Houston 81, Cleveland 78

January 8, 1997

Regular Season

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (Cleveland, Ohio)

Attendance: 20,562

Officials: Ron Garretson, Sean Corbin, Ted Bernhardt

Team Rebounds: Houston (8) Cleveland (7)

Technicals: Houston (0) Cleveland (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (26-8) 20 15 23 23 81
CLE (21-12) 13 21 24 20 78

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 83 98.0 94.4
CLE 83 94.4 98.0

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .444 0.266 0.302 0.397
CLE .455 0.206 0.281 0.254

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
4 Charles Barkley Starter PF 42:00 2-12 1-5 3-4 7.0 6 6 12 2 4 2 0 3 8
22 Clyde Drexler Starter SF 37:00 2-10 1-7 4-7 11.1 2 7 9 6 2 4 0 4 9
17 Mario Elie Starter SG 41:00 8-9 3-4 7-7 19.4 1 3 4 2 1 1 0 3 26
12 Matt Maloney Starter PG 32:00 3-8 3-8 0-0 12.2 1 5 6 5 3 1 0 0 9
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 41:00 7-15 0-0 8-10 7.8 3 5 8 2 4 1 1 8 22
3 Randy Livingston Bench SG 15:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 3 3 1 3 1 0 2 0
7 Sam Mack Bench SF 14:00 1-3 0-2 1-1 5.9 0 0 0 2 1 3 1 0 3
20 Brent Price Bench PG 08:00 1-2 0-1 0-0 -1.5 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 2
43 Kevin Willis Bench C 10:00 0-3 0-0 2-2 -1.8 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 2
  Team                   8         1  
        240 24-63 8-27 25-31 100.1 13 30 51 20 21 13 2 23 81
          38.1% 29.6% 80.6%                    

Cleveland Cavaliers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
1 Terrell Brandon Starter PG 38:00 9-21 3-6 5-5 16.9 0 2 2 7 0 5 0 5 26
35 Danny Ferry Starter PF 35:00 3-6 1-2 1-2 7.2 0 4 4 3 5 0 1 0 8
24 Chris Mills Starter SF 45:00 1-8 0-2 5-6 12.2 2 12 14 2 3 3 1 2 7
14 Bobby Phills Starter SG 38:00 9-18 1-4 4-5 11.6 2 2 4 3 1 2 0 4 23
41 Mark West Starter C 31:00 0-2 0-0 0-0 1.2 2 1 3 0 4 2 1 1 0
21 Antonio Lang Bench PF 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 -0.5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
13 Donny Marshall Bench SF 15:00 2-5 2-5 0-0 2.8 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 6
52 Vitaly Potapenko Bench C 14:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 0.0 3 1 4 0 2 0 0 2 0
3 Bob Sura Bench SG 23:00 3-6 0-1 2-4 4.2 0 1 1 4 5 2 0 2 8
  Team                   7         1  
        240 27-67 7-20 17-22 83.8 9 23 39 19 22 16 3 18 78
          40.3% 35.0% 77.3%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Matt Maloney
10.1p, 2r, 3.3a
Mario Elie
11.6p, 2.4r, 3.8a
Clyde Drexler
18p, 6r, 5.6a
Charles Barkley
20.1p, 15r, 4.7a
Hakeem Olajuwon
23.7p, 9.6r, 2.7a
Rotation  
 
Randy Livingston
2.9p, 1.3r, 2.2a
Sam Mack
3.3p, 1.4r, 0.9a
 
 
Kevin Willis
8.7p, 6.3r, 0.7a
Lim PT Brent Price
1p, 0.6r, 0.6a
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Cleveland Cavaliers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Terrell Brandon
21.1p, 3.9r, 6.7a
Bobby Phills
12.7p, 3.6r, 4a
Chris Mills
13.3p, 6.2r, 2.2a
Danny Ferry
10.3p, 3.9r, 2a
Mark West
3.8p, 2.8r, 0.3a
Rotation  
 
Bob Sura
9.2p, 3.7r, 4.5a
Donny Marshall
1.8p, 0.6r, 0.4a
 
 
Vitaly Potapenko
5.2p, 2.5r, 0.4a
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
Antonio Lang
3p, 1.8r, 0.6a
 
 

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Milwaukee Bucks 119
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