Utah 85, Houston 89

April 29, 1998

Opening Round - Utah wins 3-2

Compaq Center (Houston, Texas)

Attendance: N/A

Officials: N/A

Team Rebounds: Utah (0) Houston (0)

Technicals: Utah (0) Houston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
UTH (62-20) 19 24 26 16 85
HOU (41-41) 26 21 26 16 89

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
UTH 89 95.9 100.4
HOU 89 100.4 95.9

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
UTH .459 0.169 0.143 0.247
HOU .442 0.090 0.182 0.273

Utah Jazz

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
44 Greg Foster Starter C 03:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 -1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
14 Jeff Hornacek Starter SG 31:00 2-10 1-2 4-5 6.6 0 2 2 3 1 3 0 0 9
31 Adam Keefe Starter SF 09:00 1-3 0-0 1-1 1.1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
32 Karl Malone Starter PF 43:00 6-16 0-1 7-9 10.6 0 14 14 1 3 1 1 5 19
12 John Stockton Starter PG 28:00 6-14 0-2 3-4 7.0 3 2 5 6 3 0 0 5 15
40 Shandon Anderson Bench SF 17:00 2-5 0-1 0-0 4.2 0 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 4
55 Antoine Carr Bench PF 12:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 2.2 1 3 4 0 3 0 0 0 2
6 Howard Eisley Bench PG 21:00 4-11 1-1 1-1 5.4 0 2 2 6 1 0 0 3 10
00 Greg Ostertag Bench C 37:00 2-2 0-0 0-0 5.5 0 4 4 0 4 1 1 0 4
3 Bryon Russell Bench SF 39:00 7-10 3-6 2-2 15.2 2 4 6 2 1 0 0 2 19
  Team                                
        240 31-73 5-13 18-22 83.0 6 36 42 19 18 5 2 15 85
          42.5% 38.5% 81.8%                    

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
50 Matt Bullard Starter SF 15:00 3-5 1-3 0-0 4.5 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 7
22 Clyde Drexler Starter SG 41:00 8-18 2-6 4-4 17.8 2 7 9 5 1 2 0 3 22
12 Matt Maloney Starter PG 33:00 2-8 2-7 5-6 7.8 0 4 4 5 4 0 0 1 11
34 Hakeem Olajuwon Starter C 42:00 10-26 0-1 8-8 18.8 1 11 12 3 2 1 1 0 28
43 Kevin Willis Starter PF 29:00 2-6 0-0 0-0 4.5 2 6 8 1 3 1 0 2 4
4 Charles Barkley Bench PF 25:00 3-5 0-1 2-5 8.1 1 5 6 1 2 2 0 1 8
17 Mario Elie Bench SG 33:00 3-6 1-1 0-1 5.9 1 1 2 2 2 2 0 1 7
8 Eddie Johnson Bench SF 07:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 -0.5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
20 Brent Price Bench PG 15:00 0-3 0-3 2-3 -0.1 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 2
  Team                                
        240 31-77 6-22 21-27 80.6 8 36 44 18 17 8 1 8 89
          40.3% 27.3% 77.8%                    

Utah Jazz Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters John Stockton
12p, 2.6r, 8.5a		 Jeff Hornacek
14.2p, 3.4r, 4.4a		 Adam Keefe
7.8p, 5.5r, 1.1a		 Karl Malone
27p, 10.3r, 3.9a		 Greg Foster
5.7p, 3.5r, 0.7a
Rotation Howard Eisley
7.7p, 2r, 4.2a		  
 		 Bryon Russell
9p, 4r, 1.2a		 Antoine Carr
5.7p, 2r, 0.7a		 Greg Ostertag
4.7p, 5.9r, 0.4a
Rotation  
 		  
 		 Shandon Anderson
8.3p, 2.8r, 1.1a		  
 		  
 

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Matt Maloney
8.6p, 1.8r, 2.8a		 Clyde Drexler
18.4p, 4.9r, 5.5a		 Matt Bullard
7p, 2.2r, 0.9a		 Kevin Willis
16.1p, 8.4r, 1a		 Hakeem Olajuwon
16.4p, 9.8r, 3a
Rotation Brent Price
5.6p, 1.5r, 2.7a		 Mario Elie
8.4p, 2.1r, 3a		  
 		 Charles Barkley
15.2p, 11.7r, 3.2a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Eddie Johnson
8.4p, 2r, 1.2a		  
 		  
 

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