Utah Jazz Opening Day Rosters

1996-1997 Utah Jazz Opening Day Roster

Player Pos HT WT Birth Date Age Pre-Draft Team YOS Draft Status
Shandon Anderson SG 6-6 208 Dec 31, 1973 22 Georgia 0 1996 2nd Rnd, #54, Utah Jazz
Antoine Carr PF 6-9 225 Jul 23, 1961 35 Wichita State 12 1983 1st Rnd, #8, Detroit Pistons
Howard Eisley PG 6-2 177 Dec 4, 1972 23 Boston College 2 1994 2nd Rnd, #30, Minnesota Timberwolves
Greg Foster C 6-11 240 Oct 3, 1968 28 UTEP 6 1990 2nd Rnd, #35, Washington Wizards
Jeff Hornacek PG 6-3 190 May 3, 1963 33 Iowa State 10 1986 2nd Rnd, #46, Phoenix Suns
Adam Keefe PF 6-9 230 Feb 22, 1970 26 Stanford 4 1992 1st Rnd, #10, Atlanta Hawks
Karl Malone PF 6-9 265 Jul 24, 1963 33 Louisiana Tech 11 1985 1st Rnd, #13, Utah Jazz
Chris Morris PF 6-8 210 Jan 20, 1966 30 Auburn 8 1988 1st Rnd, #4, New Jersey Nets
Greg Ostertag C 7-2 280 Mar 6, 1973 23 Kansas 1 1995 1st Rnd, #28, Utah Jazz
Bryon Russell G-F 6-7 225 Dec 31, 1970 25 Long Beach State 3 1993 2nd Rnd, #45, Utah Jazz
John Stockton PG 6-1 170 Mar 26, 1962 34 Gonzaga 12 1984 1st Rnd, #16, Utah Jazz
Brooks Thompson SG 6-4 193 Jul 19, 1970 26 Oklahoma State 2 1994 1st Rnd, #27, Orlando Magic
Jamie Watson SF 6-7 190 Feb 23, 1972 24 South Carolina 2 1994 2nd Rnd, #47, Utah Jazz

Seattle 91, Utah 99

November 1, 1996

Regular Season

Delta Center (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Attendance: 19,911

Officials: Eddie Rush, David Jones, Sean Corbin

Team Rebounds: Seattle (10) Utah (8)

Technicals: Seattle (0) Utah (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
SEA (0-1) 23 23 25 20 91
UTH (1-0) 28 25 22 24 99

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
SEA 88 103.3 112.4
UTH 88 112.4 103.3

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
SEA .433 0.136 0.261 0.347
UTH .487 0.102 0.256 0.295

Seattle SuperSonics

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
33 Hersey Hawkins Starter SG 32:00 1-3 0-2 3-4 5.8 1.0 4 5 1 1 0 0 0 5
40 Shawn Kemp Starter PF 35:00 7-15 1-1 11-14 13.5 4.0 8 12 1 6 0 1 5 26
22 Jim McIlvaine Starter C 23:00 2-6 0-0 0-0 5.0 2.0 2 4 0 4 0 4 0 4
20 Gary Payton Starter PG 39:00 9-15 2-2 4-6 21.0 2.0 4 6 6 1 3 1 4 24
11 Detlef Schrempf Starter SF 40:00 8-16 1-3 7-8 15.5 0.0 8 8 4 5 1 0 2 24
3 Craig Ehlo Bench SG 21:00 0-5 0-2 0-0 1.2 1.0 2 3 1 1 2 0 0 0
10 Nate McMillan Bench SG 16:00 0-4 0-3 0-0 -0.8 2.0 1 3 3 5 0 0 1 0
14 Sam Perkins Bench PF 33:00 3-11 1-5 1-2 1.2 0.0 5 5 0 3 0 0 0 8
23 Larry Stewart Bench PF 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                   10            
        240 30-75 5-18 26-34 74.5 12 34 56 16 26 6 6 12 91
          40.0% 27.8% 76.5%                    

Utah Jazz

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
14 Jeff Hornacek Starter SG 37:00 2-8 1-2 4-5 12.9 1.0 3 4 8 3 2 0 0 9
32 Karl Malone Starter PF 40:00 11-20 0-0 5-8 21.2 4.0 9 13 5 5 1 1 3 27
00 Greg Ostertag Starter C 17:00 0-4 0-0 2-4 -1.2 1.0 3 4 0 4 0 1 1 2
3 Bryon Russell Starter SF 34:00 3-8 3-4 3-4 6.0 0.0 2 2 2 4 0 1 1 12
12 John Stockton Starter PG 38:00 8-14 2-5 6-7 23.9 1.0 4 5 8 2 3 0 1 24
40 Shandon Anderson Bench SF 03:00 1-2 1-2 0-0 1.5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
55 Antoine Carr Bench PF 31:00 6-11 0-0 3-4 9.8 0.0 4 4 1 3 0 3 1 15
10 Howard Eisley Bench PG 08:00 1-2 1-2 0-0 2.2 0.0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 3
44 Greg Foster Bench C 08:00 1-4 0-0 0-0 -0.8 1.0 1 2 0 3 0 0 0 2
31 Adam Keefe Bench PF 14:00 1-2 0-0 0-1 4.6 3.0 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 2
43 Chris Morris Bench SF 08:00 0-3 0-3 0-0 -0.5 0.0 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0
22 Brooks Thompson Bench SG 02:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
  Team                   8            
        240 34-78 8-18 23-33 85.6 11 32 51 26 27 7 6 9 99
          43.6% 44.4% 69.7%                    

Seattle SuperSonics Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Gary Payton
24p, 6r, 6a
Hersey Hawkins
5p, 5r, 1a
Detlef Schrempf
24p, 8r, 4a
Shawn Kemp
26p, 12r, 1a
Jim McIlvaine
4p, 4r, 0a
Rotation  
 
Craig Ehlo
0p, 3r, 1a
 
 
Sam Perkins
8p, 5r, 0a
 
 
Rotation  
 
Nate McMillan
0p, 3r, 3a
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
Larry Stewart
0p, 0r, 0a
 
 

Utah Jazz Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters John Stockton
24p, 5r, 8a
Jeff Hornacek
9p, 4r, 8a
Bryon Russell
12p, 2r, 2a
Karl Malone
27p, 13r, 5a
Greg Ostertag
2p, 4r, 0a
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
Antoine Carr
15p, 4r, 1a
 
 
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
Adam Keefe
2p, 5r, 0a
 
 
Lim PT Howard Eisley
3p, 1r, 1a
Brooks Thompson
0p, 0r, 1a
Chris Morris
0p, 3r, 0a
 
 
Greg Foster
2p, 2r, 0a
Lim PT  
 
 
 
Shandon Anderson
3p, 0r, 0a