Minnesota 110, Dallas 122

April 24, 2002

Opening Round - Dallas wins 3-0

American Airlines Center (Dallas, Texas)

Attendance: 20,084

Officials: N/A

Team Rebounds: Minnesota (4) Dallas (6)

Technicals: Minnesota (0) Dallas (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIN (50-32) 28 31 28 23 110
DAL (57-25) 33 30 34 25 122

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIN 95 115.5 128.1
DAL 95 128.1 115.5

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIN .525 0.126 0.261 0.342
DAL .548 0.063 0.267 0.202

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
4 Chauncey Billups Starter PG 46:00 10-19 3-4 2-4 14.0 0 3 3 4 3 1 1 2 25
21 Kevin Garnett Starter PF 46:00 9-19 0-1 13-17 29.4 4 14 18 4 3 2 3 3 31
42 Sam Mitchell Starter SG 13:00 1-4 0-0 0-0 1.2 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 2
8 Rasho Nesterovic Starter C 31:00 4-7 0-0 1-2 8.0 2 6 8 1 3 0 0 1 9
10 Wally Szczerbiak Starter SF 46:00 9-17 0-2 7-8 13.0 4 3 7 2 3 0 0 3 25
13 Felipe Lopez Bench SF 19:00 0-2 0-1 0-0 -2.5 1 0 1 1 4 0 0 1 0
14 Robert Pack Bench SG 02:00 1-2 0-0 1-1 0.6 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
44 Anthony Peeler Bench SG 04:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
32 Joe Smith Bench PF 18:00 2-3 0-0 2-2 4.5 1 4 5 0 5 0 1 1 6
20 Gary Trent Bench PF 15:00 4-6 0-0 1-3 3.9 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 9
  Team                   4            
        240 40-79 3-8 27-37 84.9 12 34 50 14 25 3 6 12 110
          50.6% 37.5% 73.0%                    

Dallas Mavericks

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
4 Michael Finley Starter SF 46:00 11-23 2-4 4-4 18.8 4 4 8 4 5 1 2 2 28
45 Raef LaFrentz Starter C 40:00 7-13 0-3 0-1 15.1 5 7 12 1 4 1 1 0 14
14 Eduardo Najera Starter PF 26:00 6-9 0-0 1-2 4.2 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 13
13 Steve Nash Starter PG 38:00 6-14 3-6 2-2 14.5 1 3 4 10 3 0 0 3 17
41 Dirk Nowitzki Starter SF 43:00 9-21 4-5 9-10 27.0 1 14 15 2 6 4 1 0 31
44 Shawn Bradley Bench C 03:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
42 Evan Eschmeyer Bench C 01:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
31 Nick Van Exel Bench PG 30:00 7-12 2-4 1-2 10.2 0 2 2 5 5 0 0 1 17
16 Zhizhi Wang Bench C 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 Greg Buckner Bench SG 12:00 0-1 0-0 2-2 2.0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 2
  Team                   6            
        240 46-94 11-22 19-23 95.6 12 33 51 23 30 6 4 6 122
          48.9% 50.0% 82.6%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chauncey Billups
12.5p, 2.8r, 5.5a
Sam Mitchell
3.3p, 1.1r, 0.6a
Wally Szczerbiak
18.7p, 4.8r, 3.1a
Kevin Garnett
21.2p, 12.1r, 5.2a
Rasho Nesterovic
8.4p, 6.5r, 0.9a
Rotation  
 
 
 
Felipe Lopez
2.5p, 1.2r, 0.6a
Joe Smith
10.7p, 6.3r, 1.1a
 
 
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
Gary Trent
7.5p, 4.2r, 0.9a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Anthony Peeler
9p, 2.5r, 2.2a
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Robert Pack
3.9p, 1.4r, 3.1a
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dallas Mavericks Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Steve Nash
17.9p, 3.1r, 7.7a
Michael Finley
20.6p, 5.2r, 3.3a
Dirk Nowitzki
23.4p, 9.9r, 2.4a
Eduardo Najera
6.5p, 5.5r, 0.6a
Raef LaFrentz
13.5p, 7.4r, 1.1a
Rotation Nick Van Exel
18.4p, 3.5r, 6.6a
Greg Buckner
5.8p, 3.9r, 1.1a
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Shawn Bradley
4.1p, 3.3r, 0.4a
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Evan Eschmeyer
2p, 3.2r, 0.3a
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Zhizhi Wang
5.6p, 2r, 0.4a

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