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1996-97 Minnesota Timberwolves Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 40-42, Finished 3rd in NBA Midwest Division

Coach: Flip Saunders (40-42)

Executive: Kevin McHale

PTS/G: 96.1 (17th of 29) Opp PTS/G: 97.6 (17th of 29)

SRS: -1.82 (18th of 29) Pace: 90.7 (13th of 29)

Off Rtg: 105.5 (17th of 29) Def Rtg: 107.1 (15th of 29) Net Rtg: -1.6 (17th of 29)

Expected W-L: 37-45 (17th of 29)

Preseason Odds: Championship +15000, Over-Under 26.5

Arena: Target Center Attendance: 697,727 (14th of 29)

NBA 1997 Playoffs:
Lost NBA Western Conference First Round (0-3) versus Houston Rockets (Series Stats)

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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	Birth	Exp	College
43	Chris Carr	SG	6-5	207	March 12, 1974	us US	1	Southern Illinois
21	Kevin Garnett	SF	6-11	240	May 19, 1976	us US	1
22	Dean Garrett	C	6-10	225	November 27, 1966	us US	R	Indiana
24	Tom Gugliotta	PF	6-10	240	December 19, 1969	us US	4	NC State
10	Shane Heal	PG	6-0	180	September 6, 1970	au AU	R
31	Reggie Jordan	SG	6-4	195	January 26, 1968	us US	2	New Mexico State
3	Stephon Marbury	PG	6-2	180	February 20, 1977	us US	R	Georgia Tech
42	Sam Mitchell	SF	6-6	210	September 2, 1963	us US	7	Mercer University
44	Cherokee Parks	PF	6-11	235	October 11, 1972	us US	1	Duke
30	Terry Porter	PG	6-3	195	April 8, 1963	us US	11	University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
26	James Robinson	PG	6-2	180	August 31, 1970	us US	3	Alabama
11	Stojko Vranković	C	7-2	260	January 22, 1964	hr HR	2
5	Doug West	SG	6-6	200	May 27, 1967	us US	7	Villanova

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

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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	Kevin Garnett	20	77	77	38.9	7.1	14.3	.499	0.1	0.3	.286	7.1	14.0	.503	.502	2.7	3.5	.754	2.5	5.6	8.0	3.1	1.4	2.1	2.3	2.6	17.0
2	Tom Gugliotta	27	81	81	38.7	7.3	16.5	.442	0.3	1.1	.258	7.0	15.4	.456	.451	5.7	7.0	.820	2.3	6.4	8.7	4.1	1.6	1.1	3.6	2.9	20.6
3	Stephon Marbury	19	67	64	34.7	5.3	13.0	.408	1.5	4.3	.354	3.8	8.7	.434	.466	3.7	5.0	.727	0.8	1.9	2.7	7.8	1.0	0.3	3.1	2.4	15.8
4	Doug West	29	68	66	28.2	3.3	7.1	.467	0.2	0.7	.333	3.1	6.5	.481	.482	0.9	1.4	.681	0.5	1.6	2.2	1.7	0.9	0.4	1.0	3.2	7.8
5	Sam Mitchell	33	82	5	24.9	3.3	7.4	.446	0.0	0.3	.160	3.2	7.0	.458	.449	2.7	3.6	.759	1.4	2.6	4.0	1.0	0.6	0.2	1.1	2.8	9.3
6	Dean Garrett	30	68	47	24.5	3.3	5.7	.573	0.0	0.0		3.3	5.7	.573	.573	1.4	2.0	.696	2.2	5.1	7.3	0.6	0.6	1.4	0.5	2.3	8.0
7	Terry Porter	33	82	20	19.1	2.3	5.5	.416	0.8	2.4	.335	1.5	3.0	.482	.491	1.5	2.0	.765	0.4	1.8	2.1	3.6	0.7	0.1	1.6	1.3	6.9
8	James Robinson	26	69	5	19.0	2.8	7.0	.407	1.5	3.9	.382	1.4	3.1	.437	.512	1.1	1.7	.684	0.3	1.3	1.6	1.8	0.4	0.1	1.0	1.8	8.3
9	Chris Carr	22	55	10	15.1	2.3	4.9	.461	0.6	1.6	.352	1.7	3.3	.514	.518	1.0	1.3	.767	0.6	1.5	2.1	0.9	0.4	0.2	0.7	1.7	6.1
10	Stojko Vranković	33	53	35	14.5	1.5	2.6	.561	0.0	0.0		1.5	2.6	.561	.561	0.5	0.7	.676	1.1	2.1	3.2	0.3	0.2	1.3	1.0	2.3	3.4
11	Cherokee Parks	24	76	0	12.6	1.4	2.7	.510	0.0	0.0	.000	1.4	2.6	.512	.510	0.6	1.0	.605	1.1	1.5	2.6	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.4	2.0	3.3
12	Shane Heal	26	43	0	5.5	0.6	2.3	.268	0.5	1.5	.308	0.1	0.7	.188	.371	0.1	0.1	.600	0.0	0.4	0.4	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.5	1.7
13	Reggie Jordan	29	10	0	3.1	0.8	1.0	.800	0.0	0.0		0.8	1.0	.800	.800	0.4	0.7	.571	0.0	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.2	2.0

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	Kevin Garnett	20	3	3	41.7	8.0	17.0	.471	0.3	0.3	1.000	7.7	16.7	.460	.480	1.0	1.0	1.000	4.7	4.7	9.3	3.7	1.3	1.0	1.3	2.0	17.3
2	Tom Gugliotta	27	3	3	40.3	7.7	17.3	.442	1.0	1.3	.750	6.7	16.0	.417	.471	2.0	3.3	.600	0.7	4.7	5.3	4.3	2.3	0.7	2.0	4.3	18.3
3	Dean Garrett	30	3	3	39.3	5.0	9.7	.517	0.0	0.0		5.0	9.7	.517	.517	2.7	3.3	.800	6.3	5.3	11.7	1.3	0.7	1.0	0.3	3.7	12.7
4	Stephon Marbury	19	3	3	39.0	8.7	21.7	.400	2.0	6.7	.300	6.7	15.0	.444	.446	2.0	3.3	.600	0.7	3.3	4.0	7.7	0.7	0.0	3.0	3.0	21.3
5	Doug West	29	3	3	29.0	4.0	7.3	.545	0.0	0.7	.000	4.0	6.7	.600	.545	3.0	3.0	1.000	0.0	1.3	1.3	2.0	0.7	0.3	0.3	3.7	11.0
6	Sam Mitchell	33	3	0	15.7	2.0	4.3	.462	0.0	0.0		2.0	4.3	.462	.462	1.7	2.7	.625	0.7	1.7	2.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	3.0	5.7
7	James Robinson	26	2	0	15.5	2.5	6.0	.417	2.0	5.0	.400	0.5	1.0	.500	.583	0.0	0.0		0.5	1.0	1.5	1.5	1.0	0.0	0.5	2.0	7.0
8	Terry Porter	33	3	0	15.3	1.7	4.3	.385	1.0	3.0	.333	0.7	1.3	.500	.500	1.0	1.3	.750	0.3	0.7	1.0	3.0	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	5.3
9	Cherokee Parks	24	1	0	11.0	2.0	3.0	.667	0.0	0.0		2.0	3.0	.667	.667	0.0	0.0		0.0	5.0	5.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	5.0	4.0
10	Chris Carr	22	1	0	8.0	0.0	2.0	.000	0.0	2.0	.000	0.0	0.0		.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	2.0	2.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
11	Stojko Vranković	33	1	0	6.0	0.0	2.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	2.0	.000	.000	0.0	0.0		1.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12	Shane Heal	26	2	0	1.5	1.0	1.0	1.000	1.0	1.0	1.000	0.0	0.0		1.500	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.0

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	Tom Gugliotta	27	81	81	3131	592	1339	.442	24	93	.258	568	1246	.456	.451	464	566	.820	187	515	702	335	130	89	293	237	1672
2	Kevin Garnett	20	77	77	2995	549	1100	.499	6	21	.286	543	1079	.503	.502	205	272	.754	190	428	618	236	105	163	175	199	1309
3	Stephon Marbury	19	67	64	2324	355	871	.408	102	288	.354	253	583	.434	.466	245	337	.727	54	130	184	522	67	19	210	159	1057
4	Sam Mitchell	33	82	5	2044	269	603	.446	4	25	.160	265	578	.458	.449	224	295	.759	112	214	326	79	51	20	93	232	766
5	Doug West	29	68	66	1920	226	484	.467	15	45	.333	211	439	.481	.482	64	94	.681	37	111	148	113	61	24	66	218	531
6	Dean Garrett	30	68	47	1665	223	389	.573	0	0		223	389	.573	.573	96	138	.696	149	346	495	38	40	95	34	158	542
7	Terry Porter	33	82	20	1568	187	449	.416	67	200	.335	120	249	.482	.491	127	166	.765	31	145	176	295	54	11	128	104	568
8	James Robinson	26	69	5	1309	196	482	.407	102	267	.382	94	215	.437	.512	78	114	.684	24	88	112	126	30	8	69	125	572
9	Cherokee Parks	24	76	0	961	103	202	.510	0	1	.000	103	201	.512	.510	46	76	.605	83	112	195	34	41	48	32	150	252
10	Chris Carr	22	55	10	830	125	271	.461	31	88	.352	94	183	.514	.518	56	73	.767	31	82	113	48	24	10	37	93	337
11	Stojko Vranković	33	53	35	766	78	139	.561	0	0		78	139	.561	.561	25	37	.676	57	111	168	14	10	67	52	121	181
12	Shane Heal	26	43	0	236	26	97	.268	20	65	.308	6	32	.188	.371	3	5	.600	2	16	18	33	3	3	17	20	75
13	Reggie Jordan	29	10	0	31	8	10	.800	0	0		8	10	.800	.800	4	7	.571	0	4	4	1	2	0	2	2	20
			82		19780	2937	6436	.456	371	1093	.339	2566	5343	.480	.485	1637	2180	.751	957	2302	3259	1874	618	557	1243	1818	7882

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 Garnett	20	3	3	125	24	51	.471	1	1	1.000	23	50	.460	.480	3	3	1.000	14	14	28	11	4	3	4	6	52
2	Tom Gugliotta	27	3	3	121	23	52	.442	3	4	.750	20	48	.417	.471	6	10	.600	2	14	16	13	7	2	6	13	55
3	Dean Garrett	30	3	3	118	15	29	.517	0	0		15	29	.517	.517	8	10	.800	19	16	35	4	2	3	1	11	38
4	Stephon Marbury	19	3	3	117	26	65	.400	6	20	.300	20	45	.444	.446	6	10	.600	2	10	12	23	2	0	9	9	64
5	Doug West	29	3	3	87	12	22	.545	0	2	.000	12	20	.600	.545	9	9	1.000	0	4	4	6	2	1	1	11	33
6	Sam Mitchell	33	3	0	47	6	13	.462	0	0		6	13	.462	.462	5	8	.625	2	5	7	1	1	1	1	9	17
7	Terry Porter	33	3	0	46	5	13	.385	3	9	.333	2	4	.500	.500	3	4	.750	1	2	3	9	2	2	2	2	16
8	James Robinson	26	2	0	31	5	12	.417	4	10	.400	1	2	.500	.583	0	0		1	2	3	3	2	0	1	4	14
9	Cherokee Parks	24	1	0	11	2	3	.667	0	0		2	3	.667	.667	0	0		0	5	5	0	1	0	0	5	4
10	Chris Carr	22	1	0	8	0	2	.000	0	2	.000	0	0		.000	0	0		0	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0
11	Stojko Vranković	33	1	0	6	0	2	.000	0	0		0	2	.000	.000	0	0		1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Shane Heal	26	2	0	3	2	2	1.000	2	2	1.000	0	0		1.500	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	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	Tom Gugliotta	27	81	3131	19.0	.526	.069	.423	7.1	19.3	13.3	19.3	2.2	2.1	15.6	27.5		2.6	4.2	6.7	.103		1.2	0.5	1.7	2.9
2	Kevin Garnett	20	77	2995	18.2	.537	.019	.247	7.6	16.8	12.2	14.1	1.9	4.1	12.5	21.3		3.4	3.9	7.3	.116		1.1	1.1	2.2	3.2
3	Stephon Marbury	19	67	2324	16.1	.519	.331	.387	2.8	6.6	4.7	38.1	1.5	0.6	17.1	24.2		2.5	1.2	3.7	.077		2.2	-2.3	0.0	1.2
4	Sam Mitchell	33	82	2044	11.8	.523	.041	.489	6.5	12.3	9.4	6.3	1.3	0.7	11.3	18.5		1.8	1.5	3.3	.077		-2.7	-1.0	-3.7	-0.9
5	Doug West	29	68	1920	8.5	.505	.093	.194	2.3	6.8	4.6	9.4	1.7	0.9	11.2	14.1		0.5	1.2	1.7	.042		-3.9	0.3	-3.6	-0.8
6	Dean Garrett	30	68	1665	17.7	.603	.000	.355	10.7	24.4	17.6	3.8	1.3	4.3	7.0	13.3		3.7	2.5	6.2	.179		0.4	0.6	1.0	1.3
7	Terry Porter	33	82	1568	14.5	.544	.445	.370	2.4	10.9	6.6	30.2	1.8	0.5	19.7	19.0		1.5	1.2	2.7	.082		0.4	-0.5	-0.1	0.7
8	James Robinson	26	69	1309	12.7	.537	.554	.237	2.2	7.9	5.1	16.2	1.2	0.5	11.5	21.0		1.3	0.6	1.9	.071		0.3	-1.4	-1.1	0.3
9	Cherokee Parks	24	76	961	12.7	.535	.005	.376	10.3	13.7	12.0	5.6	2.3	3.8	12.0	12.7		1.0	1.2	2.2	.112		-2.5	1.4	-1.1	0.2
10	Chris Carr	22	55	830	13.3	.556	.325	.269	4.4	11.6	8.0	9.8	1.5	0.9	10.9	18.8		1.0	0.6	1.7	.096		-0.6	-0.3	-0.9	0.2
11	Stojko Vranković	33	53	766	10.1	.583	.000	.266	8.9	17.0	13.0	2.9	0.7	6.6	25.1	12.4		-0.1	0.9	0.9	.055		-4.8	1.4	-3.3	-0.3
12	Shane Heal	26	43	236	5.0	.378	.670	.052	1.0	8.0	4.5	22.1	0.7	1.0	14.6	22.5		-0.5	0.1	-0.4	-0.086		-4.0	-2.8	-6.8	-0.3
13	Reggie Jordan	29	10	31	25.2	.765	.000	.700	0.0	15.1	7.6	6.7	3.4	0.0	13.3	22.3		0.1	0.0	0.1	.205		3.9	4.9	8.8	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	Kevin Garnett	20	3	125	19.3	.497	.020	.059	11.4	15.1	13.0	13.7	1.7	2.3	7.1	20.4		0.2	-0.1	0.1	.047		2.5	-1.4	1.2	0.1
2	Tom Gugliotta	27	3	121	15.7	.488	.077	.192	1.7	15.6	7.6	16.7	3.1	1.6	9.6	23.4		0.0	-0.1	0.0	-0.006		-0.2	0.3	0.0	0.1
3	Dean Garrett	30	3	118	18.8	.569	.000	.345	16.3	18.2	17.2	4.8	0.9	2.4	2.9	13.2		0.4	-0.1	0.3	.116		1.4	-2.7	-1.3	0.0
4	Stephon Marbury	19	3	117	15.2	.461	.308	.154	1.7	11.5	5.9	32.2	0.9	0.0	11.5	30.4		0.0	-0.2	-0.2	-0.066		1.1	-4.0	-2.9	0.0
5	Doug West	29	3	87	14.5	.636	.091	.409	0.0	6.2	2.7	9.9	1.2	1.1	3.7	14.0		0.3	-0.1	0.1	.080		-1.7	0.4	-1.3	0.0
6	Sam Mitchell	33	3	47	10.6	.515	.000	.615	4.3	14.3	8.6	3.0	1.1	2.0	5.7	16.9		0.0	0.0	0.0	.005		-4.8	-1.5	-6.3	-0.1
7	Terry Porter	33	3	46	18.2	.542	.692	.308	2.2	5.9	3.8	27.0	2.3	4.2	11.9	16.5		0.1	0.0	0.1	.062		5.1	0.8	5.9	0.1
8	James Robinson	26	2	31	17.3	.583	.833	.000	3.3	8.7	5.6	14.4	3.4	0.0	7.7	19.0		0.1	0.0	0.0	.076		2.4	0.1	2.4	0.0
9	Cherokee Parks	24	1	11	16.5	.667	.000	.000	0.0	61.2	26.3	0.0	4.8	0.0	0.0	12.4		0.0	0.0	0.0	.175		-7.5	5.0	-2.6	0.0
10	Chris Carr	22	1	8	-8.2	.000	1.000	.000	0.0	33.6	14.5	15.0	0.0	0.0	33.3	17.0		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.440		-12.3	-5.7	-18.0	0.0
11	Stojko Vranković	33	1	6	-6.5	.000	.000	.000	16.9	0.0	9.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	15.1		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.355		-9.3	-11.3	-20.6	0.0
12	Shane Heal	26	2	3	105.2	1.500	1.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	30.2		0.0	0.0	0.0	.518		139.5	29.9	169.4	0.1

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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