Bullets 98-85 Cavaliers (12 Jan, 1997) Box Score

Washington Bullets

19-15, 9-7 away

	1	2	3	4	T
WSH	31	27	25	15	98
CLE	23	16	31	15	85

Cleveland Cavaliers

21-13, 15-6 home

Washington Bullets

starters
J. Howard
G. Muresan
C. Webber
R. Strickland
C. Cheaney
bench
B. Wallace
A. Amaya
T. Murray
L. Williams
C. Whitney
J. Jackson
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
42	8-19	0-0	2-2	4	6	10	2	0	1	6	2	0	18
21	4-6	0-0	0-0	2	5	7	1	2	1	2	4	0	8
36	7-10	0-1	3-3	0	3	3	8	2	0	3	4	0	17
36	8-14	1-2	3-3	1	4	5	8	3	0	2	3	0	20
37	8-10	0-0	1-2	1	4	5	6	0	0	0	2	0	17
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
4	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0
1	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
19	1-6	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	2
13	1-3	0-0	0-0	1	3	4	0	0	1	1	3	0	2
16	3-3	3-3	1-3	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	10
15	1-3	0-1	1-1	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	3	0	3
	41-74	4-8	12-16	10	30	40	28	9	4	19	26		98
	55.4%	50.0%	75.0%

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
T. Hill
D. Ferry
B. Phills
C. Mills
T. Brandon
bench
A. Lang
D. Marshall
V. Potapenko
M. West
B. Sura
R. Geary
C. Thomas
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
39	6-9	0-0	4-8	4	3	7	1	1	0	2	2	0	16
34	5-9	2-3	2-2	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	0	14
33	3-11	1-4	2-2	1	2	3	1	1	0	2	2	0	9
45	1-4	0-0	1-2	1	2	3	4	1	0	3	2	0	3
35	7-22	1-4	4-4	1	2	3	9	2	1	0	1	0	19
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
9	1-2	0-0	0-0	2	2	4	0	0	1	4	3	0	2
1	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	0
11	0-1	0-0	2-4	2	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
26	5-10	3-4	2-2	2	2	4	2	1	0	4	3	0	15
3	2-4	1-2	0-0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	30-75	8-17	17-24	14	18	32	18	8	3	18	18		85
	40.0%	47.1%	70.8%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

WSH leads 2-1

Cavaliers
98
Bullets
96

Game 1

3/11

Cavaliers
95
Bullets
106

Game 2

12/12

Bullets
98
Cavaliers
85

Game 3

12/1

Bullets
85
Cavaliers
81

Game 4

20/4

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

12:30 AM, 12 January 1997

Cleveland, OH

Attendance: 19,103

Referees:
Ronnie Nunn
Hank Armstrong
Mike Callahan

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	8	0	1.000	-	W8
Chicago	3	4	.429	4.5	L2
Indiana	3	4	.429	4.5	W1
Detroit	3	5	.375	5	W2
Milwaukee	1	6	.143	6.5	L6

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