Houston 96, Minnesota 94

December 10, 1996

Regular Season

Target Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Attendance: 14,627

Officials: Bob Delaney, Tim Donaghy, Ted Bernhardt

Team Rebounds: Houston (16) Minnesota (9)

Technicals: Houston (0) Minnesota (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
HOU (18-2) 29 21 27 19 96
MIN (7-13) 25 26 30 13 94

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
HOU 92 104.2 102.1
MIN 92 102.1 104.2

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
HOU .487 0.152 0.195 0.273
MIN .452 0.109 0.349 0.108

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
4 Charles Barkley Starter PF 39:00 3-11 0-4 1-2 10.5 4 8 12 4 3 1 1 2 7
22 Clyde Drexler Starter SF 44:00 14-20 1-4 7-9 32.1 0 6 6 8 4 3 2 1 36
17 Mario Elie Starter SG 42:00 3-10 1-5 0-0 3.2 0 1 1 7 4 0 0 2 7
12 Matt Maloney Starter PG 37:00 3-7 1-4 2-2 5.5 1 2 3 2 2 0 0 1 9
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 37:00 10-20 0-0 9-12 19.0 2 6 8 1 2 2 3 2 29
50 Matt Bullard Bench PF 08:00 0-1 0-1 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
3 Randy Livingston Bench SG 10:00 1-2 0-0 1-2 2.8 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 3
9 Tracy Moore Bench SG 03:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 0
43 Kevin Willis Bench C 20:00 2-6 0-0 1-2 1.8 1 6 7 0 3 0 0 2 5
  Team                   16         1  
        240 36-77 3-18 21-29 85.6 8 33 57 23 21 7 8 15 96
          46.8% 16.7% 72.4%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
24 Tom Gugliotta Starter PF 37:00 5-14 0-0 4-6 5.8 2 4 6 1 1 0 2 3 14
3 Stephon Marbury Starter PG 36:00 8-18 2-5 0-0 19.8 2 5 7 12 3 2 0 3 18
42 Sam Mitchell Starter SF 44:00 11-19 0-0 6-6 22.2 8 5 13 2 4 0 1 2 28
11 Stojko Vrankovic Starter C 16:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 2.0 1 3 4 0 5 0 0 0 2
5 Doug West Starter SG 29:00 4-11 0-0 0-2 1.2 1 1 2 3 5 0 0 0 8
43 Chris Carr Bench SG 19:00 4-9 4-6 0-2 5.2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 12
22 Dean Garrett Bench C 32:00 2-9 0-0 0-0 3.8 1 4 5 1 3 1 3 1 4
44 Cherokee Parks Bench PF 15:00 2-6 0-0 0-0 0.5 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 4
30 Terry Porter Bench PG 12:00 2-6 0-1 0-0 6.2 0 3 3 3 1 1 1 0 4
  Team                   9            
        240 39-93 6-12 10-16 72.8 15 28 52 23 25 5 7 10 94
          41.9% 50.0% 62.5%                    

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Matt Maloney
10.2p, 2r, 3.6a
Mario Elie
12.3p, 2.7r, 4.3a
Clyde Drexler
17.1p, 6.1r, 4.8a
Charles Barkley
20.1p, 15.6r, 5.2a
Hakeem Olajuwon
24.6p, 9.2r, 2.4a
Rotation  
 
Randy Livingston
2.2p, 0.8r, 1.3a
 
 
 
 
Kevin Willis
8.9p, 6.3r, 0.8a
Lim PT  
 
Tracy Moore
3.9p, 1r, 0.8a
 
 
Matt Bullard
5.3p, 1.4r, 0.9a
 
 

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Stephon Marbury
14p, 3.3r, 5.3a
Doug West
8.3p, 2r, 1.8a
Sam Mitchell
10.7p, 4.8r, 1.3a
Tom Gugliotta
22.2p, 8.6r, 3.4a
Stojko Vrankovic
4.7p, 4.2r, 0.4a
Rotation Terry Porter
7p, 2.2r, 3.4a
Chris Carr
4.1p, 2.2r, 1a
 
 
Cherokee Parks
3.4p, 2.1r, 0.4a
Dean Garrett
4.1p, 5.1r, 0.3a

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