Cleveland Cavaliers Opening Day Rosters

2004-2005 Cleveland Cavaliers Opening Day Roster

Player Pos HT WT Birth Date Age Pre-Draft Team YOS Draft Status
DeSagana Diop C 7-0 280 Jan 30, 1982 22 Oak Hill Academy (Virginia) 3 2001 1st Rnd, #8, Cleveland Cavaliers
Drew Gooden PF/C 6-10 250 Sep 24, 1981 23 Kansas 2 2002 1st Rnd, #4, Memphis Grizzlies
Lucious Harris SG 6-5 190 Dec 18, 1970 33 Long Beach State 11 1993 2nd Rnd, #28, Dallas Mavericks
Zydrunas Ilgauskas C 7-3 260 Jun 5, 1975 29 BC Aisciai-Atletas (Lithuania) 8 1996 1st Rnd, #20, Cleveland Cavaliers
Luke Jackson F-G 6-7 215 Nov 6, 1981 22 Oregon 0 2004 1st Rnd, #10, Cleveland Cavaliers
LeBron James SF/PF 6-9 250 Dec 30, 1984 19 St. Vincent St. Mary High School (Ohio) 1 2003 1st Rnd, #1, Cleveland Cavaliers
Jeff McInnis SG 6-4 190 Oct 22, 1974 30 North Carolina 7 1996 2nd Rnd, #37, Denver Nuggets
Ira Newble G-F 6-7 220 Jan 20, 1975 29 Miami (OH) 5 1997 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Sasha Pavlovic SG/SF 6-7 235 Nov 15, 1983 20 Buducnost (Montenegro) 1 2003 1st Rnd, #19, Utah Jazz
Eric Snow PG 6-3 190 Apr 24, 1973 31 Michigan State 9 1995 2nd Rnd, #43, Milwaukee Bucks
Robert Traylor F-C 6-8 284 Feb 1, 1977 27 Michigan 6 1998 1st Rnd, #6, Dallas Mavericks
Anderson Varejao C/PF 6-10 273 Sep 28, 1982 22 Barca (Spain) 0 2004 2nd Rnd, #30, Orlando Magic
Dajuan Wagner PG 6-2 200 Feb 4, 1983 21 Memphis 2 2002 1st Rnd, #6, Cleveland Cavaliers
Scott Williams F-C 6-10 230 Mar 21, 1968 36 North Carolina 14 1990 NBA Draft, Undrafted

Indiana 109, Cleveland 104

November 3, 2004

Regular Season

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (Cleveland, Ohio)

Attendance: N/A

Officials: Ed Malloy, Ken Mauer, Greg Willard

Team Rebounds: Indiana (11) Cleveland (11)

Technicals: Indiana (0) Cleveland (0)

  1 2 3 4 OT 2OT Final
IND (1-0) 26 20 17 22 9 15 109
CLE (0-1) 21 19 27 18 9 10 104

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
IND 103 106.1 101.3
CLE 103 101.3 106.1

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
IND .484 0.127 0.234 0.204
CLE .443 0.136 0.244 0.310

Indiana Pacers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
23 Metta World Peace Starter SF 50:00 14-29 0-3 3-5 16.1 2.0 7 9 2 5 2 1 1 31
44 Austin Croshere Starter PF 43:00 6-12 2-6 6-6 10.5 2.0 3 5 1 5 1 1 3 20
1 Stephen Jackson Starter SG 43:00 3-12 0-3 3-5 4.4 1.0 9 10 3 3 0 0 3 9
62 Scot Pollard Starter C 44:00 5-9 0-0 0-3 14.4 5.0 5 10 1 3 1 3 0 10
11 Jamaal Tinsley Starter PG 45:00 5-13 1-2 4-4 23.0 0.0 7 7 14 4 3 0 1 15
24 Jonathan Bender Bench C 16:00 5-8 1-2 0-0 6.5 1.0 2 3 1 2 0 0 1 11
4 Eddie Gill Bench PG 14:00 2-3 0-0 0-0 2.5 0.0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 4
13 David Harrison Bench C 08:00 0-2 0-0 0-0 -3.0 0.0 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0
20 Fred Jones Bench SG 27:00 3-5 0-1 3-3 4.1 0.0 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 9
  Team                   11         1  
        290 43-93 4-17 19-26 94.5 11 36 58 24 28 9 5 14 109
          46.2% 23.5% 73.1%                    

Cleveland Cavaliers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
90 Drew Gooden Starter PF 25:00 2-6 0-0 0-0 3.2 1.0 5 6 0 2 0 0 0 4
12 Lucious Harris Starter SG 24:00 1-4 0-1 0-0 1.0 0.0 2 2 1 1 1 0 1 2
11 Zydrunas Ilgauskas Starter C 47:00 12-24 0-0 11-12 25.8 5.0 13 18 1 5 0 2 2 35
23 LeBron James Starter SF 50:00 8-19 2-5 10-12 18.2 1.0 4 5 8 2 1 3 6 28
0 Jeff McInnis Starter PG 48:00 3-14 0-1 1-4 -1.0 0.0 2 2 5 3 0 0 1 7
14 Ira Newble Bench SF 09:00 1-2 0-0 0-1 -0.1 0.0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2
3 Sasha Pavlovic Bench SG 12:00 2-3 1-1 0-0 2.0 0.0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 5
20 Eric Snow Bench PG 35:00 3-7 0-0 0-0 3.8 0.0 2 2 5 3 0 0 2 6
32 Robert Traylor Bench PF 31:00 4-5 0-0 3-3 14.6 3.0 4 7 1 3 1 3 1 11
47 Scott Williams Bench PF 09:00 1-3 0-0 2-2 3.0 1.0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 4
  Team                   11         1  
        290 37-87 3-8 27-34 82.5 11 34 56 23 24 3 8 15 104
          42.5% 37.5% 79.4%                    

Indiana Pacers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Jamaal Tinsley
15p, 7r, 14a
Stephen Jackson
9p, 10r, 3a
Metta World Peace
31p, 9r, 2a
Austin Croshere
20p, 5r, 1a
Scot Pollard
10p, 10r, 1a
Rotation Eddie Gill
4p, 1r, 1a
Fred Jones
9p, 2r, 1a
 
 
 
 
Jonathan Bender
11p, 3r, 1a
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
David Harrison
0p, 0r, 0a

Cleveland Cavaliers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Jeff McInnis
7p, 2r, 5a
Lucious Harris
2p, 2r, 1a
LeBron James
28p, 5r, 8a
Drew Gooden
4p, 6r, 0a
Zydrunas Ilgauskas
35p, 18r, 1a
Rotation Eric Snow
6p, 2r, 5a
Sasha Pavlovic
5p, 1r, 0a
 
 
Robert Traylor
11p, 7r, 1a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
Ira Newble
2p, 1r, 0a
Scott Williams
4p, 1r, 2a