Houston 88, Dallas 83

March 9, 1997

Regular Season

Reunion Arena (Dallas, Texas)

Attendance: 18,502

Officials: Michael Smith, Jess Kersey, Don Vaden

Team Rebounds: Houston (9) Dallas (4)

Technicals: Houston (0) Dallas (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (42-20) 24 20 21 23 88
DAL (19-41) 13 13 30 27 83

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 87 100.9 95.1
DAL 87 95.1 100.9

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .475 0.160 0.237 0.165
DAL .427 0.195 0.261 0.253

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
50 Matt Bullard Starter SF 18:00 2-7 1-5 0-0 -1.0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 3 5
17 Mario Elie Starter SG 40:00 5-9 3-7 0-0 12.8 1 6 7 4 2 1 0 3 13
12 Matt Maloney Starter PG 34:00 5-10 3-7 2-2 13.8 0 0 0 7 2 2 0 1 15
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 39:00 5-17 0-0 2-3 14.9 3 9 12 4 4 2 4 1 12
43 Kevin Willis Starter PF 39:00 8-16 0-0 3-3 14.1 3 7 10 4 4 0 0 2 19
32 Othella Harrington Bench PF 18:00 0-2 0-0 2-2 -0.2 1 2 3 0 1 0 1 3 2
8 Eddie Johnson Bench SF 30:00 5-12 3-4 4-6 10.0 0 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 17
3 Randy Livingston Bench SG 14:00 1-4 0-0 0-0 1.0 0 0 0 2 4 1 1 0 2
7 Sam Mack Bench SF 08:00 1-2 1-1 0-0 2.2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
  Team                   9         2  
        240 32-79 11-24 13-16 81.5 9 29 47 24 20 7 7 16 88
          40.5% 45.8% 81.3%                    

Dallas Mavericks

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
44 Shawn Bradley Starter C 43:00 9-14 0-0 1-2 18.0 4 7 11 1 2 1 2 2 19
4 Michael Finley Starter SF 47:00 7-20 4-6 6-6 9.5 0 9 9 3 2 1 0 7 24
45 A.C. Green Starter PF 39:00 2-7 0-1 2-2 11.0 5 6 11 1 1 1 0 0 6
6 Khalid Reeves Starter PG 41:00 3-10 1-3 4-4 5.5 1 2 3 5 4 1 0 3 11
20 Erick Strickland Starter SG 40:00 6-16 1-5 6-6 7.0 1 3 4 4 6 0 0 2 19
50 Greg Dreiling Bench C 02:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
13 Martin Muursepp Bench C 15:00 0-3 0-1 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0
52 Samaki Walker Bench PF 13:00 2-5 0-0 0-0 3.0 1 7 8 0 1 0 0 3 4
  Team                   4         1  
        240 29-75 6-16 19-20 79.8 12 34 50 14 18 5 4 18 83
          38.7% 37.5% 95.0%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Matt Maloney
8.7p, 1.9r, 3.5a
Mario Elie
11.5p, 2.8r, 3.9a
Matt Bullard
4.8p, 1.7r, 1a
Kevin Willis
10.9p, 7.3r, 0.9a
Hakeem Olajuwon
23.2p, 9.3r, 3.2a
Rotation  
 
Randy Livingston
4.3p, 1.6r, 2.6a
Eddie Johnson
6.1p, 1.7r, 0.7a
Othella Harrington
4.9p, 3.6r, 0.3a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
Sam Mack
5.8p, 2.1r, 1.1a
 
 
 
 

Dallas Mavericks Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Khalid Reeves
8.3p, 1.9r, 3.6a
Erick Strickland
10.8p, 3.7r, 2.7a
Michael Finley
13.8p, 4.3r, 2.5a
A.C. Green
6.8p, 7.2r, 0.9a
Shawn Bradley
12.2p, 8.3r, 0.6a
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
Samaki Walker
4.6p, 3.5r, 0.4a
Martin Muursepp
3.5p, 1.5r, 0.5a
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Greg Dreiling
2.3p, 2r, 0.4a

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