Minnesota 94, Dallas 101

April 21, 2002

Opening Round - Dallas wins 3-0

American Airlines Center (Dallas, Texas)

Attendance: 20,010

Officials: N/A

Team Rebounds: Minnesota (6) Dallas (6)

Technicals: Minnesota (0) Dallas (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIN (50-32) 31 16 26 21 94
DAL (57-25) 22 28 23 28 101

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIN 96 98.1 105.4
DAL 96 105.4 98.1

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIN .422 0.177 0.345 0.200
DAL .482 0.084 0.103 0.238

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 44:00 8-16 1-5 8-9 17.4 1 5 6 9 6 1 0 4 25
21 Kevin Garnett Starter PF 44:00 6-18 1-1 6-6 25.2 7 14 21 6 3 1 2 3 19
42 Sam Mitchell Starter SG 19:00 2-5 0-0 2-2 3.2 0 1 1 2 4 1 0 0 6
8 Rasho Nesterovic Starter C 40:00 8-18 0-0 0-3 5.4 3 6 9 0 3 1 0 3 16
10 Wally Szczerbiak Starter SF 44:00 7-15 1-4 0-0 8.5 3 5 8 1 2 0 0 2 15
13 Felipe Lopez Bench SF 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Robert Pack Bench SG 04:00 0-2 0-1 0-0 -2.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
44 Anthony Peeler Bench SG 26:00 3-7 1-2 0-0 2.8 1 6 7 0 3 1 0 4 7
32 Joe Smith Bench PF 07:00 0-2 0-0 2-2 1.0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 2
20 Gary Trent Bench PF 11:00 2-7 0-0 0-1 -0.1 4 0 4 0 3 0 0 1 4
  Team                   6         0  
        240 36-90 4-13 18-23 91.4 20 38 64 18 26 5 2 17 94
          40.0% 30.8% 78.3%                    

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 SG 45:00 7-14 0-2 2-2 8.0 0 3 3 1 2 3 0 2 16
45 Raef LaFrentz Starter C 29:00 4-9 1-3 1-2 8.0 0 4 4 0 5 0 5 0 10
14 Eduardo Najera Starter PF 22:00 2-4 0-0 0-0 2.8 0 3 3 1 3 1 0 1 4
13 Steve Nash Starter PG 42:00 7-19 2-5 5-5 12.6 0 5 5 6 2 0 0 1 21
41 Dirk Nowitzki Starter SF 44:00 10-19 1-3 9-10 24.0 1 14 15 0 3 2 3 3 30
42 Evan Eschmeyer Bench C 06:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 3.2 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0
44 Adrian Griffin Bench SG 10:00 1-3 0-1 0-0 0.2 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 2
31 Nick Van Exel Bench PG 36:00 6-13 3-9 3-4 15.5 0 3 3 7 3 1 0 0 18
16 Zhizhi Wang Bench C 06:00 0-3 0-0 0-0 0.8 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0
  Team                   6         1  
        240 37-84 7-23 20-23 71.1 4 35 45 17 21 7 10 9 101
          44.0% 30.4% 87.0%                    

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  
 		 Anthony Peeler
9p, 2.5r, 2.2a		  
 		 Gary Trent
7.5p, 4.2r, 0.9a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 Robert Pack
3.9p, 1.4r, 3.1a		 Felipe Lopez
2.5p, 1.2r, 0.6a		 Joe Smith
10.7p, 6.3r, 1.1a		  
 

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		 Adrian Griffin
7.2p, 3.9r, 1.8a		  
 		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Evan Eschmeyer
2p, 3.2r, 0.3a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Zhizhi Wang
5.6p, 2r, 0.4a

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