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1998-99 Boston Celtics Roster and Stats

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Record: 19-31, Finished 5th in NBA Atlantic Division

Coach: Rick Pitino (19-31)

Executive: Rick Pitino

PTS/G: 93.0 (10th of 29) Opp PTS/G: 94.9 (22nd of 29)

SRS: -1.75 (22nd of 29) Pace: 91.5 (3rd of 29)

Off Rtg: 100.4 (20th of 29) Def Rtg: 102.4 (14th of 29) Net Rtg: -2.0 (21st of 29)

Expected W-L: 22-28 (21st of 29)

Preseason Odds: Championship +7500

Arena: FleetCenter Attendance: 440,602 (9th of 29)

Recent Game Results

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Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date		Exp	College
7	Kenny Anderson	PG	6-0	168	October 9, 1970	us	7	Georgia Tech
11	Dana Barros	PG	5-11	163	April 13, 1967	us	9	Boston College
40	Tony Battie	C	6-11	230	February 11, 1976	us	1	Texas Tech
12	Bruce Bowen	SF	6-7	185	June 14, 1971	us	2	Cal State Fullerton
45	Andrew DeClercq	C	6-10	230	February 1, 1973	us	3	Florida
20	Marlon Garnett	PG	6-2	186	July 3, 1975	us	R	Santa Clara
13	Damon Jones	PG	6-3	185	August 25, 1976	us	R	Houston
4	Popeye Jones	PF	6-8	250	June 17, 1970	us	5	Murray State
0	Walter McCarty	PF	6-10	230	February 1, 1974	us	2	Kentucky
5	Ron Mercer	SG	6-7	210	May 18, 1976	us	1	Kentucky
9	Greg Minor	SG	6-6	210	September 18, 1971	us	4	Louisville
34	Paul Pierce	SF	6-7	235	October 13, 1977	us	R	Kansas
52	Vitaly Potapenko	C	6-10	280	March 21, 1975	ua	2	Wright State University
44	Eric Riley	C	7-0	245	June 2, 1970	us	4	Michigan
55	Dwayne Schintzius	C	7-1	260	October 14, 1968	us	7	Florida
8	Antoine Walker	PF	6-8	224	August 12, 1976	us	2	Kentucky

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

Regular Season

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	Ron Mercer	22	41	40	37.8	7.4	17.2	.431	0.1	0.7	.167	7.3	16.5	.443	.435	2.0	2.6	.790	0.9	2.9	3.8	2.5	1.6	0.3	2.2	2.0	17.0
2	Antoine Walker	22	42	41	36.9	7.2	17.5	.412	1.5	4.2	.369	5.7	13.3	.426	.456	2.7	4.8	.559	2.5	6.0	8.5	3.1	1.5	0.7	2.8	3.4	18.7
3	Paul Pierce	21	48	47	34.0	5.9	13.5	.439	1.8	4.3	.412	4.2	9.2	.451	.504	2.9	4.1	.713	2.4	4.0	6.4	2.4	1.7	1.0	2.4	2.9	16.5
4	Kenny Anderson	28	34	33	29.7	4.7	10.5	.451	0.2	0.7	.250	4.6	9.8	.465	.459	2.5	3.0	.832	0.7	2.3	3.0	5.7	1.0	0.1	2.1	2.3	12.1
5	Vitaly Potapenko	23	33	32	28.1	4.5	8.7	.521	0.0	0.0		4.5	8.7	.521	.521	1.8	3.2	.547	2.8	4.5	7.2	1.8	0.7	0.6	2.2	3.5	10.8
6	Dana Barros	31	50	16	23.1	3.4	7.4	.453	1.3	3.2	.400	2.1	4.2	.493	.539	1.3	1.5	.877	0.3	1.8	2.1	4.2	1.0	0.1	1.8	1.3	9.3
7	Tony Battie	22	50	15	22.4	2.9	5.7	.519	0.0	0.1	.000	2.9	5.6	.525	.519	0.8	1.2	.672	1.9	4.1	6.0	1.1	0.6	1.4	0.9	3.2	6.7
8	Walter McCarty	24	32	4	20.6	2.0	5.5	.362	0.4	1.6	.260	1.6	4.0	.402	.398	1.3	1.8	.702	1.1	2.5	3.6	1.3	0.8	0.4	1.3	2.8	5.7
9	Andrew DeClercq	25	14	1	18.4	2.0	4.1	.491	0.0	0.0		2.0	4.1	.491	.491	1.4	2.1	.655	2.4	2.1	4.5	0.7	0.9	0.6	1.6	3.6	5.4
10	Greg Minor	27	44	7	17.4	1.9	4.6	.417	0.2	0.6	.286	1.8	4.0	.438	.436	0.8	1.1	.750	0.7	2.0	2.7	1.1	0.5	0.1	0.9	1.6	4.9
11	Bruce Bowen	27	30	1	16.5	0.9	3.1	.280	0.2	0.9	.269	0.6	2.2	.284	.317	0.4	0.8	.458	0.5	1.2	1.7	0.9	0.7	0.3	0.4	1.7	2.3
12	Damon Jones	22	13	0	16.4	2.2	5.8	.387	1.2	2.5	.455	1.1	3.2	.333	.487	0.2	0.3	.750	0.3	2.1	2.4	2.2	0.5	0.0	0.9	1.2	5.8
13	Popeye Jones	28	18	2	11.4	1.1	2.8	.392	0.0	0.1	.000	1.1	2.8	.400	.392	0.8	0.9	.824	1.6	1.3	2.9	0.8	0.3	0.0	0.4	1.7	3.0
14	Eric Riley	28	35	11	9.6	0.8	1.5	.519	0.0	0.0		0.8	1.5	.519	.519	0.6	0.9	.710	1.0	1.8	2.8	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.7	2.1	2.2
15	Marlon Garnett	23	24	0	8.5	0.6	2.1	.294	0.3	1.0	.261	0.4	1.2	.321	.353	0.6	0.8	.750	0.1	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.5	0.8	2.1
16	Dwayne Schintzius	30	16	0	4.2	0.3	1.0	.250	0.0	0.0		0.3	1.0	.250	.250	0.2	0.3	.750	0.4	0.8	1.2	0.5	0.0	0.2	0.6	1.1	0.7

Totals

Regular Season

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	Paul Pierce	21	48	47	1632	284	647	.439	84	204	.412	200	443	.451	.504	139	195	.713	117	192	309	115	82	50	113	139	791
2	Ron Mercer	22	41	40	1551	305	707	.431	5	30	.167	300	677	.443	.435	83	105	.790	37	118	155	104	67	12	89	81	698
3	Antoine Walker	22	42	41	1549	303	735	.412	65	176	.369	238	559	.426	.456	113	202	.559	106	253	359	130	63	28	119	142	784
4	Dana Barros	31	50	16	1156	168	371	.453	64	160	.400	104	211	.493	.539	64	73	.877	16	89	105	208	52	5	88	64	464
5	Tony Battie	22	50	15	1121	147	283	.519	0	3	.000	147	280	.525	.519	41	61	.672	96	204	300	53	29	71	45	159	335
6	Kenny Anderson	28	34	33	1010	161	357	.451	6	24	.250	155	333	.465	.459	84	101	.832	24	79	103	193	33	2	71	78	412
7	Vitaly Potapenko	23	33	32	927	149	286	.521	0	0		149	286	.521	.521	58	106	.547	91	147	238	59	24	20	72	116	356
8	Greg Minor	27	44	7	765	85	204	.417	8	28	.286	77	176	.438	.436	36	48	.750	31	86	117	50	20	6	38	69	214
9	Walter McCarty	24	32	4	659	64	177	.362	13	50	.260	51	127	.402	.398	40	57	.702	36	79	115	40	24	13	40	88	181
10	Bruce Bowen	27	30	1	494	26	93	.280	7	26	.269	19	67	.284	.317	11	24	.458	15	37	52	28	21	9	13	51	70
11	Eric Riley	28	35	11	337	28	54	.519	0	0		28	54	.519	.519	22	31	.710	36	63	99	13	9	26	26	73	78
12	Andrew DeClercq	25	14	1	258	28	57	.491	0	0		28	57	.491	.491	19	29	.655	33	30	63	10	13	9	22	51	75
13	Damon Jones	22	13	0	213	29	75	.387	15	33	.455	14	42	.333	.487	3	4	.750	4	27	31	29	6	0	12	16	76
14	Popeye Jones	28	18	2	206	20	51	.392	0	1	.000	20	50	.400	.392	14	17	.824	28	24	52	15	5	0	7	31	54
15	Marlon Garnett	23	24	0	205	15	51	.294	6	23	.261	9	28	.321	.353	15	20	.750	3	18	21	18	5	1	12	18	51
16	Dwayne Schintzius	30	16	0	67	4	16	.250	0	0		4	16	.250	.250	3	4	.750	7	12	19	8	0	3	10	17	11
			50		12150	1816	4164	.436	273	758	.360	1543	3406	.453	.469	745	1077	.692	680	1458	2138	1073	453	255	807	1193	4650

Advanced

Regular Season

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	Paul Pierce	21	48	1632	19.2	.540	.315	.301	7.8	13.6	10.6	12.3	2.6	2.2	13.4	23.1	2.9	2.0	4.9	.144	3.4	0.3	3.7	2.3
2	Ron Mercer	22	41	1551	13.5	.463	.042	.149	2.6	8.8	5.6	12.2	2.3	0.6	10.6	24.2	0.1	1.2	1.3	.039	-1.5	-0.8	-2.3	-0.1
3	Antoine Walker	22	42	1549	17.0	.476	.239	.275	7.5	18.9	13.0	15.2	2.1	1.3	12.6	27.2	0.6	1.9	2.6	.079	1.6	-0.6	1.0	1.2
4	Dana Barros	31	50	1156	17.7	.576	.431	.197	1.5	8.9	5.1	29.9	2.4	0.3	17.9	19.0	2.5	0.9	3.4	.139	2.5	-0.5	2.0	1.2
5	Tony Battie	22	50	1121	15.5	.541	.011	.216	9.4	21.1	15.0	7.7	1.4	4.6	12.7	14.1	1.7	1.6	3.3	.139	-0.9	1.2	0.2	0.6
6	Kenny Anderson	28	34	1010	16.7	.513	.067	.283	2.6	9.1	5.7	32.5	1.7	0.1	15.0	20.9	1.8	0.6	2.4	.116	1.1	-1.0	0.1	0.5
7	Vitaly Potapenko	23	33	927	15.1	.535	.000	.371	10.7	18.3	14.4	10.9	1.4	1.6	17.8	19.5	0.8	1.0	1.8	.094	-1.0	-0.5	-1.6	0.1
8	Greg Minor	27	44	765	9.7	.475	.137	.235	4.4	13.0	8.6	10.3	1.4	0.6	14.4	15.4	0.2	0.6	0.8	.048	-2.4	-0.6	-2.9	-0.2
9	Walter McCarty	24	32	659	8.9	.448	.282	.322	6.0	13.9	9.8	9.3	1.9	1.4	16.5	16.4	-0.2	0.7	0.5	.035	-3.7	-0.2	-4.0	-0.3
10	Bruce Bowen	27	30	494	5.0	.338	.280	.258	3.3	8.7	5.9	8.2	2.2	1.3	11.2	10.5	-0.4	0.4	0.0	.001	-4.5	0.7	-3.8	-0.2
11	Eric Riley	28	35	337	11.8	.577	.000	.574	11.7	21.6	16.5	5.8	1.4	5.6	27.8	12.4	0.2	0.5	0.7	.102	-4.8	1.8	-2.9	-0.1
12	Andrew DeClercq	25	14	258	12.2	.538	.000	.509	14.0	13.5	13.7	6.1	2.6	2.5	24.0	15.9	0.1	0.3	0.5	.085	-3.8	-0.1	-3.9	-0.1
13	Damon Jones	22	13	213	13.3	.495	.440	.053	2.1	14.7	8.2	22.3	1.5	0.0	13.5	18.6	0.2	0.2	0.4	.087	0.0	-0.5	-0.4	0.1
14	Popeye Jones	28	18	206	12.4	.462	.020	.333	14.9	13.5	14.2	11.2	1.3	0.0	10.7	14.2	0.3	0.1	0.5	.113	-1.4	-1.8	-3.2	-0.1
15	Marlon Garnett	23	24	205	6.5	.426	.451	.392	1.6	10.2	5.8	13.0	1.3	0.4	16.7	15.6	-0.1	0.1	0.0	.002	-4.0	-0.9	-4.9	-0.2
16	Dwayne Schintzius	30	16	67	0.7	.310	.000	.250	11.4	20.7	15.9	17.4	0.0	3.3	36.0	18.5	-0.3	0.1	-0.2	-0.138	-11.1	0.0	-11.1	-0.2

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