Cleveland 82, New York 90

March 2, 1997

Regular Season

Madison Square Garden (New York, New York)

Attendance: 19,763

Officials: Bennett Salvatore, Blane Reichelt, Bruce Alexander

Team Rebounds: Cleveland (7) New York (12)

Technicals: Cleveland (0) New York (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
CLE (32-25) 20 16 23 23 82
NYK (43-16) 22 25 19 24 90

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
CLE 83 98.8 108.5
NYK 83 108.5 98.8

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
CLE .472 0.169 0.278 0.211
NYK .587 0.193 0.229 0.254

Cleveland Cavaliers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
1 Terrell Brandon Starter PG 33:00 3-14 0-3 8-10 5.0 1 5 6 6 1 0 0 5 14
35 Danny Ferry Starter PF 36:00 6-10 1-3 1-1 9.4 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 14
24 Chris Mills Starter SF 40:00 3-7 1-2 1-1 11.1 0 7 7 2 5 5 0 1 8
14 Bobby Phills Starter SG 37:00 10-16 3-3 1-2 12.8 3 2 5 1 4 0 0 2 24
52 Vitaly Potapenko Starter C 21:00 6-13 0-0 1-3 0.1 2 2 4 0 5 0 0 3 13
2 Reggie Geary Bench PG 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 -0.5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
32 Tyrone Hill Bench PF 36:00 2-5 0-0 2-4 9.2 3 6 9 1 4 2 0 0 6
21 Antonio Lang Bench PF 03:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
13 Donny Marshall Bench SF 06:00 0-2 0-1 0-0 -1.2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0
3 Bob Sura Bench SG 27:00 1-3 0-1 1-2 8.0 1 0 1 9 2 1 0 2 3
  Team                   7            
        240 31-71 5-13 15-23 78.6 10 26 43 19 24 9 1 14 82
          43.7% 38.5% 65.2%                    

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 40:00 8-14 0-0 2-6 11.8 2 10 12 2 4 0 1 4 18
20 Allan Houston Starter SG 35:00 11-16 3-3 3-4 14.2 0 3 3 1 5 2 0 3 28
2 Larry Johnson Starter SF 37:00 7-10 0-0 3-7 18.1 3 5 8 3 1 2 0 0 17
34 Charles Oakley Starter PF 41:00 1-3 0-1 2-2 13.2 1 7 8 6 2 3 0 2 4
21 Charlie Ward Starter PG 37:00 2-5 2-4 2-2 5.8 0 1 1 5 3 2 0 4 8
4 Scott Brooks Bench PG 11:00 1-2 0-1 0-0 1.0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 2
3 John Starks Bench SG 22:00 4-11 1-2 2-4 3.2 2 0 2 2 2 1 0 2 11
44 John Wallace Bench SF 05:00 0-1 0-0 2-2 2.2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2
52 Buck Williams Bench PF 12:00 0-1 0-0 0-2 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
  Team                   12         1  
        240 34-63 6-11 16-29 94.1 8 27 47 21 18 10 4 17 90
          54.0% 54.5% 55.2%                    

Cleveland Cavaliers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Terrell Brandon
19.7p, 4r, 6.2a
Bobby Phills
12.9p, 3.6r, 3.8a
Chris Mills
13.2p, 6.4r, 2.3a
Danny Ferry
9.7p, 4.1r, 1.9a
Vitaly Potapenko
5.2p, 2.5r, 0.5a
Rotation  
 
Bob Sura
8.4p, 3.4r, 4.5a
 
 
Tyrone Hill
12.6p, 9.9r, 1.3a
 
 
Lim PT Reggie Geary
1.3p, 0.3r, 0.7a
 
 
Donny Marshall
3.1p, 1r, 0.4a
Antonio Lang
2.7p, 1.7r, 0.5a
 
 

New York Knicks Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Charlie Ward
5.7p, 3r, 4.4a
Allan Houston
15.2p, 3r, 2a
Larry Johnson
12.7p, 4.9r, 2.2a
Charles Oakley
10.4p, 9.9r, 2.8a
Patrick Ewing
21.6p, 11.1r, 1.9a
Rotation Scott Brooks
1.4p, 0.5r, 0.8a
John Starks
13.8p, 2.7r, 3a
 
 
Buck Williams
6.3p, 5.5r, 0.6a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
John Wallace
5.1p, 2.4r, 0.6a
 
 
 
 

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