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1996-97 Detroit Pistons Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 54-28, Finished 3rd in NBA Central Division

Coach: Doug Collins (54-28)

Executive: Doug Collins

PTS/G: 94.2 (24th of 29) Opp PTS/G: 88.9 (2nd of 29)

SRS: 5.45 (6th of 29) Pace: 84.5 (28th of 29)

Off Rtg: 110.6 (5th of 29) Def Rtg: 104.4 (11th of 29) Net Rtg: +6.2 (6th of 29)

Expected W-L: 57-25 (6th of 29)

Preseason Odds: Championship +5000, Over-Under 44.5

Arena: The Palace of Auburn Hills Attendance: 784,234 (6th of 29)

NBA 1997 Playoffs:
Lost NBA Eastern Conference First Round (2-3) versus Atlanta Hawks (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
2	Stacey Augmon	SG	6-8	205	August 1, 1968	us	5	UNLV
3	Randolph Childress	PG	6-2	188	September 21, 1972	us	1	Wake Forest
12	Michael Curry	SG	6-5	210	August 22, 1968	us	2	Georgia Southern University
4	Joe Dumars	SG	6-3	190	May 24, 1963	us	11	McNeese State University
9	Litterial Green	PG	6-1	185	March 7, 1970	us	2	Georgia
33	Grant Hill	SF	6-8	225	October 5, 1972	us	2	Duke
1	Lindsey Hunter	PG	6-2	170	December 3, 1970	us	3	Alcorn State, Jackson State University
43	Grant Long	PF	6-8	225	March 12, 1966	us	8	Eastern Michigan
44	Rick Mahorn	C	6-10	240	September 21, 1958	us	15	Hampton
23	Aaron McKie	SG	6-5	209	October 2, 1972	us	2	Temple
6	Terry Mills	PF	6-10	230	December 21, 1967	us	6	Michigan
42	Theo Ratliff	C	6-10	225	April 17, 1973	us	1	Wyoming
52	Don Reid	PF	6-8	250	December 30, 1973	us	1	Georgetown
30	Kenny Smith	PG	6-3	170	March 8, 1965	us	9	UNC
50	Otis Thorpe	C	6-9	225	August 5, 1962	us	12	Providence
13	Jerome Williams	PF	6-9	206	May 10, 1973	us	R	Georgetown

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	Grant Hill	24	80	80	39.3	7.8	15.7	.496	0.1	0.4	.303	7.7	15.3	.502	.500	5.6	7.9	.711	1.5	7.5	9.0	7.3	1.8	0.6	3.2	2.3	21.4
2	Joe Dumars	33	79	79	37.0	4.9	11.1	.440	2.1	4.9	.432	2.8	6.2	.446	.535	2.8	3.2	.867	0.5	1.9	2.4	4.0	0.7	0.0	1.6	1.2	14.7
3	Lindsey Hunter	26	82	76	36.9	5.1	12.7	.404	2.0	5.7	.355	3.1	7.0	.444	.484	1.9	2.5	.778	0.7	2.1	2.8	1.9	1.6	0.3	1.2	2.5	14.2
4	Otis Thorpe	34	79	79	33.7	5.3	10.0	.532	0.0	0.0	.000	5.3	9.9	.534	.532	2.5	3.8	.653	2.9	5.0	7.9	1.7	0.7	0.2	1.8	3.8	13.1
5	Terry Mills	29	79	5	25.3	3.9	8.9	.444	2.2	5.3	.422	1.7	3.6	.477	.569	0.7	0.9	.829	0.9	3.9	4.8	1.3	0.4	0.3	1.1	2.0	10.8
6	Aaron McKie	24	42	3	20.2	2.3	5.0	.464	0.4	1.1	.375	1.9	3.8	.491	.507	1.2	1.5	.836	0.6	2.4	3.0	1.8	1.0	0.2	1.0	1.6	6.3
7	Grant Long	30	65	24	17.9	1.9	4.2	.447	0.3	0.7	.362	1.6	3.5	.465	.478	1.0	1.3	.750	1.4	2.1	3.4	0.6	0.7	0.1	0.7	1.6	5.0
8	Theo Ratliff	23	76	38	17.0	2.4	4.4	.531	0.0	0.0		2.4	4.4	.531	.531	1.1	1.5	.698	1.4	1.9	3.4	0.2	0.4	1.5	0.7	2.4	5.8
9	Michael Curry	28	81	2	15.0	1.2	2.7	.448	0.3	1.0	.299	0.9	1.8	.528	.500	1.2	1.3	.898	0.3	1.2	1.5	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.3	1.6	3.9
10	Stacey Augmon	28	20	3	14.6	1.6	3.9	.403	0.0	0.0		1.6	3.9	.403	.403	1.4	2.1	.683	0.7	1.8	2.5	0.8	0.5	0.5	1.4	1.5	4.5
11	Rick Mahorn	38	22	7	9.9	0.9	2.5	.370	0.0	0.0	.000	0.9	2.4	.377	.370	0.7	1.0	.727	0.9	1.5	2.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.5	1.5	2.5
12	Don Reid	23	47	14	9.8	1.1	2.4	.482	0.0	0.0	.000	1.1	2.4	.486	.482	0.5	0.7	.750	0.8	1.4	2.1	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5	2.2	2.8
13	Randolph Childress	24	4	0	7.5	1.0	2.5	.400	0.5	0.8	.667	0.5	1.8	.286	.500	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.0	1.3	1.3	2.5
14	Kenny Smith	31	9	0	7.1	0.9	2.2	.400	0.6	1.1	.500	0.3	1.1	.300	.525	0.2	0.2	1.000	0.0	0.6	0.6	1.1	0.1	0.0	0.3	0.2	2.6
15	Litterial Green	26	45	0	6.9	0.7	1.4	.469	0.0	0.2	.000	0.7	1.2	.556	.469	0.7	1.0	.638	0.1	0.4	0.5	0.9	0.4	0.0	0.3	0.6	2.0
16	Jerome Williams	23	33	0	5.4	0.6	1.5	.392	0.0	0.0		0.6	1.5	.392	.392	0.3	0.5	.529	0.7	0.8	1.5	0.2	0.4	0.0	0.4	0.5	1.5

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	Joe Dumars	33	5	5	42.8	4.4	12.2	.361	1.2	4.6	.261	3.2	7.6	.421	.410	3.8	4.0	.950	0.4	1.4	1.8	2.0	1.0	0.0	1.2	1.8	13.8
2	Grant Hill	24	5	5	40.6	9.0	20.6	.437	0.0	0.0		9.0	20.6	.437	.437	5.6	7.8	.718	2.6	4.2	6.8	5.4	0.8	1.0	3.8	2.8	23.6
3	Lindsey Hunter	26	5	5	40.2	5.8	13.2	.439	2.4	5.8	.414	3.4	7.4	.459	.530	1.0	1.4	.714	0.8	2.8	3.6	1.2	1.2	0.2	0.2	1.8	15.0
4	Terry Mills	29	5	4	39.2	4.8	11.0	.436	1.8	5.2	.346	3.0	5.8	.517	.518	0.4	0.8	.500	0.8	6.2	7.0	1.4	1.2	0.0	0.8	2.8	11.8
5	Otis Thorpe	34	5	5	30.4	4.2	8.2	.512	0.0	0.0		4.2	8.2	.512	.512	1.4	1.8	.778	2.4	4.0	6.4	0.8	0.4	0.0	1.8	4.2	9.8
6	Aaron McKie	24	5	0	19.4	1.4	4.0	.350	0.2	1.0	.200	1.2	3.0	.400	.375	0.0	0.0		0.2	1.8	2.0	2.0	1.2	0.4	0.6	2.4	3.0
7	Grant Long	30	5	0	17.2	1.6	3.6	.444	0.0	0.4	.000	1.6	3.2	.500	.444	1.8	2.2	.818	0.8	1.4	2.2	0.6	0.8	0.0	0.0	2.2	5.0
8	Rick Mahorn	38	2	1	9.0	0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.0	.000	.000	0.0	0.0		0.5	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.5	0.0
9	Theo Ratliff	23	3	0	6.0	1.0	1.3	.750	0.0	0.0		1.0	1.3	.750	.750	0.7	1.3	.500	0.7	0.7	1.3	0.3	0.3	1.3	1.0	1.7	2.7
10	Jerome Williams	23	1	0	5.0	2.0	2.0	1.000	0.0	0.0		2.0	2.0	1.000	1.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	3.0	3.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	4.0
11	Michael Curry	28	2	0	3.5	0.5	1.0	.500	0.0	0.0		0.5	1.0	.500	.500	0.0	0.5	.000	0.0	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.0
12	Don Reid	23	1	0	3.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0			4.0	4.0	1.000	0.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.0

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	Grant Hill	24	80	80	3147	625	1259	.496	10	33	.303	615	1226	.502	.500	450	633	.711	123	598	721	583	144	48	259	186	1710
2	Lindsey Hunter	26	82	76	3023	421	1042	.404	166	468	.355	255	574	.444	.484	158	203	.778	59	174	233	154	129	24	96	206	1166
3	Joe Dumars	33	79	79	2923	385	875	.440	166	384	.432	219	491	.446	.535	222	256	.867	38	153	191	318	57	1	128	97	1158
4	Otis Thorpe	34	79	79	2661	419	787	.532	0	2	.000	419	785	.534	.532	198	303	.653	226	396	622	133	59	17	145	298	1036
5	Terry Mills	29	79	5	1997	312	702	.444	175	415	.422	137	287	.477	.569	58	70	.829	68	309	377	99	35	27	85	161	857
6	Theo Ratliff	23	76	38	1292	179	337	.531	0	0		179	337	.531	.531	81	116	.698	109	147	256	13	29	111	56	181	439
7	Michael Curry	28	81	2	1217	99	221	.448	23	77	.299	76	144	.528	.500	97	108	.898	23	96	119	43	31	12	28	128	318
8	Grant Long	30	65	24	1166	123	275	.447	17	47	.362	106	228	.465	.478	63	84	.750	88	134	222	39	43	6	48	106	326
9	Aaron McKie	24	42	3	850	97	209	.464	18	48	.375	79	161	.491	.507	51	61	.836	27	101	128	77	43	7	42	69	263
10	Don Reid	23	47	14	462	54	112	.482	0	1	.000	54	111	.486	.482	24	32	.750	36	65	101	14	16	15	23	105	132
11	Litterial Green	26	45	0	311	30	64	.469	0	10	.000	30	54	.556	.469	30	47	.638	6	16	22	41	16	1	15	27	90
12	Stacey Augmon	28	20	3	292	31	77	.403	0	0		31	77	.403	.403	28	41	.683	14	35	49	15	10	10	27	29	90
13	Rick Mahorn	38	22	7	218	20	54	.370	0	1	.000	20	53	.377	.370	16	22	.727	19	34	53	6	4	3	10	34	56
14	Jerome Williams	23	33	0	177	20	51	.392	0	0		20	51	.392	.392	9	17	.529	22	28	50	7	13	1	13	18	49
15	Kenny Smith	31	9	0	64	8	20	.400	5	10	.500	3	10	.300	.525	2	2	1.000	0	5	5	10	1	0	3	2	23
16	Randolph Childress	24	4	0	30	4	10	.400	2	3	.667	2	7	.286	.500	0	0		0	1	1	2	2	0	5	5	10
			82		19830	2827	6095	.464	582	1499	.388	2245	4596	.488	.512	1487	1995	.745	858	2292	3150	1554	632	283	1041	1652	7723

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	Joe Dumars	33	5	5	214	22	61	.361	6	23	.261	16	38	.421	.410	19	20	.950	2	7	9	10	5	0	6	9	69
2	Grant Hill	24	5	5	203	45	103	.437	0	0		45	103	.437	.437	28	39	.718	13	21	34	27	4	5	19	14	118
3	Lindsey Hunter	26	5	5	201	29	66	.439	12	29	.414	17	37	.459	.530	5	7	.714	4	14	18	6	6	1	1	9	75
4	Terry Mills	29	5	4	196	24	55	.436	9	26	.346	15	29	.517	.518	2	4	.500	4	31	35	7	6	0	4	14	59
5	Otis Thorpe	34	5	5	152	21	41	.512	0	0		21	41	.512	.512	7	9	.778	12	20	32	4	2	0	9	21	49
6	Aaron McKie	24	5	0	97	7	20	.350	1	5	.200	6	15	.400	.375	0	0		1	9	10	10	6	2	3	12	15
7	Grant Long	30	5	0	86	8	18	.444	0	2	.000	8	16	.500	.444	9	11	.818	4	7	11	3	4	0	0	11	25
8	Rick Mahorn	38	2	1	18	0	2	.000	0	0		0	2	.000	.000	0	0		1	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	0
9	Theo Ratliff	23	3	0	18	3	4	.750	0	0		3	4	.750	.750	2	4	.500	2	2	4	1	1	4	3	5	8
10	Michael Curry	28	2	0	7	1	2	.500	0	0		1	2	.500	.500	0	1	.000	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
11	Jerome Williams	23	1	0	5	2	2	1.000	0	0		2	2	1.000	1.000	0	0		0	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	4
12	Don Reid	23	1	0	3	0	0		0	0		0	0			4	4	1.000	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4

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	Grant Hill	24	80	3147	25.5	.556	.026	.503	5.0	23.1	14.2	36.0	2.6	1.3	14.4	28.3		8.7	5.9	14.6	.223		5.4	2.7	8.2	8.0
2	Lindsey Hunter	26	82	3023	13.4	.515	.449	.195	2.5	7.0	4.8	8.9	2.4	0.7	7.8	20.1		3.0	3.4	6.4	.101		0.0	0.5	0.5	1.9
3	Joe Dumars	33	79	2923	15.6	.586	.439	.293	1.7	6.4	4.1	18.7	1.1	0.0	11.5	18.9		6.8	2.0	8.8	.144		2.6	-1.0	1.6	2.7
4	Otis Thorpe	34	79	2661	16.1	.563	.003	.385	10.8	18.1	14.5	9.0	1.3	0.5	13.6	19.8		4.5	3.4	7.9	.142		-0.1	-0.5	-0.6	0.9
5	Terry Mills	29	79	1997	16.4	.585	.591	.100	4.3	18.8	11.7	8.9	1.0	1.1	10.4	20.3		3.6	2.5	6.2	.148		3.0	-0.3	2.7	2.4
6	Theo Ratliff	23	76	1292	15.9	.566	.000	.344	10.7	13.9	12.3	1.8	1.3	7.1	12.6	17.0		1.8	2.1	3.9	.144		-2.0	1.2	-0.8	0.4
7	Michael Curry	28	81	1217	10.4	.592	.348	.489	2.4	9.6	6.1	5.6	1.4	0.8	9.4	12.1		2.0	1.2	3.2	.126		-1.7	0.8	-0.9	0.3
8	Grant Long	30	65	1166	12.2	.523	.171	.305	9.6	14.0	11.8	5.5	2.1	0.4	13.3	15.3		1.1	1.5	2.6	.107		-1.0	0.3	-0.6	0.4
9	Aaron McKie	24	42	850	14.8	.558	.230	.292	4.0	14.5	9.4	15.1	2.9	0.7	15.1	16.2		1.1	1.3	2.4	.137		-0.2	1.7	1.5	0.7
10	Don Reid	23	47	462	11.1	.523	.009	.286	9.9	17.1	13.6	5.1	2.0	2.7	15.4	16.0		0.3	0.8	1.0	.109		-5.3	1.0	-4.3	-0.3
11	Litterial Green	26	45	311	13.5	.531	.156	.734	2.5	6.3	4.4	21.4	2.9	0.3	15.0	15.9		0.4	0.4	0.8	.119		-1.9	1.5	-0.4	0.1
12	Stacey Augmon	28	20	292	9.6	.473	.000	.532	6.1	14.6	10.4	8.5	1.9	2.8	22.1	20.7		-0.4	0.4	0.0	.003		-4.4	1.1	-3.3	-0.1
13	Rick Mahorn	38	22	218	8.8	.440	.019	.407	11.1	19.0	15.1	4.4	1.0	1.1	13.6	16.7		0.0	0.3	0.3	.055		-4.7	-0.7	-5.4	-0.2
14	Jerome Williams	23	33	177	12.6	.419	.000	.333	15.8	19.3	17.6	6.6	4.2	0.5	18.2	20.0		-0.2	0.4	0.2	.049		-3.1	0.3	-2.8	0.0
15	Kenny Smith	31	9	64	14.7	.551	.500	.100	0.0	9.5	4.9	26.6	0.9	0.0	12.6	18.5		0.1	0.0	0.2	.130		2.4	-0.2	2.2	0.1
16	Randolph Childress	24	4	30	2.4	.500	.300	.000	0.0	4.1	2.1	11.5	3.8	0.0	33.3	24.7		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.137		-8.9	-0.8	-9.8	-0.1

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	Joe Dumars	33	5	214	10.6	.494	.377	.328	1.1	4.7	2.7	8.2	1.4	0.0	7.9	18.3		0.1	0.1	0.2	.046		0.0	-0.9	-0.9	0.1
2	Grant Hill	24	5	203	21.4	.491	.000	.379	7.6	14.9	10.9	29.3	1.1	2.5	13.7	35.3		0.0	0.2	0.2	.059		5.3	0.1	5.3	0.4
3	Lindsey Hunter	26	5	201	15.4	.543	.439	.106	2.4	10.0	5.8	5.6	1.7	0.5	1.4	18.0		0.3	0.2	0.5	.127		2.8	1.3	4.2	0.3
4	Terry Mills	29	5	196	12.9	.520	.473	.073	2.4	22.7	11.6	6.5	1.8	0.0	6.6	16.0		0.1	0.3	0.4	.097		1.5	0.5	2.0	0.2
5	Otis Thorpe	34	5	152	11.8	.545	.000	.220	9.4	18.9	13.7	4.9	0.8	0.0	16.7	18.3		0.1	0.2	0.2	.070		-2.0	-0.9	-3.0	0.0
6	Aaron McKie	24	5	97	8.5	.375	.250	.000	1.2	13.3	6.7	17.1	3.6	2.1	13.0	12.2		-0.1	0.2	0.1	.031		-2.7	3.8	1.1	0.1
7	Grant Long	30	5	86	14.6	.547	.111	.611	5.6	11.7	8.3	6.0	2.7	0.0	0.0	13.7		0.2	0.1	0.3	.173		0.6	2.3	2.9	0.1
8	Rick Mahorn	38	2	18	-7.9	.000	.000	.000	6.6	0.0	3.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	5.7		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.102		-12.1	-1.9	-14.0	-0.1
9	Theo Ratliff	23	3	18	24.1	.694	.000	1.000	13.3	16.0	14.5	10.9	3.2	22.6	34.2	25.1		0.0	0.1	0.1	.145		-4.8	10.8	6.0	0.0
10	Michael Curry	28	2	7	4.9	.410	.000	.500	0.0	20.5	9.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	18.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.041		-5.3	-0.8	-6.2	0.0
11	Jerome Williams	23	1	5	51.2	1.000	.000	.000	0.0	86.2	39.1	0.0	11.6	0.0	33.3	30.9		0.0	0.0	0.0	.290		9.1	14.6	23.7	0.0
12	Don Reid	23	1	3	77.4	1.136			0.0	47.9	21.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	30.2		0.1	0.0	0.1	1.355		26.0	9.0	35.1	0.0

Players on League Leaderboards

Qualified players in the top 20 · Includes full-season stats for all players who saw court time during the regular season or playoffs.

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