New York 80, Minnesota 88

December 26, 1996

Regular Season

Target Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Attendance: 17,293

Officials: Scott Foster, Jack Nies, Ron Olesiak

Team Rebounds: New York (6) Minnesota (7)

Technicals: New York (0) Minnesota (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
NYK (19-8) 24 28 18 10 80
MIN (11-17) 21 23 23 21 88

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
NYK 91 87.7 96.5
MIN 91 96.5 87.7

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
NYK .422 0.175 0.261 0.120
MIN .449 0.175 0.143 0.397

New York Knicks

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
1 Chris Childs Starter PG 35:00 7-13 1-3 2-2 8.8 0 5 5 3 5 1 0 3 17
33 Patrick Ewing Starter C 36:00 6-17 0-1 1-4 5.8 2 8 10 1 2 0 2 3 13
20 Allan Houston Starter SG 29:00 3-15 2-10 2-2 6.0 2 4 6 3 2 1 1 1 10
2 Larry Johnson Starter SF 40:00 7-15 0-1 0-0 13.5 3 1 4 6 2 2 1 1 14
34 Charles Oakley Starter PF 39:00 4-9 0-0 4-4 11.2 3 8 11 3 3 0 0 3 12
3 John Starks Bench SG 24:00 2-9 1-5 0-0 -2.2 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 1 5
44 John Wallace Bench PF 07:00 2-2 0-0 0-0 3.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4
21 Charlie Ward Bench PG 13:00 1-2 0-1 0-0 3.0 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 2
52 Buck Williams Bench PF 17:00 1-1 0-0 1-2 6.0 2 6 8 0 2 1 2 4 3
  Team                   6         3  
        240 33-83 4-21 10-14 75.0 12 34 52 20 22 6 6 19 80
          39.8% 19.0% 71.4%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
43 Chris Carr Starter SG 16:00 1-3 1-2 0-0 1.8 0 2 2 1 3 0 0 0 3
21 Kevin Garnett Starter PF 44:00 6-16 0-0 8-8 19.5 2 10 12 2 2 2 6 4 20
24 Tom Gugliotta Starter SF 37:00 7-11 0-0 8-8 23.5 1 9 10 3 2 3 1 1 22
3 Stephon Marbury Starter PG 43:00 8-18 4-7 7-10 14.5 1 1 2 7 0 2 0 6 27
11 Stojko Vrankovic Starter C 18:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 3.0 0 5 5 0 2 0 0 1 2
42 Sam Mitchell Bench SF 29:00 4-9 0-2 0-0 3.0 0 3 3 2 3 0 0 1 8
44 Cherokee Parks Bench C 16:00 0-2 0-0 0-2 0.8 1 2 3 0 1 2 1 2 0
30 Terry Porter Bench SG 32:00 1-7 0-3 4-6 5.0 1 4 5 3 3 1 1 1 6
26 James Robinson Bench PG 05:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                   7            
        240 28-68 5-14 27-34 84.2 6 36 49 18 16 10 9 16 88
          41.2% 35.7% 79.4%                    

New York Knicks Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chris Childs
10.6p, 2r, 5.9a
Allan Houston
13.1p, 3.1r, 2.3a
Larry Johnson
12.6p, 4.5r, 2.3a
Charles Oakley
9.7p, 9.6r, 3a
Patrick Ewing
20.7p, 10.7r, 1.7a
Rotation Charlie Ward
6p, 3r, 4.8a
John Starks
13.6p, 2.7r, 3a
 
 
Buck Williams
6.1p, 5.3r, 0.7a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
John Wallace
5.2p, 2.8r, 0.4a
 
 

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Stephon Marbury
15.9p, 2.9r, 6.7a
Chris Carr
4.9p, 2r, 0.9a
Tom Gugliotta
22p, 8.4r, 3.5a
Kevin Garnett
15.1p, 8.8r, 3.3a
Stojko Vrankovic
4.6p, 4r, 0.4a
Rotation  
 
Terry Porter
7.1p, 2.3r, 3.1a
Sam Mitchell
10.6p, 4.8r, 1.4a
 
 
Cherokee Parks
3.5p, 2.6r, 0.4a
Lim PT James Robinson
6.2p, 1.4r, 2.1a
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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