Houston 99, Portland 89

December 15, 1996

Regular Season

Moda Center (Portland, Oregon)

Attendance: 21,318

Officials: Mike Callahan, Mike Mathis, Woody Mayfield

Team Rebounds: Houston (11) Portland (11)

Technicals: Houston (0) Portland (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (21-2) 25 21 20 33 99
POR (13-11) 25 12 25 27 89

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 92 107.9 97.0
POR 92 97.0 107.9

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .561 0.185 0.077 0.379
POR .417 0.120 0.303 0.226

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
22 Clyde Drexler Starter SF 38:00 7-12 2-2 6-6 19.2 0 2 2 7 2 2 1 2 22
17 Mario Elie Starter SG 39:00 6-9 1-3 4-4 15.0 0 1 1 6 3 2 0 1 17
12 Matt Maloney Starter PG 33:00 4-8 1-2 2-2 2.5 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 4 11
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 41:00 9-20 0-0 8-8 16.8 1 9 10 4 6 2 1 3 26
43 Kevin Willis Starter PF 32:00 3-7 0-0 3-4 6.0 0 13 13 0 4 1 0 5 9
50 Matt Bullard Bench PF 19:00 1-4 1-2 0-0 3.0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 3
32 Othella Harrington Bench PF 19:00 1-3 0-0 0-2 4.5 1 8 9 1 5 1 0 1 2
27 Charles A. Jones Bench PF 04:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.5 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
3 Randy Livingston Bench SG 15:00 3-3 1-1 2-2 6.5 0 2 2 2 4 0 0 1 9
  Team                   11         2  
        240 34-66 6-10 25-28 102.0 3 36 50 23 26 9 3 19 99
          51.5% 60.0% 89.3%                    

Portland Trail Blazers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
7 Kenny Anderson Starter PG 44:00 10-24 3-8 3-3 19.1 0 1 1 10 5 5 0 1 26
34 J.R. Rider Starter SG 31:00 4-13 2-4 2-2 5.5 2 4 6 1 4 0 0 0 12
3 Cliff Robinson Starter SF 39:00 5-12 0-2 3-4 4.8 1 1 2 2 3 1 1 2 13
11 Arvydas Sabonis Starter C 32:00 6-12 0-4 6-7 9.9 3 6 9 2 4 1 1 6 18
30 Rasheed Wallace Starter PF 40:00 6-11 0-1 3-8 12.0 2 5 7 4 5 1 1 1 15
23 Mitchell Butler Bench SG 09:00 0-4 0-1 2-2 -1.0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
19 Sasa Djordjevic Bench SG 04:00 0-1 0-1 0-0 -0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Chris Dudley Bench C 16:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 2.0 0 4 4 0 4 0 1 0 0
23 Aaron McKie Bench SG 17:00 1-3 1-1 0-0 4.5 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 3
33 Gary Trent Bench PF 08:00 0-4 0-0 0-0 -3.5 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
  Team                   11         1  
        240 32-84 6-22 19-26 66.5 10 23 44 21 26 8 4 12 89
          38.1% 27.3% 73.1%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Matt Maloney
10.4p, 2r, 3.5a
Mario Elie
12.1p, 2.4r, 4.2a
Clyde Drexler
18p, 5.9r, 5a
Kevin Willis
8.9p, 6.2r, 0.7a
Hakeem Olajuwon
23.6p, 9.1r, 2.6a
Rotation  
 
Randy Livingston
3.2p, 1.3r, 1.8a
 
 
Othella Harrington
4.2p, 2.5r, 0.3a
 
 
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
Matt Bullard
5.4p, 1.4r, 1a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
Charles A. Jones
0p, 1r, 0a
 
 

Portland Trail Blazers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Kenny Anderson
19.1p, 4.8r, 6a
J.R. Rider
13.2p, 4.5r, 2.9a
Cliff Robinson
16.5p, 3.5r, 3.4a
Rasheed Wallace
14.6p, 7.2r, 1.1a
Arvydas Sabonis
11.8p, 7.7r, 1.8a
Rotation  
 
Aaron McKie
5.6p, 2.2r, 2.6a
 
 
 
 
Chris Dudley
3.7p, 7.5r, 0.5a
Lim PT  
 
Mitchell Butler
2.3p, 0.6r, 0.6a
 
 
Gary Trent
8.5p, 4.7r, 0.6a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Sasa Djordjevic
3.1p, 0.6r, 0.6a
 
 
 
 
 
 

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