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1985-86 New Jersey Nets Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 39-43, Finished 4th in NBA Atlantic Division

Coach: Dave Wohl (39-43)

Executive: Lewis Schaffel

PTS/G: 109.1 (14th of 23) Opp PTS/G: 111.1 (12th of 23)

SRS: -1.39 (14th of 23) Pace: 103.3 (8th of 23)

Off Rtg: 105.0 (18th of 23) Def Rtg: 106.9 (12th of 23) Net Rtg: -1.9 (15th of 23)

Expected W-L: 36-46 (15th of 23)

Preseason Odds: Championship +1500

Arena: Brendan Byrne Arena Attendance: 482,854 (10th of 23)

NBA 1986 Playoffs:
Lost NBA Eastern Conference First Round (0-3) versus Milwaukee Bucks (Series Stats)

Recent Game Results

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

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date		Exp	College
10	Otis Birdsong	SG	6-3	190	December 9, 1955	us	8	Houston
45	Bobby Cattage	PF	6-9	250	August 17, 1958	us	1	Auburn
12	Darwin Cook	PG	6-3	184	August 6, 1958	us	5	University of Portland
53	Darryl Dawkins	C	6-11	251	January 11, 1957	us	10
42	Mike Gminski	C	6-11	250	August 3, 1959	us	5	Duke
22	Rod Higgins	SF	6-7	200	January 31, 1960	us	3	Fresno State
43	Mickey Johnson	PF	6-10	190	August 31, 1952	us	11	Aurora University
40	Yvon Joseph	C	6-11	245	October 31, 1957	ht	R	Georgia Tech
55	Albert King	SF	6-6	190	December 17, 1959	us	4	Maryland
31	Mike O'Koren	SF	6-7	207	February 7, 1958	us	5	UNC
14	Kelvin Ransey	PG	6-1	170	May 3, 1958	us	5	Ohio State
20	Micheal Ray Richardson	PG	6-5	189	April 11, 1955	us	7	Montana
35	Jeff Turner	PF	6-9	230	April 9, 1962	us	1	Vanderbilt
52	Buck Williams	PF	6-8	215	March 8, 1960	us	4	Maryland
13	Ray Williams	PG	6-3	188	October 14, 1954	us	8	Minnesota

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		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/G
1	Buck Williams	25	82	82	37.4	6.1	11.7	.523	0.0	0.0	.000	6.1	11.6	.524	.523	3.7	5.4	.676	4.0	8.0	12.0	1.6	0.9	1.2	3.0	3.6	15.9
2	Micheal Ray Richardson	30	47	39	34.1	6.3	14.1	.448	0.1	0.6	.148	6.2	13.5	.461	.451	3.0	3.8	.788	1.6	3.7	5.3	7.2	2.7	0.2	3.2	3.5	15.7
3	Mike Gminski	26	81	78	31.2	6.1	11.7	.517	0.0	0.0	.000	6.1	11.7	.518	.517	4.3	4.9	.893	2.5	5.7	8.2	1.6	0.7	0.9	1.7	2.0	16.5
4	Otis Birdsong	30	77	74	31.1	7.0	13.7	.513	0.1	0.3	.364	6.9	13.4	.516	.517	1.6	2.7	.581	1.1	1.5	2.6	3.4	1.1	0.2	2.3	3.0	15.8
5	Albert King	26	73	69	27.4	6.0	13.2	.456	0.1	0.3	.174	5.9	12.8	.463	.458	2.3	2.8	.823	1.6	3.4	5.0	2.5	0.8	0.3	2.5	2.8	14.3
6	Darwin Cook	27	79	33	24.9	3.4	7.9	.426	0.1	0.7	.208	3.2	7.3	.446	.435	1.1	1.4	.757	0.6	1.6	2.2	4.9	2.0	0.3	1.7	2.2	8.0
7	Darryl Dawkins	29	51	3	23.7	5.6	8.6	.644	0.0	0.0	.000	5.6	8.6	.645	.644	4.1	5.8	.707	1.7	3.3	4.9	1.5	0.3	1.2	2.4	4.5	15.3
8	Mickey Johnson	33	79	4	19.9	2.7	6.4	.422	0.1	0.3	.208	2.6	6.1	.433	.427	2.3	2.9	.785	1.2	3.0	4.2	2.7	0.8	0.3	2.1	3.1	7.8
9	Kelvin Ransey	27	79	15	19.0	2.9	6.4	.457	0.0	0.3	.125	2.9	6.1	.474	.460	1.5	1.9	.818	0.4	1.0	1.5	3.2	0.6	0.1	1.4	1.6	7.4
10	Mike O'Koren	27	67	11	15.4	2.4	5.0	.476	0.1	0.4	.259	2.3	4.6	.495	.487	0.3	0.6	.590	0.5	1.5	2.0	1.8	0.4	0.1	0.8	2.0	5.2
11	Rod Higgins	26	2	0	14.5	1.5	8.0	.188	0.0	1.0	.000	1.5	7.0	.214	.188	0.0	0.0		1.5	2.5	4.0	0.5	0.5	2.0	1.0	3.0	3.0
12	Ray Williams	31	5	0	12.6	2.0	6.4	.313	0.0	0.4	.000	2.0	6.0	.333	.313	2.4	2.8	.857	0.6	0.2	0.8	1.8	1.0	0.0	1.8	2.4	6.4
13	Jeff Turner	23	53	1	12.3	1.6	3.2	.491	0.0	0.0	.000	1.6	3.2	.494	.491	1.1	1.5	.744	0.8	1.7	2.6	0.3	0.4	0.1	0.9	2.4	4.3
14	Bobby Cattage	27	29	1	6.4	1.0	2.9	.337	0.0	0.2	.200	0.9	2.7	.346	.343	1.2	1.5	.795	0.5	0.7	1.2	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.4	0.8	3.2
15	Yvon Joseph	28	1	0	5.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0			2.0	2.0	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0

Per Game Table
Rk		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/G
1	Otis Birdsong	30	3	3	44.0	9.7	18.3	.527	0.0	1.0	.000	9.7	17.3	.558	.527	3.7	6.3	.579	1.7	2.3	4.0	3.3	2.0	1.0	3.0	4.7	23.0
2	Buck Williams	25	3	3	42.0	7.0	9.7	.724	0.0	0.0		7.0	9.7	.724	.724	6.7	8.7	.769	4.0	6.3	10.3	0.7	2.0	0.3	2.0	5.0	20.7
3	Mike Gminski	26	3	3	36.3	5.3	14.3	.372	0.0	0.0		5.3	14.3	.372	.372	8.7	9.0	.963	3.7	6.3	10.0	1.7	1.3	0.7	3.0	3.7	19.3
4	Albert King	26	3	3	32.7	6.0	14.0	.429	0.3	1.3	.250	5.7	12.7	.447	.440	1.3	1.3	1.000	2.7	1.7	4.3	3.3	0.7	0.3	1.7	5.0	13.7
5	Darwin Cook	27	3	0	25.7	4.3	9.7	.448	0.0	1.3	.000	4.3	8.3	.520	.448	0.7	2.0	.333	1.0	1.3	2.3	5.7	1.7	0.7	2.0	3.7	9.3
6	Kelvin Ransey	27	3	3	22.7	3.3	7.3	.455	0.3	1.0	.333	3.0	6.3	.474	.477	2.0	2.7	.750	1.0	1.3	2.3	4.0	0.3	0.0	1.3	3.0	9.0
7	Mickey Johnson	33	3	0	18.0	1.7	6.3	.263	0.0	0.7	.000	1.7	5.7	.294	.263	2.3	3.7	.636	0.7	3.0	3.7	0.7	0.7	0.0	1.0	2.3	5.7
8	Darryl Dawkins	29	1	0	17.0	4.0	6.0	.667	0.0	0.0		4.0	6.0	.667	.667	2.0	3.0	.667	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	0.0	2.0	2.0	4.0	10.0
9	Mike O'Koren	27	2	0	10.5	0.5	3.0	.167	0.0	0.5	.000	0.5	2.5	.200	.167	0.0	0.0		0.5	0.5	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.5	1.5	2.5	1.0
10	Jeff Turner	23	3	0	6.0	0.3	1.0	.333	0.0	0.0		0.3	1.0	.333	.333	0.3	0.3	1.000	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.3	2.3	1.0

Totals

Totals Table
Rk		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	Buck Williams	25	82	82	3070	500	956	.523	0	2	.000	500	954	.524	.523	301	445	.676	329	657	986	131	73	96	244	294	1301
2	Mike Gminski	26	81	78	2525	491	949	.517	0	1	.000	491	948	.518	.517	351	393	.893	206	462	668	133	56	71	140	163	1333
3	Otis Birdsong	30	77	74	2395	542	1056	.513	8	22	.364	534	1034	.516	.517	122	210	.581	88	114	202	261	85	17	179	228	1214
4	Albert King	26	73	69	1998	438	961	.456	4	23	.174	434	938	.463	.458	167	203	.823	116	250	366	181	58	24	181	205	1047
5	Darwin Cook	27	79	33	1965	267	627	.426	11	53	.208	256	574	.446	.435	84	111	.757	51	126	177	390	156	22	132	172	629
6	Micheal Ray Richardson	30	47	39	1604	296	661	.448	4	27	.148	292	634	.461	.451	141	179	.788	77	173	250	340	125	11	150	163	737
7	Mickey Johnson	33	79	4	1574	214	507	.422	5	24	.208	209	483	.433	.427	183	233	.785	98	234	332	217	67	25	165	248	616
8	Kelvin Ransey	27	79	15	1504	231	505	.457	3	24	.125	228	481	.474	.460	121	148	.818	34	82	116	252	51	4	114	128	586
9	Darryl Dawkins	29	51	3	1207	284	441	.644	0	1	.000	284	440	.645	.644	210	297	.707	85	166	251	77	16	59	124	227	778
10	Mike O'Koren	27	67	11	1031	160	336	.476	7	27	.259	153	309	.495	.487	23	39	.590	33	102	135	118	29	9	54	134	350
11	Jeff Turner	23	53	1	650	84	171	.491	0	1	.000	84	170	.494	.491	58	78	.744	45	92	137	14	21	3	49	125	226
12	Bobby Cattage	27	29	1	185	28	83	.337	1	5	.200	27	78	.346	.343	35	44	.795	15	19	34	4	6	0	13	23	92
13	Ray Williams	31	5	0	63	10	32	.313	0	2	.000	10	30	.333	.313	12	14	.857	3	1	4	9	5	0	9	12	32
14	Rod Higgins	26	2	0	29	3	16	.188	0	2	.000	3	14	.214	.188	0	0		3	5	8	1	1	4	2	6	6
15	Yvon Joseph	28	1	0	5	0	0		0	0		0	0			2	2	1.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
			82		19805	3548	7301	.486	43	214	.201	3505	7087	.495	.489	1810	2396	.755	1183	2483	3666	2128	749	345	1575	2129	8949

Totals Table
Rk		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	Otis Birdsong	30	3	3	132	29	55	.527	0	3	.000	29	52	.558	.527	11	19	.579	5	7	12	10	6	3	9	14	69
2	Buck Williams	25	3	3	126	21	29	.724	0	0		21	29	.724	.724	20	26	.769	12	19	31	2	6	1	6	15	62
3	Mike Gminski	26	3	3	109	16	43	.372	0	0		16	43	.372	.372	26	27	.963	11	19	30	5	4	2	9	11	58
4	Albert King	26	3	3	98	18	42	.429	1	4	.250	17	38	.447	.440	4	4	1.000	8	5	13	10	2	1	5	15	41
5	Darwin Cook	27	3	0	77	13	29	.448	0	4	.000	13	25	.520	.448	2	6	.333	3	4	7	17	5	2	6	11	28
6	Kelvin Ransey	27	3	3	68	10	22	.455	1	3	.333	9	19	.474	.477	6	8	.750	3	4	7	12	1	0	4	9	27
7	Mickey Johnson	33	3	0	54	5	19	.263	0	2	.000	5	17	.294	.263	7	11	.636	2	9	11	2	2	0	3	7	17
8	Mike O'Koren	27	2	0	21	1	6	.167	0	1	.000	1	5	.200	.167	0	0		1	1	2	2	2	1	3	5	2
9	Jeff Turner	23	3	0	18	1	3	.333	0	0		1	3	.333	.333	1	1	1.000	0	3	3	3	0	0	4	7	3
10	Darryl Dawkins	29	1	0	17	4	6	.667	0	0		4	6	.667	.667	2	3	.667	1	2	3	3	0	2	2	4	10

Advanced

Advanced Table
Rk		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	Buck Williams	25	82	3070	15.1	.565	.002	.465	12.0	24.1	18.0	5.8	1.1	1.8	17.5	18.1		2.8	4.0	6.8	.106		-0.1	-0.4	-0.6	1.1
2	Mike Gminski	26	81	2525	19.0	.594	.001	.414	9.1	20.6	14.8	7.5	1.0	1.6	11.1	19.9		6.3	2.9	9.2	.175		2.7	-0.2	2.5	2.9
3	Otis Birdsong	30	77	2395	13.4	.529	.021	.199	4.1	5.4	4.7	16.3	1.6	0.4	13.5	22.1		1.4	1.8	3.2	.064		-0.4	-0.7	-1.1	0.6
4	Albert King	26	73	1998	13.3	.498	.024	.211	6.5	14.1	10.3	13.4	1.3	0.7	14.7	24.6		0.0	1.9	1.9	.045		-1.1	-1.1	-2.2	-0.1
5	Darwin Cook	27	79	1965	13.1	.465	.085	.177	2.9	7.2	5.0	26.1	3.7	0.7	16.3	16.4		0.5	2.6	3.0	.074		-0.9	2.0	1.1	1.6
6	Micheal Ray Richardson	30	47	1604	16.9	.498	.041	.271	5.4	12.1	8.7	29.8	3.6	0.4	16.9	22.1		1.0	2.3	3.3	.099		0.8	2.1	2.8	1.9
7	Mickey Johnson	33	79	1574	11.8	.505	.047	.460	6.9	16.7	11.8	18.1	2.0	0.9	21.3	19.6		-0.1	1.9	1.8	.055		-2.0	0.7	-1.4	0.3
8	Kelvin Ransey	27	79	1504	11.8	.514	.048	.293	2.5	6.1	4.3	22.6	1.6	0.2	16.7	18.1		0.9	1.1	2.0	.063		-1.1	-0.8	-1.9	0.1
9	Darryl Dawkins	29	51	1207	19.5	.680	.002	.673	7.9	15.5	11.6	9.7	0.6	2.8	17.8	23.0		3.1	1.3	4.4	.175		1.2	0.9	2.1	1.2
10	Mike O'Koren	27	67	1031	9.9	.496	.080	.116	3.6	11.1	7.3	15.5	1.3	0.5	13.3	15.8		0.4	0.9	1.2	.057		-1.9	0.3	-1.7	0.1
11	Jeff Turner	23	53	650	8.4	.550	.006	.456	7.7	15.9	11.8	2.8	1.5	0.3	19.3	15.6		0.1	0.7	0.8	.057		-4.5	-0.5	-5.0	-0.5
12	Bobby Cattage	27	29	185	9.8	.449	.060	.530	9.0	11.6	10.3	2.9	1.5	0.0	11.3	24.9		-0.1	0.2	0.1	.025		-3.7	-2.8	-6.5	-0.2
13	Ray Williams	31	5	63	7.8	.419	.063	.438	5.3	1.8	3.6	19.4	3.7	0.0	19.1	29.9		-0.1	0.1	-0.1	-0.060		-6.2	-1.7	-7.9	-0.1
14	Rod Higgins	26	2	29	-0.2	.188	.125	.000	11.5	19.4	15.5	4.4	1.6	8.0	11.1	24.8		-0.2	0.1	-0.1	-0.210		-10.6	0.3	-10.2	-0.1
15	Yvon Joseph	28	1	5	12.8	1.136			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	7.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	.309		0.4	0.4	0.7	0.0

Advanced Table
Rk		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	Otis Birdsong	30	3	132	14.4	.545	.055	.345	4.2	6.9	5.4	12.6	2.2	1.4	12.4	22.4		0.1	0.0	0.1	.040		0.9	-0.1	0.8	0.1
2	Buck Williams	25	3	126	19.9	.767	.000	.897	10.5	19.6	14.7	2.4	2.3	0.5	12.9	15.1		0.4	0.1	0.5	.192		4.0	0.3	4.3	0.2
3	Mike Gminski	26	3	109	16.4	.528	.000	.628	11.2	22.6	16.4	6.8	1.8	1.1	14.1	24.0		0.1	0.1	0.2	.079		1.5	-1.6	-0.1	0.1
4	Albert King	26	3	98	10.7	.468	.095	.095	9.0	6.6	7.9	16.0	1.0	0.6	10.3	20.3		0.0	0.0	0.0	.010		0.0	-2.0	-1.9	0.0
5	Darwin Cook	27	3	77	12.5	.442	.138	.207	4.3	6.7	5.4	33.9	3.2	1.6	15.9	20.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.009		-0.3	1.0	0.7	0.1
6	Kelvin Ransey	27	3	68	12.2	.529	.136	.364	4.9	7.6	6.2	26.2	0.7	0.0	13.6	17.7		0.1	0.0	0.1	.048		0.9	-1.7	-0.8	0.0
7	Mickey Johnson	33	3	54	4.6	.357	.105	.579	4.1	21.6	12.2	5.1	1.8	0.0	11.2	20.3		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.095		-5.4	-2.8	-8.2	-0.1
8	Mike O'Koren	27	2	21	-3.2	.167	.167	.000	5.3	6.2	5.7	12.3	4.6	3.0	33.3	17.5		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.258		-10.7	0.1	-10.6	0.0
9	Jeff Turner	23	3	18	-5.9	.436	.000	.333	0.0	21.6	10.0	21.8	0.0	0.0	53.8	16.9		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.247		-15.0	0.2	-14.8	-0.1
10	Darryl Dawkins	29	1	17	20.6	.683	.000	.500	6.5	15.3	10.5	30.2	0.0	7.4	21.5	22.4		0.0	0.0	0.0	.125		3.8	5.5	9.3	0.0

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