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1996-97 Utah Jazz Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 64-18, Finished 1st in NBA Midwest Division

Coach: Jerry Sloan (64-18)

Executive: Scott Layden

PTS/G: 103.1 (2nd of 29) Opp PTS/G: 94.3 (8th of 29)

SRS: 7.97 (2nd of 29) Pace: 90.0 (17th of 29)

Off Rtg: 113.6 (2nd of 29) Def Rtg: 104.0 (9th of 29) Net Rtg: +9.7 (2nd of 29)

Expected W-L: 64-18 (2nd of 29)

Preseason Odds: Championship +1800, Over-Under 51.5

Arena: Delta Center Attendance: 811,439 (4th of 29)

NBA 1997 Playoffs:
Won NBA Western Conference First Round (3-0) versus Los Angeles Clippers (Series Stats)
Won NBA Western Conference Semifinals (4-1) versus Los Angeles Lakers (Series Stats)
Won NBA Western Conference Finals (4-2) versus Houston Rockets (Series Stats)
Lost NBA Finals (2-4) versus Chicago Bulls (Series Stats)

Western Conference Champions
Midwest Div Champs

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
40	Shandon Anderson	SG	6-6	208	December 31, 1973	us	R	Georgia
55	Antoine Carr	PF	6-9	225	July 23, 1961	us	12	Wichita State
10	Howard Eisley	PG	6-2	177	December 4, 1972	us	2	Boston College
44	Greg Foster	C	6-11	240	October 3, 1968	us	6	UCLA, Texas-El Paso
14	Jeff Hornacek	SG	6-3	190	May 3, 1963	us	10	Iowa State
43	Stephen Howard	SF	6-9	225	July 15, 1970	us	2	DePaul
31	Adam Keefe	C	6-9	230	February 22, 1970	us	4	Stanford
32	Karl Malone	PF	6-9	250	July 24, 1963	us	11	Louisiana Tech
34	Chris Morris	SF	6-8	210	January 20, 1966	us	8	Auburn
30	Ruben Nembhard	SG	6-3	208	February 20, 1972	us	R	Weber State
00	Greg Ostertag	C	7-2	280	March 6, 1973	us	1	Kansas
3	Bryon Russell	SF	6-7	225	December 31, 1970	us	3	Cal State Long Beach
12	John Stockton	PG	6-1	170	March 26, 1962	us	12	Gonzaga
22	Brooks Thompson	PG	6-4	193	July 19, 1970	us	2	Texas A&M, Oklahoma State
15	Jamie Watson	SF	6-7	190	February 23, 1972	us	2	South Carolina

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	Karl Malone	33	82	82	36.6	10.5	19.2	.550	0.0	0.2	.000	10.5	19.0	.555	.550	6.4	8.4	.755	2.4	7.5	9.9	4.5	1.4	0.6	2.8	2.6	27.4
2	John Stockton	34	82	82	35.3	5.1	9.3	.548	0.9	2.2	.422	4.1	7.1	.587	.598	3.4	4.0	.846	0.5	2.2	2.8	10.5	2.0	0.2	3.0	2.4	14.4
3	Jeff Hornacek	33	82	82	31.6	5.0	10.4	.482	0.9	2.4	.369	4.2	8.1	.516	.525	3.6	4.0	.899	0.7	2.2	2.9	4.4	1.5	0.3	1.6	2.3	14.5
4	Bryon Russell	26	81	81	31.2	3.7	7.7	.479	1.3	3.3	.409	2.3	4.4	.531	.566	2.1	3.0	.701	1.0	3.1	4.1	1.5	1.6	0.3	1.2	2.9	10.8
5	Greg Ostertag	23	77	70	23.6	2.7	5.3	.515	0.0	0.1	.000	2.7	5.2	.520	.515	1.8	2.7	.678	2.3	5.0	7.3	0.4	0.3	2.0	1.0	3.0	7.3
6	Antoine Carr	35	82	0	17.8	3.1	6.4	.483	0.0	0.0	.000	3.1	6.3	.486	.483	1.2	1.5	.780	0.7	1.6	2.4	0.9	0.3	0.8	0.9	2.6	7.4
7	Shandon Anderson	23	65	0	16.4	2.3	4.9	.462	0.4	0.7	.511	1.9	4.2	.454	.500	1.0	1.5	.687	0.8	2.0	2.8	0.8	0.4	0.1	1.1	1.7	5.9
8	Adam Keefe	26	62	0	14.8	1.3	2.6	.513	0.0	0.0	.000	1.3	2.6	.516	.513	1.1	1.7	.689	1.2	2.3	3.5	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.7	1.6	3.8
9	Chris Morris	31	73	1	13.4	1.7	4.1	.408	0.4	1.5	.274	1.2	2.5	.489	.460	0.5	0.7	.722	0.5	1.7	2.2	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.6	1.7	4.3
10	Howard Eisley	24	82	0	13.2	1.7	3.8	.451	0.2	0.9	.278	1.5	2.9	.504	.484	0.9	1.1	.787	0.2	0.8	1.0	2.4	0.5	0.1	1.3	1.7	4.5
11	Ruben Nembhard	24	8	0	11.8	1.5	3.6	.414	0.0	0.5	.000	1.5	3.1	.480	.414	1.0	1.3	.800	0.4	0.6	1.0	1.5	0.8	0.0	0.4	1.1	4.0
12	Greg Foster	28	79	12	11.6	1.4	3.1	.453	0.0	0.0	.667	1.4	3.1	.450	.457	0.7	0.8	.831	0.7	1.7	2.4	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.7	1.8	3.5
13	Jamie Watson	24	13	0	9.9	0.8	1.9	.440	0.1	0.2	.333	0.8	1.7	.455	.460	0.8	0.9	.833	0.3	1.1	1.4	0.8	0.8	0.2	0.7	1.2	2.5
14	Stephen Howard	26	42	0	8.3	1.3	2.3	.573	0.0	0.0		1.3	2.3	.573	.573	1.0	1.6	.597	0.6	1.2	1.8	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.5	1.3	3.6
15	Brooks Thompson	26	2	0	4.0	0.0	0.5	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.5	.000	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.5	0.0

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	Karl Malone	33	20	20	40.8	9.4	21.5	.435	0.1	0.1	.500	9.3	21.4	.435	.436	7.2	10.0	.720	3.0	8.4	11.4	2.9	1.4	0.8	2.7	3.0	26.0
2	Bryon Russell	26	20	20	37.9	4.5	9.7	.461	1.8	5.1	.356	2.7	4.6	.576	.554	1.6	2.2	.721	0.9	3.7	4.6	1.4	1.1	0.3	1.0	3.0	12.3
3	John Stockton	34	20	20	37.0	5.7	10.9	.521	1.0	2.5	.380	4.7	8.4	.563	.565	3.9	4.5	.856	0.9	3.0	3.9	9.6	1.7	0.3	3.1	2.6	16.1
4	Jeff Hornacek	33	20	20	35.2	4.5	10.4	.433	1.0	2.7	.358	3.6	7.8	.458	.478	4.6	5.3	.876	1.1	3.4	4.5	3.7	1.1	0.2	1.8	2.7	14.6
5	Greg Ostertag	23	20	20	23.0	1.7	4.2	.410	0.0	0.0		1.7	4.2	.410	.410	1.3	1.8	.743	2.6	4.3	6.9	0.3	0.5	2.4	0.9	3.8	4.7
6	Shandon Anderson	23	18	0	16.4	1.6	3.7	.439	0.3	0.7	.417	1.3	3.0	.444	.477	1.1	1.6	.714	1.1	1.6	2.7	0.7	0.6	0.1	0.7	1.6	4.6
7	Greg Foster	28	20	0	15.5	1.4	3.6	.389	0.1	0.4	.250	1.3	3.2	.406	.403	1.3	1.5	.867	0.8	2.1	2.8	0.6	0.2	0.4	0.6	2.7	4.2
8	Antoine Carr	35	20	0	14.0	2.0	4.2	.482	0.0	0.0		2.0	4.2	.482	.482	0.9	1.2	.750	0.6	1.5	2.0	0.5	0.3	0.5	0.9	3.2	4.9
9	Howard Eisley	24	20	0	10.9	1.9	3.8	.500	0.5	1.0	.474	1.5	2.9	.509	.559	1.4	1.4	.964	0.2	0.7	0.9	2.0	0.2	0.0	0.9	1.4	5.6
10	Chris Morris	31	20	0	8.8	1.0	2.5	.400	0.4	1.3	.320	0.6	1.3	.480	.480	0.5	0.8	.600	0.3	1.4	1.6	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.9	2.9
11	Adam Keefe	26	8	0	7.4	0.3	0.8	.333	0.0	0.0		0.3	0.8	.333	.333	0.5	0.8	.667	0.4	1.6	2.0	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.3	0.6	1.0
12	Stephen Howard	26	5	0	2.6	0.6	1.2	.500	0.0	0.0		0.6	1.2	.500	.500	0.6	0.8	.750	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.4	1.8

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	Karl Malone	33	82	82	2998	864	1571	.550	0	13	.000	864	1558	.555	.550	521	690	.755	193	616	809	368	113	48	233	217	2249
2	John Stockton	34	82	82	2896	416	759	.548	76	180	.422	340	579	.587	.598	275	325	.846	45	183	228	860	166	15	248	194	1183
3	Jeff Hornacek	33	82	82	2592	413	856	.482	72	195	.369	341	661	.516	.525	293	326	.899	60	181	241	361	124	26	134	188	1191
4	Bryon Russell	26	81	81	2525	297	620	.479	108	264	.409	189	356	.531	.566	171	244	.701	79	252	331	123	129	27	94	237	873
5	Greg Ostertag	23	77	70	1818	210	408	.515	0	4	.000	210	404	.520	.515	139	205	.678	180	385	565	27	24	152	74	233	559
6	Antoine Carr	35	82	0	1460	252	522	.483	0	3	.000	252	519	.486	.483	99	127	.780	60	135	195	74	24	63	75	214	603
7	Howard Eisley	24	82	0	1083	139	308	.451	20	72	.278	119	236	.504	.484	70	89	.787	20	64	84	198	44	10	110	141	368
8	Shandon Anderson	23	65	0	1066	147	318	.462	24	47	.511	123	271	.454	.500	68	99	.687	52	127	179	49	27	8	73	113	386
9	Chris Morris	31	73	1	977	122	299	.408	31	113	.274	91	186	.489	.460	39	54	.722	37	125	162	43	29	24	45	121	314
10	Greg Foster	28	79	12	920	111	245	.453	2	3	.667	109	242	.450	.457	54	65	.831	56	131	187	31	10	20	54	145	278
11	Adam Keefe	26	62	0	915	82	160	.513	0	1	.000	82	159	.516	.513	71	103	.689	75	141	216	32	30	13	45	97	235
12	Stephen Howard	26	42	0	349	55	96	.573	0	0		55	96	.573	.573	40	67	.597	25	51	76	10	11	10	20	55	150
13	Jamie Watson	24	13	0	129	11	25	.440	1	3	.333	10	22	.455	.460	10	12	.833	4	14	18	10	11	2	9	16	33
14	Ruben Nembhard	24	8	0	94	12	29	.414	0	4	.000	12	25	.480	.414	8	10	.800	3	5	8	12	6	0	3	9	32
15	Brooks Thompson	26	2	0	8	0	1	.000	0	0		0	1	.000	.000	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0
			82		19830	3131	6217	.504	334	902	.370	2797	5315	.526	.530	1858	2416	.769	889	2410	3299	2199	748	418	1259	1981	8454

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	Karl Malone	33	20	20	816	187	430	.435	1	2	.500	186	428	.435	.436	144	200	.720	60	168	228	57	27	15	54	59	519
2	Bryon Russell	26	20	20	758	89	193	.461	36	101	.356	53	92	.576	.554	31	43	.721	18	74	92	27	21	6	20	59	245
3	John Stockton	34	20	20	739	113	217	.521	19	50	.380	94	167	.563	.565	77	90	.856	18	60	78	191	33	5	62	52	322
4	Jeff Hornacek	33	20	20	704	90	208	.433	19	53	.358	71	155	.458	.478	92	105	.876	22	67	89	73	21	4	36	53	291
5	Greg Ostertag	23	20	20	459	34	83	.410	0	0		34	83	.410	.410	26	35	.743	52	85	137	6	10	47	18	76	94
6	Greg Foster	28	20	0	309	28	72	.389	2	8	.250	26	64	.406	.403	26	30	.867	15	41	56	11	4	7	11	53	84
7	Shandon Anderson	23	18	0	296	29	66	.439	5	12	.417	24	54	.444	.477	20	28	.714	20	28	48	13	11	1	13	28	83
8	Antoine Carr	35	20	0	280	40	83	.482	0	0		40	83	.482	.482	18	24	.750	11	29	40	10	6	9	18	64	98
9	Howard Eisley	24	20	0	217	38	76	.500	9	19	.474	29	57	.509	.559	27	28	.964	4	14	18	40	3	0	17	27	112
10	Chris Morris	31	20	0	175	20	50	.400	8	25	.320	12	25	.480	.480	9	15	.600	5	27	32	5	8	3	6	18	57
11	Adam Keefe	26	8	0	59	2	6	.333	0	0		2	6	.333	.333	4	6	.667	3	13	16	2	2	1	2	5	8
12	Stephen Howard	26	5	0	13	3	6	.500	0	0		3	6	.500	.500	3	4	.750	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	9

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	Karl Malone	33	82	2998	28.9	.600	.008	.439	8.5	24.2	16.8	24.5	2.0	1.3	11.1	32.7		11.6	5.1	16.7	.268		7.1	1.2	8.3	7.8
2	John Stockton	34	82	2896	22.1	.656	.237	.428	2.1	7.4	4.9	46.0	3.1	0.4	21.6	18.4		10.0	3.6	13.6	.226		5.6	1.0	6.6	6.3
3	Jeff Hornacek	33	82	2592	18.8	.596	.228	.381	3.1	8.2	5.8	22.1	2.6	0.8	11.8	20.3		7.2	3.0	10.2	.190		3.0	1.0	4.0	3.9
4	Bryon Russell	26	81	2525	13.7	.600	.426	.394	4.1	11.8	8.2	7.3	2.7	0.9	11.4	15.1		3.9	3.4	7.4	.140		0.7	1.2	1.9	2.5
5	Greg Ostertag	23	77	1818	15.3	.561	.010	.502	13.1	24.9	19.4	2.2	0.7	7.0	12.9	14.6		2.6	3.3	5.9	.156		-0.9	0.7	-0.3	0.8
6	Antoine Carr	35	82	1460	12.1	.522	.006	.243	5.5	10.9	8.3	8.2	0.9	3.6	11.5	20.8		0.8	1.6	2.4	.079		-2.8	-0.3	-3.1	-0.4
7	Howard Eisley	24	82	1083	11.1	.530	.234	.289	2.4	7.0	4.8	27.7	2.2	0.8	24.1	19.6		0.1	1.1	1.2	.052		-2.0	-0.3	-2.2	-0.1
8	Shandon Anderson	23	65	1066	10.4	.534	.148	.311	6.5	14.0	10.5	7.1	1.4	0.6	16.8	18.9		0.1	1.2	1.2	.056		-2.3	-1.4	-3.6	-0.4
9	Chris Morris	31	73	977	9.7	.486	.378	.181	5.0	15.1	10.3	6.6	1.6	2.1	12.2	17.5		-0.1	1.3	1.2	.059		-2.6	-0.1	-2.6	-0.2
10	Greg Foster	28	79	920	8.4	.508	.012	.265	8.1	16.8	12.7	5.0	0.6	1.8	16.5	16.5		0.0	1.0	1.0	.054		-4.4	-1.0	-5.4	-0.8
11	Adam Keefe	26	62	915	11.7	.572	.006	.644	10.9	18.2	14.7	5.0	1.7	1.2	18.0	12.7		1.0	1.3	2.3	.118		-1.3	0.3	-1.0	0.2
12	Stephen Howard	26	42	349	15.4	.598	.000	.698	9.5	17.2	13.6	4.5	1.7	2.4	13.7	19.4		0.5	0.5	1.1	.144		-1.8	-0.3	-2.1	0.0
13	Jamie Watson	24	13	129	11.5	.545	.120	.480	4.1	12.8	8.7	11.0	4.5	1.3	22.9	14.1		0.0	0.2	0.3	.098		-2.1	4.0	1.9	0.1
14	Ruben Nembhard	24	8	94	13.8	.479	.138	.345	4.2	6.3	5.3	19.3	3.4	0.0	8.2	18.0		0.1	0.1	0.2	.121		-1.0	2.3	1.3	0.1
15	Brooks Thompson	26	2	8	-9.1	.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	15.8	0.0	0.0	50.0	11.6		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.260		-11.5	-3.6	-15.1	0.0

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	Karl Malone	33	20	816	22.2	.501	.005	.465	9.1	24.3	16.9	14.9	1.8	1.6	9.4	33.4		1.0	1.2	2.2	.127		4.4	-0.4	4.0	1.2
2	Bryon Russell	26	20	758	12.1	.578	.523	.223	2.9	11.5	7.3	6.1	1.5	0.7	8.6	14.6		1.0	0.6	1.6	.103		1.2	0.9	2.1	0.8
3	John Stockton	34	20	739	22.7	.627	.230	.415	3.0	9.6	6.4	47.5	2.5	0.6	19.5	20.6		2.3	0.8	3.1	.201		6.2	1.6	7.8	1.8
4	Jeff Hornacek	33	20	704	16.4	.572	.255	.505	3.9	11.2	7.6	18.2	1.7	0.5	12.4	19.7		1.5	0.6	2.1	.142		2.0	0.7	2.7	0.9
5	Greg Ostertag	23	20	459	12.9	.478	.000	.422	14.1	21.8	18.1	2.1	1.2	9.0	15.5	12.1		0.2	0.9	1.1	.114		-2.2	2.5	0.3	0.3
6	Greg Foster	28	20	309	8.4	.493	.111	.417	6.0	15.7	11.0	5.9	0.7	2.0	11.4	14.8		0.2	0.3	0.4	.069		-3.6	0.6	-3.0	-0.1
7	Shandon Anderson	23	18	296	11.3	.530	.182	.424	8.4	11.2	9.8	7.3	2.1	0.3	14.2	14.7		0.2	0.3	0.5	.084		0.0	0.7	0.7	0.2
8	Antoine Carr	35	20	280	8.5	.524	.000	.289	4.9	12.2	8.6	6.4	1.2	2.8	16.1	19.0		-0.1	0.3	0.2	.038		-4.9	1.1	-3.8	-0.1
9	Howard Eisley	24	20	217	19.4	.634	.250	.368	2.3	7.6	5.0	35.3	0.8	0.0	16.1	23.1		0.7	0.1	0.8	.178		3.7	0.4	4.1	0.3
10	Chris Morris	31	20	175	11.8	.504	.500	.300	3.5	18.2	11.1	4.9	2.5	1.5	9.6	17.1		0.0	0.3	0.3	.079		-0.3	1.7	1.4	0.2
11	Adam Keefe	26	8	59	9.0	.463	.000	1.000	6.3	26.0	16.4	5.1	1.9	1.5	18.8	8.6		0.0	0.1	0.1	.075		-1.7	2.1	0.4	0.0
12	Stephen Howard	26	5	13	23.8	.580	.000	.667	0.0	9.1	4.7	0.0	4.3	0.0	0.0	28.5		0.0	0.0	0.1	.243		4.0	2.9	6.8	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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