New York 84, Houston 95

November 18, 1997

Regular Season

Compaq Center (Houston, Texas)

Attendance: 16,285

Officials: Kevin Fehr, Hugh Evans, Ed Middleton

Team Rebounds: New York (14) Houston (15)

Technicals: New York (0) Houston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
NYK (6-4) 25 17 19 23 84
HOU (4-5) 26 22 12 35 95

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
NYK 93 90.3 102.1
HOU 93 102.1 90.3

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
NYK .395 0.204 0.275 0.316
HOU .424 0.150 0.194 0.472

New York Knicks

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
33 Patrick Ewing Starter C 35:00 5-12 0-0 2-2 6.5 2 5 7 1 3 0 4 5 12
20 Allan Houston Starter SG 25:00 2-9 0-2 0-0 -1.2 0 2 2 1 2 0 1 1 4
2 Larry Johnson Starter SF 34:00 1-9 0-0 5-7 3.1 4 6 10 1 6 2 0 3 7
34 Charles Oakley Starter PF 34:00 4-8 0-0 2-3 6.6 2 5 7 2 4 1 0 3 10
21 Charlie Ward Starter PG 24:00 5-6 2-3 2-2 12.5 1 3 4 5 5 0 0 2 14
1 Chris Childs Bench PG 23:00 1-7 0-3 0-0 -2.8 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 2
14 Chris Dudley Bench C 14:00 0-3 0-0 0-2 1.0 2 2 4 0 3 0 2 0 0
42 Chris Mills Bench SF 21:00 2-5 0-1 2-2 5.2 0 5 5 0 2 1 1 1 6
3 John Starks Bench SG 30:00 8-17 2-7 11-13 10.6 0 1 1 0 3 4 0 4 29
  Team                   14         1  
        240 28-76 4-16 24-31 63.6 11 29 54 12 31 8 8 20 84
          36.8% 25.0% 77.4%                    

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 39:00 3-13 1-6 9-10 12.8 4 3 7 6 4 4 0 4 16
17 Mario Elie Starter SG 33:00 3-7 0-1 3-4 5.2 1 0 1 2 2 2 0 1 9
12 Matt Maloney Starter PG 34:00 4-11 4-7 11-13 15.9 0 4 4 2 2 2 0 0 23
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 40:00 10-14 0-0 4-4 17.0 0 8 8 3 4 0 3 5 24
43 Kevin Willis Starter PF 40:00 6-15 0-0 5-5 10.9 1 8 9 2 4 0 0 0 17
50 Matt Bullard Bench PF 12:00 0-2 0-2 0-0 0.0 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 0 0
15 Emanual Davis Bench SG 06:00 1-2 0-1 0-0 0.2 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 2
32 Othella Harrington Bench PF 04:00 0-3 0-0 0-0 -0.5 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 Brent Price Bench PG 14:00 0-1 0-1 0-0 -0.8 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0
1 Rodrick Rhodes Bench SF 18:00 1-4 0-0 2-4 -2.5 0 2 2 1 3 0 0 3 4
  Team                   15         1  
        240 28-72 5-18 34-40 80.2 7 29 51 19 25 8 3 15 95
          38.9% 27.8% 85.0%                    

New York Knicks Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Charlie Ward
6p, 2.8r, 5.6a		 Allan Houston
10.4p, 2.3r, 2.7a		 Larry Johnson
12.2p, 4.5r, 2.2a		 Charles Oakley
8.5p, 7.8r, 2.4a		 Patrick Ewing
20.8p, 9.3r, 1a
Rotation Chris Childs
9.3p, 2.4r, 3.9a		 John Starks
14.5p, 1.9r, 3a		 Chris Mills
8.1p, 5.1r, 1.1a		  
 		 Chris Dudley
3.9p, 5.5r, 0.5a

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Matt Maloney
9.2p, 1.4r, 1.7a		 Mario Elie
8.1p, 1.1r, 3a		 Clyde Drexler
19.7p, 5.9r, 5.1a		 Kevin Willis
14.4p, 7.1r, 1.3a		 Hakeem Olajuwon
15.2p, 8.6r, 2.2a
Rotation Brent Price
5.6p, 2r, 2.7a		  
 		 Rodrick Rhodes
4.3p, 1r, 2.9a		 Matt Bullard
2.3p, 0.9r, 0.6a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 Emanual Davis
4.1p, 1.6r, 1.6a		  
 		 Othella Harrington
1.3p, 1.3r, 0.3a		  
 

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