4 2.0 3 5 2 5 0 2 2 16
3 Dwyane Wade Starter PG 36:00 7-14 0-0 7-10 14.0 2.0 3 5 6 2 1 0 3 21
35 Malik Allen Bench PF 21:00 2-4 0-0 2-2 6.5 2.0 1 3 1 3 0 2 0 6
51 Michael Doleac Bench C 27:00 1-5 0-0 0-0 0.0 2.0 1 3 0 4 0 1 0 2
5 Keyon Dooling Bench PG 06:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 2.0 0.0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
19 Damon Jones Bench PG 28:00 6-8 3-5 0-0 14.8 0.0 3 3 3 3 3 0 1 15
15 Zhizhi Wang Bench C 03:00 1-1 0-0 2-2 1.5 0.0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 4
  Team                   8            
        240 37-73 8-16 18-27 89.6 10 32 50 24 27 5 6 11 100
          50.7% 50.0% 66.7%                    

New Jersey Nets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
35 Jason Collins Starter C 22:00 2-3 0-0 2-3 4.4 1.0 3 4 0 5 2 0 1 6
24 Richard Jefferson Starter SF 33:00 5-12 0-3 9-11 9.9 2.0 2 4 5 3 0 1 4 19
1 Ron Mercer Starter SG 32:00 4-11 0-0 1-1 1.9 0.0 2 2 1 2 0 1 1 9
11 Jacque Vaughn Starter PG 22:00 2-4 0-0 0-0 1.0 0.0 2 2 3 5 0 0 2 4
17 Eric Williams Starter PF 26:00 0-6 0-0 0-0 -3.2 1.0 3 4 1 4 1 0 2 0
6 Travis Best Bench PG 14:00 3-6 0-0 0-0 3.8 1.0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 6
2 Rodney Buford Bench SG 20:00 2-10 2-4 2-2 4.2 2.0 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 8
12 Nenad Krstic Bench C 03:00 0-0 0-0 3-4 1.0 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
33 Alonzo Mourning Bench C 14:00 3-9 0-0 1-3 -2.1 0.0 5 5 0 4 0 0 3 7
10 Zoran Planinic Bench PG 21:00 5-7 0-0 1-3 10.1 1.0 0 1 4 1 2 0 1 11
21 Brian Scalabrine Bench PF 13:00 0-2 0-1 0-0 1.2 0.0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
34 Aaron Williams Bench PF 20:00 2-4 0-0 0-0 6.8 0.0 7 7 1 3 0 1 0 4
  Team                   13         1  
        240 28-74 2-8 19-27 60.9 8 28 49 19 29 5 3 15 77
          37.8% 25.0% 70.4%                    

Miami Heat Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Dwyane Wade
21p, 5r, 6a
Eddie Jones
10p, 8r, 6a
Rasual Butler
16p, 6r, 3a
Udonis Haslem
10p, 8r, 1a
Shaquille O'Neal
16p, 5r, 2a
Rotation Damon Jones
15p, 3r, 3a
 
 
 
 
Malik Allen
6p, 3r, 1a
Michael Doleac
2p, 3r, 0a
Lim PT Keyon Dooling
0p, 1r, 2a
 
 
 
 
 
 
Zhizhi Wang
4p, 0r, 0a

New Jersey Nets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Jacque Vaughn
4p, 2r, 3a
Ron Mercer
9p, 2r, 1a
Richard Jefferson
19p, 4r, 5a
Eric Williams
0p, 4r, 1a
Jason Collins
6p, 4r, 0a
Rotation Zoran Planinic
11p, 1r, 4a
Rodney Buford
8p, 4r, 1a
 
 
Aaron Williams
4p, 7r, 1a
Alonzo Mourning
7p, 5r, 0a
Rotation Travis Best
6p, 2r, 1a
 
 
 
 
Brian Scalabrine
0p, 1r, 2a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nenad Krstic
3p, 0r, 0a