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1997-98 Houston Rockets Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 41-41, Finished 4th in NBA Midwest Division

Coach: Rudy Tomjanovich (41-41)

Executive: Carroll Dawson

PTS/G: 98.8 (7th of 29) Opp PTS/G: 99.5 (24th of 29)

SRS: -1.23 (19th of 29) Pace: 91.0 (12th of 29)

Off Rtg: 107.7 (8th of 29) Def Rtg: 108.6 (25th of 29) Net Rtg: -0.8 (18th of 29)

Expected W-L: 39-43 (18th of 29)

Preseason Odds: Championship +1200, Over-Under 50.5

Arena: The Summit Attendance: 670,117 (17th of 29)

NBA 1998 Playoffs:
Lost NBA Western Conference First Round (2-3) versus Utah Jazz (Series Stats)

Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

1. Oct 31, HOU (1-0) beat CLE, 94-86

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date		Exp	College
4	Charles Barkley	PF	6-6	252	February 20, 1963	us	13	Auburn
50	Matt Bullard	SF	6-10	215	June 5, 1967	us	6	Colorado, Iowa
15	Emanual Davis	PG	6-4	195	August 27, 1968	us	1	Delaware State University
22	Clyde Drexler	SG	6-7	210	June 22, 1962	us	14	Houston
17	Mario Elie	SF	6-5	210	November 26, 1963	us	7	American International College
32	Othella Harrington	PF	6-9	235	January 31, 1974	us	1	Georgetown
8	Eddie Johnson	SF	6-7	215	May 1, 1959	us	15	Illinois
27	Charles Jones	PF	6-9	215	April 3, 1957	us	14	Albany State University
12	Matt Maloney	PG	6-3	192	December 6, 1971	us	1	Vanderbilt, Penn
34	Hakeem Olajuwon	C	7-0	255	January 21, 1963	ng	13	Houston
20	Brent Price	PG	6-1	165	December 9, 1968	us	4	South Carolina, Oklahoma
1	Rodrick Rhodes	SF	6-6	225	September 24, 1973	us	R	Kentucky, USC
41	Joe Stephens	SF	6-7	210	January 28, 1973	us	1	Colorado, Little Rock
42	Kevin Willis	PF	7-0	220	September 6, 1962	us	12	Michigan State

Assistant Coaches and Staff

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game (except for MP, which are total) and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

Team Misc

Per Game

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Clyde Drexler	35	70	70	35.3	6.5	15.1	.427	1.5	4.8	.317	4.9	10.4	.477	.477	4.0	4.9	.801	1.5	3.4	4.9	5.5	1.8	0.6	2.7	2.8	18.4
2	Hakeem Olajuwon	35	47	45	34.7	6.5	13.5	.483	0.0	0.1	.000	6.5	13.4	.486	.483	3.4	4.5	.755	2.5	7.3	9.8	3.0	1.8	2.0	2.7	3.2	16.4
3	Charles Barkley	34	68	41	33.0	5.3	10.9	.485	0.3	1.2	.214	5.0	9.7	.520	.497	4.4	5.8	.746	3.5	8.1	11.7	3.2	1.0	0.4	2.2	2.8	15.2
4	Kevin Willis	35	81	74	31.2	6.6	12.9	.510	0.0	0.1	.143	6.5	12.8	.513	.511	3.0	3.8	.793	2.9	5.5	8.4	1.0	0.7	0.5	2.1	2.9	16.1
5	Matt Maloney	26	78	78	28.4	3.1	7.5	.408	1.6	4.4	.364	1.4	3.1	.471	.515	0.8	1.0	.833	0.2	1.6	1.8	2.8	0.8	0.1	1.4	1.3	8.6
6	Mario Elie	34	73	59	27.2	2.8	6.2	.452	0.8	2.6	.291	2.1	3.7	.566	.512	2.0	2.4	.833	0.5	1.6	2.1	3.0	1.1	0.1	1.4	1.6	8.4
7	Eddie Johnson	38	75	1	19.9	3.0	7.3	.417	0.9	2.6	.333	2.1	4.6	.465	.478	1.5	1.8	.831	0.7	1.4	2.0	1.2	0.4	0.0	0.8	1.2	8.4
8	Brent Price	29	72	2	18.5	1.8	4.3	.413	1.0	2.6	.390	0.8	1.7	.447	.531	1.1	1.4	.786	0.5	1.0	1.5	2.7	0.7	0.1	1.5	2.3	5.6
9	Rodrick Rhodes	24	58	13	18.4	1.9	5.3	.367	0.0	0.1	.250	1.9	5.1	.370	.370	1.9	3.1	.617	0.5	0.7	1.2	1.9	1.1	0.2	1.7	2.2	5.8
10	Matt Bullard	30	67	24	17.8	2.6	5.8	.450	1.4	3.4	.416	1.2	2.4	.500	.573	0.3	0.4	.741	0.4	1.8	2.2	0.9	0.5	0.4	0.6	1.6	7.0
11	Othella Harrington	24	58	3	15.6	2.2	4.6	.485	0.0	0.0	.000	2.2	4.6	.487	.485	1.6	2.1	.754	1.3	2.3	3.6	0.4	0.2	0.5	0.8	1.9	6.0
12	Emanual Davis	29	45	0	13.3	1.4	3.2	.444	0.6	1.6	.375	0.8	1.6	.514	.539	0.7	0.8	.838	0.2	0.8	1.0	1.3	0.4	0.1	1.2	1.2	4.1
13	Charles Jones	40	24	0	5.3	0.3	0.4	.700	0.0	0.0		0.3	0.4	.700	.700	0.0	0.1	.500	0.5	0.5	1.0	0.2	0.0	0.3	0.2	0.9	0.6
14	Joe Stephens	25	7	0	5.3	1.4	4.0	.357	0.4	1.4	.300	1.0	2.6	.389	.411	0.6	0.9	.667	0.4	0.4	0.9	0.1	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.3	3.9

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Hakeem Olajuwon	35	5	5	38.0	7.8	19.8	.394	0.0	0.2	.000	7.8	19.6	.398	.394	4.8	6.6	.727	1.8	9.0	10.8	2.4	1.0	3.2	2.6	3.6	20.4
2	Clyde Drexler	35	5	5	36.4	4.2	13.6	.309	1.0	5.2	.192	3.2	8.4	.381	.346	5.6	7.4	.757	1.8	3.6	5.4	4.6	1.6	0.6	2.6	3.0	15.0
3	Kevin Willis	35	5	5	33.6	4.4	11.0	.400	0.0	0.2	.000	4.4	10.8	.407	.400	2.4	3.2	.750	3.6	7.0	10.6	1.0	1.6	0.6	2.4	4.2	11.2
4	Matt Maloney	26	5	5	33.0	2.0	6.0	.333	1.0	4.0	.250	1.0	2.0	.500	.417	1.6	1.8	.889	0.0	1.6	1.6	3.6	0.4	0.4	0.8	2.2	6.6
5	Mario Elie	34	5	1	26.6	2.4	5.4	.444	0.6	1.8	.333	1.8	3.6	.500	.500	1.2	1.8	.667	0.6	2.0	2.6	1.2	0.4	0.0	1.0	2.0	6.6
6	Charles Barkley	34	4	0	21.8	3.0	5.8	.522	0.0	0.5	.000	3.0	5.3	.571	.522	3.0	5.3	.571	1.3	4.0	5.3	1.0	1.3	0.0	1.5	3.0	9.0
7	Eddie Johnson	38	5	0	17.8	1.8	5.4	.333	0.6	2.0	.300	1.2	3.4	.353	.389	1.4	1.6	.875	0.8	0.8	1.6	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.6	2.0	5.6
8	Brent Price	29	5	0	15.0	1.2	3.0	.400	1.0	2.6	.385	0.2	0.4	.500	.567	0.4	0.6	.667	0.2	1.6	1.8	1.2	0.8	0.0	1.2	2.4	3.8
9	Matt Bullard	30	5	4	14.0	1.2	3.6	.333	0.6	2.0	.300	0.6	1.6	.375	.417	0.4	0.4	1.000	0.6	1.0	1.6	1.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	1.0	3.4
10	Othella Harrington	24	3	0	7.7	2.0	4.0	.500	0.0	0.3	.000	2.0	3.7	.545	.500	1.3	1.7	.800	1.0	1.3	2.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.3	5.3
11	Charles Jones	40	4	0	2.8	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0			0.5	0.5	1.000	0.3	0.5	0.8	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.5
12	Rodrick Rhodes	24	3	0	2.3	0.7	1.0	.667	0.0	0.0		0.7	1.0	.667	.667	0.7	1.3	.500	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.0	2.0

Totals

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Kevin Willis	35	81	74	2528	531	1041	.510	1	7	.143	530	1034	.513	.511	242	305	.793	232	447	679	78	55	38	170	235	1305
2	Clyde Drexler	35	70	70	2473	452	1059	.427	106	334	.317	346	725	.477	.477	277	346	.801	105	241	346	382	126	42	189	193	1287
3	Charles Barkley	34	68	41	2243	361	744	.485	18	84	.214	343	660	.520	.497	296	397	.746	241	553	794	217	71	28	147	187	1036
4	Matt Maloney	26	78	78	2217	239	586	.408	126	346	.364	113	240	.471	.515	65	78	.833	16	126	142	219	62	5	107	99	669
5	Mario Elie	34	73	59	1988	206	456	.452	55	189	.291	151	267	.566	.512	145	174	.833	39	117	156	221	81	8	100	115	612
6	Hakeem Olajuwon	35	47	45	1633	306	633	.483	0	3	.000	306	630	.486	.483	160	212	.755	116	344	460	143	84	96	126	152	772
7	Eddie Johnson	38	75	1	1490	227	544	.417	66	198	.333	161	346	.465	.478	113	136	.831	50	103	153	88	32	3	62	89	633
8	Brent Price	29	72	2	1332	128	310	.413	73	187	.390	55	123	.447	.531	77	98	.786	37	70	107	192	52	4	111	163	406
9	Matt Bullard	30	67	24	1190	175	389	.450	96	231	.416	79	158	.500	.573	20	27	.741	25	121	146	60	31	24	39	104	466
10	Rodrick Rhodes	24	58	13	1070	112	305	.367	2	8	.250	110	297	.370	.370	111	180	.617	28	42	70	110	62	10	97	125	337
11	Othella Harrington	24	58	3	903	129	266	.485	0	1	.000	129	265	.487	.485	92	122	.754	73	134	207	24	10	27	47	112	350
12	Emanual Davis	29	45	0	599	63	142	.444	27	72	.375	36	70	.514	.539	31	37	.838	10	37	47	59	17	3	52	55	184
13	Charles Jones	40	24	0	127	7	10	.700	0	0		7	10	.700	.700	1	2	.500	12	12	24	5	1	6	4	22	15
14	Joe Stephens	25	7	0	37	10	28	.357	3	10	.300	7	18	.389	.411	4	6	.667	3	3	6	1	2	0	2	2	27
			82		19830	2946	6513	.452	573	1670	.343	2373	4843	.490	.496	1634	2120	.771	987	2350	3337	1799	686	294	1298	1653	8099

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Hakeem Olajuwon	35	5	5	190	39	99	.394	0	1	.000	39	98	.398	.394	24	33	.727	9	45	54	12	5	16	13	18	102
2	Clyde Drexler	35	5	5	182	21	68	.309	5	26	.192	16	42	.381	.346	28	37	.757	9	18	27	23	8	3	13	15	75
3	Kevin Willis	35	5	5	168	22	55	.400	0	1	.000	22	54	.407	.400	12	16	.750	18	35	53	5	8	3	12	21	56
4	Matt Maloney	26	5	5	165	10	30	.333	5	20	.250	5	10	.500	.417	8	9	.889	0	8	8	18	2	2	4	11	33
5	Mario Elie	34	5	1	133	12	27	.444	3	9	.333	9	18	.500	.500	6	9	.667	3	10	13	6	2	0	5	10	33
6	Eddie Johnson	38	5	0	89	9	27	.333	3	10	.300	6	17	.353	.389	7	8	.875	4	4	8	1	0	0	3	10	28
7	Charles Barkley	34	4	0	87	12	23	.522	0	2	.000	12	21	.571	.522	12	21	.571	5	16	21	4	5	0	6	12	36
8	Brent Price	29	5	0	75	6	15	.400	5	13	.385	1	2	.500	.567	2	3	.667	1	8	9	6	4	0	6	12	19
9	Matt Bullard	30	5	4	70	6	18	.333	3	10	.300	3	8	.375	.417	2	2	1.000	3	5	8	5	1	0	0	5	17
10	Othella Harrington	24	3	0	23	6	12	.500	0	1	.000	6	11	.545	.500	4	5	.800	3	4	7	0	0	1	0	1	16
11	Charles Jones	40	4	0	11	0	0		0	0		0	0			2	2	1.000	1	2	3	1	0	0	0	4	2
12	Rodrick Rhodes	24	3	0	7	2	3	.667	0	0		2	3	.667	.667	2	4	.500	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	6

Advanced

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Kevin Willis	35	81	2528	18.3	.555	.007	.293	11.0	20.7	15.9	5.8	1.1	1.1	12.6	24.1		4.3	1.7	6.0	.114		0.3	-2.3	-1.9	0.0
2	Clyde Drexler	35	70	2473	19.8	.531	.315	.327	5.1	11.4	8.3	27.6	2.7	1.2	13.5	25.7		5.0	1.8	6.8	.133		3.2	0.1	3.4	3.3
3	Charles Barkley	34	68	2243	21.6	.564	.113	.534	12.9	28.8	20.9	16.6	1.7	0.9	13.8	21.6		6.1	2.5	8.6	.183		3.2	-0.4	2.8	2.7
4	Matt Maloney	26	78	2217	10.5	.539	.590	.133	0.9	6.6	3.8	15.6	1.5	0.2	14.7	14.9		1.9	0.3	2.2	.047		-0.6	-1.3	-1.8	0.1
5	Mario Elie	34	73	1988	12.9	.575	.414	.382	2.3	6.9	4.6	17.4	2.1	0.3	15.8	14.4		3.2	0.6	3.8	.092		-0.2	-0.1	-0.4	0.8
6	Hakeem Olajuwon	35	47	1633	20.8	.531	.005	.335	8.5	24.6	16.7	15.8	2.7	4.1	14.8	23.7		2.0	2.5	4.5	.131		1.0	2.0	3.0	2.1
7	Eddie Johnson	38	75	1490	13.1	.524	.364	.250	4.0	8.1	6.1	10.0	1.1	0.1	9.3	20.3		2.0	0.1	2.2	.070		0.3	-2.2	-2.0	0.0
8	Brent Price	29	72	1332	10.9	.575	.603	.316	3.3	6.1	4.8	22.3	2.1	0.2	23.9	15.8		1.2	0.4	1.6	.059		-1.1	-0.9	-2.0	0.0
9	Matt Bullard	30	67	1190	13.8	.581	.594	.069	2.5	11.9	7.3	8.5	1.4	1.4	8.9	16.8		2.0	0.5	2.5	.102		1.9	-0.6	1.3	1.0
10	Rodrick Rhodes	24	58	1070	7.7	.439	.026	.590	3.1	4.6	3.9	16.1	3.1	0.7	20.2	20.4		-1.5	0.6	-0.9	-0.040		-5.1	-0.4	-5.4	-0.9
11	Othella Harrington	24	58	903	13.7	.547	.004	.459	9.7	17.4	13.6	4.4	0.6	2.1	12.8	18.4		1.3	0.5	1.7	.092		-1.7	-1.9	-3.6	-0.3
12	Emanual Davis	29	45	599	9.2	.581	.507	.261	2.0	7.2	4.6	15.4	1.5	0.4	24.7	15.9		0.2	0.1	0.3	.022		-2.1	-1.5	-3.6	-0.3
13	Charles Jones	40	24	127	7.8	.689	.000	.200	11.3	11.1	11.2	5.7	0.4	3.3	26.9	5.3		0.2	0.0	0.2	.078		-3.2	-0.1	-3.4	0.0
14	Joe Stephens	25	7	37	17.7	.441	.357	.214	9.7	9.5	9.6	5.7	2.9	0.0	6.1	40.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.010		3.4	-3.7	-0.2	0.0

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Hakeem Olajuwon	35	5	190	18.8	.449	.010	.333	5.0	27.9	15.8	15.8	1.4	6.3	10.3	31.5		-0.2	0.4	0.2	.049		1.3	2.8	4.1	0.3
2	Clyde Drexler	35	5	182	14.2	.445	.382	.544	5.2	11.6	8.3	25.9	2.4	1.2	13.4	25.3		-0.1	0.3	0.2	.043		1.1	0.9	1.9	0.2
3	Kevin Willis	35	5	168	13.2	.451	.018	.291	11.3	24.5	17.6	6.3	2.6	1.3	16.2	20.8		-0.2	0.3	0.2	.045		-1.9	0.2	-1.7	0.0
4	Matt Maloney	26	5	165	8.0	.486	.667	.300	0.0	5.7	2.7	20.1	0.7	0.9	10.5	10.9		0.1	0.1	0.2	.063		-1.5	0.5	-1.0	0.0
5	Mario Elie	34	5	133	8.0	.533	.333	.333	2.4	8.8	5.4	8.8	0.8	0.0	13.9	12.8		0.0	0.1	0.1	.052		-2.9	-0.2	-3.1	0.0
6	Eddie Johnson	38	5	89	5.8	.459	.370	.296	4.8	5.3	5.0	2.2	0.0	0.0	8.9	17.8		0.0	0.0	0.0	.010		-2.0	-2.4	-4.5	-0.1
7	Charles Barkley	34	4	87	16.2	.558	.087	.913	6.1	21.6	13.4	9.9	3.1	0.0	15.7	20.8		0.1	0.2	0.2	.120		-0.2	1.2	1.0	0.1
8	Brent Price	29	5	75	8.2	.582	.867	.200	1.4	12.5	6.7	15.3	2.9	0.0	26.9	14.1		0.0	0.1	0.1	.049		-4.4	1.6	-2.7	0.0
9	Matt Bullard	30	5	70	9.8	.450	.556	.111	4.5	8.4	6.4	13.8	0.8	0.0	0.0	12.8		0.1	0.1	0.1	.086		1.1	-0.2	0.8	0.1
10	Othella Harrington	24	3	23	30.0	.563	.083	.417	13.8	20.5	16.9	0.0	0.0	3.2	0.0	29.2		0.1	0.0	0.1	.260		10.7	-0.1	10.6	0.1
11	Charles Jones	40	4	11	12.7	1.136			9.6	21.4	15.2	15.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.8		0.1	0.0	0.1	.298		-3.2	3.8	0.6	0.0
12	Rodrick Rhodes	24	3	7	30.8	.630	.000	1.333	0.0	16.8	8.0	0.0	7.7	0.0	17.4	38.9		0.0	0.0	0.0	.125		6.2	9.0	15.2	0.0

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