New York 104, Cleveland 77

December 19, 1997

Regular Season

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (Cleveland, Ohio)

Attendance: 18,243

Officials: Mark Wunderlich, James Capers, Bill Oakes

Team Rebounds: New York (9) Cleveland (11)

Technicals: New York (0) Cleveland (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
NYK (15-10) 24 28 21 31 104
CLE (15-9) 29 20 13 15 77

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
NYK 91 114.8 85.0
CLE 91 85.0 114.8

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
NYK .532 0.143 0.229 0.286
CLE .405 0.210 0.256 0.230

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 32:00 9-14 0-0 4-5 17.4 1 9 10 3 4 1 2 4 22
20 Allan Houston Starter SG 28:00 4-9 1-1 4-4 11.2 0 2 2 4 0 1 0 0 13
2 Larry Johnson Starter SF 30:00 5-12 0-0 1-3 4.4 1 0 1 4 3 0 1 1 11
34 Charles Oakley Starter PF 26:00 2-4 0-0 0-0 8.5 2 2 4 3 2 3 1 2 4
21 Charlie Ward Starter PG 22:00 2-4 1-3 2-2 11.0 0 3 3 6 3 3 0 2 7
1 Chris Childs Bench SG 26:00 5-8 1-2 0-0 9.5 1 2 3 2 0 1 0 1 11
14 Chris Dudley Bench C 08:00 0-0 0-0 3-4 1.0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 3
42 Chris Mills Bench SF 29:00 4-10 0-4 4-4 7.0 2 4 6 2 4 0 0 1 12
3 John Starks Bench SG 27:00 5-13 1-3 2-5 5.9 0 4 4 4 5 1 0 1 13
52 Buck Williams Bench PF 12:00 3-3 0-0 2-2 10.8 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 0 8
  Team                   9            
        240 39-77 4-13 22-29 98.6 8 27 44 28 22 12 7 13 104
          50.6% 30.8% 75.9%                    

Cleveland Cavaliers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
45 Cedric Henderson Starter SF 32:00 2-8 0-0 0-0 0.5 0 2 2 1 2 3 1 3 4
11 Zydrunas Ilgauskas Starter C 29:00 7-14 0-1 2-2 13.8 5 8 13 2 4 0 2 4 16
4 Shawn Kemp Starter PF 31:00 2-9 0-0 6-8 1.2 1 4 5 1 6 0 0 1 10
12 Brevin Knight Starter PG 30:00 1-5 0-0 0-0 9.8 3 0 3 11 1 2 0 4 2
1 Wesley Person Starter SG 34:00 4-9 1-4 0-1 0.1 0 1 1 1 3 0 0 2 9
23 Derek Anderson Bench SG 28:00 5-9 0-0 6-7 5.9 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 16
2 Scott Brooks Bench PG 11:00 3-3 0-0 0-0 6.0 0 1 1 1 1 2 0 1 6
35 Danny Ferry Bench SF 15:00 1-6 0-1 0-0 0.5 0 4 4 1 0 1 0 2 2
32 Henry James Bench PF 09:00 1-5 1-3 0-0 -0.5 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 3
52 Vitaly Potapenko Bench C 17:00 3-6 0-0 3-3 10.6 1 7 8 1 2 0 1 0 9
44 Shawnelle Scott Bench C 04:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.5 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
  Team                   11         1  
        240 29-74 2-9 17-21 78.4 10 29 50 21 22 8 4 20 77
          39.2% 22.2% 81.0%                    

New York Knicks Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Charlie Ward
6.6p, 3.3r, 5.3a		 Allan Houston
13.2p, 2.7r, 2.6a		 Larry Johnson
11.9p, 3.9r, 2.4a		 Charles Oakley
7.9p, 8.1r, 2a		 Patrick Ewing
21.1p, 10.2r, 1.1a
Rotation  
 		 John Starks
14.7p, 2.1r, 2.9a		 Chris Mills
9.6p, 4.8r, 2a		 Buck Williams
3.4p, 4.1r, 0.6a		  
 
Rotation  
 		 Chris Childs
7.2p, 2.6r, 3.8a		  
 		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Chris Dudley
3.2p, 4.8r, 0.4a

Cleveland Cavaliers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Brevin Knight
8.7p, 3.1r, 8.1a		 Wesley Person
17.4p, 4.7r, 2.9a		 Cedric Henderson
8.3p, 3.2r, 1.8a		 Shawn Kemp
18.1p, 9.2r, 1.5a		 Zydrunas Ilgauskas
10.8p, 8.4r, 0.5a
Rotation Scott Brooks
2p, 0.7r, 0.3a		 Derek Anderson
10.9p, 3.5r, 3.7a		 Danny Ferry
5.1p, 2.2r, 0.9a		  
 		 Vitaly Potapenko
7.5p, 4.6r, 0.6a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		 Henry James
3.1p, 0.5r, 0.2a		 Shawnelle Scott
1.5p, 1.5r, 0.2a

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