Seattle 107, Houston 126

May 3, 1989

Opening Round - Seattle wins 3-1

Compaq Center (Houston, Texas)

Attendance: 16,611

Officials: Bennett Salvatore, Hugh Evans, Wally Rooney

Team Rebounds: Seattle (0) Houston (0)

Technicals: Seattle (0) Houston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
SEA (47-35) 20 27 29 31 107
HOU (45-37) 31 32 31 32 126

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
SEA 108 99.4 117.1
HOU 108 117.1 99.4

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
SEA .407 0.149 0.362 0.289
HOU .563 0.177 0.188 0.468

Seattle SuperSonics

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
3 Dale Ellis Starter SG 32:00 12-22 1-5 1-1 11.6 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 26
53 Alton Lister Starter C 16:00 0-3 0-0 0-0 -0.8 1 2 3 0 4 0 1 0 0
34 Xavier McDaniel Starter SF 23:00 1-9 0-1 5-5 0.9 1 4 5 1 3 0 1 2 7
31 Derrick McKey Starter PF 27:00 2-5 0-0 2-2 2.2 1 1 2 2 4 0 2 3 6
10 Nate McMillan Starter PG 27:00 5-8 0-0 5-8 23.8 2 5 7 10 4 3 4 3 15
44 Michael Cage Bench PF 17:00 4-5 0-0 2-2 10.2 3 7 10 1 1 0 0 4 10
15 Avery Johnson Bench PG 09:00 2-4 0-1 0-0 6.8 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 0 4
20 John Lucas Bench SG 07:00 0-2 0-1 1-2 -0.5 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 1
0 Olden Polynice Bench C 28:00 4-6 0-0 5-5 12.1 4 4 8 0 5 1 0 0 13
35 Jerry Reynolds Bench PF 15:00 2-10 0-1 1-2 0.0 0 3 3 1 2 0 3 2 5
40 Russ Schoene Bench C 14:00 0-6 0-4 3-4 -2.2 1 1 2 1 4 0 0 0 3
4 Sedale Threatt Bench PG 25:00 7-17 0-1 3-3 10.9 2 1 3 4 2 3 0 1 17
  Team                                
        240 39-97 1-14 28-34 85.0 17 30 47 24 32 11 11 16 107
          40.2% 7.1% 82.4%                    

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
21 Sleepy Floyd Starter PG 38:00 8-11 3-3 9-12 24.2 0 4 4 6 2 2 0 1 28
1 Buck Johnson Starter SF 24:00 6-11 0-0 4-6 12.8 1 5 6 4 5 0 2 1 16
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 39:00 7-11 0-0 5-6 27.2 3 15 18 4 5 1 6 4 19
33 Otis Thorpe Starter PF 35:00 7-10 0-0 9-9 14.9 2 5 7 4 4 0 1 6 23
42 Mike Woodson Starter SG 33:00 4-13 0-0 3-4 8.2 3 2 5 5 2 1 2 3 11
6 Walter Berry Bench PF 21:00 5-8 0-0 1-1 6.1 0 2 2 3 4 1 0 2 11
3 Derrick Chievous Bench SF 06:00 1-3 0-0 0-0 0.2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2
15 Frank Johnson Bench PG 14:00 2-4 0-0 2-4 1.2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 6
30 Allen Leavell Bench PG 04:00 1-3 0-0 2-2 2.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
40 Tim McCormick Bench C 17:00 2-3 0-0 1-1 6.1 0 3 3 0 3 2 1 0 5
52 Chuck Nevitt Bench C 02:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Purvis Short Bench SF 07:00 0-2 0-0 1-1 -2.1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 1
  Team                                
        240 43-79 3-3 37-46 115.8 9 39 48 28 28 7 12 19 126
          54.4% 100.0% 80.4%                    

Seattle SuperSonics Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Nate McMillan
7.1p, 5.2r, 9.3a		 Dale Ellis
27.5p, 4.2r, 2a		 Xavier McDaniel
20.5p, 5.3r, 1.6a		 Derrick McKey
15.9p, 5.7r, 2.7a		 Alton Lister
8p, 6.6r, 0.7a
Rotation Sedale Threatt
8.6p, 1.9r, 3.8a		  
 		  
 		 Michael Cage
10.3p, 9.6r, 1.6a		 Olden Polynice
2.9p, 2.6r, 0.3a
Rotation  
 		  
 		  
 		 Jerry Reynolds
7.6p, 1.8r, 1.1a		 Russ Schoene
5.2p, 2.4r, 0.5a
Lim PT Avery Johnson
1.6p, 0.6r, 1.7a		 John Lucas
4.2p, 1.1r, 3.5a		  
 		  
 		  
 

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Sleepy Floyd
14.2p, 3.7r, 8.6a		 Mike Woodson
12.9p, 2.4r, 2.5a		 Buck Johnson
9.6p, 4.3r, 1.9a		 Otis Thorpe
16.7p, 9.6r, 2.5a		 Hakeem Olajuwon
24.8p, 13.5r, 1.8a
Rotation Frank Johnson
4.4p, 1.2r, 2.7a		  
 		  
 		 Walter Berry
8.8p, 3.9r, 1.1a		 Tim McCormick
5.2p, 3.2r, 0.7a
Lim PT Allen Leavell
3.3p, 1r, 2.3a		  
 		 Purvis Short
7.4p, 2.8r, 1.6a		  
 		 Chuck Nevitt
1.5p, 1.5r, 0.1a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Derrick Chievous
9.3p, 3.2r, 1a		  
 		  
 

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